Learning how to use Scratch Jnr

Today Mr Matt taught us how to use Scratch Jr. It was great fun!
We did programming to move people around and I made a family that got stuck in a tornado but they got safe, except their daughter tripped into the tornado and taken to the tornado's home.
Estela

Ms Claire's Class: 5 things we learnt in sharing the planet Maya

Ms Claire's Class: 5 things we learnt in sharing the planet Maya

Taking Photos for perspective

Taking photographs to show our perspective
Today we worked collaboratively to create photo images that showed perspective. These are a few pictures of us taking pictures! Next week we are going to learn how to edit and improve the pictures on PicMonkey. We will then post them on our blog.

Hello this is a Show Me about The 5 most important things me (Kelly) and Estela.

This is a show me made by Me and Signe made and is called the things we learned in sharing the planet Signe and Seo Young.

5 things we learnt about sharing the planet Nikor and Tommy

Hello this Show Me is about the 5 most important things me (Estela) and Kelly.

5 things we learnt in sharing the planet Maya & Wajiha

(show me) 5 things we learnt in this UOI

 

What do you think about this painting?

What do you think about this painting? 

Look at this painting by Pieter Bruegel. wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Pieter_Bruegel_d._Ä._041b.jpg 


What does it make you think about? 
What do you see in the painting? 
Why do you think he painted it? 
When do you think the painting was made? 
What games do you notice that are the same as today?

Visit from Wildlife Alliance

Visit from Wildlife Alliance

Today Wildlife Alliance came to talk to us about what they do to help protect wild animals in Cambodia. They gave us a presentation and then we played some games with them.
We heard about many things that humans are doing to the animals in Cambodia and we also learnt about action we can take.
They told us:
Not to hunt wild animals
Do not use, buy, eat, or sell wildlife or their body parts.
Do  not keep illegal pets
Do not destroy the forests.
They spoke to us about raising awareness and how we help by talking and sharing the message.


If we see any wild animals in situations that they should not be in, we can call Wild Life alliance on
012-500-094 and they will investigate.

What does this image make you think about?

For homework this week 6.10.14
I would like everyone to look at this image of the Polar Bear. 
What does it make you think about?
Please comment in sentences on the photograph and let me know what you are thinking? 
Some questions to help your thinking!
Why do you think I have chosen it?
Why has the ice melted? 
What problems could the Polar Bear face in this photograph?
Tell us anything you know about Polar Bears.
Through this blog comment we are sharing our ideas and helping to develop our thinking about the human impact on the environment where the Polar Bear lives. 
Ms Claire

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New unit of Inquiry- Sharing the Planet

Sharing the Planet

This is our new unit of inquiry for Grade 2/3. We will be starting to tune in for the unit this week. Have a look at what we will be inquiring into. If any of you are experts in this field or have contacts with agencies that support the environment and living things, we would really like them to come and share their knowledge with the students. Please contact any of the Grade 2/3 teachers if you can help. We would also like to use technology to aid our inquiries, so if you have contacts/ experts in environmental systems in other countries that we could either Skype or email please let us know. 

Thanks

Ms Claire

Sharing the Planet

The ways in which human actions impact living things in different environments (

Key Concepts Form, Causation, Responsibility

Related Concepts: interdependence, sustainability, environment

Lines of Inquiry

·       Living things and their natural environments (form)

·       The ways in which human actions impact living things in different environments (causation)

·       Sustainable choices we can make (responsibility)

Teacher Questions

1. What are different environments? (Form) 

2. What do humans and other living things need? (Form

3. How do our choices/ attitudes impact other living things and their environments? (Causation)

4. What sustainable choices can be taken ? (Responsibility)

My

Visit by Donavan Christopher poet and Rapper

This week Donovan Christopher came to visit our school.  He is a Poet and Rapper from the UK.
This is some of what we learnt and felt about Donovan's visit.

Donavan Christopher has the idea to write poems from looking at some signs like on roads, at schools and library. the other thing i learned is R.A.P which stands for respect all peoples,rhyme all poems. i also learned that every poem needs to have words that rhymes and if we don't have words that rhyme it will be boring. We can also make our own R.A.P too. It needs a title and some rhyming words. poems can also have bits that you can sing.

Vorleak 

I enjoyed it when we spelt my name and made it into a poem. I learnt from Donavan how ro rhyme words so that I could use them in poem. I liked reading his poems. I like best Rockman to the rescue. 

Sonyta

Donavan writes Rap poems and raps. Raps stands for respect all people and more.

He inspired me to write my own raps because he made me think that raps is like a poem you can also make it fun. I also found that lots of people liked it. 

Lyka

I really liked how he got everyone involved in saying his rap poems. It was really good fun.

Maya

Donavan likes to make poems when he writes his poem he doesn't scribble  it out he uses the ideas and makes changes. It takes a long time to make poems and get them just right. 

Tommy

Donovan said that my name was really cool and it reminded him of Otis Redding. I thought it was good that everyone got involved in it and how everyone was singing along and it was really fun. 

Otis

The Gecko Wheel

Ms Ashley came to talk to us today about how we can be a risk taker and talk out problems. We did some small role plays to learn how to solve problems.
We learnt to apologize and talk it out.

• That when you apologize to someone you need to look at the persons eyes and talk calmly
• To solve problems you need to talk it out calmly and not in an angry way
• When you apologize you don't talk fast or in an angry voice
• You really need to mean it!

Our Assembly on Healthy Habits

When we did the first song Happy I was really nervous but after a while I became less nervous and I really enjoyed it.
Lyka

I felt scared when I did the happy because everyone was around watching.  After that I did not feel scared. I think the assembly was fun.
Tommy

When I was doing the first song I was a little bit shy I was nervous when I had to speak but I felt I was brave and happy with myself. I was happy that my Mum and Dad were there to watch me.
Sak

When we did our last song ISPP I thought I was happy and so I think I sounded better then when I practiced.  I think the assembly went very well and I was proud of our class.
Seo Young

Data Handling - Healthy Habits

Today we learnt how to create a survey and make our own bar graphs. We choose topics from our healthy habits unit. Questions included: What is your favourite type of exercise, Choose a way that you like to keep calm and Which of these choices would you like for breakfast.
We made a survey of our choices and then asked people in the class to pick which one they liked. We used Tally marks to calculate their responses.
Finally we made a bar graph of our results.

Asking our survey questions. Photos by Ms Claire

We Love Reading

Keith loves reading and has made himself very comfortable to start enjoying the book!

We love reading !

Today we started a new class story book called The Invisible Dog by Dick King - Smith.

Its a story about a girl who has an invisible dog. We have only just started it, but already we have the movie of the story in our heads.

What are you enjoying reading at home?

Seoyoung's 1st week of school!!!!!

Last week our class made a lot of new friends and in the new semester, we got a lot of new stuff that are like a new folder, new books.but the best thing is we have  Ms Claire !!!!! Ms Claire is the best teacher ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Getting ready for Assembly

Getting ready to practice the songs for assembly

This week we have been getting ready to perform at Assembly. Our Assembly is on our unit of inquiry Who we are- Healthy Habits. We have written a song with Ms Leigh in music, wrote about the healthy choices we are going to make and we dance! We hope you can come and watch us.  It is on 
Friday 29th August at 7.45.

Meeting Zach Bonner

Yesterday we met Zach Bonner. He came to our school to tell us about the action that he took and also to give us ideas on how we can take action.

Photo of Zach talking to our classes by Ms Claire

Zach's NGO is called 

The Little Red Wagon Fund

Check out his website http://lrwf.org/helpingout.html

On the first day of school i was a little bit shay because my class have new student.

On the first day of school,I played Lego.

What I learnt today about being healthy

I learnt today that when you play you get healthy. I played with lots of friends today at recess so that helps me feel healthy.
Vorleak

Swimming helps you get healthy. It helps to make my heart stronger.
Otis

I play, I dance and I get enough sleep. This helps me to be healthy.
Keith

If you drink lots of healthy things like water it is better for you than the fizzy stuff.
Lyka

Doing exercise like running and jumping and putting your hands up and down these make you fit and stronger.
Kelly

You have to cooperate and work together that makes us feel happier.
Tommy

We need to participate, if you don't do this in a team you can't work together.
Seo Young

Our new Unit of Inquiry Who We Are

Who We Are- Healthy Habits 

Our first unit of inquiry of the year is called Who We Are - Healthy Habits

Below is a breakdown of what we will be inquiring into. 

We are all looking forward to being more knowledgeable about how we can make good choices to develop a balanced healthy life. 

Ms Claire

Central Idea

Our daily choices affect our health and well being.

Key Concepts: Function , Connection, Responsibility 

Related concepts: Well being, Growth

Lines of Inquiry

• Types of food and exercises that are necessary to be physically healthy (Function) 
• How mental health is connected to our well being (Connection)
• Balanced choices and how they affect us (Responsibility) 

Teacher Questions

1. What types of food and exercises are necessary for us to be healthy? (Function) 

2. What is mental health? (Form)

3. What is wellbeing? (Form)

4. How is mental health connected to wellbeing? (Connection)

5. What balanced choices can we make and how do they affect us? (Responsibility)

Learner Profile

Risk-takers

Balanced

Attitudes

Cooperation

Independence

Tolerance

We Are Back!

August 2015
Our first Week
Welcome everyone to a new school year for Ms Claire's class.
We have new friends who have joined us from Grade 1 and we have said good bye to last years Grade 3's who have progressed onto Grade 4.
It was great to see everyone back and to welcome two new friends to the class.

This is us

What's new?
The Jungle gym is now outside our 
classroom!


What we are looking forward to :
Its a new year and I am very excited for star power because I am going to play the piano.
Otis

I am looking forward to learning new maths.
Tommy

I like to play with other friends and I can see my sister in Grade 4.
Hyun Ho

I am looking forward to using my imagination to write better and to read lots of good books.
Estela


Learning to be social with friends from other Grade 2/3

PE blog
Please have a look at our class on the PE blog 
 http://isppelementarype.blogspot.com/

Photo highlights of our year

Some of the photos from our year. We have had a great time together.
Ms Claire's class 2013 to 2014