Merry Christmas from The Learning Hub

" Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree, how ever green your branches"

We have planted our own Christmas tree right in front of the 

glass doors to The Learning Hub.

It doesn't have any branches, it isn't green, but it is made of trees.

Come and see if you have read any of the books we used to make the tree.

Can you guess what the book at the top is?

Thanks for visiting this year and reading all those books!

We have already started buying new books for next year!

Why not click on the Oxford Owl site on the right hand side of this page 

and read e-books over the holidays - they're free!

 

HO, HO, HO

 and 

Merry Christmas.

A Book in a Jar?

 Can you figure out what the books placed in these jars are?

 

 

We've shredded very old or damaged books and placed them in jars.

Fiction books have been shredded along the sentence line so you can still read the words and figure out what book it is.

Check it out in the Learning Hub!

                                                                                                                                                    

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a ....

Room 9  have made

" Little Old Ladies" to 

go with this story.

     They have made them with BIG mouths and BIG stomachs! 

Can you see what's in their stomachs?

They have made the ladies with lovely bright coloured legs and arms.

How many things did the" Little Old Lady" swallow?

Excellent illustrations Room 9!

NEPAL

Swagatam! Welcome To Our Nepalese Nook.

 We are Room 2 and we have researched the people and their country. We have prayer flags hanging at the entrance to our display.

This is Nicholas, he has just come back from Nepal. His father is a Sherpa.Nicholas is showing us how the silk scarf is used to welcome people.

               

Over the next 2 weeks school families are encourage to visit the Nepalese Nook in The Learning Hub to view our children's display. 

Namaste.

              

Do You Want to Read e-books?

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Oxford Owls is a web site where you can download 250 free e-books for Primary School aged students.

Ask your parents to help you login at home.

Just click on the Oxford Owl figure on the 

right hand side of the Home Screen

 and it will Link you to the site.

Hope you enjoy all the books. 
                                                 

AUDIO BOOKS

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is just one of our new AUDIO BOOKS.

 Grace and Keira use CD Walkmans to listen to an Audio Book.

 You can find the Audio Books and the  players on the shelf in the Quiet Reading Space or find the actual books on the Fiction shelves.

 Awesome Reading!

                                                    

Chess

Rhys helps set out The Lord of the Rings chess set in the display cabinet.

How many pieces are in a chess set?

Can you play chess?
Can you find the Gollum chess figure?

Checkout the books on how to play chess,or come and join the Chess Club on Friday lunchtime.

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Super Hero

Gawie from Room 19 was running out of homework challenges so decided to make his own challenge.

   

He has created his own Super Hero, all by himself!

 

He used a computer programme called Marvel- Create Your Own Super Hero.

You can choose your own figure and colours.

He said it was a lot of fun. 

He has called him Mars Man!

Mars Man is on display in The Learning Hub so come and have a look.

                     

  Thanks for sharing this with us Gawie.

Here is the website if you want to make your own Super Hero.
http://marvel.com/games/play/31/create_your_own_superhero

Skyping Fiji

Room 1 and Room 13 gathered in The Learning Hub to Skype two classmates who were on holiday in Fiji.

Our two friends came up on the big screen with their parents.

We were able to see them and talk to them.

Our friends told us they had been swimming, sailing on a catamaran and hunting for lizards!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Check out section 996.1 in the non-fiction section of the library to find books and information about Fiji.

Sunflowers

Sunflowers was originally painted by Vincent Van Gogh.

Room 16 have painted their own Sunflowers and they are on display on the Art Wall in The Learning Hub this week.

        This is the photo of the original painting.

The students in Room 16 have all signed their paintings in the same place as Van Gogh - on the left hand side of the vase.

Room 16 have made a student publication of   interesting facts about Vincent Van Gogh.

Their publication is on display in The Learning Hub, so come and have a read!

The Cave

           

Room 3 and Room 5 made cave drawings, paintings and fossils.

They were displayed in The Cave.

      IT WAS VERY DARK!

      IT WAS VERY SCARY!!

  IT WAS VERY AWESOME!!!

First we had to put on a head torch.

            You could choose a white light or a green light.

The green light was the scariest. 

Then we had to crawl into the cave.

 There were drawings and paintings on the walls and fossils on the ground.

When we put on the glasses the dinosaurs on the walls became 3D!

We weren't afraid!

The next week the black cave entrance was taken down so we could see all the things in the light.

 We were able to play with dinosaurs on the OHP that made large shadow dinosaurs on the ceiling.

Room 5 made paper mache dinosaurs and wrote facts about them.

We were able to read all our library books about dinosaurs and fossils.

We could look at all the cave paintings.

Could you please make the cave again!

          It was AWESOME!

My Dad. My Hero!

                My Dad 

               My Hero

         It's Father's Day!

 

 

What are you doing for Father's Day?

Come and choose a book for some good ideas. 

 

 

 

 Bake something, grow something or make something.

                Dad will love it!

Van Gogh -Starry Night

Room 15 have made their own Van Gogh picture.
Each person was given a piece of paper that had the outline of their part of the picture on it.
They had to talk to the other children who bordered their paper to make sure they got the colours the same.

Then all the pieces were put together to make this beautiful picture.

Have you checked out this App?

You could take a photo of a picture you have made and turn it into a jigsaw using this App.