Room 1 Class Fair

Room 1 children ran a class fair to raise money to buy items to fill boxes for Operation Christmas Child. The fair had a toy stall, cake stall and book stall as well as some games such as Guess the Lollies in the Jar, Throw the Sponge. All of the Year 6 children worked on a stall and they also helped the younger with their shopping. The fair raised $550 which was an amazing amount for a fair run by children, for children.

New Zealand's First Medal

New Zealand equestrian team won a bronze medal, our first medal for the 2012 Olympics. They won in the showjumping event at Grenwich Park in London. Germany won the gold medal and Britian won the silver medal.

Rowers Take Away Our Second Medal

Women's double skull pair Juliette Haigh and Rebecca Scown paddled their way to New Zealand bronze medal of the 2012 Olympics. The pair were second until the last 500m when Australia broke away and beat them by a narrow margin. Great Britian won the race, their first gold medal of the Olympics.

Sound - Get Your Message Across

As part of Term 2's topic " Get your message across" we learnt about sound and how sound travels. The photos are of us doing experiments and finding how sound works. We made tin can telephones and found that when the string was tight the vibrations traveled along the string and vibrated on the tin can and then the sound went into your ear. Another experiment was making rice bubbles jump by shouting through a paper megaphone. The vibrations from our voices made the vibrations go through the gladwrap and the ricebubbles dance. We had lots of fun finding out about vibrations and sound.

Making Soup and Bread for the Shortest Day

On the 23rd June Room 1 children celebrated the shortest day (or the longest night) by making vegetable soup. Everyone brought along one vegetable and we cut/ grated them and put them in a pot. Max brought along some lamb shanks so we had one pot with meat and another without. We also used our measurement skills to make bread rolls. The soup was very tasty and the bread rolls delicious. It was also a beautiful day and we ate it outside, even the seagulls enjoyed some soup!

Book Character Dress Up Day

On Friday we celebrated book week with a book character dress up day. The whole school gathered and each class went up and the children introduced themselves and shared the character from the book they had dressed as. The teachers dressed up as well. Room 1 was especially lucky as Willy Wonka brought in chocolate from his chocolate factory to share! Yum

Dot the Bay

We were really lucky to have Kerry and Pamela, visiting artists, come to teach each class in our school. We went outside and and looked for colours that represented how we felt about "The Bay". In our sketch books we drew patterns that inspired. We were given three colours - white, blue and yellow, as well as a colour of our choice to paint the background on our a spot. The next week we transferred our favourite pattern onto our spot using the techniques of impasto and scraffito.
We looked at the works of Yayoi Kusama who uses colour and pattern in her works.
We took our spots outside and made an art installation. Can you spot where we dotted our spots!!