Lilah's Elephant Toothpaste

This week we had a science experiment for Teach the Teacher when Lilah showed us how to make elephant toothpaste. She used yeast, warm water, dish washing liquid, bleach and food colouring. It didn't stop foaming for ages! Can you work out the science behind this experiment?

Teach The Teacher

This has started off with a hiss and a roar in Room H this term. In week 1 Ella taught uso how to make ooblek and we all had a messy go! In week 2 it was parlez vous Francais with Edie teaching us some words and we even had a quiz. This week Gracie showed us the steps to make a delicious chocolate cake which we all got to sample. Great work girls

 

   

Book Week- Friday

Dress up as a book character and we did!

Unexpected excitement

  

After a planned lockdown drill in the morning no one was expecting a school evacuation in the afternoon but that's what happened! The fire brigade attended but soon we had the all clear and could return to class. We believe it was a rouge toasted sandwich to blame ...

Food for Thought

Nova has visited the Senior Team classes twice during this week to educate us about nutrition in food and best choices. 

She shared some startling facts:
* NZ children are the second unhealthiest in the world, NZ adults the third. 
* In 20 years it is estimated in NZ 50% of the adult population will have Type 2 diabetes.
* Type 2 diabetes are preventable. This condition is caused by poor eating habits and lack of fitness
We were pretty shocked by this information and were keen to learn more about nutrition. We are now confident with the food pyramid and what our bodies need to be healthy.
Her visits culminated in a class trip to New World. (Thank you to New World and the parents who accompanied us on our excursion).

Fun Seuss Song about Angles

Seuss like angle song that is fun!

The Abstars Teach the Teacher

Abbie and Abby enthralled Rm I with a very crafty Teach the Teacher. There was glue, glitter, glitter glue and notebooks. (Also a bit of a mess on the desk tops!)

At the end of the session they had 'blinged' their notebook covers! Check them out below.

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After...

Rm I celebrate Pink Shirt Day

Cobweb of Compliments...

Rm I enjoyed a variety of activities on Friday for Pink Shirt Day. Here we are involved in our web of compliments.

Pink Shirt Day 2019

Tomorrow we are allowed to wear a pink shirt to show our support of the Pink Shirt anti bullying movement. Below is the story of how it came about, a clip with some people you may recognise that were bullied when they were younger and a very cool flash mob.



Pink Shirt Day 2019 Website:
https://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/
https://www.pinkshirtday.org.nz/take-action/

Pink Shirt Day origins...

Pink Shirt Day Founder later...

An Epic Discovery...

During our library session today Ms Bennitt talked about Epic that is on all the library ipads. It is an amazing resource that is free to schools. It is a library of over 10, 000 books! You can read them, listen to them etc on the ipad. We are looking forward to getting it put onto our class ipads. It will be a wonderful resource for our Daily 5: Listen to Reading programme!

Geometry in Action in Rm I

Today we were working on drawing 3D shapes on isometric paper. It was fairly challenging, especially since the dots were so small!

Working Hard in Rm I

Haylee is working hard before school on her Matific account with a little help from her good friend Lightning!