Playground Songs

Recently Hawes Primary in England put up a post about playground clapping games.

You can view their videos here, and here and here.

They were keen to find out about playground songs from around the world,

so Mr Salsich and his class put up a post on their blog with a playground song that they know.


Mrs Kistler and the 49ers in San Antonio, Texas have also got some videos up. Check them out here.


Mrs Hembree and the Bellbulldogreaders have their 
videos here.

Mrs Lynch and Grade 1 have videos here.


Some of our Year 3,4 and 5 girls have been doing playground songs at our school, so here are our contributions:


Hey Mr Postman
do your duty.
Here comes along Miss American Beauty.
She can do the pom-pom
she can do the twist,
But I bet you five bucks
she can't do this...
ABC

Old mella, kiss a fella

lazy boy, ping pong.

Old mella, kiss a fella

lazy boy, ping pong.

Turn around, 

touch the ground.

Freeze like this

We would love to see playground songs from more countries.
 Please put links to 
Hawes Primary, Mr Salsich and Open the door to b4
on your post.

Measuring Area

This morning in maths each group had to sort objects from biggest to smallest by 

measuring the area of each object.

'Area' means the amount of flat space that an object takes up.

We discovered some interesting ideas as we worked:

You can't compare 2 objects by measuring with different units!

That wouldn't be a fair comparison.

If we choose measuring units that are too small, it takes a lot of counting!

Some of our units overlapped the object we were measuring. That made it tricky to count the number of units used!

But we worked together as teams and overcame the problems.

Yay us!

How does working as a team help us in our learning?

Our flat selves are home from Australia

We were excited on Friday when the parcel arrived with our flat selves, back from 

visiting 2KM and 2KJ in Australia.

It was fun reading our diaries and finding out 

what we had done.

The diaries will be a great keepsake, and the project has been an exciting part of our learning this term. 

Writing the diaries for our visitors from Australia gave a real purpose to our writing.

B4 children, please comment - what did you do in Australia?

The Flat Stanleys final weekend

Thank you to the parents who were able to email in photos from the weekend.

A Weekend with our Flat Stanleys on PhotoPeach

How did you have fun with your flat person?

A new dental clinic

The dental nurse Ann, and her assistant Alayne, 

are here for the next few weeks and they have a new clinic.

Instead of visiting them in the old dental clinic building 

we get to go into the new trailer unit.

Spike, Jonathon, Ganda and Lily went for a visit and took these photos.

Do dental nurses come to your school?

How do you take care of your teeth?

Do you have any wobbly teeth at the moment?

Our Flat Stanley diaries

Our Flat Stanley project with 2KM and 2KJ is nearing an end. 

Tomorrow we are making the final entries in the diaries and then the Australian 

flat people will fly off home.

They have had a busy time while they were here. 

We took them for a walk around town and took lots of photos. 

Our flat friends came to the lunchtime disco last week, 

they took part in athletics day and 

they spent some time at our homes.

Some have been swimming, milking cows and horse-riding. 

Take a sneak peek at our diaries!

What was your favourite activity with your flat person?

Raising Money for Christchurch

This week the school had a mufti day, sausage sizzle and lunchtime disco to raise money for the 
earthquake relief effort in Christchurch.

We were pleased to find out that the school raised nearly $500!

Thanks to the Student Council for organising and running the day.

Here we are in our mufti clothes and at the disco.

Today the national Memorial service was being held in Christchurch, and our thoughts were with all who had lost loved ones.
Our thoughts are also with those caught up in the devastation in Japan.