Roman Day

Fabulous Roman Day today, we started with a dress rehearsal of our Roman play, then after morning tea raced chariots, played marbles, fought like the Roman army and used stilts and played a Roman ball game. Each class had a Roman Feast for lunch and then in the afternoon we performed our play to a very receptive audience of the rest of the school and parents.
Our Roman clothing made the whole day feel very real!

Pasta Making

Pasta was invented by the Ancient Romans and today was our chance to try our hand at making some. Mrs Parry was our expert with lots of other great parent helpers, thank you!

So much fun! I think everyone is off to buy a pasta machine!

Hobo Stoves

Each week at St Mary's we have Goldentime. This is a fun time that everyone in the class chooses. It is a reward for great behaviour and following the Golden Rules all week. This week Mrs Smallbone let us have an extended Goldentime so we made Hobo Stoves. They were great!! We cooked pikelets, melted chocolate, marshmallows, fish fingers, french toast...it was a very extensive list.

Today in the morning we P.A.T listening test we had to listen a lot obviously. After that we did a little bit of reading and then it was morning tea time. After morning tea we went to assembly and the principal gave away lots of awards after we did some more reading and then it was lunch time. On Fridays after lunch we have golden time which is when the class votes on something fun to do and we do the one which got the most votes. Golden time is always fun for the people who have been good. You can lose golden time if you have bad behavior but you can also earn it back if you are good enough. After golden time we had to go to a house meeting to learn the new house chants.

Today we did mostly the same things as yesterday in the morning but in the middle block we had five minutes to write as many sentences as we could about sports. Then we had to add up all our words and write the number on the side of our page and Mrs Brown ( our Teacher on Wednesdays ) told us the national standard for our age and then if we didn't have enough she said that it's because it's the first time we've ever done it. After that, we went to the Library and got some more books to read in class.

Today in the morning Room 1 went to different classes for maths then we did some R.E. In the middle block we went with Mrs Young and we went to Room 4 for Music and Drama. We learnt a dance called the Tofa Tafa it was fun. Then we found a partner and told them things about us then they told Mrs Young and the class so they would know more about us. In the afternoon we had to look at our Newspaper Report and write down what stage we are and what we need to put in our writing what we need to get to the next stage. Heres a picture of the describe sheet we all used.

Building the Colosseum

Today for reading we had an article to read about why the Romans built the Colosseum, we were using our Self Monitoring strategy as we read.
In the afternoon Mrs Smallbone showed us this short movie clip about  building the Colosseum and also how the Romans used it.

As we watched we took notes on a SOLO Describe Map, we will need these to write our descriptions later in the week.