Skype chat with illustrator, Tina Macnaughton

P2-9 were so lucky to meet illustrator, Tina Macnaughton (Jamie's Auntie) via skype today. She shared so many aspects of her work. The children had lots of excellent questions to ask. Many thanks to Sue who organised it for us.

Poetry Performances

Each team chose a weather themed poem to perform for the class. The assigned jobs to each other and practised their ideas before presenting to the class. They used body sounds, muscical instruments and actions to bring their poems to life. They we so confident and really enjoyed themselves!

We had fun investigating electrical circuits

My Body sung in Mandarin... very sweet!

The quality is not great but if you want you can download the file to get a clearer picture.

Earth Day

We dressed in green to remind ourselves about keeping our planet clean and green. In P2 we learned about endangered animals, the carbon footprint and how it affects us.

Celebrating the Royal Wedding

We had a fun day celebrating the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. We enjoyed dressing up and sharing a posh royal lunch. We danced and even had some wedding cake.

Good lookalikes...

Spoilt for choice at the royal buffet!

Goodbye Orlando and Emily

We have loved having both Orlando and Emily join our class from the British School in Tokyo. They were both so lovely and made feel very welcome by the fantastic children in P2-9.

Today, Orlando played a piece on the violin to say thank you to the children. He was very good. Emily left last week and has been in touch to say that she missed P2-9 but is having fun doing lots of activities during the day.

We will miss them both and want to wish them all the best for a happy homecoming.

Newsround reports about lost dogs

The children wrote reports about their missing dogs. Then they read them out on a special edition of CBBC Newsround. Let's hope it's a happy ending for these pet lovers...

Click here to visit the Newsround website to keep up to date with more breaking stories.news.bbc.co.uk/​cbbcnews/​default.stm

Newsround reports on Lost Dogs from Evelyn Bookless on Vimeo.

Debating in P2-9!

In Big Writing we came up with arguments for and against building a bridge from the Isle of Struay to the mainland. The children came up with so many clever arguments for and against the idea. They wrote them down and later we held a debate in the local town hall on the Isle of Struay with Grannie Island and Grandma Mainland arguing both sides.

 A rather happy Grandma Mainland - She may get to see Katie Morag more often.

Some angry locals!

Book Character Dress Up

We had such fun dressing up as some of our favourite book characters.

Cheung Chau Photo Story

The wonderful children of P2-9 took lots of photographs on their visit to Cheung Chau island. Then they used PhotoStory to create a short slide show. They worked in pairs to choose photos, add text, change font type, size and colour, add transitions and music. Very impressive! Well done P2-9.

Children, what is your favourite photo and why? Add your comments below.
What would you change about your group's work to make it even better?


Cheung Chau Photo Story from Evelyn Bookless on Vimeo.

3D Shape Challenge

How many 3D shapes can you name?   


Add your answers / comments below (you can do this if Mummy or Daddy are logged in as "Followers")

Use this website to help you learn more about 3D shapes.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3usa/flash/index.html?goLesson=14

Behind the scenes...

Thank you so much to the amazing Mums who helped prepare the children for our class assembly. The costumes, make-up, hair and photos were outstanding!

Some Cheung Chau photos

The children took lots of great photos and videos during their visit to Cheung Chau. They will be making some sildeshows on the computer next week which I hope to add to the blog. In the meantime, here are some of the great photos that Mrs. Locke took.

Secret Door

For book week each class has decorated their door to show a different children's book but they cannot reveal the title. Can you guess which book P2-9 have chosen?

 

Come to Lantau...

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

created by P2-9 using the ipad app "Pow".

Island Adventure Assembly

Where is the Kellett dragon?

The Big Shoe Project

If you would like to send Brendan a photo of your favourite shoe, he can put it on his world map.
See the details on his blog:

http://thebigshoeproject.creativeblogs.net/portfolio/introduction/

You can email your photo to thebigshoeproject@gmail.com