We are learning to recognise the 'sh' blend

 Watch out for that shark trying to eat all our 'sh' words

 We found lots of 'sh' sounds in our story.

Our Super Shiny Shoes

Gotta Keep Reading

Song Lyrics

Gotta Keep Reading

Nicole Nasrallah, Janet Bergh Ocoee Middle School

© 2009 Based on "I GottaFeelin’ " By The Black-Eyed Peas (used by Permission)

Gotta Keep Reading

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good book to read

Ooohoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good book

Cause this book’s gonna be a good good book to read

Pick up that book

And turn the page

You’ll never know

Just what you’ll find

Information Or Fantasy

Drama and Art

All make you smart!

I know that you’ll have a ball If you turn off the TV and just read them all

Just think, with a book you’ll be so entertained OMS has the best readers in F.L.A

Fill up my mind

With non fiction

Let’s get the facts

And use them up

Collaborate Graduate

Feed your brain

And then we’ll just keep on reading

And reading and reading and reading and reading

And reading and reading Lets read it some more

Reading and reading and reading readingreading

Keep reading and reading and reading

Gotta Keep Reading

Ooohoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a Cause this book’s gonna be a Cause this book’s gonna be a book to read

Ooohoo

Cause this book’s gonna be a Cause this book’s gonna be a Cause this book’s gonna be a book to read

I got my book! Do you have yours?

What is the title? And who’s it by?

Where is it set? Maybe in Spain?

Is it fiction? Or is it real?

Will it be happy? Or maybe sad?

Let’s see what happens By reading on

Open that book And have a look

It’s an adventure So keep on reading that book

good book good book good good

good book good book good good

Keep reading and reading and reading and reading

And reading and reading lets read it some more

Read it and read it and read it read it read it

And read it and read it and read it read it read it read it

Here we come, here we go we gotta read (read readread)

Easy come easy go now we can’t stop

Fill that shelf with those books

Way to the top Round and round

Read those books Around the clock

Action, Sci-Fi, Humor, Adventure Biography, Reality, Mystery and Fantasy

Read readreadreadread it up

What ever you like Read those Sunshine States

Take those Reading Counts

Gotta Keep Reading

Ooohooo

Cause this book’s gonna be Cause this book’s gonna be Cause this book’s gonna be book to read

Ooohoo

Cause this book’s gonna be Cause this book’s gonna be Cause this book’s gonna be book!

Ohhhoo.....

a good book a good book a good good

a good book a good book a good good

Some Golden Time Photos

Our junior syndicate has a Golden Time reward system.
Every Friday afternoon, if children have earned the right by doing the right thing in class, they get to choose an activity to play.
One of our activities in Week 3 was chalk drawing:
Learning to play noughts & crosses

 Persistence to colour in BIG pictures

 Happy expressions!

 Patterns

 Bey Blades

 Olyver and his art.

 Everybody having a good time.

 Devyn's patterns

 Manaia intent on creating

Patience to colour in big spaces

Working together to create

Trees with shades of colour

We made trees using three different shades of green.  First we drew some tree trunks with brown crayon.  Then we used corks to stamp the colours onto our tree trunks.
Here are our trees.

We have "leaves" going up on our tree.

Some people have been practicing their spelling words and other people have moved a level or more in their reading.  So today we had some handprints (leaves for our tree) to colour in and stick on our tree.

Ladybug Spelling Practice

Working together

Ipads in School

Huia Range now has a set of Ipads to extend student learning.  Today we got to unlock the Ipads with Miss Mehring and take them for a test drive.

The Ipads get our smile of approval. 

We learned some new games and practiced. 

We worked together to teach each other some new games.

Our crayon holders are a success

We have given our crayon holders a test run and
they work perfectly.

Crayon Holders Challenge

All the crayons in Room 3 are old and multicoloured from rubbing together.  Mrs Griffin has got some nice new ones, but doesn't want them rubbing together. and getting ruined.  When we colour with blue, Mrs Griffin wants to see blue on our picture, not smears of pink in it as well!

Our Challenge:

to come up with a crayon holder that would prevent the crayons rubbing together and getting 'dirty' with other colours.

Our Solution:

'clay' dough holders.

We talked about ways we could make crayon holders to prevent the crayons rubbing together.  We talked about the kinds of shapes we could use and about the angles needed to make the crayons stay in.

We made crayon holders from dough that we mixed up in class.  Everyone had a turn at the mixing.

Then we worked in pairs to make our own style of crayon holder.  We used the crayons to poke dents into the dough to hold the crayons.  Then we took the crayons out.

Next Mrs Griffin put the holders onto oven trays and baked them in the oven.  We plan on painting our holders.

We will see if they work. 

We might need to modify and refine our process.

 We all had a turn at mixing.  Mrs Griffin made three batches of dough mix so we could work in pairs.

 We had to have another go with some of them because we made them too flat and the crayons poked holes right through the dough.  We decided our dough needed to look more like a muffin or a pie, than a biscuit.

 Our Recipe