Bears

This Term in our class we have been learning about teddy bears and other bears.  We have had a Teddy Bears' picnic.  We made some Teddy Bears.  We have also read lots of books about bears.  We have painted teddy bears.  We have made teddy bear papier-mache.  We coloured in some teddy bears.  We found information about teddy bears.  We know why teddy bears are called teddy bears.  We have written stories about them.

If you click on any of the bear pictures on our page it will take you to a Bear site!

Plants

We are learning about plants in our class:

•  Plants have a stem and leaves.
•  Some plants have flowers.
•  Plants are living things.
•  All plants have roots which hold the plant in place.
•  The roots bring food and water to the plant which travels up the stem.
•  Plants need water to grow.
• We have plants growing in our classroom because we wanted to see what seed would grow the fastest.
• Some plants don't have flowers.
• Some plants grow really tall and some are very small.

Here is a good site to find out about plants - The Great Plant Escape
 

Australia

We are learning about Australia in our class.  These are some of the things we know:

• The capital of Australia is Canberra.
• We speak English - some language is different to other English speaking people.
• Our country is very multicultural.  In our school we have children from  many other countries.
• Most Australians eat with a knife and fork.
• The first people in Australia were the Aboriginals. See a drawing of Tiddalik - a Dreamtime story.

Go here to find out About Australia.

France

We are learning some things about France.
We know that:

• Some French people wear berets.
• The Eiffel Tower is called that because the person who made it was Gustaf Eiffel.
• The Eiffel Tower is made out of metal.
• The days of the week are not said, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  They are Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi, Jeudi, Vendredi, Samedi and Dimanche.
• They eat croissants, snails, frogs' legs and baguettes.
• France is in Western Europe and is north of the Equator.
• The capital of France is Paris.
• In France they say Cendrillon for Cinderella.
• Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast are Fairy Tales written by a French person and the word for Prince is Le Prince.
• The French people speak French.

Here are some French Site links.

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Our class knows a lot about Japan.
We know that:

• The people speak a different language called Japanese.
•  They don’t use the same alphabet as us.
•  They eat lots of rice and drink green tea.
•  Their country is smaller than ours and has lots of mountains.
•  They have family baths.
•  Some houses in the country have thatched roofs and we don’t.
•  They eat with chopsticks instead of knives and forks.
•  Some people have to get their water from a lake.
•  They have black hair and their skin is a light brown colour.
• They have McDonalds just like us.
• They sleep on a mattress on the floor and in the morning they roll it up and put it away.
• They have traditional folk tales like our fairy tales. See the artwork we did about Momotaro.

• The women wear kimonos for special occasions only now.  They used to wear them all the time.

Some great places to visit are:
Japan: Resources for a Visual Arts Theme.
Folk Legends of Japan
A Japanese School - Miyake Elementary School

Road Safety

This term we have been learning about Road Safety because we are getting our carpark changed to a more safer place.  We discussed and acted out safe ways of crossing the road and being near the road.  Some of the rules we learned are:

1. Cross the road with an adult.
2. Always use the underpass.
3. Cross the road with the Lollipop Lady.
4. Ride your bike with a helmet.