Oh Rubbish

Our next statistical investigation was one close to Mr Hogg's heart. Mr Hogg told us about a problem he has with gladwrap around the school. It often blocks the drains up and we have to get plumbers in to find the blockage. It is an expensive problem.

We decided to help Mr Hogg with our mathematical skills. First we put on gloves and got the school rubbish nippers (may not be what they are called). William even had a mask on.

We went around the school and picked up rubbish- even from the garden beds (which we are not usually allowed on but Mr Hogg let us).

Then we sorted all of the rubbish and counted up how many pieces were in each of the categories we had made.

The most rubbish came from wrappers, the second biggest group of rubbish was gladwrap. Maita noticed that most of the rubbish was from lunchboxes. We gave our information to Mr Hogg and we will be working on developing some solutions for him towards the end of the term.

First Post of 2015

It has taken me longer than I thought to get around to uploading all of the things we want to share with you from Room 9 but here is 'the best of collection' from Term 1 so far.

Our learning focus this term centres around learning to look closely and notice patterns, similarities and differences and to ask questions or wonder about the things that we notice. We have investigated the power of observation through a statistical investigation into looking closely.

We wondered if looking closely would help us notice more. We had to try to identify our own eye, mouth and hand in a line up of photos of all of the eyes, mouths and hands in the class. We presented our data on how many people were right or not on tally charts and as pictographs.

Then we made careful observations of our eyes, mouth and hands and wrote about these in our learning journals.

Then we tried to identify our own body parts again. Did we improve- yes. So we think we can say that for our class, looking carefully does make us notice more.

Ideas for the holidays

Here is a list of all of the ideas Room 2 came up with of things to do in the holidays as a final homework task.
There are lots of good ideas here Room 2, well done. 

Go to the library
Read
Play board games, learn a new one- chess
Go to a friend's house to play or have a friend come to your house
Going on bikes, roller-blades, skateboards etc
Going to the park
Going camping
Go to the beach
Play outside- make believe
Playing sports
Snuggling on the couch
Housework
Baking or cooking

Reading to the class

We will soon be finishing 'Wow News' everyone has had an equal number of turns so it is a perfect time to stop.

As there will be no more 'Wow News, some people will be asked if they would like to read to the class. Zavier has been working hard on reading aloud to others and using expression. He has been reading beautifully and was asked to share this with us. He did an amazing job. Well done Zavier.

Running, Jumping and Throwing

Sean has been in to go over the fundamental skills needed for athletics. We will be practising these skills in physical education session in the afternoons so please make sure that the children have appropriate footwear for running and jumping. 

We experimented running lots of different ways to find the best technique. This was limbo running.

 Flopping arm running, we also did robot arm running.

We had to hold the baton in the right hand because we had an egg and spoon in the other hand.

Golf

Here are a few pictures of our golf session with Melanie last Tuesday.

Fairy Gardens

We have finally finished our fairy products for the 'Fairy Garden Kits' which we will be selling at the fair. We are designing the packaging tomorrow and needed to take photos for the packaging showing people how to use the products.

We had a lovely time outside all rugged up making fairy gardens and taking pictures of them to use on our packaging.

See you all at the fair on Sunday.

  

One of the fairy gardens

This is Mrs Walkers and Lena's one they made in the holidays at their house. They needed to test how to best make the doors.

Teddy Bear Picnic

Room 2 filled the marble jar again. This time we decided to have a teddy bear picnic.

We ate our lunch early, on picnic blankets with our teddy bears. Then we played with some equipment from the PE shed before any of the other children in the school had their lunch.

Art Inspiration

Term three was a very arty term. Everyone in our class put a piece of artwork in our school Art Exhibition. The work in the hall from everyone in the school was fantastic.

Room 2 was off to the Art Gallery next. We did some amazing work based around the giant bunny in the pictures. John showed us around the gallery and pointed out some special features of some famous artists. There were some really fun ideas that we will have a go at back at school.

Here is a slideshow of all of our art pieces from the museum.

What has Tuhi been doing?

Tuhi has been busy so far this year. Read what he has been doing with all of the people he has visited in Room 2.

I read a story to Tuhi. I love Tuhi  

- Sofia -

Me and Tuhi the Kiwi played in the snow.

- Gabrielle -

Me and Tuhi the Kiwi were eating ice-cream. We got ice-cream on our faces. We looked crazy.

- Olive -

Tuhi watched the All Blacks game with me. Tuhi slept in my bed.

- Ashley -

Tuhi the Kiwi and I are playing in the sandpit we are making a sandcastle. Me and Tuhi the Kiwi played Mums and Dads. Tuhi was the baby, I was the Mum and Isaac was the Dad. It was fun.

Me and Tuhi are standing beside each other. 

- Zavier -

I took Tuhi out for afternoon tea. We shared a hot chocolate and chocolate chip cookie.

- Alice -

Tuhi is sitting with Wiggles and me. (Wiggles is Emily's cat)

- Emily -

Kiwi and Koala at my house. Tuhi the Kiwi, me and Koala.

Firewise

Here are some pictures from last weeks visit from the Fire Service.

We learnt about the protective clothing the Fire Fighters wear and got to go into the fire appliance (fire truck). We saw how all of the equipment is carried and organised on the fire appliance- just like a huge tool box on wheels.

Thank you to Rocket and Brad for sharing their work with us.

Newspaper Ramps

We made some ramps out of newspaper and tape to roll a marble down. Our very first ramps didn't work because they didn't have any slope. People made the with their thinking partners (buddies). We used a lot of different strategies to make our ramps work.

 

Incline Plane Ramps

We talked about the pyramids in class today and wondered how they were built. We watched this little video about how inclined planes were used to shift the heavy bricks up to the top of the pyramids. Then we went on a ramp hunt in our school, we talked about who uses the ramps and that they were important for anything with wheels like prams, wheelchairs and scooters. Then we each got a marble with our thinking buddy and had to make a ramp using things in the classroom. Here are some pictures of some of our ideas.