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We are Year One children at Westfield Park Primary School. Our classroom is called Room Two. We have more boys in our class than girls. We have 11 boys and 8 girls. We have a nice teacher who reads us stories - we love Hairy Maclary stories by Lynley Dodd.

MUSIC LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY FRENCH

MUSIC
On Fridays we go to Music. The Music room is in Room 11 in another building. Our Music teacher is Mrs Mathie. If we are really good and get 5 stamps she lets us have a lucky dip. We might even get a chocolate in the lucky dip.
We get to sing songs.
Our favourite songs are:

Aram, Sam Sam

Dr. Knicker Bocker

We like music games. We play tapping sticks, bells, drums, shakers, rattles, crackers, tambourine and triangles. We play musical trains - when Mrs Mathie or someone who is the train driver taps us on our head the person stands up and goes to the back of the train line. Then we go choo, choo, whoo, whoo and we move around in a circle.
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LIBRARY
On Fridays we go to the school library. We pick books to read. Most of the time we watch videos that Mrs Piper puts on for us. The videos are stories about Peter Pan, The Three Little Pigs, Rosie Went for a Walk and Robin Hood.
We do drawings about story books that we have read. We do writing about the books that Mrs Piper reads to us.
Our favourite books from the library are about dinosaurs, butterflies, water and Santa. We also like books about fish. Some books are Fiction and some are Non-Fiction. Fiction books are not true and non-fiction books are true!
When we are in the library we have to sit down quietly and listen to the teacher. We have to do this in EVERY lesson not just in the Library.
We get coloured rulers to put in the place where the book belongs then if we don't borrow the book we can find where to put it back.
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TECHNOLOGY
In our class we are learning about how to make bridges. We are using paper and we are trying to make it strong. We have used our hands to try folding, twistin and, rolling to find out how to make it strong enough to make a bridge that our wooden truck can go over. We are still working out ways to build our bridge. We had to use our hands, pieces of newspaper, a little bit of sticky tape and our brains.
We had to find out about bridges by looking at web sites that showed different types of bridges from all around the world.
Some of the different bridges are:

Covered in bridges made of wood

Steel bridges that open up like a castle draw bridge

Bridges that open like double doors on their backs

rope suspension bridges

bridges that open like a tap handle so that boats can go each side

Brick bridges with arches

Floating bridges made by the soldiers

Tree trunk bridges that you walk across

Rock bridges that you have to step on each rock to get across

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FRENCH
On Wednesday, after recess, we go to the French room to learn French. We draw pictures about French books.
We learn French words like - "How are you feeling?" ("Comment ca va?"), "Please" ("Sils vous plaits"), the cat (le chat), a mouse (la souris ), the farmer (le fermier), the dog (le chien), a sheep (le mouton) and a cow (le vache).
We sing French songs like "Madame L'Araignee" (Mrs Spider) and we sometimes play games outside like 'The Cat and Mouse' ("Le chat et la souris").
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