The 100 Word Treehouse!

Today D1 is proud to present...our very own spelling 'TV' show, The 100 Word Treehouse! It is created by Samantha, Tayla, Matthew and Caleb. As part of their homework, they have to think about 1 'challenging' word and how it should be used. When they come to school on Friday, they share what they have learnt with the class...and we video it like a TV programme. They had to think of a title and theme song for their show too - what a great idea they had :-) Everyone in the class helps as you will see and hear!
Well done to our first 2 brave presenters, Samantha and Tayla and our announcer, Jonny! Here is their show:

How cool that it was Book Week and our presenters could be in their costumes!

Crazy Catapults!

While most of the class designed ways to drop an egg without it breaking, a couple of groups chose the catapult challenge! They had to come up with a way to throw an object across the room...or across the court if we got a bit worried about hitting things inside! Here are their designs:

A simple design - something you could try at home! Well done, boys!

Here it is in action:

Another group did some work at home and came back with this swish design:

Both groups are going 'back to the drawing board' to try little things to improve their catapults but they did a fabulous job and we enjoyed watching them a lot!

Kingdom Kid

At the end of term 1, Jonny was our D1 Kingdom Kid at assembly.

You look so happy, Jonny!

Jonny's award said:

Jonny loves learning and has a fantastic attitude towards each new school day. He is kind and respectful to everyone. We appreciate these wonderful, Kingdom Kid qualities that Jonny brings into our class life.

It's Art Time!

On Friday it was D1's second to last trip to the high school art room. Everyone was really focused on their work and enjoyed the new examples of letters and designs that Mrs Sneddon showed them. They were letters from old Bibles - very fancy and creative! Mrs Sneddon also showed the children some letters that were full of pictures that started with that letter - a special treat for children who finished their work early!
Here's a look around the room - so many hard workers in action!

This was our lesson plan for the day.

The boys sharing ideas...

Awesome colours!

Some people working on the 'special treat'...

Great concentration!

More 'special treat' work...

Colours, colours everywhere!

Working hard...

Super Reading!

You can look back on the blog and see Matthew M's character web which is on the Shooting Stars wall in D1. We have all learnt so much since we began so here is how we do our character webs now!

Way to go, Jonny! We will add this to the wall alongside Matthew M's. 

Our reading goal is to find information in the story. Didn't Jonny do well! He was also a bit of a star last week as we had a challenge to answer the question: What are we learning? Jonny had his hand up every time to answer - he really knows his stuff!

All the lessons up to morning tea time... great work, D1!

Amazing Authors in D1

On Tuesdays in D1, we learn to use really interesting words and sentences in our writing.  We often look at a clever piece of writing and use this as a starting point for our own writing.
Today we read a piece about caterpillars turning into butterflies. We explored all the juicy words and sentences and then D1 started to write thier own  fabluous ideas.  Today Matthew Y and Jonny were chosen to publish on the blog.  Each Tuesday there will be more delighful writing to share :)

Matthew Y

A caterpillar is an amazing animal don't you know?  A caterpillar eats and eats until he can't eat another thing.  He waits and waits then he wraps his slippery skin and turns into a chrysalis.  Inside there are lots of juices.  The caterpillar sucks on them in his spare time. He forms into a butterfly then pushes out and look at that!  It is a beautiful butterfly.  

Jonny 

One day a caterpillar crept out of its egg.  Then it started munching away.  The caterpillar left lots of holes in the leaves.  The caterpillar got so fat and full.  It slithered its paint right off.  It dropped into the grass.  It formed a cocoon for two weeks.  Then it hatched like a new life was beginning.  Suddenly it flew away with freedom and excitement.  It was beautiful.

D1 Shooting Stars...

In D1, we have a special wall where we celebrate learners and their work. We put examples of work that show great understanding (what we are learning) and careful setting out (what we are doing) so that everyone can be helped to do their best for God.  Here are our first 2 'shooting stars':

Jonny and his reading work. Way to go, Jonny!

Matthew M's reading too. Keep shining, Matthew!

The reading work has a learning goal of finding information in the story. Jonny was showing his understanding by drawing and labelling the setting in the story and Matthew did it by creating a character web with information he had read. They both did their BEST for God in the way they completed their book work.