12 connections

This year I have a class exciting and energetic Year One and Two students and I am looking forward to seeing what they are going to do. There are still so many things left undone from last year that I still have not given up on and hope to achieve this year. I plan to explore the possibilities offered by our interactive whiteboard more fully than the simple dabblings of last year. . .

This week we took part in Play Day. The local kindy and childcare kids, as well as kids from the local Lutheran school, all came to visit us. There were lots of things to do – we played cricket, got wrapped up in a parachute, kicked soccer balls and footies, played on our big foam blocks and made things at the kindy. Eveyone had a great time, as you can see.

Thanks to everyone who put it together and made it such a success.

Here are some pictures by Ashleigh, Kane, Katana, Liam and Evan of the nursery rhyme we wrote about Mr. Mac and his goat.

Mr. Mac has a goat – Billy the Kid. This week it came to visit in our classroom. Everyone loved the goat. Of course it wee’d all over the classroom, but there were plenty of willing volunteers to clean it up. It ate a lot of paper and even tried to eat some of our library books!

 Our class wrote this nursery rhyme:

Mr. Mac had a goat,

Its hair was black and brown

He took it for a walk into town

And there they met a clown.

This term we took some photos with the school’s digital cameras. Students learned how to frame shots and how to delete ones they didn’t want. At the end of the term we held an exhibition in the school/community library. The students looked through the photos they had taken and selected two which were printed and exhibited.

It was quite interesting to see which photos they selected – often they selected them because it was a photo of their friend/s. Have to say, I found this a little frustrating as there were often other photos they’d taken which I considered to be much better, artistically – but I had to let them choose by themselves.

On the day of the exhibit we mounted the printed photos on card and then put them on little stands. The students had a great time setting up the exhibition. We also had a visitors’ book and it was wonderful to read the comments afterwards.

A big thanks to our library staff who let us have the exhibition, and to all those who came a long.

(P.S. – as soon as I can figure it out I’ll get a gallery up with the photos that were in the exhibition.)