We welcomed Harry to Room 1 today. Harry has made lots of new friends already! He enjoyed reading stories and playing soccer with his class mates best of all!
This week has been Maori Language Week. Room 1 have been enjoying practicing counting, greeting each other and singing our favourite action songs!
100 decorated biscuits!
Our row of 100 biscuits
Room 1 have been at school for 100 days this year!
We are 100 days smarter!
We celebrated by having a maths day focusing on number 100!
We made lots of collections of 100 objects and estimated then checked how far a row of 100 biscuits would stretch across the classroom. We iced and decorated the biscuits and shared them with our Room 11 buddy class. We can all count to 100!
Every Monday afternoon all the year 1 & 2 classes meet for folk dancing in the hall. It is a great chance to work cooperatively together across the syndicate. Room 1's favourites are Carnavalito, Jibidee and the Birdie Dance!
On Friday Room 1 visited the Electrotechnology Department and other labs of interest at WelTec in Petone. We were invited by Joe's mum Caryn. The tutors organised a special programme for us with lots of exciting activities about the topics we have been studying at school - Magnetism, Sound and Electricity. Room 1 think that WelTec could be a good place to learn more about electricity and engineering when they are older! We thank Mel, Trevor, Guy and John at WelTec for providing such a wonderful learning experience and answering all our questions!
Click here to view the movie of our visit.
We read the story of Biscuit Bear and decided to paint him! Our painting focus is to mix colours to obtain different shades and to experiment with different brush techniques. To paint Biscuit Bear we dabbed on the paint with the tip of the brush. We are very proud of our Biscuit Bears!
Our current science focus is to investigate the properties of magnets.
Our first activity was to find and talk about how an object of our choice behaved when attracted to our magnet.
This week Room 1 were lucky to have a wonderful Malaysian teacher trainee working with us in Room1! Kiran quickly became a favourite helper and the class loved to listen to her musical accent when she read stories. She shared a slide show about Malaysian food and cooked some special treats for us. The curry puffs were yummy! Thank you Kiran!
In Room1 we are learning how to write instructions - a sequenced explanation of how something happened.
Last week we especially enjoyed reading and discussing the illustrations in a big book Jolly Jumping Jellybeans. We made and illustrated our own book and wrote down how we did it, trying our best to get everything in the right order. We hope you enjoy reading our first try at writing instructions.
Pania's mother, Arini Poutu, enthralled Rooms 1, 2 & 3 with a wonderful presentation about Matariki. The appearance in the eastern sky at this time of year of the seven star constellation known as Matariki defines the start of the Maori New Year. We learned a special song to sing and heard how Matariki is a time of family celebration and a time to look forward to the coming year. We watched a DVD of Pania, Kahu and their big brother Tane performing kapa haka with the Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club at the celebration of Matariki at Te Papa. Pania demonstrated the poi and Arini read us all a traditional Maori story. Thank you Arini and Pania!
We are learning to mix and blend paint to create our art work. These rainbow fish began as white crayon sketches on black paper. Red and blue paint was mixed and increasing amounts of white blended to make lighter and lighter shades.
On Thursday we enjoyed watching"Jump to It", a show based on the New Zealand Book Awards.Artemisia and Sarah were invited to join in! Spot them in these photos!
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!
Our current maths unit is Time. We made these paper chains to practice the days of the week in English and Maori.
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.
