21 June 2016

Rocket Launch


Room 1 made a rocket out of a fizz bottle  and cardboard. The cardboard was for the fins. We put 1/2 of water in the bottle. After we went to Vince and  put it on a stand very tight. Then Vince and all of us got a turn at pulling the trigger to get air pressure. Then it blasted off high into the air.     by Sophia



19 June 2016

School Cross Country





On Friday Brooke L came first in the school cross country and Casey came third. Casey over took two people. We had to run around the bike track two times. Brooke L thought she would come last because she doesn't like the Cross Country. Casey thought she would come fifth. We were very, very happy that the whole school got to see us up the front to get our certificates. We got so, so puffed going up the hill. Brooke L over took one person, it was very fun.    by Casey and Brooke L

15 June 2016

School Assembly

IMG_0440 from Julia Roberts on Vimeo.

On Friday we did the school assembly with Room 3. We danced to the Astronaut Hip Hop and sang the Rainbow Song. Also Room 1 showed our planets and read out information. Room 3 did a Rainbow Song too and they used sign language.
I liked the assembly because everyone watched us.    by Kamryn

13 June 2016

Science and Other Fun at School.

PJ and Onies Class party/treat
Party food

Our Winter ChristmasTree


Wrapping parcels for our tree.


We have made rockets that are ready to be blasted off
 with a compressor.

We are trying to put a nut on a bolt
in the water which is like working
out in space.

05 June 2016

Mathletics


Room 1 children are competing against one another in Mathletics

31 May 2016

Measuring our Shadows

My shadow is 
black.
My shadow is
shady as can be.
My shadow
plays tag with me.
My shadow is like
a cloud floating in the sky.
At night I wave my shadow goodbye and it disappears.

by Ella

16 May 2016

Suter Trip at Nelson Library

These are some of our stories about the trip.

At the Nelson Library we mixed the colours. We read a book called, My Many Coloured Days.
Different colours can make different feelings, happy, sad and excited. Purple makes me excited, grey makes me bored and blue makes me happy. It was at the Nelson Suter Library. My favourite was the painting of the man. I painted it dark pink.                       by Hazel

We went to the Nelson Library  and we did some art at the Suter Room. We were doing stuff all about colours. Pink makes you happy and black makes you sad. I will tell you some of them. Purple makes me relaxed, brown is a very sad colour. Different colours make you have different feelings like sad, happy, excited and there is a lot of other ones too.                               by Casey

We went to the Nelson Library and we painted a person. We picked up pastels and wrote our feelings down on a piece of paper. I will tell you some of the feelings, happy, sad, scared and frightened. Purple makes me feel happy and grey makes me feel sad.
The lady read us a Dr Seuss story called, 'My Many Coloured Days.'               by Sophia

I went to the Suter. It was a room in the Nelson Library. My favourite thing that I did there was colouring my ginger-bread man, purple. We got a story read to us. It was called, My Many Coloured Days. My Many Coloured Days was by Dr Seuss. Sometimes colours can have feelings in them. On blue days I'm bored. Bored as can be you see. Colours have feelings in them too.            By Connor

10 May 2016

Space

We have been learning about the 9 planets in the Solar System, also our moon and the sun.
These are the craters that we made.
Mr B showed us how the planets stay in orbit around the sun by turning a bucket of water in a circle really fast and no water came out because of the centrifugal force - it was really cool to watch.
Yesterday Room 1 did a really fun experiment. Craters on the moon are formed by asteroids, meteorites or comets when they collide with the surface. The craters will never erode away because there is no wind or rain on the moon.

06 April 2016

Chemical Popgun

There is a big mess on the ceiling in Room 1.
We put vinegar and baking soda in a small plastic bottle and quickly put a cork in the top of the bottle. There was a chemical reaction and and the resulting carbon dioxide gas blew the cork and fizzy, bubbly mixture up very high onto our ceiling. It dripped down and made a mess on the white ceiling.
The mixture exploded! It was lots of fun.


05 April 2016

Making Sherbet


It was real yummy and fizzy in our mouths!
We made sherbet using icing sugar, raro crystals, baking soda, citric acid and tartaric acid. When all the ingredients were mixed together we looked at and tasted each of them and some were yummy and others were yucky. The fluid in our mouths mixed with the sherbet and made the carbon dioxide bubbles.

23 March 2016

Kiwisports

At Kiwisports today my favourite bit was the high steps but I keep falling off then I just got back on and I tried again and again. 
We had an egg and spoon race and there were lots of adults and children from different schools at the Brightwater Domain.
It was lots of fun and it started to rain when we were finished the games so that was lucky.


22 March 2016

Electronics Class Treat

This afternoon we had a great time playing with our electronic gadgets such as i-pads, remote control cars and tablets because we had earned another class treat. It was a really cool time at school.

17 March 2016

Marshmellows

Yesterday Room 1 cooked marsh-mellows in the microwave for  one minute and it puffed up. When we took it out, it went hard and  it looked like a flat pancake. We all got a turn to stand on a chair and look at the  marsh-mellows in  the  microwave.     Brooke Leah

On Tuesday we did marsh-mellow dissolving in my group.  In the four cups there was vinegar, water, fizz and juice. We put it in the four cups and then we put a marsh-mellow in each one. The next day the marsh-mellow in the vinegar was gone because it has acid in it.       Sophia

15 March 2016

The Variety Bash

Today the Variety Bash came to school.  The Variety Bash raises money to help children.  
There were lots of different vehicles there.  There were fire engines, mini's and different sorts of trucks.
The whole school came to the front field to watch the Variety Bash.
We got lots of different sorts of lollies and goodie bags.  There were rings, a flag and tooth brushes.  I got a special badge that they only give one out at a school because I used my manners to say thank you.
Last Friday we had hot dog fundraiser, we raised $548.15 which we gave to the Variety Bash.
The Variety Bash has raised over $15,000,000 to help children in New Zealand.
My favourite part of the Variety Bash is when I got given my special badge.                        By Pippa