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

first cultural group lesson

This is when we had our first cultural group lesson  with the juniors.


We are calling it cultural group this year because our school has many children from different cultures and we thought it would be good to look at some others.


We had to teach them how to do the moves in Toia Mai and if we had enough time we were allowed to teach them Utaina. 


We had a lot of fun with the juniors but it was hard for some of us. 


At the end we all came inside and shared what we had done.

by Regan  and Jonathan. 

Welcome back

Here's Room 6 and they have had a great start to 2011.  We took lots of photos at places all around the school but we liked this one best.  We're on our new playground equipment.

Lately we have been learning that we have the power to make our learning space better.  We are doing this by maybe having class meetings, getting a class pet, having a construction table, and more.  We are in groups and we have to find out what we want.

Our maths subject for this term is measurement.  Today we did perimeter and it's real easy.


We have been helping to design the class timetable.  We talked lots about when people learn best.  We had to fit in maths, reading and writing as well as all the fun stuff.  It was quite hard.

It sounds like everybody had a great holiday.  Some people even went over-seas - lucky.

Now we're busy practicing for the cross country at Balmacewen. We're all enjoying Room 6! The best room in the school.


Bloggers - Sam & Ryan    

PET DAY

Pets everywhere we looked.  Cats, dogs, chickens, guinea pigs, and creative pets like pine cones - lol!!!

There were prizes given out for best dressed pet, the most unusual - a pine cone almost won that, but the chickens won, the most obedient, and lots more.

We had the big dogs parade first, then the middle size dogs, and then the small dogs.  There were cats, birds and even a snail.

We had to have our pets there in the morning and then our parents had to take them home so they wouldn't be at school all day.

It was really nice because lots of parents came with their pets.

It was a great morning and we hope we can do it again next year.

By Storm and Alex W

Science Roadshow

Today we went to the Science Roadshow at Balmacewen.  They had heaps of things to do in their hall.  First we watched some demonstrations and they let off a rocket; it was really loud.  Then we were allowed to play with the other activities.

Here we have Jonathan.  Jonathan is looking through the microscope at some pieces of cloth.  You can see the cotton really up close.  Hopefully Jonathan is having lots of fun.
Briarna

I went to the exhibit where you have to get a ball through the hoops.  The white part in the photo is where the ball bounces off and you can shift it to change the angle.  The higher up you put the slope, the higher the ball would go,  I managed to get the ball through one of the hoops.
Alex









WOOSH!  Here we are playing with hover balloons,  First we filled the balloons with air from an automatic bike pump.  The air would fill up the balloon and as it came out it would make them travel across the table, and we could play bumper carts.
Liam & Ryan










This is a nail bed and I'm lying on it.  It didn't really hurt.  This is because there are heaps of nails around you and this helps support you.  If you stood on just one nail it would really hurt.
Sam









You can put the ball on top of the blower and it will support the ball in the air.  The blower has to match the arrow and when it does it starts.  If you turn the table round one of the plates hovers below the other. Turn the table once again and you remove the plate and place a ball on the blower and it will start to bounce.
Andrew

I went to this table that has a hair dryer, different kinds of metal rods, a holder, and a small measuring machine.  The point was to use the hair dryer to heat up the rods to see if they expand.  We had to see which type of rod expanded the most.
Natasha






This activity is called 'Rolling Upwards'.  Samara, Ethan and Zayleah were examining what is happening.  There are two metal poles that were about 1cm apart at the start.  The two poles slope upwards and they get wider as they go along.  When you placed the wooden object on the rods, it ran uphill.  The shape of the object and the way the rods get wider make it roll uphill.
Jeannie

This Balmacewen kid is helping me with this machine.  He told me that the machine was smart.  He said that the yellow ball went first and then the pink ball and it went in a pattern - yellow, pink, yellow, pink. Soon it shot out a yellow ball and then there were two pink balls together so one of them went into the reject bin so that the pattern went back to yellow, pink ...
Regan

For this activity you spoke to the microphone and your voice came out the speaker, but your voice was transmitted via laser.  If your hand blocked the laser your voice would not lay.  We also had a keyboard and each button had a tone and each tone was interpreted into a number.
Aaron

I am seeing how much water is used in the bathroom, kitchen, toilet and washing machine.  The bathroom used the most and the kitchen the least.  The washing machine also uses a lot of water.  I thought it would have been the other way around.
Vaughan

latin pacific concert

Yesterday a man called Jonathan come in to do a  show.  Jonathan picked six people to be in a band, they were

Briarna, Abbey, ,Jeannie, Alex Wilson, Storm and Sam.  Briarna enjoyed being in the band, she says Jonathan had picked good beats.  Natasha  thought it was really good how Jonathan got everyone involved and how he showed us lots of different instruments. Andrew enjoyed him playing long guitar  music from other countries. Katelyn thought it was cool how he used his fingernails as picks. We really enjoyed the show it was super!!! 

Regan & Abbey