Swimming Stories

During Weeks 4 and 5 the Junior School children went to the Clive Indoor Pools to work on their swimming skills. Here are the Room One children's thoughts.

I have been at the pools. It is indoors. It was new Clive pools. I tried to do freestyle. It was hard to do with goggles. The pool was enormous. I had a teacher called Paula. Paula is cool and fun. It was almost perfection. I might be better at floating than freestyle. But definitely better at freestyle in the little pools. Because there is a thing which means you need to swim in the big pools when you are floating. It felt like drowning!!
By Manawa

I went swimming. I dived into the water. I had to get sinking things. I could float on my back. I can swim fast. The safe side to get in the pool is to go on the steps. Then I go under the water.
By Harlem

At swimming I learn about floating on my back and the pool is blue and I get changed and I said thank you and I was happy.
By Leyton

The teachers taught me how to do swimming and do freestyle on my tummy and that was fun.
I liked it.
By Naomi

Splash!! I went swimming. I was sinking and then I stood up because I was running out of breath and then I kept swimming. In the Clive Pools I put on the goggles and float backwards. I kicked faster. I like swimming. I like the warm water. I like pools. I like swimming pools.
By Jimace

I was swimming. I liked it. I was delighted. I want to go there again.
By Lucus

Today we learnt about seat dives with your arms behind your ears and with no legs kicking. I went fast like a red flame speedboat with heaps of horsepower and I almost donged my head on the bottom of the pool.
By Ned      

At the Clive Pool today I did freestyle and I was exhausted... Splash and then we did starfishes and we floated.
By Tom

The teacher was throwing animals. It was fun. We went to learn and it was cool.
By Keiara

Splash in the pools I did a big jump in it. Then we were floating. Then we did streamlining.
By Patrick

We have to get in safely in the pool. We do freestyle and it's my favourite part.
By Blake

Today we went to the pools and we learnt kicking. It was fun and then we did freestyle.
By Adam

We went to the pools. We did streamlining and it was fun in my group. Kristian was in the warm water.
 By Visharn

Splash I jumped in the pool. At the pools we learnt how to swim. It's fun.
By Cole

The pools were warm. We did streamlining and freestyle.
By Wilbur

Splash I dived and then I freestyled then I was exhausted but...   they did something awesome! They threw out treasure.
By Beau

Splash!!! We were kicking our legs. It was fun. I like swimming. Then we had to go and get some learning toys. It was fun.
By Seth

When I went swimming I got exhausted! I did freestyle and it was fun. I splashed my friends. I did seat dives. I jumped.
By Bryn

Making Cars

As part of our Inquiry we earned money for the work done in our room  ( income )
and in groups of three we had to use this money to buy the components we needed to build a car.
We then had see which car went the furtherest to be the class winners then had a competition with the Junior Syndicate then the whole school to see which car (group) were the Clive School Champions!!
Unfortunately Room One cars didn't win the Championship but alot of fun was had in the designing and building. Except for poor Seth who skewered his hand instead of the carrot OUCH!!

Congratulations to our class winners:
    ( Jahzana, Bryn and Wilbur)   and   ( Naomi, Lucus and Ned )
Well done for the awesome work put in by the other teams as well.
Here are some photos of the testing.

Calendar Art in action

Portraits for our Calendar art

Junior Cross Country 2014

Some writing about our Cross Country experiences.

I watched the Cross Country race and I thought my class was losing but they won it.
I clapped."Yay" I said. It was fun.
By Manawa

I felt happy I came 16th then I went home then I went to the dairy.
I was happy.
By Wilbur

On Wednesday I was running in the Cross Country race. I like running in the Cross Country race.
My Nana and my Mum was there and my sister was there too.
By Seth

I went to the Cross Country race. When I started  I was very nervous. But when I was running I was fine. Then my legs got sore but at the end I was very happy. Then after that I went to the Four Square
and I got a blue icecream. Then I went past the school. I saw some people there. Then I saw Bryn picking up Izzy and Bryn went to have a play in the playground.
By Ned

In the Cross Country race I came 7th. Adam and I ran fast all the way.
By Blake

When I was running I came 10th. I got an attack.
My Mum got me a drink of water and it made me better.
By Beau

The Cross Country race was fun. I came 14th.
It was fun. I nearly came first.
By Jahzana

I like practising. I got puffed but ... I kept coming and didn't stop. I won.I was happy and it was fun.
I got puffed very puffed but I didn't stop. I just kept going on. I am glad I bet Ned.
By Bryn

Library

We visit the School Library every Friday to get a book to enjoy at home over the weekend.

We are lucky to have such a great place full of wonderful books.

We love relaxing in our Library and know we have to keep quite quiet so everyone can read. 

Lemon Experience

We looked at, touched, smelt and tasted lemons to build up a bank of describing words for our writing.

Then we wrote about our lemon experience using some wonderful describing words.

Lastly we did some observational drawings of the lemon.

Here is some examples. Feel free to come in and see / read the rest.