Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everybody!

From all of Room 3

End of year celebrations!

To celebrate a fantastic year of learning in Room 3 we had a series of great events over the last week.  We started the week off with a visit from the man in red, Santa Claus!  He arrived by Fire Engine.  It was absolutely fantastic.  The children were so excited!  Santa gave everybody a present each and then we had an ice block.  What a great start to the fun week!

Santa arrives in the Fire Engine!

Santa has a big sack of presents for the good children in the Junior Rooms!

Ho ho ho!  Merry Christmas Junior children!

Come up and see Santa for your present

You have been a good girl this year... she sure has been!

After Santa came to visit us we had a fantastic session of singing with Mrs Chamberlain.  She brought her guitar and musical instruments for everybody.  We sang Christmas carols and other popular Nursery rhymes.  It was lots of fun.

The next day we all went swimming to the Gore Pool.  We had an inflatable turtle that we could jump on and the water spouts were going.  It was terrific!  We have had some wonderful celebrations to end the year!

Helicopter Visit

On Friday the 30th of August we had Grant Goatley from "Deep South Helicopters" fly in his helicopter!  He landed in the Gore Main School domain across the road from the school.  It was amazing!  The children were so excited and hopefully this has inspired some future careers in aviation like pilots, mechanics, air-controllers etc.  We were so lucky to have this activity for our children and we would like to thank Grant Goatley for giving up his time and the cost involved to him!  AWESOME!

Room 2 and Room 3 standing safely behind cones NEAR a helicopter!

Children looking inside the helicopter!

Pilot "Grant Goatley" answering questions from excited kids!

What a great thing to land next to Gore Main School!

Learning about the helicopter!

Grant Goatley showing the children the monsoon bucket!

Makayla and Kazia: The Fashion Queens

Makayla and Kazia were a part of the Term 2 Smarts group that designed clothes out of recyclable materials.  They worked with older students who supported them.  They confidently wore the creations in front of a packed assembly.  They look absolutely amazing and they should be proud of their achievement!

What beautiful creations out of recyclable material Makayla and Kazia

Josh in the Talent Quest

Josh made it to the final of the Gore Main School Talent Quest!  He got second place in the Junior drama section for his amazing recital of the poem "The Ning Nang Nong".  Congratulations Josh, you did an amazing job!  We were all so proud of you in Room 3!  Bet your Mum and Dad were proud too!

Well done Josh, you are so talented!

Charlee's Rabbit and George's Fish

We have regular oral language in Room 3.  One on the children's favourite things is to speak to the 'whole class' on a topic of their choice.  When the children do their talk they work hard to speak clearly with good volume.  They learn to put expression into their voices and to stand with good posture.  The children have improved so much in their ability to present to a bigger audience!  The following clips are from two children who spoke about their pets.  The first clip is about a rabbit and the second is about fish.  Enjoy!

Making chocolate crackles

Today we made chocolate crackles.  Along the way we learnt that 1/2 a cup and 1/2 a cup make a whole cup!  We measured one cup of rice bubbles into our containers and used a desert spoon to put cocoa, icing sugar and coconut into our container.  We enjoyed mixing and filling our patty cases.  We really enjoyed EATING our chocolate crackles!  Baking is fun!

Here is 1/2 a cup of rice bubbles 

Here is a cup of rice bubbles

Here is a desert spoon of icing sugar

Putting mixture into patty cases

YUM these are great!

Patty cases, patty cases bakers Room 3!