Hot Dogs for Lunch!

Room1 want to say THANK YOU to all the mums who help make HOT DOGS for the Home and School! We eat lots of hot dogs and think it is a great way to raise money for extra equipment for us. The last day for hot dogs is next Wednesday.

Year 1&2 Assembly

On Friday it was Room 1's turn to organise the Year 1 & 2 assembly. Blaine and Sarah were our wonderful presenters! Esme, Amelia L, Florence, Ben,Harriet and Petra presented a play called The Ant and the Grasshoppers. Artemisia and Harry talked about our Slinky Malinki artwork. Well done Room1! You all worked very hard and I was very proud of you all. So were all the mums and dads who came to watch!

Conservation Week Clean Up!

Several junior classes went down to the beach on Friday to check out the shoreline for litter. The children worked in pairs - one was the 'spotter' who pointed to the litter and their partner, wearing a disposable glove', was the 'picker upper'. Most of the litter was paper wrappers but we were sad to find some plastic rings that could get caught around the necks of birds or other animals.
We had to be careful not to step on plants growing in the dunes too!

Gingerbread Man

"Run,run,
Fast as you can
You can't catch me,
I'm the gingerbread man."
Room 1 love creating multi media artwork!

Slinky Malinki

Our current art topic is Multimedia Art, where the students use different materials in sequence to create a layered piece of art. Mr Laird worked with Room 1 on these Slinky Malinki creations.

Rugby World Cup!

The whole school dressed up in the colours of the team they support today.
What a lot of All Black supporters and lots of other countries too!
Blaine even had a mini All Black in his lunch box!

International Literacy Day today

September 8th is International Literacy Day. In Room 1 we shared favourite picture books with our Room 11 buddies. Joe and Abby are holding gift packs with a picture book inside that all babies born today in Wellington will be given. It is never to early to enjoy books! Mrs Chao and Mrs Ryan are delivering them today for the Wellington Literacy Association, of which they are committee members. At lunchtime Mrs Chao and Mrs Ryan read stories in the school library.

Magnetism - Science and Technology!

Our Science inquiry last term involved magnets. This term in our inquiry we are using magnets as part of a technology investigation.

We are exploring ways we can use magnets and will design our own fridge magnets using different materials. The fridge magnet we make must meet a set of criteria - especially the one that says it must be strong enough to hold our reading or spelling rockets onto our fridge at home.

Making magnetic fishing games gave us the opportunity to experiment with the strength of magnets. We enjoyed sharing them with our big buddies.