Learning How to use the Blog

Last week when we looked at some photos on the internet Aden asked how the photos got there so quickly.  So today we looked at how you get photos on our blog. 

We took some photos of our Star Circle and saw how you take the card out of the camera and use a card reader to load the photos onto the computer.  We saw how easy it is to upload the photos onto the blog.  You 'browse' the photos in the computer and select what you want.  Browse means to look through - just like we do with our browsing boxes of reading books.  

As we browsed through the photos we decided to select them all so here they are.

The focus of Star Circle is Participating and Contributing.   It is a safe place to share and we listen respectfully to all the speakers.  But when someone shares something during star circle we don't comment or laugh because we are learning that the words we say affect the way others feel.  

Today we all said "If I was an animal, I would be..."  We had a huge variety of animals.  Horses, rabbits, kangaroos, wasps, a zebra and many others.   Then some of us chose to share why we would be that animal.   We did a fantastic job of clearly explaining our choices.

Kerrianne is listening to Cairo share.

Josiah shares his reason for choosing his particular animal.

Destiny and Arleyah listen to Mina share her reason.

Tigue thought very carefully about his reason before he shared it.

We also shared some of the many extremely cool things about our new Star of the Week, Cairo.  Come and check out the poster in the window of Room 2.

To finish today, we played another game of throw the jelly.  It's raspberry jelly and it's sticky and wobbly and goes everywhere!  Well actually, we're just very good at miming as we pretend to throw jelly at each other.  Urrrrrggggghhh!

 

Luke throws jelly right across the circle!

Zoe has just scraped the jelly off her face and is wondering who to throw it at.  I think Stefan is wondering too!

Kerrianne threw the jelly at her neighbour and is laughing very hard about it! 

Watch out for jelly next time you visit Room 2. 

******Star Circle******

We have Star Circle on a Friday Morning.  We start with a fun warm up like the Fruit Salad Game then pass our class mascot, Biff, round the circle and each share something.  Last week we shared our favourite thing to do at lunchtimes.  Today we shared a way of being a friend.

Here's some photos to give you an idea.

Aden shares a way of being a friend.

Check out our Star Circle - Aren't we the most fantastic class you've ever seen?

This is our Star Circle wrap-up.  We passed a smile around the circle.  Caitlin is passing a beautiful smile to Briah.

Paige passes a gorgeous smile to our new Star of the Week, Destiny.  Make sure you check out the window in Room 2 to see all the great comments we shared about Destiny. 

 

Off to a Great Start

What did we do with toothpaste in Room 2?

  

 

 

 

 We squeezed some blobs of toothpaste out onto paper and pretended the blobs were words.  

Some of the words were 

"You're fantastic"                  "You can do it"    

"Would you like to play with me?"

Then we squeezed out some more blobs and said some words that we don't like hearing like "You're dumb" and "I don't like you"

 

When we tried to put the toothpaste back in the tube we couldn't get it back in.   Just like we can't take words back after we say them.  So we decided to be really careful about the words we say to each other.  

We have been learning about our classroom and some of the things that happen every day.  And also some of the things we can do to help us learn really well.  

 During week one we made time capsules.  We put a sample of our handwriting, a picture of our favourite food, an outline of our hand shape and a piece of string that shows how tall we are now.    

 

Cairo and Aden measure a piece of string for Tigue to put in his time capsule.

We also began learning about how to sort and classify objects.  These are pictures of our favourite toys. 

We discovered that for most of us our favourite toy is a soft toy. 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Three of us drew favourite toys with wheels.

Four of us drew favourite toys made of hard plastic.

Two of us drew favourite toys that didn't belong with any of the others so they are in a category called 'other'.

More exciting news and learning from Room 2 soon.