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!!