Gymnastic skills for everyone

Today we spent time learning tricky gymnastics skills with Haidee.
We were super star listeners and followed the instructions she gave us very carefully. Best of all it was lots and lots of fun!

Supermarket and Subway sublime outing!

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Finished Art

Awesome Artists

Friday was an "Art Attack" day across the school. We all had an amazing time and thanks to Mrs Jacobsen's fabulous wealth of knowledge we developed a great skill-set and produced some absolutely amazing finished pieces.

W.a.l.t:
Observe, sketch and shade "still life" objects.

Takeaways - the good, the bad and the ugly!

Takeaways are something we all love to have now and then.
Today we looked at which ones are a healthy choice and which ones aren't so good for us.
Some takeaways have virtually no fat, some a reasonable amount and some lots and lots - we called them the "Good", the "Bad" and the "Ugly"

Lolly Cake - Writing and Maths

Today for maths and writing we made Lolly Cake and it was delicious.
We were learning how to share shapes into equal fractions of 1/3s and 1/4s and to write instructions using lists, numbered steps and powerful verbs.

Here is the recipe we wrote together.

Lolly Cake
Ingredients:

• 150g butter
• 1 packet Eskimo lollies
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 packet malt biscuits

Equipment:

• rolling pin
• pot
• big plastic bowl
• chopping board
• wooden spoon
• knife
• tray
• gladwrap
• baking paper

Steps:

1. Wash your hands before you start.
2. Cut the Eskimo lollies into 1/3s or 1/4s.
3. Place the lollies into the plastic bowl.
4. Crush the biscuits inside a plastic bag with a rolling pin and put them into the bowl too.
5. Melt the butter and condensed milk slowly in the pot.
6. Stir the mixture carefully.
7. Pour the melted mixture into the big bowl with the biscuits and lollies.
8. Stir it altogether.
9. Tip the mixture onto a tray and make it into a log shape. (line with baking paper)
10. Put it in the fridge to set.
11. Wait for it to set (this was very, very hard to do)
12. Cut the log into pieces.
13. Eat and enjoy!

What do you think?

Why not try following our recipe and see if you can make your own Lolly Cake.

Lolly Cake Pictures

Toast Fractions

We are exploring how fractions work in maths.
We have worked out that knowing what the "whole" is very, very important.
Today the "whole" is a piece of toast. We had to put different toppings on and then describe the fraction of the toast that we had put it on.

Because we are very clever we also began to learn how to write instructions. :-)

Healthy Eating - Breakfast

Today we shared what we had eaten for breakfast on our ClassBook.
It was exciting to see that everyone in Room One had gobbled up good choices in food to start their day. Well done everyone!
Can you tell what the best choices are to eat?

Healthy Eating - Sugary Drinks

Lee from Project Energize came and worked with us today.
We learned all about making good choices about what we drink.

Easter Bonnet Day

The Year One to Year Three's from a number fo the schools in our area got together at Lichfield School for a fun day of Easter celebrations.

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Super Star Peer Tutors

We may only be five or six years old but we are super-duper clever already.
During reading time we are learning how to be good peer tutors. This is cool fun because helping others makes us feel good and it helps our own learning too.

Water Safety

As well as swimming every day in the gorgeous sunshine we have been talking about the importance of staying safe in and around water.
Water safety tips by Room One:

• walk around pools
• always use a ladder or do a safe entry from the side
• find out how deep the water is
• make sure you have a grown up with you all the time
• learn to swim
• wear a swim suit not clothes
• swim between the flags at the beach
• wear a life jacket all the time on a boat or a kayak

Look at how sensibly we are teaching our own Flat Stanleys how to be safe around the school pool.

Clever and Colourful Bird

In Room One we love it when people bring interesting news to share with us.
Look at the amazing masterpiece that Joshua and his mum created.

Perfect Pikelets

When the big kids stayed over after our Rocky Shore trip Room One and Flat Stanley got to whip up a delicious batch of pikelets.
We read the recipe carefully then made sure we had all the ingredients that we needed. Working in two groups we talked amongst ourselves and took turns doing the different jobs like measuring and mixing.
It took a little bit of practise to spoon the mixture into the hot pan without burning our fingers.
Best of all we devoured every single pikelet topped with either honey or jam or just plain. Delicious!!!

Two Hat Thursday

Because we are such a clever bunch of learners today we pushed our brains that little bit harder and used two hats to explore our books.

Black Hat
What was the main problem or challenge in the book?

Green Hat
Describe the way that the problem/challenge was solved in to story.
Create a new way to solve the problem.

Black Hat

Green Hat

Red Hat Tuesday

The 'red hat' is all about feelings.
Our key question when exploring our books today was - "How did the main characters feel?" and "What made you think that?" (evidence).

Monday is "White Hat" day.

As part of our literacy programme this week we are focusing on the the different types of thinking we might need to help us understand the books we read.

Monday's thinkers hat is 'White'.
The white hat is about facts, what information we have and specific things that the book tells us or shows us.

We are working co-operatively in our reading groups to help clarify our thinking. After we were finished we reflected on how our group worked together using the yellow hat (what worked well) and black hat (what problems arose or what we could do better).

Exploring the Rocky Shore

As part of immersing ourselves into our Term One topic of exploring the Rocky Shore all of Kuranui School, Flat Stanley and a very supportive group of parents journeyed across the Kaimais to Mount Maunganui.
Flat Stanley had a brilliant time doing all sorts of exciting things that he had never experienced before:
- hunting for crabs, limpets, rock cod, seaweed, etc
- having a picnic with loads of children and playing on a super cool playground
- swimming at Pilot Bay
- kayaking in single and double kayaks
- building sandcastles and playing different games on the beach
- hiking around the Mt and having seaweed throwing battles
- sharing fish 'n' chips with big kids and small kids
- watching the Queen Elizabeth ship sail out of the harbour

Check out some of our wonderful photos

Bike Wise

Constable Louise and Lee from Project Energize came out and spent the afternoon teaching us all about bike safety. We practiced the skills we need to ride on the road and tested our bravery going over see-saws, ramps and staircases.

Our new class member unfolds it's wings...

Today there was great excitement in our classroom when one of the monarch butterfly chrysalises started to hatch.
We watched enchanted as slowly but surely a gorgeous new butterfly came into the world.

Underway with Flat Stanley

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