A Safe Place

Today we worked collaboratively to design and build a "safe place" for our chicks ( from the Ready to Read book "the Safe Place"). We tried our best to problem solve and share the tasks:

Collecting natural items from outside for the safe place; Painting the safe place,

And colouring in the hen and her eggs.

Reading time went so fast today!

Story time

A delightful reading of "if you're happy and you know it"!

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Autumn Trees...

Here are the Friday Discovery Time painters in Room 4:

We searched Google for ideas for painting Autumn Trees

Science experiments about the weather in Room 12

Check out our experiment in Room 12 with making clouds. We used ice, hot water, matches and glass jars. We had the water in the jar then put ice on the lid. When the match was dropped into the water the smoke formed a cloud! 

Skipper the dog

Skipper's kennel floated away in the storm, so Room 4 designed him a new one. 

Then we made "Skipper cookies", that looked like Skipper the dog 

Self Managing In Room 4

We are learning to work independently at reading time. We use the  Getting Along Key to share and work cooperatively. We love spending time with our friends, and using kind words and gestures, while we wait for our turn to read with the teacher.

Today we made volcanoes, out of the triangle puzzle and paper mountains!!!

Sometimes we make words with playdough, sometimes we write words with chalk, and sometimes we make plays and dramas. We also love to play hospital.

Chalk Fun

Collaboration and Imagination!

Today the children from Rooms 1 and 3 learned about collaboration. We began by watching some Year 7 students perform a role play to demonstrate what collaboration 'is' and 'isn't'. We were able to identify the positive things we can say and do when working together as a team.

Next Mrs Wallace put us into teams of 2 or 3 and gave us our team challenge: to work collaboratively to build a house, for the little figurines, using a variety of building materials.

First we spent some time sharing our ideas with each other. We made sure each member of the group had a chance to speak and that we listened carefully to one another.

Each team then collected the materials they needed and set to work using their imaginations to create their houses. It was great to see the children collaborating as they worked together.

At the end of our session, we reflected on all the things we did in our teams that demonstrated collaboration: taking turns, sharing, saying encouraging words, listening to each other's ideas.

The final products were amazing and we were able to experience the positive power of collaboration while having great fun together. I wonder in what other ways we can use our collaborative skills?

Bee bots with Rooms 1 and 4

We programmed the robots to do cool things, like turn around and reverse. They were cool!