Cruze's Duffy Certificate

Cruze was awarded a Duffy Certificate for his artistic work of fireworks night. First he chose different colours to colour in a piece of paper. Next he painted over the colours with black paint to represent the dark night sky. Then came the fun part of scratching a picture of what fireworks look like when they are exploding in colourful bursts in the sky. He also wrote a story to go with his picture. Great work Cruze.

Thursday is Certificate Day

On the last Thursday of term we had a celebration of some of the amazing learning that Room 16 have been doing.  Eli got his certificate for some great maths thinking with fractions.  Cruze has been writing some stories I have enjoyed reading.  Elevina used a picture to write an amazing story about a boy riding his bike and she was able to write words by herself.  We also celebrated Pauliasi's birthday with a certificate.

   

Cruze and Attah's Certificates

Cruze and Attah were awarded Team One certificates last week.  Mrs Fester took a photo of them standing proudly in front of assembly with their certificates.  Attah is fourth from the left and Cruze is fifth from the left.

Thank You Genesis!

At Assembly last Friday Cruze and Elena got a surprise gift. Mr Burt was handing out caps and t shirts from Genesis and Cruze was lucky enough to get a cap and Elena got a lovely orange t shirt.  Thank you Genesis for your generous gifts.

Cruze Made Chocolate Muffins

Cruze had some delicious muffins in his lunchbox.  He said he had been cooking with his Mum and the muffins were really yummy.

Cruze with his tasty lunch

Cruze showing us his cooking talents wrapped up for his lunch

Getting Ready For Our Class Photo

On Monday we had our class photo taken.  We were asked to get in height order from tallest to smallest.  It was easy as we have been learning about how to compare how tall we were with a friend so we were able to quickly get the job done.

Cruze compares his height with Taylor to make sure he was in the right order for our class photo

Duffy Certificate Winners

Cruze and Attah were recent Duffy Certificate Winners.  They have both been working hard and were pleased to choose a book to take home and share with their families.

Cruze with his book about the Little Yellow Digger

Attah with the story book about the ANZAC Puppy 

Cruze Cooks Dinner

Cruze enjoys cooking so when he was asked to write a story, he wrote about helping his Mum cook dinner and he drew a detailed picture.  Good work, Cruze.

Bubbles

On our return to school we talked about our home bubbles that we had been in with our families.  We drew our families inside a bubble and made colourful edges.  When we were outside blowing bubbles we noticed the rainbow colours on the edges of the bubbles.  We also saw how the bubbles popped when they touched each other so we are now in our school bubbles staying spaced out and not touching each other.

Having fun blowing bubbles

Rataimore with her family bubble picture

Cruze showing the four people in his bubble.

Elevina and her rainbow bubble

Peyton colouring in the outside of her family bubble

Rataimore gently blowing bubbles

Reading Dinosaur Books

Cruze was lucky enough to have a dinosaur counting book at home to read while he was learning about dinosaurs.  Here he is enjoying reading it with his big brother.

Cruze's Dinosaur Fun

This week for home learning we had a Dinosaur theme.  I was pleased you managed to find some sun to be able to do the dinosaur shadow activity, Cruze.  Did you find that you had to do the activity quickly before the sun had moved?  That can be a bit tricky when the sun has moved before you have completed the drawing!  You have drawn a lovely dinosaur family as well.  Great work Cruze

Cruze Makes Some Puppets

Our home learning this week was based around the fairy story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  I made some suggestions on how to make the puppet characters and Cruze and his Mum got busy and made some wonderful puppets.  I really like the way Cruze gave his characters some accessories, adding some details to his bears - a tie, a bow and a bib.  You can easily see who the characters are.  Cruze also added details to his set to make it more realistic by adding a picture on the wall and a plant. Thanks to Cruze's Mum for helping Cruze make an amazing set and the puppets to help him retell the story.  Have you tried to add a different ending to the story?

Cruze Continues His Home Learning

Cruze is continuing to learn at home.  He has been doing some maths, learning his numbers and subitising dot patterns to 20, learning his words, drawing pictures about the stories he has read, colouring and continuing to make tube crafts.  It is interesting to see what Cruze has been making out of cardboard tubes.  Keep up the fantastic learning, Cruze.  I look forward to seeing more of your learning in the coming week and sharing it on the blog.

Making ANZAC Poppies

On our home learning site, I suggested for ANZAC Day the children might like to make an ANZAC poppy.  Being in lockdown has meant that we can't gather together with our families or go to Dawn parades or Civic ceremonies but many children were making poppies and putting the poppies in a window or on their fence.  Cruze's Mum sent me photos of Cruze making a poppy and decorating it.  What a good idea to decorate it with drawings Cruze!

More of Cruze's Home Learning

Cruze has been making the most of the lockdown to continue his learning at home.  Cruze has been reading, drawing, making things, exploring in his back yard, cooking and doing a lot of learning.  Thanks to Cruze's Mum for all the lovely pictures.

Cruze Went Walking

 With all the lovely fine weather, Cruze and his family were able to walk down to the beach.  It looked like you enjoyed your time out today Cruze if you wanted to come back home and draw a picture to remind you of the fun you had.  You are lucky to have the beach close by.