ANZAC DAY

We have been learning about the ANZAC spirit and why ANZAC DAY is such an important day for every Australian.  Lest we forget.

Some of our classmates have been very busy today writing some amazing poems about their learning.

Hannah.

ANZAC

March, march, march,

As they walk.

Fight, fight, fight

As they save of lives.

Shoot, shoot, shoot,

As they save our lives.

Cry, cry, cry

As they die.

Tahlia

March, march,

As the soldiers march along

Shoot, shoot

As the bullets fly by

Cry, cry

As all the soldiers die.

Listen, listen,

As we all stop.

Lest we forget.

Nicole

March, march,

As the soldiers march to war

Fight, fight,

As they fight along bravely.

Shoot, shoot,

the bullets fly by

Cry, cry

As the soldiers die.

Our Excursion.

Today we visited hands-on habitats at LaTrobe University.  We learnt so many new things from our tour guide, Shannon.

He explained the three habitats that they were trying to establish at the LaTrobe Wildlife Sanctuary being Aerial, Aquatic and Grasslands.

 We walked through the beautiful sanctuary being careful to remain on the foot paths and be still and quiet   to listen for animals.  We did not have any success during our first hour tour............but it was early days.

We all gathered around and listened as Shannon told us all about sugar gliders, we then had to become sugar gliders, building and protecting out nests.

After this we went to learn about the habitats we had been exploring and played a fun game that highlighted the importance of protecting our habitats from introduced species- especially humans!

But the highlight of the day was after lunch when we explored the sanctuary and found kangaroos resting, feeding and stretching not too far away from our lunch time stop.  We were all amazed watching the kangaroo eating very politely with his paws, picking and lifting leaves to their mouths.

We also had the great opportunity to follow an emu along the path.  He was quiet a distance away nibbling on some grub.  Next thing we knew he was heading right towards us for a photo opportunity.  lol.  Check out the photos tomorrow.

Please stay tuned as over the next few days I will asked all the children to type in their ideas and experiences from the excursion and add lots of photos and videos to go with them!

He is Risen!

We have now began the Easter season and it is an exciting time in our church year.  We have our Alleluia back in our Mass and a new Pascal candle to guide us.

In our classroom we have made our own candles to guide our faith journey and reflect our ideas about Jesus who has Risen from the dead.

The childen were given overhead paper and asked to draw and/or trace images of Jesus onto the paper.  They then brainstormed words to write on their paper.  The children used CD/DVD makers so that their images did not smudge.  We then stapled our paper into a circle and placed around a tea light candle.  The image below is our final product.

Grace-: I really liked drawing all the pictures onto the overhead paper and using the special pens.  I choice a picture of Jesus with words alleluia around him.

Christian-: Drawing the pictures from the photocopies was great.  I choice some ideas about Easter to add to my work.  It looks really amazing.

Caleb-: I liked using all the signs of Jesus Rising to make my candle glow.