Daffodil Day

$605!

What a great effort fundraising for Daffodil Day at Witherlea School!  Thank you to all of our students and parents for supporting such a wonderful cause.

Olympians!

Here are some photos of our finished Olympic statues.  We have worked hard every step of the way; investigating body positioning, shaping our wire, adding plaster then spray painting. What a awesome group of champions.

Check us out!

Oral Language

Each Friday we enjoy working on our oral language skills by presenting a short speech related to something important or interesting to us.  It might be a sporting achievement, holiday experience, or a hobby.  The students then self assess their own performance based on criteria developed at the beginning of the year.  
They also identify where their next learning goals. 

This week we were thrilled to have Niamh perform a piece of music on her violin.  She then told us all about her journey learning to play and outlined the parts of the violin.  It was very informative!  Great job Niamh, you had a captive audience.

Welcome back to term 3!

It's great to see everyone's smiling faces back at school after school holidays!

 We have an incredibly busy and exciting term 3 with lots of events just around the corner. You should have received a notice home about upcoming events you need to note on your calendar and make payments for.  
We talked today about what jobs we can be doing around the house to help earn money towards the activities we are luckily enough to do; vacuuming, putting out the rubbish, cleaning the bathroom. 

I look forward to catching up with the students on next Friday to see how they are contributing!

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Measurement

We have started a new unit with our measurement this week, we are learning all about area, check out some of our photos to see the progression of our learning.

Student were presented with an outline of a mystery object and a cube.  First, they estimated how many cubes would they need to cover the area of the object.

They were then able to use as many cubes as they wanted to check their estimations... most of them covered the entire object and counted each cube.  Could anyone think of a better way? Maths is sometimes about finding the trick to make thing easier on ourselves!

We realised how important it is to know our basic facts when we worked out we don't need to could one to one.  We can multiply each side.

Billy powering through his worksheet!

WATCH THIS SPACE!

We have been inspired by the lucky class members who had the opportunity to Speed Date four incredible New Zealand authors last week at Girls College.

The three students loved listening to Gavin Bishop's description of how he creates and illustrates pictures books and sharing all the details with us today... and guess what... we're each creating our own!

Keep up to date on our progress and get sneak previews here of what we are doing!  Today was our first step, big picture planning, developing characters who are interesting and reading LOTS of great picture books to get us fuelled with lots of ideas!

Planning strips and story board...

Plans starting to develop!  (Who could they belong to?)