Miss Tyler takes advantage of a photo opportunity

Conner the soccer player

Seed Project - Week 3

 Aurora

 Jade with her deceased beans and corn

 Jessica

 Joe

 Michael

 Taine

 Vinny

Zoe

Abdul, Nika and Mia's beans and corn have died and they will begin again this week.

Some tips for growing healthy plants from the Grade 5s:

• Kiss your plant every morning (Aurora)
• Sing to it (Mia)
• Tell it jokes (Tane)
• Use old fish pond water (Jade) 
• Use a syringe to water them (Farikai)
• Tell it you love it (NIka)

Taine's Sister is getting married next weekend

...and he will be playing this piano piece as she walks down the aisle.

Isn't that fantastic?

(This isn't Taine actually playing)

Our New School

Our school is going to be moving to a new property in January 2011. 

At the moment the school hasnt been built, so we will have lessons in prefabricated classrooms for a few years. 

They estimate that the building will take 2-3 years to complete. 

Removal trucks will be arriving on 11th December.

This is what the architects have designed:

 The Primary School (the left of the property) Ages 5 - 12

The High School (the right of the proprty) Ages 13 - 18

Miss Tyler-Smith and Aurora are Bento Mad!

Miss Tyler-Smith both love their Bento Boxes, they have the same two boxes in different colours and make a beautiful lunch for themselves. They show each other their lunches on most days and giggle at what the other shose to pack.

Miss Tyler-Smith is starting to feel very sad at the thought of saying goodbye to her Grade 5 children and is considering failing them all so she can have them for another year...or maybe not...

 Aurora's New Bento Box

 What's inside my Bento Box?

Please meet Rascal

Rascal is our class pet guinea pig. We chose a guinea pig beacuse we are learning about the Inca and they kept them. Please remember to feed Rascal and brush him with the "more" tab underneath his icon.

Growing Beans and Corn - Week 2

I'm not entirely sure whose beans are whose, so I will add names next week.

Incan head dresses

We are learning about the Incas who lived in South America about 500 years ago.

Above are examples of their head dresses. We made our own in Art class today.

 Incan Prince Abdul

 Incan Prince Connor

  Incan Prince Farikai

  Incan Prince Joseph

  Incan Prince Michael

  Incan Prince Taine

  Incan Prince Vinny

  Incan Princess Aurora

   Incan Princess Jade

   Incan Princess Jessica

   Incan Princess Mia

  Incan Princess Zoe

The New Curriculum for 2011 has been published online

National Curriculum Statement Grades R–12:

CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT POLICY (January 2011)

http://wced.wcape.gov.za/ncs/national_policy.html

We have a *NEW* classroom Flickr account

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairetylersmith/

Growing Beans and Corn - Week 1

This term the Grade 5s are learning about seeds, how some seeds have two parts to them like beans, and are called dicotyledons, and others have one one part, like corn, and are called monocotyledons. 

We have planted both beans, corn and seeds we found outside in the garden, and are going to observe them for 5 weeks to see how they grow. Wish us luck!

 Connor with his seeds

 Zoe with her seeds Hope, Carly, Charlotte and Lily.

 Farikai with his seed children Joley, Mike, Jane and Charlie.

 Mia, a proud seed Mommy to Shayan, Sharla, Azilia and Zoya.

 Abdul with his seeds, Tom, Renaldo and Samantha

 Michael, father to seed babies Jesse and Jack.

Vinny, Daddy to seeds Eddie, Sam and Mia

Jade, showing off Manny, Seth, Nika and Kim

 Aurora with Annebell-Lee, Esperanza, Mina and Delila.

Taine, so proud with his seed babies, Shaun, Max and Jack.