Entries from September 2009

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Tribe Hut

We built a tribe hut in our classroom. We had to do a lot of problem solving to decide how we would construct it and it took team work to build it.  What do you think?

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

Rainforest Factfiles

We have been using our research skills to find relevant and interesting facts about the Rainforest. Then we have been recording these facts in our own words to create a factfile. Did you learn anything new from our factfiles?

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

Castle Garden

Before the summer holiday each of the classes voted for their favourite name for our new vegetable garden. The winner was Castle Garden!
We planted lots of vegetables and we also planted sunflowers. We did our best to look after them until the school closed for the summer holidays. When we came back 7 weeks later [...]

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

The Rainforest

For the past few weeks, if you have been in our near our classroom, you may have noticed some changes. We have been secretly transforming our classroom into the Amazonian Rainforest. So far we have experimented with lots of art materials to make leaves and draw some Rainforest animals.
We have also been challenged to create some [...]