Shapes, Sunglasses, Scientists and Mystery Reader!!

Our Unit of Inquiry is proving to be a very popular!!  The children are having such a great time being little scientists and we have been doing more investigating!!  We followed the same process that we did with the bubbles experiment but this time we were investigating into - "How light and colour affects sight" and we did this in small groups. We decided that light is very important to us and that at times it can change the way we see things. So before we even started the investigation we made a pair of sunglasses each.

Then we started the investigation:

We came up with many questions!! Ms Kelly recorded them for us.

Then we got into small groups and did - I think, I wonder....  We were pretty awesome!!

So here we are doing our experiment and we look pretty cool!!

Then as a whole class we recorded our results...

And in groups we then described what we learned:

It was a great success and we had a blast....

Maths

In Maths we have been learning about shapes - We have been making shapes in many different ways. We can draw them, find them, make them with our bodies and build things with them.  We have been learning the names of each shape, how many sides they have and how many corners. The shapes that we have been really concentrating on are: square, rectangle, triangle, cirlce, hexagon, pentagon, octagon, oval and rhombus.

Check out our shapes!!



The children also hunted around the school for shapes here are some that we found....

They also did many activities in and outside of the classroom - painting shapes, naming shapes, drawing shapes, finding shapes and running to the correct shape.

Mystery Reader

A very big THANK YOU to Anton's Grandfather for coming in and reading to us on Thursday.  He is here visiting from Denmark and it was so great that he took the time to visit us. The children all listened so well to the story and even though Anton's Grandfather usually speaks Danish he very kindly read us the story in English :-)                                                                                                                        

The children really enjoyed the story "Vitello becomes a businessman" written by Kim Fupz Aakeson and Neils Bo Bojesen. It was a very funny story that tells of all the naughty things that Vitello and his friends get up to.

* If you or anyone visiting with you would like to come in and read to the children please click on the following link to sign up:

Mystery Reader sign up

We had certificates this week. A big CONGRATULATIONS to Anna and Dita on recieving a very special award each.

Anna showed that she is an INQUIRER. Anna has thoroughly enjoyed investigating into our unit on light and is always asking questions to learn more and tried all of our new experiments!!  Fantastic work :-)

Dita showed that she is PRINCIPLED. When we chose our groups Dita is happy to go with all of her friends in the class. She makes sure that everyone is included, shares all the equipment and always waits her turn and helps others.  You're a STAR!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!