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.

Easter Fun!

On the last day of the term, Room 11 made cardboard eggs for their buddies and hid them in the playground. When the eggs were found, their buddy gave them a real Easter egg. The little buddies also hid an egg around Room 1 for their big buddies to find.
Room 11 taught their buddies the Easter bunny poem. The little buddies were so good at the actions and very cute .

Thank you Grandparents and Grandfriends!

We have had a wonderful first term of 2011 in Room 1! Our inquiry "Here's our History" has been a major focus, with the trip to Pataka Museum for a hands on heritage programme and grandparents and grandfriends visiting on Grandparent's Day. All the children have made thank you cards for their Grandparents and Grandfriends!

Eddie Quansar African drummer

Today we were very lucky to have Eddie Quansah, an African drummer originally from Ghana, entertain us with a concert at school. Eddie explained the importance of drumming in African culture and played many kinds of traditional drums for us.

Grandparents Day today!

Room1 were so excited that today was Grandparent's Day! We have all been working hard learning about our Family Trees, drawing and writing about our grandparents, learning songs to sing and collecting up special things that grandparents have given us.
We had a wonderful afternoon showing and sharing with you and a delicious afternoon tea!
Thank you to all the grandparents and grand friends and every one who helped with the lovely food and photos for the slide show.
We hope you enjoy these photos!

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.