Athletics Day

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Ocean Boy, Forest Pixie, Taco Queen, Leaf Lady, and Super Recycling Woman


Room 9 Enviro Kids, Monkey Boy, Butterfly Girl and Bush Boys!


World Environment Day

Today is World Environment Day. Many of us dressed up in environment colours or recycled things. We talked about the 3 R's: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We also created a Mind Map of all the things we are doing, or could do, in our homes, school and community which help the environment and show we are thinking about sustainability.

Reduce:
This means you reduce the amount of materials you use. For example, if you use both sides of a piece of paper, you are reducing the amount of pages you need.

Reuse:
This means you use material over again, either for the same purpose or for something new. For example an icecream container might be reused as a container for crayons.

Recycle:
This means you use material over again to make a new product. For example, old newspapers are recycled when they are made into new paper products.

Chinese New Year - Red Envelopes

We have been finding out about the Chinese New Year Festival. It is a very special celebration in many parts of Asia. The date of the festival is based on the lunar calendar. It lasts for 15 days and starts on a new moon in January or February. One of the traditions during this festival is to give a red envelope to family and friends for good luck. Red envelopes are also given at other special celebrations, such as weddings and birthdays. The colour red is important in Chinese tradition and signifies good fortune. To find out about them we read books and used the interactive white board in room 10. We made our own special red envelopes, placing good luck symbols on the outside and filling them with 'lucky money' coins. We will give them to someone in our family or a friend.


Click on the red envelope below to make your own envelope.

China- Mapping Skills

Today Room's 9 & 10 worked collaboratively on mapping skills. Together we viewed a map of China from askasia.org for kids. We came up with a list of criteria to use when creating our own maps. Here is the list of things we need to include on our maps.
* Title
* Names of places eg cities, towns, rivers, mountains, oceans, deserts
* Compass showing N S E W
* Names of surrounding countries or islands
* Famous landmarks or man-made buildings
* Colours to show desert, ocean, fertile land
* Animals native to China and areas they live
* Key to show things like mountains, rivers etc
* Neatness in handwriting and pictures
* Correct spelling

Welcome to Room 9's Blog

Wow! How exciting Room 9 have started their very own blog! We are really looking forward to all the exciting things we will be able to do and the learning we will be able to share with our family and friends.