2011: Our Buddies

Our buddies are Year 6 students from Room 13. Their teacher, Stephen Gordon, brings our buddies down to our class every Friday at about 11AM. Our buddies support us on the mat during the introduction of the new Big Book. Afterwards they help us trace over some high-frequency words and then we draw and colour a picture together. We love to learn about what our buddies are doing in their class, so every now and then, Mr. Gordon, encourages them to bring something that they have worked on in Room 13, to share with us. We think that they are very clever, and we love them.

Library Time

Every week on Friday we go to the library. Mrs Sutherland helps us to choose books.
We enjoy our time looking through the lovely selection of books at Sunnybrae School.

2011: Book Week - Book Character Parade

To celebrate the end of Book Week, we got dressed up as our favourite character and had a book character parade. Have a look at our photo's:
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2011: Book Week - How many books did we read?

Every time we read a book during book week, we filled in the details of the book in a fruit shape, and stuck the fruit shape to our fruit tree. At the end of the week, we all got a certificate for reading so many books during the week. Have a look at our photo's:

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2011: Book Week - Zara's Book

Zara brought her favourite book in to school one day during Book Week, to share with the class. It was a fascinating book, because the animals moved when you moved the page back and forth.

2011: Easter Bunnies with our Buddies

In the last week of Term 1, we did a fun Easter Bunny craft activity with our Buddies.

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2011: Art - Painting Techniques

Here we are trying out some of the different painting techniques:

2011: Art - Our Caterpillar Segments

This is what our caterpillar segments look like close up.

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2011: Art - Our "Very Hungry Caterpillar"

Look at the beautiful 'Very Hungry Caterpillar' that we made:

We each made our own segment of the caterpillar, by layering the different shapes onto the base shape. We used a different technique of painting on each shape: sand painting, marble painting splattering, dragging, sponging and strokes.
Segments were made by the following students, from left to right: Latoya, Jean, DaVin, James, Chan-Paul, Kalaneti and Zara.

2011: Topic - Define Map (SOLO Taxonomy )

We added pictures to our Define Map today. Our focus was "invertebrates". We learnt that we must put all the creatures that do not have a back bone, in the "Relevant" area of the Define Map, and that we must put all the creatures that do have a back bone, in the "Not Relevant" area of the Define Map.
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2011: Art - Our Moths

We used three different painting techniques with this art work. First we splattered the black backing sheet with white paint. This formed the stars in the night sky. Next we painted our moths using different shades of brown. Next, we painted a light beam, by dry brushing yellow in the corner. Next we painted the black vein lines on our moths. Look at our beautiful moths flying towards the light beam:

2011: Topic- Life Cycle of a Butterfly

We coloured in the four pictures to make a Life Cycle of a Butterfly spiral - the egg, the caterpillar, the chrysalis and the butterfly.

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2011: Topic - Mimio Activity (Buttefly vs Moth)

Mrs. Rennie-Younger made this mimio activity about butterflies and moths.
We had to move the pictures from the bottom to the correct box.
We had to think very carefully, because butterflies and moths are very similar.
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2011 Friday Maths - Number

2011: Friday Maths - Measurement

We focus on the Number Strand every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during our Math lessons, and then we focus on one of the other Strands every Friday (Measurement, Geometry, Algebra, Statistics).

Have a look at the photo's of us measuring our bodies with our hands:
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Have a look at the photo's of us measuring our bodies with rods:

2011: Friday Maths - Capacity

It was a beautiful, warm and sunny day. Perfect for experimenting with water and containers. A fun way to develop an understanding of capacity.

Capacity on PhotoPeach

2011: Friday Maths - Statistics

We thought about our favourite colours and then did a bar graph to show which colour was liked most, and which colour was least like.

This is what we found:

Next we thought about our favourite toys, and then did a bar graph to show which toys were most liked, and which toys were least like

This is what we found:

Next, we did our own bar graphs. We looked at our timetable and put the different activities that we do at school in order. We also thought about the clothes we wear when it is hot, cool or cold, and we put the pictures of clothes in the correct columns. Have a look at our photo: