Dogs playing at Kiddies Corner Umina Beach

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman

With the help of the talented Room Five and Mrs Jacobsen we retold the legend of Hatupatu and the Bird Woman. This was one of the Maori legends that we saw at the Kahurangi Dance Theatre and it was fun to retell it in yet another way.

What do you think of our artwork?

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Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Today we went to the most amazing Maori Dance Theatre.
The show was spectacular and very professional. They told us some traditional maori legends using voice, singing, poi, dance, string, rakau, taiaha, etc.

If you want to find out more about them you can visit their website by clicking on the link below:
Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Challenging equal sharing

We hav been working on equal sharing.
Have a look at this tricky problem we worked on. Working together with a buddy we found one fraction each and then moved them around until we were happy with the order.

Thanks to Charlotte Wilkinson for the thought provoking problem.

Muffin Making

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Staying Healthy

Today Mrs Grant the public health nurse came and spoke to our school.
She taught us about the importance of keeping ourselves healthy.

The important messages are:

• Wash your hands before eating, before and after doing things with food, after going to the toilet, if we cough or blow our nose, when we hav been patting our pets.
• Sneeze or cough into our elbows.
• Use tissues to blow our nose and throw them away afterwards.
• Eat a good mix of foods.
• Drink lots of water.
• Keep warm in winter.

Germs can travel very easily!

We had fun seeing how this worked using glitter and spray water bottles.

We watched some cool videos

How to wash our hands properly

Sneeze germs can travel more than a metre.

Rubbing your hands really fast causes friction and kills germs

Germs are everywhere.

We used glitter instead of real germs.

If we shake hands some of the germs go to the next person.

It happens over and over again.

This was the glitter germs on the first person.

This was the gitter germs on the second and third people.

Alien Invasion in Room One

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Blocks, centimetres, metres and more

In maths we are exploring measurement.
Can you guess the different tools we used for measuring?
We discovered that it is extremely important to make sure you start from the correct place or everything after that goes a bit crazy.

Everyone in Room One and Ms Daniels would like to thank Room Five and their clever teacher for making the time that our teacher was at a conference such a fun learning time.

Jelly Making - Procedural Writing Language Experience

Check out some of the fun learning we have been doing with Room Five and Mrs Jacobsen while Ms Daniels has been at a conference.

New Faces in Room One

In Room One we have been very lucky to welcome four fabulous new students and their families to our learning family. Everyone in our class is excited to have you join us and we hope you learn lots and have fun along the way.

Haere mai, tena koutou Cayle, Shaniya, Ryan and Bradley
Arohanui Room One and Ms Daniels

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!!!