We're Going on a Walnut Hunt!

We're learning to add detail to our stories to help paint a picture in the reader's mind.  Can you spot the 'wow' words we used to describe the walnuts?

We went on a walnut hunt.  We walked through the forest hunting for a walnut tree.  Then we swished through the leaves looking for the walnuts.  I found some bumpy brown walnuts on the ground.  I love walnuts.

Ahniqua

I filled my basket up.  We found the little, bumpy walnuts under the leaves.  They are hard, bumpy, little and very wrinkly. 

Bree

We went on a walnut hunt today.  We found walnuts by the walnut tree.  They are little and bumpy.  I have not ever had a walnut.

Alexia

Today we went for a big walnut hunt.  I found heaps of hard, bumpy walnuts.  They were on the ground and we had to search through the leaves. 

Jenna

We went on a walnut hunt.  Max got 1 and I got heaps.  They felt bumpy and dirty.  We had a basket to carry them back to Room 1.

Fynn

Pumpkin Soup Jenna

Mixing Colours

           We grew a pumpkin in our garden and this week we decided to have a 'pumpkin week!'  

We drew pumpkins with a black pastel.  Then Mrs Blakesley gave us 3 paint colours - RED, YELLOW and BLUE to paint our pumpkins but we needed orange and green.  

We discovered that RED, BLUE and YELLOW are called primary colours and that we could mix them to make ORANGE and GREEN.  

We were very clever at mixing the colours to make new colours!

     

      

     

      

     

St. Patrick's Day in Room 1

We were so excited to celebrate St. Patrick's Day today with Jenna.  Jenna is visiting from Ireland for 6 months.  We learned about leprechauns, pots of gold, shamrocks, the Irish flag, speaking Gaelic and much more!  We sung a leprechaun song (see below), did lots of St. Patrick's Day art and even looked for gold to fill our 'pots of gold.'  Jenna brought us in some shamrock chocolates that she had made with her Mommy.

Jenna told us some special things about her life in Ireland.  We loved hearing about the leprechaun that hides in the floxglove plant by her front door.  Every morning when she walks past she says something nice about the leprechaun's  shoes, like "Oooo I like your shoes!"  This makes the leprechaun happy so he won't play tricks on her!" 
We had such a fun day!

Jenna with 'Larry the Leprachaun's Pot of Gold'

Yummy shamrock chocolates with gold inside!

Gold!

More gold for us to find!

Ready to fill our 'Pots of Gold'

Lots of treasure! 

Saying Hello and Goodbye In Gaelic

Today Jenna taught us some Gaelic. We learned how to say, Hello - Dia duit and Goodbye - slan. Thanks Jenna

Pieces Basic

Today we learned how to use an app on our iPads called 'Pieces Basic'.  We will be able to use this app in lots of different ways to show our learning.