Week 2 certificates.

Here are our great role models for week 2!
Well done everyone!

100 days Smarter!

Today Room 1 celebrated the 100th day of school this year with.....

100 in mandarins...

Necklaces with 100 rings of cereal or paper clips...

100 iced cookies...

100 shaped pizzas...

100 shaped chocolate cake!

We played games with 100 numbers and wore origami 100 number pendants.

We are 100 days smarter!
It was a great day! Tomorrow we will start counting to 200 days!

Maori Language Week

Room 1 were really excited when Mr Chadwick told us about his competition for Year 1 for Maori Language Week! Could we find out the meaning of the second longest Maori place name in New Zealand and remember it long enough to repeat it to back to him?
Lots of us thought we could!
And we did! Seven people remembered enough to earn balloons and stickers. Ka pai Room 1!


Here it is!

Taumata-whakatangihanga-koauau-o-tamatea-turi-pukaka-piki-maunga-horo-nuku-pokai-whenua-ki-tana-tahu

“The place where Tamatea,the man with the big knees,who slid,climbed and swallowed mountains,known as landeater,played his flute to his loved one.”

Science with Stan

Local scientist Stan Swan popped in to Room1 to show us an experiment with dry ice!

Dry ice is frozen carbon dioxide and when we added it to a container of water it produced clouds of steamy gas, just like smoke! Very exciting!

Week 1 Certificates.

Congratulations to these great role models during our first week back at school this term!

Learning Spanish

We were lucky to have Sara,who speaks Spanish, visit Room 1 this week. She taught us a welcome song and read a story to help us learn the Spanish words for numbers up to 10.

Javier was her expert helper! Everyone loved it and we have been practising counting and  welcoming each other in Spanish.

New Term New Learning!

During the holidays I challenged myself to try something new!
These elephants work on a jungle plantation in Thailand and each one has a master who is very kind and sings or whistles special songs to it as it works.
To ride my elephant I had to listen carefully to all the instructions and learn to hold on with my knees just behind its ears! 

At school we talk about taking risks and having a try at something we are not sure if we can do.

This monk looks after abandoned and orphaned tiger cubs which grow into HUGE tigers! When he pointed to me to 

come and give it a pat I had to be brave and have a go! 

There will be great new learning happening in Room 1 this term!

Happy Holiday

Barbara Ryan and Room 1 wish everyone a safe and happy holiday!
We will be keen to start the new term happy and refreshed and are looking forward to our study of the Olympic Games!

We will be investigating the question - What makes someone a champion?

Mosaic Tiles

Room 1 loved making the mosaic tile for our butterfly garden so much that everyone made one to take home!

Super Soccer Stars!

Room 1 have all enjoyed soccer coaching on Friday mornings over the past 9 weeks.

We learned to dribble the ball with our feet and played lots of friendly soccer games with our classmates. Our coaches were awesome so we had a class photo together on the last day.

The Disco!

Everyone loved the disco tonight!

Thank you to the Home and School committee mums who organised it for us!

A mosaic tile for our Butterfly Garden

Yesterday Room 1 students worked together to make a mosaic tile for our garden. Butterflies like to land on  rocks and stones to warm themselves so we hope that they will like our new tile when the weather gets warmer! We can use it to step on when we pull out the weeds and water our garden as well. We need to leave it inside to set hard until after the holidays.

First we planned our design on paper.

We mixed the cement mix and water in a big bucket.

We put a sheet of reinforcing mesh in the  middle so it will be strong.

We took turns to push the glass beads from our design into the wet concrete mix.

Room 1 think it looks great!

We hope butterflies like it too!