Celebrating Diwali

Today Whaea Monika told about how she celebrates Diwali. Diwali is a festival of lights. Then we created our own paper lanterns to celebrate Diwali. We will hang these in the hall to be displayed with lanterns that other classes have made. 

Makerspace- Bottle lids

This week we were given a problem to solve. Bottle lids are too small to fit the recycling machines so they have to go into the red rubbish bins. Our challenge was to design and create a solution to this problem.

First, we brainstormed as many solutions as we could think of.

Next, we choose our best idea and made a plan including what we would do and what materials we would need.

After that, we built our solutions and tested them out. Some of us created art with the bottle lids, some of us built keyboards and MacKenzie made a game using the bottle lids. Finally, we reflected on how our creations solved the problem and thought about how we could improve them. 

Kei te aha koe?

 This week we learned a new question in te reo Māori: "Kei te aha koe?" It means "What are you doing?" We also learnt how to answer this question. We practised all week and on Friday we wrote and illustrated a page to create a book. 

Kei te mahi tātou- We are all working. 

     

"Kei te mahi ahau- I am working."- MacKenzie

"Kei te tākaro ahau. I am playing."- Xzavier

"Kei te tākaro ahau. I am playing."- Tupara

The Amazing Bubble Science Experiment

 Today Room 15 raced up to the hall. Emma lit the bubbles on her hand on fire. She asked Abdullahi to help her make small and big bubbles. Next we listened to Emma as she asked if we could make different shapes but we could not. In the end Emma lit the balloons on fire and one lit on fire. It looked like a fireball! The fireball went boom bang when she was lighting it! 

The Volcano

Room 16 and Room 15 have been working on dance and music for the poem 'The Volcano'. This video shows our performance. 

Daffodil Day

 Today was Daffodil Day. We wore yellow clothes and made a donation to help people with cancer. 

We made our own daffodils too. We used old egg trays, coloured paper and tissue paper. 

Lava races

 Today Room 15 watched videos of different types of lava. We noticed that some lava moves very quickly and some moves very slowly.

Then we used golden syrup, oil, water and dishwashing liquid to have lava races! We made predictions and then observed whether our predictions came true. The fastest were oil and water. The slowest were golden syrup and dishwashing liquid. 

St Johns with Jane

"When we went to St Johns, Jane taught us about DRSABC."- Kalayus

"We learnt Safe Side. If somebody is unconscious or has fainted, you do Safe Side. First, make a pillow arm, then a seatbelt arm, bend your knees and roll them over. Finally, high five the ground."- Tupara

"When your hand is bleeding, put a tissue or towel on it and bandage it tight so the bleeding stops."- Bhadra

"We learnt how to keep ourselves safe."- Mahi

"Jane taught us how to call 111. You tell them your address, your phone number and what happened."- Tyra and MacKenzie

"Jane reminded us to pull over to let ambulances past."- Aryan

The Colours of my Heart

This week in Room 15 we have been thinking about colours and our feelings. We read the book My Many Coloured Days and then wrote about a day that we felt bright blue or red. We also wrote poems using similes and created art to show the colours and feelings in our hearts.

"Yellow makes me fancy like a unicorn running"- MacKenzie

"Turquoise makes me feel lazy like a river"- Olivia

"We used glue, plastic sheets and coloured tissue paper for our hearts"- Mahi

"White makes me feel like a cloud"- Aryan

"Purple makes me feel like a unicorn dancing on the rainbows"- Ayanna

"Pink makes me feel warm like the sun"- Bhadra

"Grey makes me feel as slow as a sloth"- Cameron

"Grey makes me feel cool"- Tupara

"Pink makes me feel pretty like a mermaid"- Aeris

"Purple makes me feel lazy like I'm in bed"- Mahi

"Red makes me feel angry"- Chloe

"Blue makes me feel cold"- Doug

"Purple makes me feel jealous like a bear"- Olivia

Room 15's Worry Dolls

"We worked so hard to make our worry dolls."- Jashneel

"My worry doll is so cute because she has cute eyes and a cute mouth."- Bella

"We made our worry dolls out of small pieces of wood, fabric and soft wool."- Amelia

"We made our worry dolls on Tuesday. First we used some pegs, then some soft wool and then made their hands by using pipe-cleaners."- Ayanna

"We made our worry dolls using different kinds of materials."- Bhadra

"I made a slide for my worry doll."- Cameron

"I made a bedroom for mine."- Sophie

"I made some friends for my worry doll."- MacKenzie

"We tried to make a house out of paper but it didn't work. So I tried to use string too and that worked."- Mahi

Home learning Week 4- All About Autumn

This week for Room 15's home learning we were thinking all about autumn. We read poems and books about autumn and used autumn leaves as inspiration for our art and writing.

Our first challenge was to collect autumn leaves and sort them into groups by size, colour or shape. Can you tell how we sorted these leaves?

Some of us also took on the challenge of creating autumn art in a unique way.

We also wrote sentences about an autumn scene. We wrote about what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch when it's autumn. Can you picture the autumn scenes that we have described?