Last week, the Mackarados celebrated the completion of our Mem Fox author study. In their book talk groups (students got to choose which Mem Fox book group they were in), each group made a presentation of their book to share what it was about. They came up with a variety of creative ways to present their book- posters of the beginning, middle and end, story maps, story board with pictures (and vocabulary words!), acting it out with masks, acting it out while reading the book, etc.
Ms. Sasso's class was doing the same with their book talk groups and invited us to celebrate together! They joined us in our classroom and both classes were able to share to a much larger audience! :) They loved it. We also made pirate hats and eye patches (thanks Ms. Sasso!). Then was the students' favorite part....we had our own Bush Olympics! Each student participated in an event. Events included a 3-legged race, Egg race, Scooter race, Long jump, Boomerang relay, Bean Bag toss and the Potato sack race. It was a sight to see! With such great sports and attitudes, everyone received a gold medal! WooHoo! And to wrap up a great day, the students enjoyed some yummy Australian desserts. Ms. Sasso made Anzac biscuits, Ms. Sanchez made pavlova and I made lamington. Not sure what those are??? Ask your student! It was delicious!
It was a super fun day and a great way to celebrate all they have learned. We were really proud and impressed by their presentations. A lot of cooperation had to happen to come up with an idea they all agreed on, make it together giving everyone an opportunity to help, practice presenting it with everyone having a part and then sharing it infront of a group. It was amazing! Ms. Sanchez and I almost had happy tears because it really created an opportunity for some of our little people to really shine! Great job Mackarados!
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