Music today

We had music today instead of sport, because we had sport unexpectedly on Monday. Here's what we did!


Click Go The Shears by The Blogging Bilbies

Down by the bay by The Blogging Bilbies

Giro giro tondo by The Blogging Bilbies


We also started a new, silly song called Mama's Soup Surprise. It has some really funny and gross parts in it, like chicken lips and lizard hips, as part of Mama's Soup. Hopefully we'll get some music of that one up soon.

We did a lot of mental maths work today. We practiced all of our dice games.

Mr. F and Mrs. V wanted to make it a point to mention our fantastic behavior in class lately. We are getting along better, focusing harder on our work, and following rules and directions better than we ever have!  WAY TO GO BILBIES!!!

That's it for now.

Lots of love,
Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies

Last batch of Harold books

Note - some of the videos are having a bit of a glitch and they're turned sideways. They should be upright pretty soon - stick with us!
Ben




Brooke



Grace

Lily



Note - we're still missing a few recordings. Evan and Callum's work will be up soon, but I think we're still missing one after that.


Here's our new and improved version of Lime Juice Tub! We've been practicing. If you want to download this song, find the little down arrow near the play button.
Lime Juice Tub - 5 by The Blogging Bilbies

Here's our next song we have to learn: Overlander. It's about cattle drovers of old times, and how we should celebrate them! This is our first try at it.
Overlander by The Blogging Bilbies



And last - we wrote some persuasive letters to our mums and dads yesterday.  Some of us asked for sensible, reasonable things like rocket ships and pet dolphins and race cars. Let's see what some of our letters said!

More Harold books!

Cooper



Imogen



Dakotah



Josh



Tina

I Wanna Iguana and Cadbury Chocolate Company

We have had a funny day! We listened to our story from last week, I Wanna Iguana, and we talked about persuasive letters, and how they're meant to convince someone of something.  We wrote a persuasive letter together to the Cadbury Chocolate company, asking for some free Freddo's. Mr. F and Mrs. V thought it was a really good letter! Here is our letter, written entirely by the Blogging Bilbies and typed by Mr. F, and below, you can hear a recording of 4 of us reading parts of the letter.

Cadbury letter by The Blogging Bilbies

20/9/11

Dear Cadbury,

We know you don’t want to give us some chocolate for free, but here’s why you should.

We really love your chocolate; we think it’s the best chocolate in the world! If you send us some chocolate, we will tell everybody that we know that your chocolate is the BEST! Then, more people will buy your chocolate and then you will get more money.  

Would you please send us some Freddos?

Sincerely,

Your sensible, friendly, faithful customers, the year  1s


What do you think? Tell us in the comments!



New edit: the people at Cadbury responded to us!!! Here's what they said!

Dear Mr F, Thank you for contacting us regarding our Cadbury products. Trading laws prevent us from dealing directly with the public and we have found that in the past, when samples are sent through the mail, they will invariably arrive damaged.  This has a negative impact on the quality image of the company and as a result, our policy is not to send samples therefore we are unable to help on this occasion. We appreciate your feedback and trust you will continue to enjoy our fine range of products.

Kind regards

KRAFT FOODS LIMITED


We figured out that it means NO, but it's still exciting that they responded to us.

What a fun day! And it's not even over!


Sincerely,

Mr. F and the Blogging Bilbies

Finally...Harold and the Purple Crayon readings!

So Mr. F has had some serious internet problems, but they're fixed now. In class, during reading time, we've been recording our own readings of our Harold and the Purple Crayon books. 

After much file converting and annoying tech work, Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies proudly present to you...

William




Ryder



Molly



Ryley



Geraldine



Devanah



Jack




If you don't see your work up here it's because Mr. F didn't want to make a post with 20 video clips on it. Each day this week, more will be posted. Check back soon!

Lots of love!

Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies


P.S. - Mr. F has had people come and say they have commented, but none of them are going through. If you get to the screen that says something like "Your comment is awaiting moderation," that's good and it means it was successful. If you don't see that screen when you're commenting, you have some more clicking to do.

Also - The numbers for students work are still uneven but Mr. F is working to fix that - he's just missing a few students now but they'll be up and even soon.

Giro, Giro Tondo and Buddies

Good news and bad news!

Bad news is, Mr. F's internet isn't working at home, and it's going to take a while to fix. That means that we won't be able to show you our music or our reading recordings for a little while.

Good news is, we've been working harder than ever. We are doing daily spelling, daily mental maths, we're studying old Australian bush songs like Click, Go the Shears and Lime Juice Tub.  We're also studying an Italian song, because a lot of our mums and dads and grandads and nans are from Italy, or their mums and dads were from Italy. It's important to study where we come from. We're learning a song, Giro Giro Tondo, all in Italian! Mrs. V is helping us with the meaning of the song. It's sung by kids in Italy and it's really fun to sing. Soon, somehow, we'll have recordings of our singing up for you to hear.  In case you Bilbies want to practice at home, here are the words we use.

Giro, Giro Tondo!
Casca il mondo
Casca la terra
Tutti giu per terra!

We've been recording students in our class, one by one, reading our Harold and the Purple Crayon books. It's going really well but we can only do up to 6 a day, so it might take a few more days to get everyone's done.

Also, yesterday we began our Buddies time! We spend about an hour working with students from year 6 and 7, and we work on projects and crafts. We love it!

Here we are working with our buddies. Some of us chose woodwork, some chose craft, some chose painting and some chose games.

That's all for today. Bye!


Sincerely,

Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies

Assembly and Lime Juice Tub!

We shared news at the assembly today! We did a very good job. We had a few students volunteer to read what we did in the past week, and we all showed everyone our Harold and the Purple Crayon books.

We also sang Lime Juice Tub! It's a song about how the Australian sheep shearing industry was becoming famous world wide. Lots of people came over to be a part of it, but no one could shear as good as the Australians! No one else could keep up, so Australian shearers made jokes about sending people home in lime juice tubs, which is a funny name for a boat. The lime juice part comes from preventing a sea disease called scurvy. You could prevent it by eating limes and lemons!

Anyway, we had a great time. Here we are singing it right before the end of the day.

Lime Juice Tub by The Blogging Bilbies

Lastly, Mr. F said that we're going to record videos of us reading the books that we made this week. We'll start on Monday, and it might take all week, but keep checking back!!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Love,
Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies

Harold Books, Father's Visit and Aussie Songs

We had a very mixed up day.
We started the day learning a new song in music. We can't tell you what it is yet because we're performing it tomorrow during the morning assembly, but we're going to record it on Monday and put it up here. Keep checking our blog! The new song we're learning is about how Australian sheep shearers, back in the late 1800's and 1900's, were the best shearers in the world, and how people traveled here to work as sheep shearers but couldn't keep up with the Australians. This song is about how tough our ancestors were, and how, through hard work and fierce competition, they made our lives, and this country better!

After we learnt our new song, Father came to visit! He heard us sing and watched us do a bit of spelling, and then we asked him lots of questions. It was so nice seeing him in our classroom. We hope he comes back soon.

Next, we started the last part of our Harold and the Purple Crayon book project. We finally finished them today! In some way they will be up here Monday or Tuesday.

That's all for now. Come back soon!


Sincerely,
Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Today we read a new story together - Harold and the Purple Crayon. It's about a boy who draws lots of things with his purple crayon. He creates a road, an apple tree, a dragon to guard the tree, a hot air balloon, and lots more. He uses his imagination to solve problems, and we practiced doing that too. We guessed what he would draw next, or what he could draw to save himself if he got in trouble. Then we started our own books! Check out our slideshow below. It's got some of our work. This is only the first part of the book - we have a bit more to go.




Also, we had music class today. We practiced Click go the Shears and all of our old songs as well. Also, we learned "Obwisana" which is an African rhythm game. We pass a bean bag every four beats, and if we mess up, it messes EVERYONE in the whole game up! It was really tough to play it perfectly. Maybe someday soon we can get a video up of us playing.

That's it for now. See ya!

From,
Mr. F, Mrs. V and the Blogging Bilbies

First mask day!

We hope you had a nice father's day, everyone! In our last entry, we wanted to talk about decorating stubby holders and making our cards, but we couldn't ruin the surprise. Happy father's day, Blogging Bilby fathers and all fathers!

We worked on our regular Monday stuff today: a little reading, mental maths, spelling and we also are finishing up our project on directions. Today we guessed and predicted directions to the office. It was harder than just trying out directions and fixing them when we find we're wrong! Also, we're finding that it's easy to know what you mean, but hard to say what you mean! Sometimes that's how arguments start, so learning clear directions is important for that reason too.

Here we are doing our mental maths. We learned a new dice game today - pyramid dice! It's a plus sums dice game that goes like this. (We only wore our masks for about 5 minutes while Mr. F was taking pictures.)

You roll 4 numbers and write them in a row. Then you add the first two together, and write the answer below the plus sign. Then you add the next two together and write the answer below that plus sign, then add your two answers together. For example:
4  +  3  +  6  +  1
    7      +      7
           14

We had to do three of those today, but some of us did five or six!! Mr. F and Mrs. V were proud of us.



Well, that's it for now. Goodbye everyone!



Sincerely,

Mr. F and the Blogging Bilbies