Holidays

I hope you are all enjoying your break. Last week I went to the SERU Special Education Expo. I've learnt some new things to bring back to the class. I've also been doing lots of learning about our new iPad's too. We will be able to use them very soon!
Also, just giving you the heads up that the Ladies of Variety Movie Day is Friday Week 1 (29th of July). The date crept up on me so permission slips will be sent home on Monday of week 1. See you all in a weeks time!

Swimming Fun!

Monday was our last swimming lesson for the term. We didn't really have a proper lesson, but we did have a lot of fun on the tarzan rope. Our iPad's also arrived on Monday. We are all looking forward to using them next term.

Author's Chair

Everyday we practise our writing. We use a sentence starter to help us plan our sentences. Today's sentence starter was "When I do my best I feel...". We are all encouraged to write independently and 'have a go'. After writing some students then share their writing with the class. It is important that we are able to read our writing even if our spelling isn't perfect. Here are two videos of students in the 'Author's Chair'.

Ladies of Variety Disco!

Room 11 was lucky enough to be invited to another 'Ladies of Variety' event. They had work for this one though. Behaviour in the class needed to improve to earn this day of fun and they did it! Crazy hair was a hit with the kids and so were the tattoos and face painting. Some of us hit the dancefloor early and danced up a storm! Some of us preferred to watch the dancers on stage. Some of us had never been to a disco before so it was a great learning experience. All in all it was a fun couple of hours.

Disco! on PhotoPeach

This week also saw Cassey celebrate her 11th birthday.

Happy Birthday Cassey!

Clay Animation

Room 11 have made their first clay animation. We came up with a story line and drew a story board. We designed our characters, chose our background and took a lot of photos. We really enjoyed making the animation and we are looking forward to making another one soon.

We hope you like it!

iPads!

Just a quick post to let that you know I have been lucky enough to receive some money through a SERU (Special Education Resource Unit) Technology Grant to purchase 4 iPads' for the class. Ipad's are an emgerging technology in the area of special education and we are very lucky to be getting 4 of them. I think the class will benefit emensely and I look forward to be being able to incorporate them into the learning program.

National Simultaneous Storytime

Today we participated in National Simultaneous Storytime. As a school we listened to the principal read "Feathers for Phoebe" by Rod Clement. We all loved the story. We enjoed the colours in the illustrations and we all thought the little grey bird looked a bit silly all dressed up! After we listened to the story we completed an activity which created a flip book of colouful birds created by us.