Solar system

Room 1 is studying the Solar system at the moment. We've been learning about all of the planets, Dwarf
planets, Comets, Asteroids and the Sun.  Its been exciting to learn about, and we have learnt heaps that we didn't know about already. we've shared our own facts that we already knew. We also learnt about the Big Bang from different theories, which is how the Solar system began.
We did some art on the Milky way. We used pastel and then we smudged it round, to give a spinning tense.
Our wonderful art work have been put up on the wall of Room1.

multiplication and division

The senior school is focusing on multiplication and division.

We are focusing on skip counting and knowing our multiplication and division skills from 1-10.

 http://www.fun4thebrain.com/multiplication/deepdivemult.html

http://www.livebinders.com/edit/index/402676

The Future

Adjectives

Room 1 is currently working on adjectives. Sam described an adjective as being a word that describes a noun. 


These are some neat adjective games:


Adjective Games


http://www.ezschool.com/Games/Adjectives.html

Swim Safe

On  Tuesday the 21st,  Mrs Hunt came to Turuturu School for Swim Safe to teach us some of her skills.
We did lots of cool things like freestyle, backstroke and lots more.  She came from 9am till 3pm.

Humpbacks

In Room 1 we have been learning about the Humpback whale.

So here is a bit of info on the topic.

The Humpback whale is the 3rd largest whale on the planet, with long complex songs.

Identification

The Humpback is as long as 2 buses and a car, It is as tall as a 3 story-building and weighs 28 tonnes.

It has two blow holes, a fluke that measures 25 meters long which help it to move, and its flippers help it glide through the water.

Food

This large mammal eats only the smallest animals for its size.

The humpback eats plankton, krill, small fish for dinner and jellyfish for desert.

Did you know

This whale is endangered from pollution and whaling so recycle.  

Book Fair

On Wednesday 21st of March, Turuturu School started a book fair that will go until Wednesday 28th March.

It is being held in the Turuturu School library.  There is lots of cool books in there.  It has been a great success so far.  Hopefully it will continue till Wednesday! It's super busy at the moment.  There is lots of different types of books like chapter books, picture books, poster books and lots more!  

All of them are very cool, and really interesting.      

Production

A reminder parents that our performance of Windust is on this Tuesday.

There is a matinee performance and an evening performance.

Tickets are available from the library for $3 each.

We'd love to see you there!! So please get in nice and quick for your tickets!!

Costumes

A reminder that all students in Room 1 need to have their Production costumes to school by Friday morning at the very latest!!!

 

Any old clothing (parents think little houe on the praire) is suitable.

Year 6's with speaking parts, please bring clothes appropriate to your role.

 

Many Thanks

Quick camp reminder

A quick reminder for camp:

- Please read you equipment checklist carefully

- Have an early night tonight and get lots of sleep it's going to be a full on next few days for both students, parents and teachers

 

- Remember who you are and who you are representing. This applies to both attitude and behaviour.

- Come to camp with an open mind. Each and everyone of you will be challenged in some way at some stage during the week. Be prepared and ready to accept these challenges and shine.

 Looking forward to a wonderfully challenging and fun week.

Mr Baylis

Camp!!

Just a reminder to all our visitors that we will be at camp for next week.

It's at Vertical Horizons out the back of Inglewood and should be a challenging yet extremely rewarding experience for all involved.

In terms of our quadblogging buddies, it means we will be having a weeks hiatus sorry, however will be back into it the week after. 

Mr Baylis

Song Meanings

With our production fast approaching, we were looking at the songs we are singing.

We discussed the fact that every song has a message and meaning that the writer wants to portray.

We looked at some of our production songs and discussed what meanings they portrayed.

A task for Room 1 is to choose a song you like (please make sure it is an appropriate one) find the lyrics, read them and interpret the meaning of the song.

Post a comment below with the meanings.

Rock climbing

We were really lucky here at school to have the rock climbing wall visit. 

The reason for the visit believe it or not was to teach us about road safety. I wonder how the 2 activities can be linked?? 

We had a lot of fun and Jacqui even challenged Mr Baylis to a race up the wall (a comprehensive victory to Mr Baylis!!) 

Here's some photos of our climb

Celebrating achievements

We had a discussion in class about a blog Mr Baylis read.

The blog author was writing about his young boy who zipped his jacket up for the first time. The class laughed when told this as how could such a simple act be such an achievement?

We then discussed about achievement. Is achievement always about being the best? Does achieving only relate to big events?

Mr Baylis then challenged us to think about a small achievement we have had during the past week. Having a go at the rides on the A&P show, making the bed for the first time, getting to school on time for the first time this term were some of the achievements we were proud of.

We realised that it's important to celebrate all achievement no matter how small.

What have you achieved this past week?? Leave us a comment below, we'd love to hear from you!!

Brookburn Primary

A reminder, we have wonderful quadblogging buddies from England!!

Please jump on their blog and post a comment by clicking on the link below

http://6b2011.brookburnprimary.net/

100 word challenge - Finally!!!

We have been having a great time experimenting with 100 word challenge concept here in Room 1. The added challenge of only having 100 words has been a frustrating yet interesting one for the students as they have had to become alot more creative with their work. Here is our first attempt using the picture as our prompt. Click on the picture to see our work : )

p.s. this challenge was set the week after Halloween, it may be a reason for some of the more interesting interpretations of the picture.

Finally a blog update!!!!!!

First of all a quick apology for it taking so long to update our blog - things have been flat out and it's only going to get busier!!!

Here's a quick recap of what's been happening and where we are at:

- We had a very successful school athletics day. The students in Room 1 represented our class and themselves with pride and achieved some wonderful results!!

- Dixon Banner athletics was last Wednesday with a great effort from Turuturu once again. We missed out on the banner by a millisecond and look forward to winning it next year.

- Our production practises are now in full swing. We have teamed up with Room 10 and continue to create our class dance as our contribution.

- We have started looking at oil production and the processes involved in finding, drilling, retrieving, and separating oil water and dirt.

And here's what we have to look forward to:

- Rock climbing tomorrow (22/11) here at school

- Dixon Banner High Jump, 11.00am here at school

- Camp at Vertical Horizons 28/11 - 2/12

- Our production performances 13/12

- Year 6 leaver's dinner

- End of year prizegiving

So as you can see busy and exciting time here at school. I will make a better effort to keep our blog updated to keep everyone informed :-)

Mr Baylis

100 word challenge

I was reading this post on a blog by Learning Hub 3 @ Stonefields School.

http://learninghub3.blogspot.com/2011/11/keen-to-join-100-word-challenge.html

and after some further investigation found Room 5 Hampton Hill School doing the same thing.

http://room5hhs2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/100-word-challenge_17.html

The challenge is this, to write a creative and descriptive piece of writing using only 100 words. 

As we are always up for a challenge in Room 1 our writing for one week will be based on this idea and using the following prompt 

(source http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/post/11306764312/271)

We will endeavour to get published writing on here as soon as they are completed.

If you are checking out the examples from the above classes, make sure you leave them a comment with your name and where you're from : )

What's Your Number?

Here you are Room 1 as promised i have added this website to our Blog page.

For those that can't remember or who are not sure, this neat website gives you a unique number based on the total world population.

Click on the picture and find your own unique number.

Oil

I set the students of Room 1 the task of explaining how Crude Oil and Natural Gas is made using their own terms.

I thought this would be a rather easy task for the class, however it has generated alot of interesting further questions that need to be answered.

Here's our Wallwisher with our questions:

If you have any answers for us please let us know : )