Daffodil Day

Our school celebrated Daffodil Day with a coin drive and face painting.
Here are a few snapped by some of the students:

Room One has made some stunning daffodils which we are looking forward to sharing at Assembly next week so make sure you pop along and see it.

Inaugural Digi Awards

Tonight was the very first Digi Awards for the Matamata Cluster.
It was an amazing night showcasing the children's ICT talents from across nine schools.
Each school selected their top entries in each category and then invited judges narrowed it down to finalists within each age group and category.

Room One had three children reach this stage of the competition and we would like to congratulate them for their efforts:

Digital Photograph Yr 1-3
- Louise for "Mirror, mirror, moo cow"
- Louise for "Just one more bite"
- Bradley for "Two monkeys on the monkey bars"

Digital Photo Story Yr 1-3
- Fleur for "Magnolia Life Cycle"

We are very proud of all the fantastic digital work that all the children in Room One created. If you have time we would love you to pop in an admire our Wall of Fame.

Cross Country

What amazing runners there are in Room One.
Every single person in Room One ran their absolute hardest and achieved amazing results. I am so proud of each of them and it was wonderful to hear Lee saying what speedsters they all were because she gets to see children from all different schools run.

Reading Fair Ideas

Thank you to all the children who have chosen their book for our Reading Fair - only four more to go.

We need to give how we want our display boards to look some thought.
Here are some ideas to think about over the weekend:

The beginning of our Pop Art adventure

We started an art project today which will demonstrate some of our maths knowledge once we're finished. To get started we needed portraits of ourselves choosing either a silly or sensible face.

Can you guess which option was more popular?

Getting started with Pop Art

Reading Fair Reminder

Remember that you must have chosen your book for our School Reading Fair by this Friday 23rd August.

Thank you to all of those who have chosen your book and had it checked off already :-)

Travelling back in time to Katikati Museum

Yesterday our whole school drove across to Katikati Museum. We had a brilliant day experiencing what school and life was like 100 years ago. We even got to dress up which was lots of fun.

School life

Different machines and tools

The telephones of old

We played lots of games

The cheeky boys and the sweet girls

Fun times with friends

Think about a time you have had fun playing with friends?
Where were you?
When was it?
Who was there?
What did you do?
What made it so fantastic and how did you feel?

Here is a collage of pictures showing children playing together to help get you thinking.

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?

Hatupatu and the Bird Woman from Katreena Daniels on Vimeo.

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