Learning with Chicago

Our friends in Chicago created a video to tell us about themselves

So we made our own for them (sorry about the blurry quality)

  Illinois Time

  Victoria Time

This is the link to the Voicethread - which hopefully you can see without logging in

HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY HELPS OUR GRAMMAR!

The Middles have had lots of fun using the Australian animals at Healesville Sanctuary to support our learning about nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs! We used our own photographs. It all makes sense now! That's what our teacher hopes! Here's what we wrote....

...golden dingo stretching wearily..

...dangerous Tasmanian Devil snarling menacingly...

...long-winged wedge-tailed eagle soaring anxiously...

...tired koala dozing peacefully...




...deadly brown snake arching threateningly...

...yellow-mouthed tawny frogmouth gobbling hungrily...





...baby  platypus swishing excitedly...

...giant beaked pelican spreading its wings widely...

Voicethread with Chicago school

 We love this Voicethread started by Mrs Shabat and Mrs Merced from Chicago. Their students are studying Endangered animals and want to learn with us. Some of our Middle students have blogged about some endangered animals and Mrs Shabat has included the pictures they used here.  

Mrs Shabat's students drew wonderful pictures of their Endangered animals in KidPix and some write Haiku poems. It will be interesting to see what we can teach them and what we can learn from them.

http://ed.voicethread.com/share/2034086/

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GOING! GOING! GONE! MIDDLES' LATEST INQUIRY!

Endangered animals and the effects of humans on the animals' habitats
make up the focus of our latest inquiry.Our Wallwisher reflects the first thoughts we have after our inspiring Healesville Sanctuary trip.

BRAIN DISSECTION-AN EXCITING HANDS-ON LEARNING EXPERIENCE

Middle Matters invited a medical student to teach us about the brain and to help us to understand the parts of a sheep's brain! Afterwards we had some big questions!

How do you learn best?
What is the most amazing way you have learnt something?
Can you give us some good ideas for experimenting with the way we learn?

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS!

Thank you to everyone who commented on our blog and inspired our learning about advertising. We are now writing our own advertisements.

Corinne (Grade 3) and Middle Matters

PLEASE HELP OUR INQUIRY INTO ADVERTISING!

ADVERTISING!
Tell us about the ad you HATE the most and the ad you LOVE the most. Most importantly, tell us why. The Middles are looking at persuasive techniques in advertising.

Holidays are a thing of the past! We are already heading into Week 3 of Term. Our new motto is.....

Custom Glitter Text

PLEASE HELP - ORGANIC CLEANERS WANTED!

WARNING-We have discovered that many cleaners are made of dangerous chemicals that harm the environment!

HELP-We have been discussing that it might be possible to make some safe cleaners of our own.

PLEASE COMMENT -If you know any alternative recipes for cleaning products, kindly comment on our blog.

My Country - Celebrating our Learning!

The practice of reflecting on our learning has begun to influence the way the Middles respond to many experiences. We have just begun enjoying and writing poetry. The first poem we studied was "My Country" by Dorothea MacKellar. Enjoy these insightful responses from our Grades 3 and 4 students!

Jessica's


Zoe's


Liam's


Anthony's


Madeline's


Jessica K's


Hannah's


Harry's


Hailey's


Yom's


Chloe's


All in one movie below




Photo credits
Elena Martinella - FotoStream
Dave Sag - Flickr
G Sharp - Flickr
By Zoharby CC-BY-SA-3.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Garry - www.visionandimagination.com

MIX-UP AT THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY!

Crazy Mixed-Up Chocolate Blocks! - how to create a free slideshow

WE WERE WONDERING!

SHARE YOUR HOME EXPERIMENTS!

SCIENTISTS AT WORK-Making Ooblek!

Have you done an experiment at home- one that would be suitable for the Middles to try. Please share with us, remembering we need materials and procedure to guide us!

SACRAMENTAL CANDLES

RECONCILIATION CANDLES on PhotoPeach

OCTOBER 4th - St Francis of Assisi-Saint and Environmentalist

The Canticle of the Creatures on PhotoPeach