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!!

School Mural Project

 On Friday 17th February our school joined together to  Thank the artists, Simon Kaan and Martin Poppelwell who have worked all week to create our lovely new mural. We enjoyed going out to watch the progress. Simon and Martin were presented with a Rata tree each.

Kelly Sports

 We really enjoyed the Kelly Sports people coming to show us some of the skills and games they teach in their after school programme.
We had lots of fun!!

Signing Our Class Treaty

On the 10th February 2012 Room 1 children and teachers signed the class treaty. By signing we agreed to obey our class rules. We signed it on our school flag.