Pet Day

On Friday the 23rd of September Bradford school had a pet day.  Regan, Jaidyn and Katelyn were in charge of the music, the order that the animals went down the cat walk, and the prizes. Some of the prizes were note pad with calculator built in, dog food, water bottle, etc....

There were some very strange pets, including;  Lizards, pigs, sea monkeys, and some very imaginative creations like Sam's dog, Jacob's rugby ball pet and lots of other things too.

The first competition was the best tricks. There were lots of cool tricks so every one who entered got a packet of dog food.

The second competition was on the best dressed. Some pets wore butterfly wings, an all blacks shirt, and pirate costumes!

The last competition was on the most unusual pet. A lizard won that. It had an amazing blue mouth.

We had a really cool pet day!

Gymnastics

We had our first session of gymnastics with Ginny today and it was fun.  We got the mats out and we had to do lots of balancing.

Here Alex is balancing on his bottom and keeping his feet off the ground.

Here Jeannie and Katelyn have their feet together and they are holding hands and leaning back as far as they can

This is a picture of Katelyn P balancing on one hand and one foot.  She stayed like this for ages.

This activity was fun.  We had to put our feet together and then push hard and lift our bottoms off the ground.



Gymnastics with Ginny was fun.

Awesome Scientists

Last week we had a visit from two scientists, Esther and Matt.  They came to do some experiments about sound.  When we got to Room 1 we were put into three groups.


In the first group we had to make a bongo drum with a tube and a balloon.  We had to stretch the balloon over the top of the tube.  It was quite tricky because the balloons were a bit small.  When you got it over it sounded like a drum.

In the next group we had to cut a straw and then when we blowed into it it made a sound.  It was the vibrations that made the sound.  I took mine home and mum said that if I didn't stop blowing it, she would take it off me.

Did you know that you can whisper through a balloon and the person listening on the other side can hear you?






Matt had some liquid nitrogen that was really, really cold.  It was so cold that he froze a banana.  He also poured some on to a balloon and all the air went out of the balloon.  As the balloon warmed back up, the air came back into the balloon.  It was really cool.

Esther and Matt made some ice-cream for us with the liquid nitrogen.  It had chocolate chips in it.  It was really nice and creamy.  Esther said it was better than real ice cream because the liquid nitrogen freezes it so fast that it doesn't get a chance to get icy, like other ice cream.  It was really yummy.

Dancing Like The Stars!

Dancing Like The Stars!
The last few weeks we have been getting taught how to do a dance called Ceroc, so we can perform to people around Dunedin. The people who are teaching us are John and Raewyn who teach dancing for a living. Here are some photos from our lesson and of John and Raewyn doing a demonstration.

Ceroc Lessons With John & Raewyn on PhotoPeach








By Riley and Jaidyn
Photo peach done by Andrew

The Police

On 23 March 2011 some police dog handlers came to our school. Their names were Brett and Andrew. They came with their dogs. They had toys for the dogs and Brett took one and ran off with it, then Andrew let go of the dogs collar and the dog went and sniffed and found Brett and the dog started to bark at Brett. Then Andrew put some hard stuff on his hands then he let go of the dogs collar and pretended to run away. The dog just came up and bit Andrews arms.

Our Awesome Discovery Time

This term we have been doing discovery with Rooms 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

We have been doing baking sessions and trying to make neo cubes. I learnt that neo cubes are very hard-Katelyn Phillips.  Here is Andrew working with the neo-cubes.  You have to try and make a cube - it is very hard.

We have really liked having to spend time with them and having fun and trying out new things.  These boys are trying to lift some heavy books by using a pulley

These girls are busy sewing.  They had to sew their name on to some cloth.  It was really hard getting the wool on to the needle.

    

We also set a goal at the start of the discovery time. Our goal this week was persevering at what we're doing and don't give up!

These boys are trying to make a dominoes track.

By Katelyn Dey & Katelyn Phillips.

Friday Fun for Fours

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tEvery fortnight the Level fours have a special fun time and this time we picked a water slide!!! Katelyn  brought her water slide for us to use. (lucky us)










This year for Levels we have to move ourselves This year we have to move ourselves to the level we think we should be on.  There are heaps of us on a four.

To be a four you have to be responsible, do all your work, respect others, and stuff like that.








Other stuff that we can do if we are a four is games time, shared lunch, water fight, movie - with popcorn of course, wheels day and a picnic.  We get to vote which one we want on the Monday.

We hope you enjoyed the photos of us!!!!

It was a really awesome time - we all want to be 4's next time.




by Abbey and Connor