Handwriting

In Handwriting we are learning to form letters and numbers correctly We know that we are successful when we: * Use the correct starting point * Make the letters sit on the line or have the tail go under the line * Use finger spacing. Some of the ways we learn how to write letters and numbers correctly * Use chalk on the concrete * Use our whiteboard and whiteboard pen * Use shaving foam and our fingers * Use the sand tray * Use our handwriting books.

Happy Mother's Day

To all our lovely Room 12 mothers. We hope that you have a very special day this Sunday xx Room 12!

Literacy Week: Buddy Reading with Room 8

Room 12 had their first buddy session with our buddy class for 2016, Room 8! We introduced ourselves and also talked about the book character that we had dressed up as. Then we read books from our red book boxes and listened to our buddies read their books. WE LOVE HAVING ROOM 8 AS OUR BUDDY CLASS!

:Literacy Week Mystery: Slinky Malinki- Up to Mischief!!

Room 12 arrived at school 2 Friday's ago to find their enormous grey plane had disappeared... we looked everywhere. We asked the question:

WHERE HAS OUR PLANE GONE?? Then we received this message: Miaow Children and Teachers at Sunnyhills School! I’m Slinky Malinky, (a rapscallion cat!) By day I am just like any ordinary cat but at night I am wicked and fiendish and sly I leap over walls and I prowl and pry All over school I have pilfered and pillaged from classrooms and corridors your teacher’s belongings I’ve pulled them and dragged them and heaved them until I reached the music room high on the...concrete Take yourself off to the window to see If your belongings are sitting there one morning this week Make sure that your teacher can identify the item I stole So that your classroom will once again be whole So we went to investigate

No luck! Our plane was not there on Monday....but on Tuesday, Milana and her mother visited Slinky's window again and said they had seen our plane. So we went to have a look:

We wrote a class email and sent it to Slinky: Ni hao Slinky Malinky We are Room 12 Sunnyhills School. Last week our big and grey toy jet plane went missing. It was lost!! We felt very sad. We looked all around our classroom but we couldn't find it. Miss S our teacher sent an email to all of Sunnyhills School. Yesterday you sent us a message so we went down to the music room, but we couldn't find it : ( This mornning Milana one of the people from our class took her mummy down and they found our jet plane in the music room. This morning the whole class went down and we found our jet plane. Slinky Malinky stop taking our things. If you want to use our things please ask us first and remember your manners. Thankyou for listening to us. From: Room 12 and Miss S and Mrs Norton : We think that Slinky got the message because he left us a signed paw message on our whiteboard. Thanks Slinky!!

Self Portraits- Take 2

We did our first lot of portraits when we first visited Room 12 at a pre entry visit or at the start of this year. It has taken us 4 weeks of real careful work, but now we have finally finished our second attempt at Visual Art-self portraits. We have been learning to use a range of different materials to complete a portrait of ourselves in our school uniforms. First we had to think about and choose the correct paint colour for our skin. Then we had to think about using the whole space. We held our paintbrushes like a pencil.

Then we added the colour of our uniform. Next we used paper to create our hair. Miss S showed us how to make curls using the scissors. Some of us had to work with Mrs Lee to add the brown colour to our hair because there was no brown paper. We used PVA to stick the paper on. It was very tricky and the glue stuck to our fingers!

Finally we worked with Miss S and Mrs Lee to add the parts of our face. We used pastel.... it was really tricky because it could smudge if we worked too fast! So we did our best because Miss S said that amazing artist's work takes a looooonnnnggg time!

Our portraits are not all the same, because we are special and unique individuals. We think that we are awesome artists. What do you think??