Day: September 28, 2012

This week in China class we’ve been really busy. Most of us finished our Space projects and we are looking forward to beginning a new project about the Himalayas and Mount Everest. We covered balloons with newspaper in order to create our own papier mache planets and used the website www.kidsastronomy.com to research each planet.…

This week Egypt class are planning on doing a book about school history. Some people are drawing pictures about the school in the future, past and present. Some people are doing interviews with teachers and the principal. On Wednesday it was European languages day. We did drama in lots of different languages. Yesterday we did…

Denmark class have settled in very well into senior infants and have had a great first month in their new classroom. We have done lots of learning and had lots of fun too! The children are particularly interested in learning about autumn and have brought me in some really nice things for our nature table. We have…

This week in Norway class we were learning to add numbers horizontally. We rounded the numbers before adding them and then we added the actual numbers to check that our answers were close to our rounded estimate. We focussed on the sequence of events in our recounts in English writing. We read our O.R.T. books and library…