Pink Shirt Day this Friday...

Room I Green Team Extraordinaire

Today the hard working Room I helped out our amazing Enviroschool. Mr Belk and Mr Richardson had created a mound of dirt the size of a small mountain. It was moist, nutrient filled soil that would be excellent to layer around our dried out trees alongside the track.

However there was a small or large problem...we had to move the mountain to the trees! No worries for the rough and ready gardening crew of Room I. Shoes were flicked off, hats plonked on, jerseys abandoned and the class got down and dirty. In just 30 mins we made a huge impact. See you again tomorrow dirt mountain!

Christmas Chickens

Not for eating! We are really enjoying our 10 visitors! Look how sweet they are!

Catapult Creations

This afternoon as part of our Notion of Motion inquiry we designed catapults. Then we took them outside and measured their capabilities, modified them and tried again!

Alice is a Spring Chicken!?

Alice loves KFC, Lightning and Uenuku (and they love her!)

New Fad

Since we used the speed stacks for a challenge in Week 2's Whole School Assembly we have been enjoying creating towers with the cups.

Daily before school we are busy challenging our hand to eye co-ordination with amazing creations!

Check some out below!

Matariki Festival of Music?

Rm I have been practicing their rakau. When it is polished we will record a version!

An egg...the real deal!

KFC, our biggest hen, had been displaying some laying behaviour so we made sure we had fresh hay in their nesting boxes. Sure enough over the weekend when they had some peace clever KFC laid our first MSS bantam egg. Check it out below. 

Ms Ellis hen egg on the left and KFC bantam egg on the right

Are the chickens finally earning their keep?

Guess what we found today in the chickens nesting bag...

Hmm, seems very big for a bantam? Also it was cold like it had been in the fridge...

We, in Rm I, think that mischievous Maui (AKA Ms Ellis) is foxing us.

But we loved it!

Jigging with Thornton

Thornton talked us through fishing for trout in NZ waterways. We found they must be 35+cm to be legal. Thornton and his Dad fish off a boat. With jigging you carefully drop the line in the water, you don't swing it back and cast it out. The most fish Thornton has caught is 7 in one trip.

Rm I were very interested and had many questions that Thornton answered well.

Triad Learning

Each week we work together in our triad (group of 3) to complete Seesaw activities. This week because of illness we have had to mix up some of our groups.

Here we are trying to label and identify all the parts of the Food Pyramid.

Lightning has some ideas for this lucky group

Haylee Teaches the Teacher

Today Haylee played a word game with Rm I. They had to create the template then find as many words as they could. Everyone enjoyed the challenge.

Mac's Spooky Halloween Jokes...

Mac has been busy entertaining the class with his jokes:

Mrs Palmer is so efficient she was posting Mac's Teach the Teacher as he did it!

What do you call a fat Jack-o -lantern?

A plumpkin

What do bats need after a shower?

A batmat

What time is it when a ghost comes to dinner?

Time to go...

What do little witches hope to get for their birthday?

A haunted dolls house!

What do ghosts eat for dessert?

Ice scream and booberries

Uenuku meets Elmo!?

This morning in Rm S our beloved Uenuku met Elmo the turtle. Uenuku was not sure about him, he chased her. She thought it was very strange that the rocks in Rm S move?!

Book Week- Friday

Dress up as a book character and we did!

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.

Before...

After...

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.

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!