Friday 29 May 2015

Scientist in Room 1

This morning Room one students worked in groups to discover chemical reactions 

Thursday 28 May 2015

Garden make over

Room 1 and the Green Team went out and spent the afternoon in the Garden with Kauri today...
The students put together a compost bin, worm farm and wheelbarrow all without help of a teacher.
All students worked hard and got into getting muddy.
Everyone gave 100% which showed with the end result looking amazing


Re-think Center

Today Room 1 went to the Re-Think Center,
Here we learnt about how long it takes different items to disintegrate..

How long does it take Leather to disintegrate?


 

Tuesday 26 May 2015

Cooperative work

Room one spent time this afternoon working as a team to get across the floor only using equipment Miss Wallis gave us 

Soccer

Room 1 had fun playing soccer with Blake today 

Wednesday 20 May 2015

Experiments in room 1

We had fun making sherbet today 
Everyone had try the ingredients alone before mixing it together 

Thursday 14 May 2015

Explanation writing


Room 1 started to learn about how to write explanation writing today,
We watched a clip about bees and how they make honey before we went and made our own explanation writing about the process


Monday 11 May 2015

Room 1 revisits our Anzac Day topic

Today Miss Beattie brought memorabilia that her Dad had received from the 100th Centenary in  Gallipoli. There were souvenir medals, maps, information booklets, admission passes and lots of postcards. We then wrote powerful sentences about one particular postcard. Check out our student blogs to see what we created!









Friday 8 May 2015

Buddy work

Room 1 worked with Room 14 creating card for mothers day...
Room 1 students helped their buddies with their spelling..

Bug Hotels

The Green team worked hard in the Garden with Kauri yesterday creating bug hotels 


Tuesday 5 May 2015

Writing

Room 1 practiced getting creative with their writing today,
We were trying to make our sentences go from a level 2B to a level 4B...
Here is one example...

"the sun was hot"
"The glaring sun smirked cunningly onto the devilish concrete"

Room 1 Kapa Haka photo

Room 1 loved participating in the Turanganui Schools Festival on Tuesday where they performed their Kapa Haka bracket they have been practic...