Yolanda, a Face painting Artist

Guess who came to our class on Friday the 7 of June 2013. That's right, Yolanda.

who is a parent of one of our classmates,Layla.She is 34 years old with a Dutch background and she loves to do face and body painting and share her artwork with everybody in the universe. (Kilipati, Trey)

 

Yolanda is an artist who is as tall as the traffic light. She has short reddish blond hair that makes heads turn as she's one that stands out in the crowd. Everybody goes "Wow, she's looks like shes on FIRE!" (Levi, Virgil)

  

She is a fabulous "show and tell" artist and she loves to share her body painting artwork with others, be they young kids or adults. She has something to entertain and capture everybody. What an awesome talented artist! (Sylas, Nelson)

 

Yolanda is a responsible artist who never walks into a room without a bag full of surprising stuff to inspire the children. She can manage a class all by her self by saying" Class can you move back a little please, so that the others  can also see the fake zombie skin?" They looked really freakie. (Alexis, Sione )

Yolanda is an absolutely famous and special artist who has heaps of fans throughout the world. She travels around the world and does TV shows and interviews with people from different countries. She also participates in body painting art competitions. We hope she wins and becomes world famous. (Terrie, Tanya)

 

Finally Yolanda is a unique artist who has been selected as a judge for a world famous body art competition. For a wonder people want to be like her- creative, generous, graceful and sensational. Rrrh! (Margaret, Nia)

 

 

 

Our Trip to the Panmure Basin

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 Room 15 went on a trip to see where the fresh water meets the salt water in the Panmure Basin area.

 

We saw the mangrove trees growing in the salt water basin. We were wondering how is this possible? Some said that seawweds and coconut trees also grow in areas that have lots of salt. We also looked at the bird life in the basin.We learnt heaps about how the Water Cycle works in the Basin area.

On the way back the children looked at the salt water in the Basin and asked "Where does the salt water come from, when we just saw that fresh water flowed from a stream under a bridge on the way to the Basin?" That was a great question to ask I thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob, our awesome school caretaker

 

Bob is a fabulous caretaker who keeps Sylvia Park School spotless. He is about 65 years old and is meticulous when it comes to fixing up jobs. He is also a superb handy-man who has carved a magnificent sheild with our room number 15 on it, with his amazing Jigsaw. Now aren't we fortunate to have such a  talented man around in our school!

 

Bob comes well- equipped to build useful stuff such as a rack to hang our bags to help keep our class neat and tidy. Wow! what a helpful caretaker!

 

Bob is also awesome in the classroom explaining to kids how to do stuff like drill a hole, screw on things with his amazing screw driver and hammar nails. He gives clear instructions like "Turn the screw clockwise." I thought that there was only one kind of head on a nail- but Bob told us that there were the square head, flat head and so on. Bob "knocked the nail on the head" when he said that we learn quickly- and so have we. Now we know heaps about fix-up jobs.

" I think I want to be a janitor just like Bob when I grow up" said Sylas and Trey.

 

 

Bob is a responsible and careful worker around students. He tells us the rules or the 'precautions ' we have to take when using dangerous electric tools like the jigsaw and drill. He never shouts when we break safety rules but he says in a quiet as a mouse -voice "What did I say? " to Sione, the fidgeter,who was putting his hands too close to the cutting tool.

 

 

Bob is an expert when it comes to actually using the different tools. He is a dextrious man who seems to have the technical know-how to use his tools to do a job, safely. Bob is "a place for everything and everything in its place," man. That's our man!

 

 

Bob loves to talk to others about the job he does. He knows how to progress the sequence of his "show an tell" lessons from one tool to the next by merely saying "Shall we move onto the jigsaw tool now?" No arresting the lessons by saying 1,2,3 or bus stop! Gosh, that's the surest way to kill the lesson. But not with Bob- he knows how to motivate and lead kids from one tool to the next, without making as much fuss. That's Bob 4 U!

 

 

Now check out his precision work! "Would you like me to cut out your room number?" he asked us and of course we all screamed "Ya!" After that he asked "Would you like me to cut out a circle to screw on the numbers?." Again we called out "Yes, Bob!" He quickly drew a circle with Armand's short stubby pencil and away went the jigsaw, zzzing around and before long he had cut out a perfect circle. "Yay! Thanks Bob for that magnificent shield." cheered the children.

 

 

Bob is an alien from outerspace who is invading planet "SPS". Bob wears yellow earmuffs like the captain of a UFO spaceshuttle and goggles like the shadowed eye-patch of a meerkat. Wow! what a unique mixture of character.

 

'How to make Puddles' - Evaporation and Precipitation Process in Nature.



Margaret and Kilipati share with therr buddies how puddles are made in nature.
Heavy rain clouds fall down as rain, which is known as precipitation. When the sun comes out and shines brightly during the day, all the water that had been collected in the puddles, begin to change their phase from a liquid state to water vapour which is a gaseous state.
As the WV rises it becomes cooler and then it changes its form back into droplets of water, to form clouds (condensation). When the cloud becomes too heavy it falls down as rain. This process goes on and on in nature and is known as the Water Cycle. 

Kilipati's aim is to find out what happens to puddles that are formed after the rain.




An inquiry group is writing their observation report after an experiment on condensation.

Procedural text - Sharing a sing-a-long with a tissue - box Ukulele in Room 15

Layla has followed a step by step procedural method on how to make a musical instrument with a tissue box, which she played to her buddies, as they sang along to the well-known tune of "You are my sunshine." She was able to confidently list what materials she had used to make her tissue box ukulele and explain the method of how she went about making the instrument.

"Reading in action" by students in Room 15

Here are children who are happily involved in their daily reading in groups and with their buddies. After reading  in a group they go to their tables to  do  their reading follow-up activity which helps them develop their comprehension skills such as summarising main ideas in the text. Students have very quickly taken ownership of their learning and this is indicated in the way in which they are readily able to articulate their learning in a nutshell and in their own words.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel wise Expo Day

Travel Wise Expo Day

Our Action Plan: How can we slow down speeding vehicles at Sylvia Park School's traffic lights intersection?

We in Room 15 came up with 2 options that could slow down these speeding motorists. On Wednesday the 9th of April our school had an Expo day. This is where we got to present all of our hard work to our school, teachers, students and parents.

 

This is our finished 3-D Triptych model of our school and the traffic lights at the intersection. We have our 2 options on it as well. Option 1 Flashing yellow lights which you can see at the intersection, and Option 2 red intermittent lights embedded on the road with a buzzer at the crossing.

 

This travel wise group was apart of Option 1. Terrie, Nia, David, Abdul, Teina and Sylas.

This travel wise group was apart of Option 2. Sione F, Adina and Alyssa.

This travel wise group was apart of Option 2. Oceania, Margaret, Ayen, Zariha and Giani.

This travel wise group was apart of Option 1. Norry Armand, Janvi, Eneio and Izya.

This travel wise group was apart of Option 2. Darsha, Lolo, Nelson and Sione A.

This is one of our student teacher's Mr Smith who worked in our class during the week. On Expo day he helped our class to arrange our model and presentation in the Senior classes.

This is our other student teacher Miss McDonald, she also helped us on Expo day. She helped our presenters with their speeches and helped us to do our voting for each option.

Mrs Naidoo and our class all put alot of hard work and effort into our 3-D Triptych model. We were very happy with the results and ready to present to our entire school and community.

Our model was looking very colourful and attractive at the Travel wise Expo Day.

At Expo Day, we had our class room representatives inquiring visitors and asking them to vote for which Option they though was the best.

Visitors came and listened to our speeches about each Option and the dangers of speeding motorists.

We had all our information surrounding our model so that people who came to see our 3-D Triptych model knew everything that we were talking about.

 

We had some of our parents come and check out our awesome model at Expo day. They were very proud of all the work we had done. It was a fun day.