S L I M E ! ! !

We have been learning about procedural writing. We decided we wanted to write a recipe or instructions for something. Whaea Chloe was lucky enough to be sent some ingredients to make slime so we decided to make it and write how we did it.
We know that the key parts of the recipe were:

• Title
• Ingredients
• Equipment
• Method (Step by step instructions)

We got into groups to make the slime and it was so much fun!

Here are some of our recipes.

 

Rippa Rugby Fun

We had Hayley from Northland Rugby Union come to school and teach us how to play Rippa Rugby. It was so much fun! We got to learn new drills and have a game against the other teams. Some of us were really speedy at running through the others and getting tries and some of us were really good at ripping off the tags. We enjoyed learning how to play rippa and we are going to play it with Whaea Chloe because Haley gave us our own set of rippa rugby gear.

Real Rad Reading!

We had the re-opening of our library. This was an exciting day because we also had character day and could dress up at our favorite book character. We also had lots of fun reading activities planned for the day. The one we liked the best was buddy reading. We got to read to the younger students and some of the senior read to us too. This was so much fun and it was awesome to work with the tuakana and teina of the school. We talked to our principal about doing buddy reading more so hopefully we will get to do it again soon.

Room 1 Winners!

We were lucky enough to enter an Eeny Meeny 'decorate a reindeer' competition and WIN!

Room 1 was so excited to receive an awesome arts and craft prize pack. We can't wait to get creative with our new art and craft supplies. We will keep you posted with our creations.

The Myth of Rumatahi awa

This is our second movie we made. Hope you enjoy it!

Breaking News by Room 1!

We had to make a movie for the local movie festival. We came up with an idea and a script for a movie about pollution of our waterways. This is one of our finished videos! We used green screening and imovie to make it.We will vote for the top 3 from our school to go to the festival.

What floats? What sinks?

We were learning about floating and sinking. We wanted to find out what floats and what sinks.
Some of the things we learned is that some materials float first then they soak up the water and become heavy.
It was fun. We liked discovering that something we thought would float actually sunk.
Trace liked being a scientist and discovering new things.
We learned some new vocabulary like density, buoyancy, and mass.

Video clip from the DDF dance crew visit.

DDF Dance Crew come to visit!

Our Plays!

We have been doing plays during our reading time. We read them with Whaea Chloe, choose our characters, get our props and then practice performing them. Our whole class comes out and watches us perform. It has been fun and we like getting into character and changing our voice and actions to suit our character. We did one about a sad clown who makes sad jokes and a pirate one about treasure.

Te reo selfie videos!

We have been learning some new maori kupu and phrases. We made selfie videos talking about ourselves in te reo maori. We liked learning some new maori kupu and phrases to use. 

We hope you enjoy watching them!!

Whaea Chloe's Selfie Video

This is Whaea Chloe's te reo selfie video. This is all about her for te wiki o te reo maori. We like that we got to know a bit more about Whaea Chloe.
We can't wait to learn some of the reo and make our own! Watch this space.

Our School Fun Run!

Today we walked down town and caught the train out to the United Kawakawa rugby grounds with the rest of our school for our school fun run. 

We got to run the course and do the awesome activities like hurdles (under and over), tyre run, and even a color chalk run. We had so much fun and Room 1 loved going on train dressed in our house colors. 

We played fun activities with Matua Bodean that we can teach Whaea Chloe and play when we have fitness.

Some of our classmates made it to the inter-schools cross country. Well done Nikau, Bailey-Trent, Vontayveiz and Legacee.

Our Assembly

This week Room one had our assembly. It was so much fun and we are getting way better at talking on stage, using a microphone and presenting in front of an audience. We shared our growth mindset plays and our cucket fulling. We also shared our narrative writing. We had a special house chant competition at the end which was really cool. Whaea Chloe made this video of the house chants.

Then and Now

We have been learning about the olden days and comparing what we do now to what people used to do. This is some of what we have learnt. We also wanted to know what our awa might have been used for in the olden days and now.
The awa was used for collecting kai, water, transport (waka), fun, washing and bathing. Now we mostly use our awa for leisure and recreation like swimming, kayaking and eeling for fun.

Measuring Fun!

In Room one we have been learning about measurement and we have been getting creative with our learning. We made marble runs and measured how far our marbles rolled. We also got outside to measure our courts with our feet then a ruler. We measured leaves and went on a measurement scavenger hunt. It has been loads of fun!

 

 

Fitness with Matua Bodean

We have been working with Matua Bodean learning fun games to play during fitness. We love the new games we can play and we can't wait to keep playing them with Whaea Chloe. 

We know how important daily fitness is for us to keep fit and healthy.

Kahurangi NZ Maori Dance Company

This week were lucky enough to have the Kahurangi NZ Maori Dance Company come and perform for us. We loved watching them and learning some new maori hand games. They performed an awesome matariki dance/show and we learnt a lot about the star cluster and meaning/traditions of matariki. This was cool because we had done matariki in term 2 and now we got to refresh what we had learnt.

 

Positive Vibes Only!!

 

 

We have been learning about having a growth mindset and being Mindful. We have been spending time doing relaxing breathing exercises and reading to ourselves. 

We have learnt that we can have a growth mindset if we think positive and try hard. We need to make sure we don't give up or get angry when things are hard.

Place Value Bingo

We have been learning about place value and the value of each digit in numbers. We learnt how to add ones, tens and hundreds. Whaea Chloe bought a bingo set for us to play Place Value Bingo.

Learning to make stop motion animations!

LEGO Challenge!

Room 1's Volcano Vocab

Earlier this term we helped clean up our community by joining the rest of the school picking up rubbish around Kawakawa. We enjoyed doing it and know how important it is in keeping our environment clean and green.

We are learning about GERMS! We looked at what germs are, what they look like under a microscope, how they can spread and where they like to live. 

We did an experiment with 3 pieces of bread. We touched one with our dirty hands, we touched one with our clean hands and then had one piece that no one touched. We put them in separate bags and left them to see what would happen!

Here are our predictions!

Here are our results!!! Ewwwww Yuck!

We think the clean hands bread was moldier because some of use accidentally used a dirty towel to dry our hands and wiped our hands on our shirts instead of the clean handy towels!!

BULLYING!

We have been discussing bullying and how we are BULLY FREE in Room 1 and Kawakawa Primary School. We wrote Cinquain Poems about Bullying. Here is our video of us reading them.

We LOVE having fruit and milk outside in the sun!

Our Creative Challenges!

Room 1 has been getting busy making and creating. Sharks, Crayfish and Kahawai reading groups have been busy making 'machines' after reading about them - We had robots, ice cream machines and lolly machines made. Snapper have been reading all about the Best Bridges and how they are made so they had a challenge to build a bridge from one desk to another. They really used the information they learned from the book to build their bridge such as using cables, piers and triangle shaped sides because that was the best shape to use for building a bridge. Scallops have been learning about dinosaurs and invented a new dinosaur they made habitats and also told me their dinosaurs features and diet.

We have been learning all about the water cycle. We made posters to show how the water cycle works.

Room 1 is learning about mindfulness. Check out these pics!!!

We have started Term 2 with the Water Cycle! This is what we know.

Banana Split Fun!

For the last day of Term 1 we made yummy banana splits. We had fun creating our own banana splits and enjoyed devouring them. Thanks Whaea Chloe!!

Certificates!!!

Room 1's Week 11 certificates went to Mikaere and Ratu for always being responsible, resilient and respectful. We also had many Excellent Attendance awards for students that have had great attendance for Term 1.