Welcome to Term 2.

It is the Winter term and Mrs Phillips said don't forget to bring your jacket every day as the weather is very changeable.  You leave your sunhat at home until term 4.  We have two new College teachers for two weeks.  They are Miss Cleaver and Miss Wiffen.  They have been reading books to us and taking printing.  The value for this term is Compassion.  Soon it will be Electives.  We choose something to do every Friday, for seven weeks.  There will be no more Jump Jam or team singing for a while.  Our new topic is "Kitchen Chemistry" and we will be experimenting.  We had last Wednesday off for ANZAC Day.  We talked a lot about it.  Cultural swap is now on Thursdays and we go to Room 11 to do Art.  It is Winter Sports time now and Summer Sports are over.  Our Maths classes have been doing Temperature for the start of the term.  We went to a Show called "Rhythm Interactive".  We all got a drum to use.  It was an excellent show.

Easter 2012 as dictated by R17

Tomorrow is the last day of school for Easter and the holidays.  We have been buying poppies this week for ANZAC Day which is on the 25th April, early next term. This is also a holiday from school.  Some of us have been playing drums and guitars with Mr Galloway.  Mrs Phillips has been to some meetings, but we have been very happy to have Mrs King, from R4 last year, to teach us.  Last time she was here we turned our autumn poem into a picture.  We have been busy writing so we all have new WALT's in our Storywriting books.  When it was International day we all dressed up and it was really fun.  We had a parade in the hall.  Today was the last Cultural Swap to Room 12 for computers.  Most of us thought it was terrific.  Every Thursday we put our poem of the week into our books to take home.  Tomorrow is our last day for our college teachers.  Next term they will go to new schools and we get a new college teacher.  Winter sports notices have been out as we have finished the summer sports.  Yesterday we had a fire drill practice and next term it might be a lockdown practice or another fire drill.  We need to be ready for the real thing if it happens.  Happy Easter and restful holidays everyone!

March in R17

We are enjoying mixing with the other Middle team classes for maths.  Our topic is Keeping Ourselves Safe and Constable Parcell has been to talk to us about it.  We are taking home sheets to do for homework.  The computers in the classroom are used in the mornings and wet days for playing games.  At reading time we do Lexia on them and soon we will be using them at maths time.  All the year 3's got to do a typing activity and they will practise some typing one day a week at WWT soon.  In writing we have been doing character descriptions.  We have met some amazing characters.  It has been fun.  We are getting our Time to Shine books ready.  Our College Teachers, Miss Kennedy and Miss Letica have been taking reading and maths groups, fitness, printing, stories and the start of the day.  On Wednesdays we go to Miss Potter in R12 for computer time at Cultural Swap Time.  Mrs Phillips says we are very busy and working very hard.  She also would like to thank all the parents for their time in coming to the Learning Commitment interviews.

What's new in our room?

Swimming has finished.  It was: wicked, awesome, fantastic, good, hard work, cool, great, nervous, fun, cold when you first get in, and sometimes hot.  Mrs Phillips said it was wet as she got splashed lots!
We have missed Fitness and Healthy Food Snack because of swimming.  We have just finished Probability as a part of our Statistics.
We are now all mixed up in our Numeracy classes.
Our new College Teachers for this term are Miss Kennedy and Miss Letica.  We like working with them.  They will be with us until Easter.
At Middle Team Assembly we talked about Respect and the teachers gave out Wicked Writing Awards.

The children in Room 17 tell Mrs Phillips what to write.

We have new people at our school in our class.  Only three people were in Room 17 last year with Mrs Phillips. All the rest of us came from the Junior school.  In Room 17 we are very lucky to have 2 teacher's aides, Claire in the morning and Mel in the afternoon.  We are going to the Art Gallery next week.  Next Friday we start our swimming at the D.N.I. pool.  In Maths we are doing Statistics and learning about bar graphs.  We like this.  Come and see our t-shirts hanging on the line in our room.

Welcome to 2012 in Room 17.

Here we are learning to work as a team.  Are we doing a good job?