Cup Stacker - Find the letters fast!

Click the picture and stack the cups as quickly as you can.

Worm Farm

Today Mary Curnow came to talk to us about worms and worm farms. We found out lots of interesting facts:

Worms

• Worms have 5 hearts - Liam.

• Worms have 2 sets of muscles. Short muscles make them stretch out and the one long one is in the middle makes it shrink - Darby.

• They don't have eyes, teeth, arms, legs, ears and hair but they have bristles - James.
• They don't like eating oranges, lemons, mandarins or onions because it burns their skin - Mia.
• The stripy worms are tiger worms and they are good for compost heaps - Cole.
• They don't like the light and they don't like too much rain - Kushla.
• When you hold worms you need to wear gloves because our bare hands will burn their skin - Holly.
• The food goes in its mouth and is squeezed to it's gizzard where it is ground down and then it comes out its tail end - Boyd.
• Worms pretend to be dead when we pick them up because they don't like the light - Jess.
• They need egg shells to help make their babies - Sam S.

Worm Farms

• Compost bins have three layers - Ethan.
• The lid has little air vents that also let in rain - Kynan.
• In the top layer we put the food scraps like potatoes, apples, weeds and flowers - Sam D & Kaitlyn.
• In the middle layer the worms make the compost - Jacques.
• In the bottom layer worm juice is collected - Skylah.

Science

Can you blow up a balloon without using your mouth??? We can!!! The balloon is being filled up with a gas.




Today we learned about solids, liquids and gases. We learned that you can't really see a gas. Air (oxygen) is a gas. When we breathe we take in oxygen and blow out another gas called carbon dioxide. The trees do the opposite - we need each other to survive.

A liquid is something you can pour (like water). A solid is something you can hold (like ice).
Chocolate is a solid but if we melt it we would make a liquid.

Let's Have a Party

Room 1 hosted the whole school assembly on Friday. We read poems, shared our artwork and photos and performed Let's Have a Party. Everyone thought we were fabulous.

Discovery Time

Mrs Robertson has been trying to get us to be creative and see what we can make out of boxes and containers. Caleb made an army tank, Sam D made a jet boat and Sam Shelling & Kushla made a robot!




We also made 3D shapes with playdough. Check out Darby's plate of sphere shaped tomatoes!

Ripper Rugby

On Wednesday we had Ripper Rugby Skills with Andrew Goodman!!! We had so much fun and can't wait to go again next week!

Shape Hunt

We have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We have been naming them and labeling how many sides, edges and corners the shapes have. We went on a hunt around the school to find the different shapes.

Magazine Umbrella Art

Look at the terrific artwork we made by tearing up magazines! We have needed our umbrellas lots lately because of all the rain!

Click on picture to see even larger and to read who has created each artwork.

Cross Country Champions

Today the whole school walked down to Lord Rutherford Park and competed in the school cross country. The video below shows the Year 1/2 syndicate kids all crossing the finish line! Well done everyone!

Holly's Voicethread