Music Fun

Mrs Bruce did some music with us and she taught us about different notes. We learned about long, quick quick and rest. Then we made some patterns and tapped them on our knees. Here are the music patterns we did.

We also did some research about rhythm and came across this amazing clip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVPLIuBy9CY

We want to keep learning about rhythm and making different patterns using different types of percussion instruments.

Twisty Carrots

Mrs Bruce came for a visit and she asked us who likes to cuddle and kiss. Then she surprised us all by showing us two carrots that had grown in her garden and were having a cuddle and a kiss.

We were curious about how the carrots grew like this so we wrote a question on our wonder wall.

Next we did some searching on google. We discovered that carrots can twist together when they are planted too close together. They should be at least an inch apart. We also saw lots of funny pictures of twisted carrots, like this one:

Maybe we will try growing some carrots in our new planter boxes. What will we do with the twisted carrots? Eat them of course!

Butterflies

Our first butterfly hatched yesterday. How exciting! We have four more chrysalises we are watching to see more butterflies to emerge. We have lots of caterpillars too. They sure are messy though!

Adjectves

In weeks 4 to 6 we were learning about adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe a noun. together we wroye a list of adjectives that Miss McClue lamintaed. Now we can alsways think of interesting words to describe what we are writing about.
One of the samples of writing we looked at was from Roald Dahl's story 'Boy'. It was about a headmaster called Mr Coombes. You might know the story! Here are some examples of writing we did about someone we know using adjectives.

My nana has gold hair and blue eyes. She likes coffee and lets me watch tv.
By Megabot

Friends
I miss my best friend so much. She has curly brown hair. Her name is Tia. She has light brown skin and is very funny too. What a lovely friend to have.
By Princess

I zoomed to my Grandma's nursing house. Now she's been dead for a week. She was an old Grandma. She was a kind Grandma.
By Cat Girl

Similes

This week we have been learning about similes. Here is a recount using a fabulous simile!

Zach

Yahoo! Zach's mum drove me to Zach's house. When we got there Zach's mum opened the door. Zach's gigantic dog pounced up at me. Lick lick lick! What a surpirsie! His tongue felt like bumpy pebbles.

By Pinecone Head

Adjectives

We have been learning about adjectives in our writing time for the past 3 weeks. Miss McClue showed us a really cool video to help us understand adjectives. You can watch it too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ozOIkiBoqM&feature=related

Check back for some of our fabulous examples.

Fire Drill

This morning we had a fire drill at school. We had to practice walking and sitting quietly. The first time we did it Mrs Bruce asked us to do it again! The second time we scrambled quickly and quietly down to the fold. Mrs Bruce gave us a gold star for doing the fire drill really well!