Reading to KM

Some of our class members went to KM today to read a books for the children in kindergarten. It was a lot of fun.

The photos were taken by Tayla and Lauren.

SRC Reps

Alex and Brett became our class SRC representatives at last Friday's assembly.

It was a whole school assembly held under the COLA.

Pancake Tuesday

Today is Pancake day and so we made pancakes in the classroom. We used 1 cup of flour, 1 egg, 1 cup of milk and a little butter. We made a bit of a mess but we had fun.

Down on the Corner

We are learning this song:

Early in the evening, just about supper time,
Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind.
Four kids on the corner, trying to bring you up,
Willy picks a tune out and he blows it on the harp.

Chorus:
Down on the corner, out in the street
Willy and the poor boys are playing, bring a nickel, tap your feet.

Rooster hits the washboard and people just got to smile
Blinky thumps teh gut bass and solos for a while
Poor Boy twangs the rhythm out on his Kalamazoo
Willy goes into a dance and doubles on kazoo.

You don't need a penny just to hang around,
But if you've got a nickel won't you lay your money down?
Over on the corner there's a happy noise -
People come from miles around to watch the magic boy.

When someone has news we all listen.

Free Time

We all enjoy "Free Time" on Thursday afternoon, when we get to choose what we will do.

Here are some websites we have enjoyed visiting:

www.unclefred.com This is a great way to learn more about drawing.

http://www.abc.net.au/message/dustechoes/ This site has 5 Aboriginal stories in short animations.

We have also made some simple animations using Pivot Stickfigure Animator.

You can download this program free from this site:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

We made simple backgrounds in Paint, then used the File - Load Background command to bring them in to Pivot.

You have to click on Next Frame to start your movie.

Marvellous Toy

Here is another song we have learned:

Marvellous Toy - Tom Paxton=============

When I was just a wee little lad
Full of health and joy
My father homeward came one night
And gave to me a toy
A wonder to behold it was with many colours bright
And the moment I laid eyes on it, it became my heart’s delight.

And it went whoosh when it moved, and (pop) when it stopped and brrr when it stood still
I never knew just what it was and I guess I never will

The first time that I picked it up I got a big surprise
For right on the bottom were two big buttons that looked like big green eyes.
I first pushed one and then the other, and then I twisted its lid
And when I put it down again, well this is what it did.

Chorus

It first marched left and then marched right, and then marched under a chair.
And when I looked around again, it wasn't even there
I started to cry, but my daddy laughed cos he knew that I would find
When I looked around, my marvellous toy was coming from behind.

Chorus

Well, the years have gone by too swiftly it seems, now I have my own little boy
And yesterday, I gave to him my marvellous little toy.
His eyes nearly popped right out of his head, he gave a squeal of glee
Neither one of us knows just what it is, but he loves it just like me

Our Fruit Graph

We are learning about making graphs.

This graph shows the fruit we chose from a basket.

Heather took this photo.

Here we are in our classroom.

Our teacher is Mr McLoughlin.

We eat our lunch under a beautiful old mulberry tree.

We like this poem:

My Uncle James by Margaret Mahy


My Uncle James was a terrible man
He cooked his wife in the frying pan.
She's far too tender to bake or boil!
He cooked her up in peanut oil.
But sometime later- a month or more-
There came a knock on my uncle's door.
A great green devil was standing there.
He caught my uncle by the hair.
"Are you the uncle that cookied his wife,
And leads such a terribly wicked life?"
My uncle yowled like an old tom cat,
But the devil took him, for all of that.
Oh, take a tip from my Uncle James!
Don't throw stones and don't call names.
Just be as good as ever you can-
And never cook aunts in a frying pan!
-Margaret Mahy

Here is a song we have learned:


The Cat Came Back


Old Mr Johnson had troubles of his own

He had a yellow cat which wouldn’t leave his home

He tried and he tried to give the cat away

He gave it to a man who was going far away

Chorus:
But the cat came back the very next day

The cat came back; they thought he was a goner

But the cat came back, he just couldn’t stay away.

The man around the corner swore he’d kill that cat on sight
He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite
He waited and he waited for the cat to come around
Ninety-seven pieces of that man was all they found

He gave it to a man going up in a balloon
Told him just to take it to the man in the moon
The balloon came down, about ninety miles away
Where that man is now, well I just couldn’t say.

The H-bomb fell, just the other day
The atom bomb fell in the very same way
England’s gone, Australia’s gone and now the USA
The human race is finished, they had no chance to pray

Hello

Welcome to the 2007 class blog for 2M at Seven Hills North Public School in the Blacktown region of Sydney, Australia.

We have 24 students - 13 girls and 11 boys.

We will post photos of our work, poems and songs that we learn, and short pieces of writing about some of the things we are doing in school this year.

We hope you enjoy our blog. Please leave us a message after your visit!

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