Keeping Healthy with our Buddies

Our big buddies from Room11 visited us to share some special information about keeping Happy and Healthy at the beginning of the term! They all made their little buddy a special pamphlet about eating healthy food, getting lots of sleep, drinking water and getting enough exercise. We are all reading this information again in Room 1 as part of our preparation for the cross country run! Thank you big buddies, you are helping us be the best that we can be!

Days of the Week

Our current maths unit is Time. We made these paper chains to practice the days of the week in English and Maori.

Cross Country

Room 1 are practising each day for the cross country run. We are learning some warm up exercises before we run and finish with cool down exercises afterwards. Remember to wear your running shoes every day!

Exploring Circuits

Room 1 have been experimenting with bulbs,wires,alligator clips and batteries! The student challenge was to make the light bulb glow. Every one worked out that all the items had to be connected to each other so the current from the battery could flow in a circuit or loop, just like in the ghost ball experiment last week.

Jumping Frogs

We are investigating different kinds of electricity.

We created static electricity when we rubbed a balloon on our hair.

We then picked up our “jumping frogs” (frog faces drawn on green paper)!

The electrical charge created by rubbing the balloon attracted the bits of paper.

The Disco

Room 1 at the Disco on Friday!

M & M's

On Friday we soaked orange and green of M & M's in water to see what would happen. The colours dissolved off the M & M's but did not mix in the water! We are not sure why so we will investigate this next week!

Squishy Eggs

On Thursday we soaked a raw egg in vinegar. The acid in the vinegar is beginning to change the eggshell.
The egg with the face is Mr Control. We will not soak him.

We will have to wait till Monday to see what happens next! We predict the egg in vinegar will become soft and squishy but Mr Control egg will stay the same!

Blowing up a Balloon

On Wednesday we blew up a balloon with gas we made by mixing baking soda and vinegar in a balloon. The gas was carbon dioxide.

Making a circuit

On Tuesday we made our ghost ball glow and squeak when we joined hands to make a circuit.

WELCOME TO TERM 2!

Setting up hatching our duck egg for d week on Monday!

I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday break!

We have lots to look forward to this Term.


This week is National Primary Science Week and each day we carry out a science experiment.