Down at the Beach

On Thursday we walked down to Rona Bay beach with our buckets and spades. Tom, Daniel, Blaine and Lachlan collected lots of driftwood and everyone helped to build a massive castle with a moat and bridges around it. It was a hot sunny day and our UV bracelets turned bright colours and reminded us that the ultraviolet radiation level was high! We stopped building to rub in extra sunscreen!

Avalon Park

On Wednesday we enjoyed a great day at Avalon Park!
We wore our UV bracelets and covered up with hats and sunscreen!
Our bracelet colours were so bright we could see the UV level was high!

EOTC Week

This week we are enjoying lots of activities outside the classroom!
On Tuesday we made our Ultra Violet light sensitive bead bracelets to wear during the week.
These opaque beads contain a chemical which changes colour when exposed to UV radiation. Take them away from the UV radiation and they change back to their opaque colour. These beads can change colour over and over again.
Inside the classroom they are pale.
Outside they react according to the intensity of the sunlight.
A good reminder to protect ourselves from the sun even on cloudy days!

Slip Slop Slap Wrap!

Room 1 want to remind you to:
SLIP on a t shirt
SLOP on sunscreen
SLAP on a hat
WRAP on sunglasses
in the sun!

Silent Art Auction 2nd December

Room 1 have been busy creating 2 pieces of co-operative artwork for the Art Auction. Students chose to crayon and dye a turtle, fish, heart, butterfly or flower. We arranged them in 2 frames and are very happy with the finished result. Come and view the finished pictures in Room 1 and bid on one of them on Friday 2nd December!

Sunsmart in the Toaster?

This week in Room 1 we designed an experiment to find out what would happen to a gingerbread man shape as he got hotter and hotter in the toaster! We cut out our gingerbread people from slices of bread and decided how long we wanted to toast them - 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 on the heat scale. We predicted they would get browner and browner as the toaster got hotter and hotter! This is what happened.
We were right! The gingerbread people got browner and browner. How could we stop them from getting burned?
We can be sunsmart and cover up from the sun. Could we cover up a gingerbread person and protect him from the heat too?
Lachlan made him some tin foil trousers and popped him in the toaster.
Everyone was amazed! He was safe from the heat under his trousers!
WE will all make sure we cover up in the sun too!

The Solar System

As part of our Sunsmart inquiry Room 1 have been talking about the distance between the sun and the earth.
Abby And Emma drew this diagram on the whiteboard all by themselves!

Howdy Partner!

Today Room 1 enjoyed dancing Howdy Partner on the stage at school assembly! Mrs Hooke taught us how to make up interesting actions for our partner to copy until it was time to swap over so the other person had a turn to be the leader. It was great fun! Thank you to the mums and dads who came to watch!

Learning to Play Cricket

On Wednesday Ryan, Tama and Celia from Cricket Wellington came to school to teach Rooms 1, 2 and 3 some introductory cricket skills in the hall. The most important thing we learned was to keep your eye on the ball! We had great fun and some children are keen to learn to play cricket as a summer sport. Cricket coaching takes place on Friday evenings at the Rec.

UV Frisbees

This term we are investigating how and why we need to keep safe in the sun.
Today we used a special white frisbee to help us check whether we need to wear a sunhat on a cloudy day.
Our white frisbee changes colour to orange on contact with ultraviolet light from the sun.
The darker orange it gets the more you have to protect your skin from the sun.
Ultraviolet light harms our skin! Our frisbee turned light orange so we could see that some ultraviolet rays were shining down on us even though it was a cloudy day!
We are going to wear our sunhats even when it is cloudy!

Halloween!

Last night on the 31st October lots of children from Muritai School went trick or treating! How many of these visitors to my house do you recognise?