Room 6 – you rock!! Everybody did a great job today. You remembered what to say, where to walk and showed the whole school how you do technology just beautifully! Mrs. Downing and I are very proud of each one of you 🙂 Have a look here on the blog tomorrow for a slideshow of photos from your assembly. Mrs. Veary
Samuel’s Dad works in Newman and when he was down last week, he came and did the reading in the morning. We wrote to him and asked him some questions and he has replied. I thought I would copy his reply and put our questions up on this post so that it would be easier to read.
This is what we asked him. Lovely to hear from you from so far away. That was such a great comment. We hope you have a safe drive home. Are the trucks like monster trucks? What’s Newman like? What do you mine? Some of us thought it might be gold? or is it another metal? What is the temperature in Newman?
This was his reply.
Hi Room 6… I’m back on the mine, it’s the weekend and I thought I had better reply to your post now that Mrs. Veary has shown me how to do it.
The trucks are even bigger than monster trucks.. it’s hard to describe but if you put another classroom on top of your classroom – they would be about as big as that.
Newman is quite an old mining town up this way. It started as a mining camp but now is a town. The Mine at Newman used to be a big hill but now it is an even bigger hole in the ground. Newman is small, it has one Coles and two pubs and lots of red dirt.
The mine I am on is called “Area C” and here we mine Iron Ore which gets sent to Japan, China and Korea and turned into steel.
It is only about 40 degrees here today, pretty cool really. It can get up to 46 or 47 and that is in the shade… in the mine in the sun it can get well over 50 degrees… really hot. When you stand on the ground in the sun you can feel your feet start to heat up in your boots.
I have hidden some pictures for you on our website…
I hope you like them. You can see the big white 4WD next to a dozer and truck shich shows you how big things are.
I look forward to doing reading duty and seeing you again soon.
MG
Let’s use these games to practise our capital letters. Capital letters are used at the beginning of a sentence and for names of people, places and titles. See how you go with these games. Click here.
Click on COMMENTS under this post to read some of our wonderful poets’ acrostic poems on WATER! 🙂
This week we will be learning all about the brain in our inquiry activities.
Click on this link to read an on-line comic book about Sam’s Brain. You need an up-to-date flash player on your computer at home. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/flash/comic.html
Inquiry groups this week will investigate the brain: Computer: – Comparing brains in the powerpoint Desk:- You will be colouring in the different parts of the brain and labelling them Teacher:- You will be finding brain facts and writing KEYWORDS into your T-chart. The extra facts can be found clicking on this link to Kids’ Health -The Brain http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=307&id=1528 Thinkers’ Keys:- You will be using your Inquiry Book and drawing a plan first for the CONSTRUCTION KEY. Then you can make your creation for brainfood.
FAST FINISHERS:- You can do the brain jigsaw (putting it together again and timing yourself); you can do some of the Brain Mazes (from the easy one to the challenging mazes); wordsearches on body words
Next week we will be making a playdough model of our brain. Try to remember the different parts of the brain and what each part does.
