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.

The Miracle!

At lunchtime on Thursday some students and teachers were lucky enough to spot a monarch caterpillar shedding its skin to reveal an emerging chrysalis! Mr Dobson managed to video it on his phone so we could all watch it back in the classroom. Here it is!

Looking for Butterflies.

Our year 1&2 inquiry this term is to find out how to attract monarch butterflies to our new garden plots in the playground outside the staffroom. We will then study plant and butterfly life cycles.
We went for a walk around the school to see if we could find some butterflies and to watch what they were doing.
Over the road in the year 7&8 senior school we found lots of white butterflies around the vegetables and one monarch by the flowers.
We think that butterflies like swan plants and also flowers to land on so we are going to watch to see which flowers the butterflies fly to most. Then we will plant the kinds they like in our new gardens.
Here we are investigating the plants and flowers in the senior school!

Week 2 Certificates

Group of the week this week were the children sitting at the Green table. They worked cooperatively, sharing and putting equipment away in the right place so they were always ready for the next learning activity. Great job Green table!

At Junior Assembly we award C.A.R.E. certificates:
C: Citizenship - being a positive member of our class
A: Achievement - producing quality work
R: Responsibility - listening carefully to the teacher's instructions
E: Effort - trying your best

Well done to this week's winners! Keep it up Room1

Year 1&2 Assembly

On Friday it was Room 1's turn to be the host class for Year 1 & 2 Assembly. Rosa and Marcus were our wonderful hosts! They spoke beautifully into the microphone even though it was the first time they had used one! Room 1 showed their caterpillar drawings and we won the assembly teddy bear award for the best class behaviour. Well done Room 1 ! I am very proud of you! Keep it up!
Mrs Ryan

Swimming

We are enjoying swimming each day with the Kiwi Swim instructors.
Can you spot yourself in the pool?
Every one has been in the water and most of the class can float on their backs with the help of the pool noodles!
Well done Room1

Certificates

Well done to all our certificate winners this week!
Room 1 are working hard at to make our room a happy, kind and caring classroom and it is great to have so many great role models!

The wonderful learners in Room 1

Room 1 has had a great start to 2012 and every one is working hard already!
We would love parents and family to post comments to us on our blog about the activities we do at school.

Welcome to Room1 in 2012

I hope you have all had a wonderful holiday and are looking forward to returning to school next Tuesday!
I am looking forward to teaching you all!
Remember to wear your sunhat and a big smile!
Mrs Ryan