Presenting at Junior Assembly

On Friday it was Room1's turn to organise Junior Assembly. Emma and Lachlan were our presenters and were wonderful at talking into the microphone! We showed our stories about our trip to Pataka and our shape lanterns. We were the best class at sitting quietly to listen so we were awarded "Assembly Bear" for the next 2 weeks. Well done Emma, Lachlan and all of Room 1!

B for Bunny

Room 1 had a special visit from Florence's bunny for B week.
She was timid so we all kept very quiet! Liz and Florence showed us how they look after her and we all patted her soft fur.

Our Writing

Room 1 have been working hard learning how to write about events in the order they happened. We know you will enjoy reading these recounts of our trip to Pataka Museum!

Arts Festival

Our visit to the Capital E Performing Arts Festival began with a trip to Wellington on a double decker bus! Room 1 were so excited! We saw 3 shows and walked between each with a Capital E host to show us the way. We saw Grimace, a show with mixed up nursery rhymes, Passing Wind, about making and playing musical instuments and Boats, with 2 sailors telling stories on a desert island. Room 1's favourite was Passing Wind. We are going to try making a flute from a carrot!

Stand Tall - our personal crests

In Room1 we have been talking about being proud of who we are - our achievements, our values and our goals. Talking about our strengths helps us identify things we need to work on and gives us the determination to keep on trying even when things are tricky! We are learning about trying our best, perseverance and determination.

Science with our buddies - Does coke affect our teeth?

Our buddy class Room 11 are investigating "does coke affect our teeth?" They invited us to see what happens when you compare an egg soaked in coca cola for a short time and brushed with toothpaste, an egg soaked in coke for long periods and "Mr Control", a plain egg. Egg shells make good substitute "teeth"!
Scientist Harriet helped with the tooth brushing.
We used our eyes to observe, and our fingers to feel any changes.
Mr Control was clean and smooth, the brushed egg brownish and the soaked egg blotchy and rough to touch.
Room 1 now think that coca cola is a "sometimes treat" and they should brush their teeth afterwards!

Pataka Visit

As part of our current inquiry "Here's our History" we visited Pataka Museum in Porirua.
Heritage Hands On teacher Linda helped us dress like children did 100 years ago! We wrote on slates and used ink pens, did the washing with a washboard and a mangle, played marbles and then and now matching games. We learned that many daily activities 100 years ago involved time consuming hard work and inventions have made life easier for us. We will ask our grandparents about daily life when they were children when they visit us on Grandparent's Day in April.
We ate our lunch at Aotea Lagoon and had a play on the new adventure playground there before returning to school on the bus. Thank you to all the parent helpers who helped make the day a wonderful experience!

Sea Week

All the Junior classes visited Rona Bay Beach this week as part of Sea Week. Room 1 looked at the difference between low and high tide and enjoyed the opportunity to work together to build sandcastles and dig dams! We used the experience as motivation for recount writing and have written wonderful descriptive stories about visiting the beach! We would love to share these with you in the classroom!

Graphing 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!