Our Friends in Room1

Room 1 made friendship circles with cutout paper dolls! What a lot of friends everyone has! We joined all the circles together to make a Room 1 mat to show that we all get on together. Well done everyone!

Butterfly Kites

This week we made our butterfly kites with our big buddies. We are currently exploring shape and symmetry in maths and it was great for everyone to have another pair of hands to help with the tricky folds!
We had wonderful time flying them outside but unfortunately there was no wind on Friday and the kites would not stay up in the air for long! We have hung them up to wait for the next windy day and will try again!

Travelling Ted's New Bag

When Travelling Ted went home with superstar Jack this week, Jack's mum made Ted a new bag to keep his special things in! His old plastic bag was getting very tatty, so all of Room 1 are very happy!
Here is Jack showing the new bag for news and checking it out for size with the next superstar Amelie!

Counting our Smarties!

Over the past 4 weeks Room 1 has carried out a number of statistical observations during our mathematics lessons. We have been learning to record our information in various ways. Our favourite lesson was graphing the colours of the smarties in each of our boxes!

Certificates week 5

Group of the week is Yellow table.
They earned the most points for their table group by being focussed and ready to listen really quickly every day. Well done yellow table!

Waiting for a Chrysalis!

On Friday George noticed that one of our caterpillars had curled into a 'J' shape!
Room 1 know that this means that it will change into a chrysalis, or pupa, very soon! We put the swan plant on the carpet in the middle of the mat area so we could keep an eye on it all the time while we were working because we did not want to miss seeing it happen! Unfortunately it was still in a 'J' when we went home so we will have to wait till Monday. Will it be a boy or a girl?

Looking after our Garden

Now we have our own garden plot Room 1 are learning how to look after it.
We planted our plants carefully by digging a hole big enough to hold all the soil around the roots.
Then we watered them carefully. Jack is our expert as he helps with gardening at home. He showed us how to give each plant the right amount so it does not get washed out of the ground! Then we all had a turn with the big hose reel!
Every day from now on the superstar and superstar helper will water our garden with the watering can.
The butterflies like our big pink Dahlia!

Maths: Statistics

Room 1 are working on statistical investigations at present.The students:
1. sort information into categories for display
2. make a graph of data collected
3. make statements about what they have found out
From working on this pictograph Room 1 found out that the same number of children have blue eyes as brown eyes. Less children have hazel eyes.

Swimming Festival

Today we held our junior School Swimming Festival at the Eastbourne Pool. The focus this year was on participation in fun events rather than being the winner. Favourite events were swimming with "noodles" and running down the pool blowing bubbles and pushing a ball with your nose! After our swim we had lunch at the park and a play in the playground.

Week 4 Certificates

Well done everyone!
Green table did an amazing job organising themselves to be the best that they could be all week!
They earned the most points every day!
Assembly certificate winners have been wonderful role models this week!

Our Clever Room 8 Buddies!

Our Room 8 buddies came visiting on Friday to show us their homework for the week. They had all made amazing caterpillar models! They are learning about life cycles too!

Travelling Ted

Room 1 have a special class member named Travelling Ted. Most school days he goes home with the Superstar of the day, who tells the class about his adventures the next day! At George's house his family made him a lovely new back pack! Here is George telling us all about it at news time!

Our Self Portraits

Room1 have been completing their self portraits using black pens, pastels, crayons and dye. They looked carefully at the size of different parts of their bodies and drew on the whole sheet of paper with their head at the top, feet at the bottom. We enlarged the drawings on the photocopier and they filled in the detail with crayon, pastel and dye.
We hope you like them as much as we do!

Something Amazing in Lower Hutt

Thousands of Monarch butterflies arrived in this cedar tree in late April 2011. They were still there three weeks later so it appears they might be staying for the winter. On sunny days they spend some time feeding on the many nearby flowers, but on rainy days they tend to huddle together in large clusters high up in the tree.

Strike

Today percussion group STRIKE played for us in the hall. They played different kinds of drums,marimba and even some soft drink cans! We were allowed to put our hands over our ears if the sound was too loud!
Back in the classroom we watched a slideshow of the performance on the data projector and wrote some wonderful stories about it. Check out our writing books in the classroom!

Meeting our Buddies!

On Friday our new Room 8 buddy class came visiting with their teacher, Mrs Chao.
They helped us make caterpillar into butterfly spinners and we all loved working together! We are looking forward to Room 8's next visit!

Our First Butterfly!

We have 19 chrysalis on our giant swan plant and on Saturday the first one hatched into a monarch butterfly! After drying it's wings it flew straight onto the daisies in Room 3's garden! It is a male because he has a pair of black spots on his lower wings. He will drink nectar but not be looking for a swan plant to lay eggs on.

Week 3 Certificates

Well done to all our Room 1 certificate winners this week!
Blue table earned Group of the Week this week for moving around the classroom sensibly and practising good manners.
C.A.R.E. certificates winners were all great role models!

Our Butterfly Garden

Year 1 and 2 have been finding out which flowers attract butterflies so we can plant them in our new butterfly garden beds. Mrs Ryan and Mrs Heath took a child from each room to the garden centre to choose the plants for each class. We took a list with photos of the flowers we wanted to buy with us. We found out that butterflies can't see very well and like flowers with bright colours and lots of nectar which they drink. Back at school everyone planted their class plants and now we will watch for butterflies to come and drink nectar from them.