Planting our New World Little Gardens

Lesley Ottey - Good Sort

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Fire Unit

Over the last few weeks we have been learning to be "Fire Wise". We know to get down, get low and get out fast.







Today the fire truck came to visit. We met Logan and Carlos and they showed us all the equipment fire fighters use. They have to wear a lot of protective clothing and have many tools on the fire truck.

Lastly we got to use the fire hose. It was fun.

Mrs Keats, Mrs Lill, Mrs Rogers and Mrs McRandle had a turn too.

Merry Christmas

Sh is for sherbet and sheep shakers

St John visit

We had a wonderful visit from Paula from St John today. 

She helped us to identify what emergency service was needed. 

We practiced ringing 111. 

It was tricky for us to remember what our address and phone number was. 

This would be a good thing to learn at home.

Ch is for chocolate and cheerios

We had a lot of fantastic things to share today. It was a new challenge to try and pick things up with chopsticks.

Timmy's Secret Surprise

The Star room enjoyed finding out what Timmy brought for the Secret Surprise.  Then we measured lots of things and found some really big numbers on the tape measure.  Thank you, Timmy - what a good idea!

Swim and Gym

Our tamariki have had a busy day and will be very tired tonight. The progress they are making with their swimming lessons is already evident. Confidence is developing and they are listening carefully to their coaches.
Our first gymnastics session went very well and the children were able to participate in a variety of activities that involved balance and strength.

Swimming Fun

We had a wonderful time at Dudley Pool today. Our swimming teachers helped us to learn lots of new skills. We also learnt about managing our belongings and drying and dressing ourselves. There will be some tired children tonight. Kapai Tamariki!!!!

Celebrating the letter W

What a wonderful way to end the term. We ate Weetbix and Wiggly worms and watched a video about the water cycle.

V for Volcano

We ate a variety of things on V day.... vegetables were a favourite in the morning. In the afternoon we made Vitafresh to drink and spread Vegemite on crackers. 

Today we did an experiment and learned about volcanoes. Room 4 joined us for this lesson. To replicate a real volcano we put wax in the bottom of a beaker, covered it with small gravel and then cold water. We put this on top of a hotplate and watched and waited. Just like a real volcano it exploded very quickly. We learned about magma, lava and how volcanoes are formed.

Fitness

Wahoo the warmer weather means fitness outside. The Year 3's have stepped up and are running each fitness station. Rooms 1, 2, 3 and the star room have been out each morning building up their fitness.

Celebrating the letter Ss

Celebrating the letter F

F for Fire

What a wonderful principal we have. On Friday Mrs Keats arranged for Mr Walters to come and share his knowledge about fire with Room 1, 2 and the star boys. He taught us that fire needs three things to make it burn: fuel, oxygen and heat. Then he demonstrated and it was awesome.

Clever Mrs Plover

The children have taken a real interest in the Plovers that have decided to nest on our field. Enjoy the book that we have created.

Making butter

The Star room boys read a story about making butter and decided to give this a try.

It worked very well!    

                                    

Celebrating the Letter Pp

We celebrated the letter P early today by eating popcorn. Thank you Jacqui for bringing it along to school for us to share.

We planted some parsley seeds today that Jacqui had brought along as her Secret Surprise. Oskar and Reliable spent morning tea time clearing the weeds from the garden. We look forward to watching the parsley grow.

Celebrating the letter Mm

Yummy and topical. M & M medals to celebrate our Olympic success and the letter of the week.

We experimented with magnets. Some wanted to stick together and others wanted to push away from each other. They would stick to some things and not to others. Have fun trying this out at home.

Olympic Celebrations

On Tuesday we created our own Olympic Flag. We learnt about the colours and where they go. To build onto our scientific learning about rockets, we put dye into the film canisters along with a fizzy tablet and put them upside down on a piece of fabric and waited for the fireworks. Mrs Keats was totally aware that she could end up with dye all over her if she wasn't fast enough at getting the lids on the canisters. Thankfully all went to plan. Check out the excitement on the video clip.
We linked our learning back to our experiment about capillary action and watched as the dye spread out from the middle of the circles as the molecules transferred the colour from one to another. What awesome scientists we have in year 0/1.

 On Wednesday afternoon Mrs McRandle organised some mini Olympic activities for us. It was fun to use the ribbons on sticks. We tried to write our names in the air with them. Sock wrestling was fun too. We had to try and take someones sock off while protecting our own.

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Celebrating the letter Nn

This was obviously a favourite of our tamariki. Everyone enjoyed nibbling noodles. Thank you to Ciaran for bringing some to school for us to share.

Nn is for nature and Nn is for nest. Mr and Mrs Plover have chosen a safe place behind the "Keep off the Grass" tape to build their nest and lay 3 eggs. We quietly watched as Mrs Plover tried to lead us away from her secret spot. We were inspired to make nests of our own with natural materials from the forest. We wonder if a bird will come and lay eggs in them.

Maths Week

This week has been maths week. The Star Boys, Room 1 and 2 have been on a maths trail and making pictures from shapes. It has been great finding maths all around the school.

Sports Coaches Slow Mo

Recycle

Today Lesley came and shared lots of interesting facts about food waste. Wow we certainly do waste a lot of food as a country. Lesley gave us lots of tips on how to recycle our food and all our plastic rubbish.


Did you know bread is the number 1 food that people throw away? Lesley told us about the website we can visit called love food hate waste.  Here is the link - https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz/

Celebrating the letter Rr

We made some rockets using fizzing tablets put into film canisters filled with water. When discussing the science behind the launch we were very impressed with how the children could make connections between previous science experiments and this one. 

Here is the video of our rocket launch. We sang the alphabet song while we waited patiently for the chemical reaction to do its thing and launch the rocket.

Yum! Rice Bubbles went down a treat on an icy Winter's day.

Under the Umbrella

We couldn't resist using the rain as inspiration for our writing today. We went outside and listened carefully to the sounds we could hear and wrote this wonderful poem.

Celebrating the Letter Bb

On Friday afternoon we made butterfly masks, bracelets, built with blocks, blew big beautiful bubbles, read books to buddies and had a brilliant time.

Our Science this week was based on bubbles. Thank you so much to Bec Ansley for supplying the bubble sticks and mixture so that we could create beautiful big bubbles. The squeals of delight were wonderful. Ask your children to explain about surface tension and evaporation. You will be surprised what they know.

We ate Baked Beans to celebrate the letter of the week. Some people had never tried them and really liked them. Don't be surprised if the tamariki ask for beans for breakfast tomorrow.