Swimming

Today we had our first swim in our school pool.
It was so exciting.  After the earthquakes the pool was closed for three years.  We are so grateful to the wonderful parents and our Board of Trustees for fixing the pool so we can use it.

Reindeer Cookies

Over the last few weeks we have been working hard to understand fractions.

I promised the children that if they could show me they had a great knowledge of fractions we would put them to use in a 'real' way.

.... I have been so impressed with how well the children have been able to read and order fractions that today was the day!

We made our own 'chocolate gingerbread reindeer' by baking our own cookies.  The trick was we were only allowed to use the following cup measures
1/4
1/3
1/2

Our recipe need full cups, and 3/4 cup measurements so we had to think hard about how we could make these measurements work ... or our cookies might have tasted a bit odd!

After we worked as a team and made a delicious dough we had a turn at using a rolling pin and gingerbread man cutter.

At lunch time Finn and Nicky baked our cookies in the Room 2 oven.
Our classroom smelt delicious when we came back after lunch.  We left our cookies to cool while we went to the library.

When we came back to our classroom we had fun turning our gingerbread men into reindeer by turning the man on his head!

Have a look at our cool creations

Year One Athletics - News Report

Last week we watched the Year One Athletic Sports.

We made this news report

A Dinoaur World

Today we learned about dinosaur environments.  We discovered that an environment is where something lives and what the world around it looks like.
We discovered that dinosaurs had lots of volcanoes around them and also lots of trees, rivers, water holes, grass, other dinosaurs, caves, sand, nests, eggs, fossils, stones, bones.

We worked in a group that  Mrs Pelham picked - we had to work with people we don't usually work with - this was fun and a challenge at the same time.

Our group all did a dinosaur volcano and put dinosaurs on it.

Our Teacher, Mrs Pelham, put vinegar, food colouring and baking soda in the hole and made our volcanes erupt.

We put dinosaurs on and made a dinsoaur world and we made the volcano explode - Tiaan

We put grass around our dinosaur world - Cooper

Mrs Pleham split us into groups.  We lined up by the door then we went out to the sandpit.  We made a volcano by piling up sand and putting water on it.  Then we got some dinosaurs from the dinosaur box.  When we were done we tested out our volcanoes with baking soda and vinegar.  We all watched to see - Lily

Some dinosaurs died when it got lava inside it's mouth! - Harper

We put sand and water on the volcano and some groups made theirs deep and some made them shallow.  When we were done we put dinosaurs around the volcano.  Mrs Pelham put some vingear and baking soda and red food colouring in.  There were little holes were the lava went.  Bina   

It's Show TIme!

It's nearly time!  Tomorrow we are off to the Show!

We are feeling
excited
happy
organised
a little bit scared
nervous
scared i might be late!

 We need to remember

• a big lunch
• a full drink bottle
• our bag - but it only needs the things we need 
• hat
• a good breakfast
• to be at school EARLY - no later than 8.45am
• sunblock
• a SMILE 
• warm clothes in case it gets cold
• to wear our school uniifrom

We thought about how we can stay safe and have the BEST time at the Show

• remember to smile
• stay with your adult
• keep hydrated
• eat lots of lunch

What Might go wrong?

• YOu might leave your bag in the bus .... BUT we will check the buses before they go away
• YOu might trip over ..... BUT we will have adults to take care of us and we have first aid kits just in case!
• You might get lost .... BUT we will all have you have your teacher's cell phone number on your arm - ask an adult to ring the number
• You can't see or touch the animals because there are too many people in front of  you .... WAIT your turn, there WILL be lots and lots of people at the show - be fair and only have  a short turn so others can also have fun

   
What we might see at the Show

• Cows
• lambs
• horses
• baby chicks
• cattle
• deer
• llama
• farmers
• bunnies
• ponies
• bulls
• farm dogs
• goats
• pigs
• coloured ponies
• elephants
• sheep
• donkeys
• giraffe
• diggers
• ferris wheels
• humans
• tractors
• magicans
• tree chopping
• parades
• horse jumping
• electric fences
• quad bikes
• dingoes
• rides
• milk
• tractor rides
• lions
• monkeys
• flamingo
• mud 
• poo
•  
• hay

 What we might smell at the Show

• poo
• milk
• hot chips
• mud
• fish and chips
• candy floss
• donuts
• sausages
• other people's lunch
• ice cream
• hot dogs
• hay
• animal smells
• flowers
• marshmellows

What we might hear at the Show

• birds
• clippity clop of horses hoooves
• music
• anmal sounds like moo, baa, oink, neigh, quack
• quad bikes
• engines
• shearing machines   
• electric motor bikes
• announcements
• wood chopping
• laughing
  

Team Work

This term we have been focussing on working as part of a team.

Today we were talking about Guy Fawkes Night and the fun we had with fireworks last night.

Lily had a GREAT idea.  I was almost as excited as Lily when I heard her explain her great idea!

Lily suggested all of the c hildren work together to make a great art work by splattering paint onto black paper.

First Lily had to go for a run around the school to find some big pieces of black paper - thanks to Room 23 for helping us out with this!

Later in the day Nicky was working in our class.  She helped the children to splatter paint on the black paper and sprinkle glitter on it.

The end result is rather impressive - check in out in our classroom soon!

Thanks Lily for sharing your great idea.