Buddy reading

This term we are doing buddy reading every Tuesday. This week we enjoyed reading with our buddies outside in the sunshine!

Water Safety

We have loved swimming. For our last session at the pool, the focus was on water safety.
We learned:
If we see someone in trouble in the water to quickly get an adult to help.
If we are at the beach we need to swim between the flags.
If we accidentally fall into the pool, we practised turning onto our backs and floating like a starfish.
To know how deep the water is before you get in.
Put your hand up if you can and wave for help.

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali to all the families celebrating Diwali this weekend. We were lucky to have a family share with us some treats to help celebrate Diwali. Jack thought the little balls tasted better than lolly cake. The savoury treats were yummy too!

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Comic Strip Stories

It has been 'Comic Week' in the library this week. Mr McCallum, our wonderful librarian, shared some different comic strips with us during our library session. We were then inspired to start to write our own comic strips.

We learned the difference between a speech bubble and a thought bubble. We also had to come up with a good title for our comic strips.

T15 Swimming

We love swimming because...

 
Tamsin - when you swim your legs can grow when you kick

Nina - if we keep practising we will become great swimmers
 
Phoenix - it grows my brain

Tyler - it gets easier if we keep trying
 
Sofia - we listen to the teacher and at the end, we do dolphins and mushrooms

Aria - it helps us exercise and keeps us healthy

 
Benjamin - we learn how to do arm circles

Koby - it is fun to swim in the water

 
Danielle - we learn how to swim and pretend to be a starfish

Calvin - it's challenging for our bodies

 

Issa - it's fun to swim and when we go into the sea we will be safe

    

T14 Swimming

We thought of a lot of words to describe swimming this week...

We did some great writing using the wow words from our Wordle above.

I can feel the wet soggy water making little waves.

I wonder what it is like to be a mermaid.

By Naomi F

I can see lots and lots of goggles everywhere.

I can hear kicking and splashing.

I can smell the chlorine.

I can feel the water swaying in my face.

I wonder if I can be a dolphin going up and down.

By Naomi S

I can see the clear water.

I can hear people splashing.

I can smell the chlorine.

I can touch the cold wall.

I wonder how to get to the bottom of the pool

By Liam

I can see people, they look good.

I can hear people shouting.

I can smell the water's breath.

I can feel the cold water.

I wonder how they can fill up the pool.

By Leo

Week 1 Swimming T10

T10 have had a fantastic first week of Starfish swimming.

It is great to see everyone participating and enjoying swimming.  Not only are the children improving their swimming skills and learning about water safety, they are also developing important self management skills like learning how to look after their belongings, take risks and challenge themselves.

Tu meke, awesome work T10!