HLG @ Serendip

We love when it's our turn to visit our classroom down at Serendip!  Each day we have taken a packed lunch, snacks, walking shoes and our hats, to make our way down to Serendip Sanctuary.
The week at Serendip for every class is jam packed with a mixture of environmental and ICT studies and is ALWAYS a highlight!! 

For HLG, our week so far has seen us interact with the rangers, take water samples from Hovell's Creek and run some tests on it back at Serendip.  We've learnt about the 'ecolinc' app on the IPads, being 'citizen scientists' for the ecolinc specialists.  This means, we collected bird data from Serendip and submitted it online.

We've also learnt how to use IMovie on the IPad, creating movies on 'emus', which could potentially be used for an up and coming Serendip app that is currently in the making!

For our Year Sixes, this is the last time they will visit our Serendip classroom (as an LPS  student) and boy will they miss it!

The ANZAC spirit

On the 25th of April, Australia remembered the sacrifice of service men and women by taking part in marches throughout the country.
In the lead up to ANZAC day, the students in our learning group building captured the ANZAC spirit by taking part in a variety of activities. 
The week saw some of us wearing ANZAC badges, writing about soldiers at war and paying our respect via a one minute silence.  We had a guest speaker visit us (thanks Deb!), accessed ANZAC websites to complete history tasks and read stories of war such as 'Simpson and his Donkey'.
In addition to this, 50 lucky students went to Melbourne to visit the Shrine of Remembrance, whilst others displayed their cooking skills by baking ANZAC biscuits - boy did our building smell delicious!

Lest We Forget.

Mum, Deb Robinson, taught us about Lara's 'Avenue of Honour' and showed us how to map our ANZACs on our netbooks

The uniform of our diggers and nurses at war

Real war medals!

 

Front row whilst visiting the Shrine!

Our 'Shrine-ing STARS!'



Blake, Declan, Cam and Lara show team work whilst baking ANZAC biscuits

Mmmmm, the finished product!

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter from the Learning Group building! 
We hope everyone is enjoying their Term 1 holidays and with Easter just around the corner, indulging in a chocolate egg (or two!) as well.

Hello Mr. E.Bunny, welcome to our building :)

Cameron and his buddy creating Easter cards!

MONSTER trucks!

A monster truck visited Lara Primary School

And. It. Was. HUGE!!

We gathered out in the car park and learnt all about these immense creatures!

 

 

Did you know that the first ever monster truck was called Bigfoot and to build a modern monster truck it costs $250,000? WOW!

Well done to Declan Robinson who won the monster truck colouring competition!  His prize was a monster truck DVD and a ticket to the Geelong Showgrounds to watch these beasts in action :)

After viewing the visiting truck named 'The Convict', some year 5/6 students then spent more time researching and creating monster truck presentations! Later in the week we shared these with our buddies - our PowerPoint presentation skills are impressive!   Ben and Jack have shared their presentations below to give a glimpse on all that we learnt!

Monster trucks ben from Laraps56

Monster trucks jack (good luck to all students) from Laraps56

A visit from Geelong Football Players

Those in our building who are fans of the Geelong Football Club were super excited to see two of their rising stars visit our learning group building during the week!  Midfielder Allen Christensen and defender Cameron Guthrie took time out of their busy schedule to make an appearance and talk all things leadership with our year 5/6's.  We heard about an elite footballers' tough training regime, their diet and the dedication needed to stay commited to achieving your goals.  There was plenty of time for question and answers and of course to score a couple of autographs!

Tablets galore!

Wandering through our learning group building, it's all abuzz with learning!  Our most recent excitement has revolved around our Year Fives, again joining our Year Sixes in the 1:1 tablet program.  Students have had exploration sessions on their tablets and the motivation to use them throughout the day is super high!  Teachers are encouraging the students to use their tablet as a tool for learning and agreements have been made around being responsible whilst accessing the internet.  Thanks to all of our techsperts (aka ‘technology experts’) who have helped our Year Fives with any questions they have needed answered!

Congratulations Class Captains!

Well done to our very deserving class captains who were voted in by their peers today!  Smiles all round as each nominee prepared and delivered fantastic reasons as to why they would be a perfect fit for the job.  Our Learning Group area is very lucky to have such wonderful role models!