Long Beach

What an awesome day! A huge thanks to all our parent help. Without them we would not be able to have such great days as this!
I was so impressed at everyone's attitude towards the challenges and each other. It was lovely hearing everyone encouraging each other particularly on the rock climbing. I was thrilled that everyone had at least 2 goes on the climbing and that quite a few even made it to the top of the highest point.

Italy Roadblock

This was always going to be a popular Roadblock! Who can resist freshly made pizza? Again teamwork was important, making sure that everyone brought one ingredient to contribute to the pizza and deciding how the pizza was going to be designed. I was impressed at how well everyone worked together and how focused everyone was. The final products looked and smelt delicious!

Term 4 Week 4 - China Roadblock

It has been a couple of weeks since my last entry but lots of exciting things have been happening.
Room 3 have been motivated with their Amazing Race homework and we are enjoying the Roadblocks which we have been doing in class. Great to see teams building their teamwork skills and completing tasks together.
Here are some of our photos from our China Roadblock. We had to work in teams to carry jellybeans using only chopsticks across the room. Heaps of fun!

Term 4, week 1:

Term 4 already and we are straight into new and exciting learning. We have started the first week of the Amazing Race. This is a great way of learning about other countries and have more awareness of what is happening around the world. Each Friday we will share the work and work in teams to complete a variety of roadblock activities.
Today we had our first German lesson. It was great fun learning how to say hi and ask how old someone is in German. To help with our German language we have been given access to a great website.
www.linguascope.com (click on this link)
The username is otagogirls and the password is language11
Have a go!

And a few more photos from the Emmy awards:

The 2011 Emmy Awards!

What a great way to finish off Term 3 and our ASPIRE work. It was fun dressing up and having an award ceremony to recognise excellence in our work. Our presenters (Maddy and Tom from Room 24 and Patrick and Ella from Room 3) did a fantastic job running the ceremony and a huge thanks to the Emmy Committee for setting up the PAC and also cleaning up after.
Thanks to Mr Clarke being being our guest presenter. It was lovely that his last day at Balmacewen was spent watching and enjoying films made by students- as he said two of his passions on display; ASPIRE and technology.
Here are some of our award winners:

Week 10

It has been a while since my last post!
What a great term it has been. Lots of great work and fun activities especially the rat dissection this week.
The rat dissection fits so well with our body unit as the internal organs of rats are packed in the same as humans. A huge thanks to Mrs Quelch for doing the actual cutting while I was able to take some photos and check that everyone was fine.
Here are a couple of photos of our learning experience.