Musical Meerkats

Today the Marvellous Meerkats had a musical performance in the hall. All of the IAs and High Flyers and lots of parents were watching us.

A few weeks ago, we started practicing. We had to keep trying and trying.

Our performance started with Dash. Dash played his xylophone in front of the whole school. They loved hearing and watching him play. Azlyn helped Dash out because Dash was scared.

Then J-Lynn started to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the rest of us sang along. We used a special thing called a Makey Makey that turned Bradley, George, Natalia, Alex, Paris and Sunday into a musical instrument. All J-Lynn had to do was touch them on their hands.

Next Dakshesh played the Alphabet Song and Ryley played a special song Mr Davidson wrote. They both used the same instrument made out of the children.

When we were performing, we made mistakes but we continued. Mr Davidson didn't even help us one bit. He took this video:

We want to do this in front of the whole school again because we had so much fun. Some of us got scared, but we still tried our best and were very brave.

Making One With Fractions

For the last two days we've been learning how to make one with different fractions. We used the iPads to take pictures of our work. Have a look at what two of our groups did today:

Azlyn's Photo on Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Azlyn's Monster

Azlyn's Monster Where is he from? He is from a trench at bikini bottom What does he eat? My monster likes to eat people Does he have friends? Yes he has gigantic friends

Unscrambling a Recount

This week Mr Davidson found a recount that was all mixed up. He needed our help to put it back together. We worked in groups to cut all the sentences up and put them in order. It was tough work but some of us figured it out. Have a look at the work from three groups. Which one do you think should be put up on our writing wall? Vote with the form below the pictures.

Swimming!

We are so lucky that it's still warm in March for us to go swimming. It was a beautiful and sunny day today. We took some videos of us in the pool (Thanks Miss Lines!). We were even allowed to take some turns jumping into the pool. We waited very patiently.  Have a look at our videos from today:

Yum!

This is what we did during writing time today. Can you believe how lucky we are?!? Look here later this week to see the wonderful recounts we write about this...

Floating in the Pool

Today the Marvellous Meerkats and the Super Star Heroes learned how to float on our backs and our fronts.

First we went on our backs carefully. You have to spread your arms and legs out wide.

Next we floated on our tummies

Then Mr Davidson gave us a challenge. He asked us to try floating on our backs and then on our fronts without touching the bottom.

Finally we had time to play a game. We played ring-a-ring a rosy.

It was fun because it was a hot day (Dakshesh). It was warm because outside was sunny (Mu). The water was cold, but if we went in quickly it wasn't bad, it was nice (Danielle).

Making a Cat and a Mouse

Today, Azlyn read the book: "Making a Cat and a Mouse." Afterwards, he followed the instructions in the book, got all the materials he needed and made the cat and a green mouse. Darlene helped him a little bit.  Amazing work Azlyn!

Learning About Space

Today, Azlyn and Darlene were learning about Space. Azlyn made a diagram of the solar system and included all of the names of the planets. He could even tell me how long a year is on Mercury. Do you know how long a year is on Mercury?