Gardening

            Room 13

Creating a no-dig garden.

             18.10.12

First we weeded the garden area.

Then we put down layers of newspaper.

Here comes the potting mix.

 

We added a layer of potting mix mixed with wild flower and sunflower seeds. Then we watered it.

We covered it all with straw.

Now we will stand back and watch it grow!!!!!!!

A New Book

Room 13 had an awesome visitor today. Her name was Maddy. Maddy read us a cool story called 'Where the Giant Lies' by Mem Fox. She brought the book over from Australia as a gift for our school from her school. Thank you Maddy and Our Lady of the Angels.

Maths time

Some of us have been learning about sharing and dividing.

We are getting better and better at it.

                           There are different ways that we can work out the answers to problems such as, "The class had 24 seeds to plant and had to put them into 6 rows. How many seeds would be in each row?"

Sometimes we share out the "seeds" one by one into each row. Sometimes we share them out in groups of two or three.

Sometimes we can work out the answers using number facts.

For example, we know that 8 + 8 = 16 and 4 + 4 = 8 so the answer to 16 divided by 4 must be four.

It makes us think. Especially when we get given mean ones like, "24 divided by what = 6?"

Our Futures

As part of our "Yes, No, Maybe" news discussion, we explored the idea of being taken away to a specialist school to train from a very young age as they do in China.

Interestingly some children thought it would be a good idea and all had ideas about what they might like to train as.

Here are some of their ideas.

Mufti Day

After a week of lunchtime sports activities, Friday was the day we dressed up as our favourite Olympic sports competitor.
Look out for Equestrian, rhythmic gymnasts, soccer, netball and hockey players, a tennis player, BMX riders, spectators and Highfield Olympians along with many others.

Gymnastics

Over the last three weeks we have been spending some time each week using the gymnastics equipment. We have challenged ourselves and each other. We have pushed ourselves further than we thought we could go. We have felt threatened and proud. As you watch these photos, ask us what was hardest, what we got better at, and what we felt proudest of achieving.

We Love Constructing

Any chance we get, we like to build, create, design and construct fabulous structures. Then we like to photograph them before we put the blocks away. When we are constructing we are often sharing and co-operating, talking about our designs and making decisions about how to improve them. All great Highfield Learner skills.

Here are some of our constructions so far this year.