Gone Swimming!

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It is getting close to Christmas and so is getting really hot.  The only way to cool down is to go swimming!

We are taking swimming lessons from Ms. Jocelyn at the Mataranka Homestead.  This is a warm spring in Elsey Park.  There are lots of fruit bats around in the trees and crocodiles in the nearby river, but the springs are great and we have a good time.

Ms. Jocelyn is teaching us different ways to get in the water.

Mr. Shaun comes with us.  He likes to come play in the springs too.












Besides swimming lessons, we are learning how to rescue someone in trouble.  We throw a kickboard or a noodle out to them and tell them to kick their feet.  We are good swimmers and don't need to learn how to do a rescue at the springs, but we might need to help someone in the Roper River or Elsie Falls.

We are hoping to go swimming again on Friday.  We hope Ms. Jocelyn will buy us ice-cream afterwards.

Halloween in the Wild

 These are our pumpkins on a fence that we made.

We had 4 centers for our Halloween Party.  Here we made ourselves into mummies!

We also made spider hats.

At this center we put things like ghosts and witches and spiders in windows and doors of the Haunted House.

Mrs. Robertson made "Boo Mix" that we had to sort.  Then we took it home and ate it.  There were Goblin's Teeth (candy corn), Monster Scabs ( graham cereal), Ghost Poop (mini marshmallows), and Witches Warts (chocolate chips).

In the afternoon the whole school went to the gym and carved pumpkins.  Afterwards, we went to see them all.

Hallowe'en

Mako has a broken arm.  He is an alien.  "My mom made it and me has made it. It has an alien gun.  And I am going to have an army guy.  It gots some red glasses and it has a part for you push it down and it shoots.. pretend"

Jesse and Yerrin .   We are witches standing next to a hallow'en watermelon.We made it with some of our class.

And here we are carving out the watermelon.  In this part of Australia, the watermelons are ripe at this time of the year.  Our class decided to carve them  out and share the inside with the rest of the school.  It isn't traditional to carve any sort of melon here though.  Hallowe'en isn't a big event.  In the past, the Australians didn't celebrate it at all,  but now, a few people like to dress up.  Ms. Jocelyn likes Hallowe'en and so we celebrated in our classroom. 

In the classroom

 Do you have a Smartboard?  We read our blog on ours.  We also do Starfall almost everyday.  The Special Helper is in charge. 

The Watermelon Farm

Jesse:  I have a big watermelon.  I just picked it. This is my family's watermelon farm.  We also grow pumpkins and mangos.  Is it almost Hallowe'en there?  Are you going to dress up?  Are you going to trick and treat?

They have bees to pollinate the flowers.  They also get honey when the bee man comes.

We were looking at the little pumpkin plants.   

There are heaps of watermelons in this field.

We are eating watermelon and it was very yummy!

Look at the pumpkin flower.

There is watermelon in the truck. A big truck here is called a Road Train!


Emily:  We grow passion fruit and we also grow mangos at our house.

First Snowfall

Blaine; It's winter and we like playing in the snow and we wish you could come here.

Darick; Maybe you could come to a play date.

Tesa: It was snowing outside.

Nicholas; The snow is falling down.

Larkin; It was snowing outside.

Conner; We have to wear snow pants.

Darick; Wear snow jackets.

Nicholas; Wear gloves.

Brooke; Wear touques.

Everyone: We have to wear boots!

More Investigating

Eva: I made a hat for my little toy dog whose name is Goldie.

Emily: I made a little lounge.

Cameran: We like playing with the dinosaurs.  I like them. 

Clintan: Me and Ossie were playing in the dirt center.  We get cars and we make race tracks and we play.

Ossie: We played in the center and Clintan has the green car. 

Mako: We played with the blocks.

Camy Poh: I played blocks.