This week we had two sessions with Constable Graham on the Bikewise Safe Cycling programme - our Tuesday session was a theory discussion in which we learnt about safe cycling and the hazards to look out for...boy, there are a few! In the middle photo above you can see Const. Graham , Shaz and William demonstrating why it is illegal to ride bikes on the footpath - cars coming out of driveways may not see us as we bike along and we could get hit (as we can't always see the cars either!)All of us learnt something new from Constable Graham in this session and we will put that in our comments for this week.
On Wednesday we used our bikes (and helmets of course) to practice some cycling skills out on the school courtyard. Const. Graham laid out cones in slalom courses and for corners so we could practise the hand signals that we had learnt the day before - it can be quite tricky for some of us to balance our handle bars while lifting one hand up to show that we are turning or stopping! Something for us all to practise!
Other activities this week: we published our stories of what was hiding in our wardrobes -Mrs Coyle is hoping that these were all imaginative as she wouldn't like to meet some of the crazy or scary creatures that we described! We have published on pad paper and made doors on the front with card so they look like wardrobes - come into class and check them out on the wall!
Mrs Shepherd was with us today and we created some collage people in action -we used the shapes of the paper to show the positions of the arms and legs of our paper-people as they carried out all sorts of healthy exercise options such as dance and sports. They look really cool and we will write poems to go with the pictures...watch this space!
We also worked on reading scales showing millilitres, grams, litres and kilograms. Our numeracy maths sessions have been based on fractions or reading/writing large numbers and addition strategies.
This week we also looked at ways that we can be healthy -we still have a session or two to do about this and then we will begin our own investigations into an aspect of keeping healthy or safe.
Congratulations to Keryn, who we voted last week as our Most Valuable Pupil for self-responsibility - you can check out our list of achievements on our wikispace page throughout the year - there will soon be lots of athletics results there with the LMV Athletics planned for next Friday!
Our class VIP (very important pupil) this week was Renee - we learnt that Renee enjoys riding motorcross and has a lot of pets.
This week as part of her Connected Award we had Shaz sharing some magic tricks that she has been practising - Mrs Coyle was totally blown away when Shaz could find the right card in the pack - how did you do it Shaz?!
Tomorrow is our camp fundraiser - our annual Car Boot Sale and Car Wash - fingers crossed for a nice day and a huge turnout of customers - see you all there!
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