Book Week

In week 5 it was Book Week at Yanchep Beach Primary School. The week consisted of many fun and engaging book related activities. These included designing a poster all about our favourite author, retelling our story "The Little Yellow Dragon" to Mrs Hoskins and meeting a real author, Erica Bentel, who shared two of her books with us. Then on Friday we all got to dress up as our favourite book character and have a parade at assembly. When we returned back to class the whole school and some community members participated in DEAR (drop everything and read). We all stopped everything we were doing at 9.45am and listened to a story. We had such a great time during book week!

Room 7's Assembly "Jamie In Schools"

In week 3 we had our assembly, "Jamie In Schools". We had been learning all about healthy eating during Health last term and applied what we had learnt into our assembly item. We now know the difference between healthy foods and sometimes foods. We also learnt about some of the vitamins and and minerals fruits and vegetables give us. In our assembly item we all had a speaking role and Miss Wallace was so proud of how well we performed on the day and practised, both at home and at school. We would also like to thank Zoe's mum for making our amazing masks, they looked fantastic and we really appreciate the time you spent on making them for us.

The Zoo Excursion

In Week 10 we went to the Zoo with Room 6 as we had been studying animals all term. We were able to find all of the different types of animals we had learnt about including the reptiles, African animals, jungle animals and Australian animals. We even saw the old bear enclosure which we had talked about in History when comparing enclosures from the past, to enclosures in the present. We had such a great day and bus ride home was very quiet as we were all so tired, some of us even fell asleep. 

 

  

    

Teddy Bears Picnic

In Week 10 we had a Teddy Bears Picnic with our buddy class, Room 15. Unfortunately, due to the weather we couldn't go to the park but we still had a fantastic time. We read to our buddies and they read to us and asked us comprehension questions. When we had finished reading, we ate fruit kebabs that we made earlier that day following a procedure in writing. We had a wonderful afternoon at our Teddy Bears Picnic.  

Buddies with Room 15's Year 5/6's

In Week 8 we all met with our buddies to plan a fiction story on a story board. We needed to choose our characters and settings before writing a problem and the events of our stories. On the day of the schools official opening half of our class used 'Puppet Pals' on the iPads to act out the stories we had planned. The other half of us demonstrated some of the skills we have practised in sport this year with our buddies. We all did really well and had a fantastic time.

Measuring Capacity

Room 7 has been learning all about Capacity in Measurement. We took part in an investigation called "The Biggest Drink". For this investigation we had to imagine there were no hoses or sprinklers. We had to find the container with the largest capacity, which could be used to water the garden. We worked in teams to choose four containers and estimate how many cups each container would hold. The next day we measured the capacity of each container with sand. We used a cup as our unit and compared the results to our estimations. We were then able to see which container would give the garden the biggest drink.