Wednesday 1st September

Homework time! What would you like to see on our Blog?

Which materials are good for waterproofing? Cody thought plastic bags would be successful. Lottie tried metal foil and Hannah used Materials. Joel found that coating cardboard in oil is quite a good waterproofer, as the water ran off the cardboard. We all agreed that material was not very good but plastic and metal were both useful at waterproofing.

Thursday!
Library day! Well done to everyone who remembered their books.

Developmental started today. The Year 1's and New Entrants are rotating around the classrooms to explore different water experiments. Do you know how to make soemthing that is liquid and solid at the same time? Whats the best thing to waterproof a box with? Which shape boat will float the best? Watch this space for answers....!

Wednesday 25th

Today we had a visit from John, Hannahs Dad. He read us the 'Gruffalo's child'. We loved the interesting voices he used.

We wrote a recount about Alpine Aqualand and tried to use interesting adjectives(other than fun!) to describe our visit. Thanks to all teh Mums and Dads who helped out with our trip!

Do you know if you live on the odd or even side of your road? Ask your child!

CONGRATULATIONS! Well done to Jagan and Jasper for their class awards this week. You are both hard working and caring people. Good job!

Week 5

Thursday: We made popcorn to help us estimate the volume of different containers! We managed to fill a 2 litre tub full of popcorn. Everyone enjoyed eating the 'maths' afterwards.

Friday: A special very well behaved visitor came to visit us at news time! Tess Finnigan the sheepdog came to hang out and be patted by us all. Morris showed us all her cool tricks like sitting, dancing and kissing! Morris also gave us lots of information about his light sabres.

Joel is an author! Joel made a great book today and read it to his reading group. Top job Joel!






As part of our water unit, we kept a record of the weather this week and read some poems about weather too. Here we are with our poems and weather chart.

Friday 13th August

Writing: We created our own water music and poetry using interesting adjectives and buckets to keep the beat and create watery noises! Daniel won the neat award for forming all his letters correctly.

Congratulations to Benjamin and Carlin for their class awards. A BIG congratulations to Giselle for getting a special 'Deputy Principals' award for being caring. You set such a good example for all the other children at QPS.

Maori: We have been learning our maori colours this week. Can you remember what colour your house/whare is children??

Mums and Dads.... Please check that your child has given you their letter they have written you about saving water. They have heaps of good ideas in them for saving water.

Tuesday 10th

Today we learnt how to write a description or character profile. We brainstormed lots of adjectives/describing words to describe Gwen the Pukeko.

We learnt some more about capacity in maths too, sorting and testing objects that could and couldn't hold 1 litre.

Monday 9th August

Today Simon from Wanaka Wasterbuters came into to talk to us about water. We made our own water cycle for the classroom(on the window sill), helped with a 'river story' in a bottle and found out how much clean drinking water is in the world.

In Maths we learnt about capacity by measuring out the 3 bears breakfasts!

Apologies about the maths homework. The site address is NOT www.mathsweek.com.nz but it IS www.mathsweek.org.nz!

What a great day.....We also managed to care for the environment by bringing NO GLADWRAP to school this week! Well done Room 26. As a reward Miss Read from the senior school brought us Jelly in recyclable pots. Yummy!

Friday 6th August

What a busy day! We started out with some very interesting news. Millie showed us her 'Hello Kitty' stickers, Morris had a great deal of 'Smiggle' stationary to show us, Hannah.W introduced us to her giant Dog and Cody told us how much he was looking forward to the Ranfurly shield rugby match this weekend.

Room 26 worked in groups to build 'pest proof' nests for Gwen the Pukeko from our class book 'The swamp egss' by Jo Windsor. The Children created some fab designs. Have a look!

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