Terra Nova

Room 9 have been working hard on their Terra Nova projects.  This week we were looking into gravity.  What is gravity? Why do we need gravity? Where does gravity come from? How much would we weigh on a planet that has less gravity...... just a few examples of the questions that we are looking to answer.

Mr Hyde - Terra Nova

Today Te Tipunga team had Mr Hyde visit and share his knowledge about the Solar System. He put together a wiki for us and then showed us around some of the fascinating things about our space.
We discovered that gravity is an important feature on earth, that our sun is a star that is rather unique as we are the only solar system that has one sun star.  We also learnt a little about travelling at the speed of light and that space exploration to other plants could take up to 20 years!

mrhydespace.wikispace.com

Everyone was buzzing with curiosity and a host of new questions.  We will look forward to discovering the answers to these wonderings.
Thanks Mr Hyde

Singing with Mr Ritai

Over the past two weeks Room 9 have been learning a new waiata - A Haka Ma.  On Thursday we invited Mr Ritai to join us to sing with us, he bought along his guitar and we had a lovely time sharing our skills.  We recorded ourselves and made it into a powerpoint which we have shared it with the rest of the school so they can join us when we sing in assembly this Friday.

Singing A haka ma as a round.

Getting Crafty for the Carnival!

Room 9 have already begun getting their Carnival Craft organised.  Thank you to our parent helpers Phillippa and Kim who ensured that the scoll rollers and paper macheers were well underway.  It is exciting to see our 'rubbish' being transformed into something function-able to sell to you next term.  We will keep you posted on our progress :)

Mercy and Aliya busy with paper and plastic.

Ben is busy writing.

Lola is weaving plastic bags.

Congratulations Cricketers!

The boys sharing their day & trophy.

Coby, Luca and Noah had an exciting day on Thursday as their team was involved in a cricket tournament.  The boys brought home a trophy as well as some new skills which they enjoyed sharing with us when they returned. Congratulations boys it sounded like a fantastic day!

A new games called 'Freeze!'

Amazing!

The finished bag

Jenny sharing her bag with us

As you may have guessed we have been looking at ways to reduce, reuse and recycle our rubbish.  Jenny also caught the bug! Here she is sharing her AMAZING bag that she made entirely from used shopping bags.  To crochet her bag it took Jenny around 54 bags and about 40 hours to do.  We are all very proud of Jenny and what she was able to do with plastic bags! Ka pai.

Basket Weaving

The basket was quite complicated and it was hard weaving it at the start because it didn;t have any weaving on it.  When I got use to it, it got easier as I went.
Kaed

My basket was fun going over, under, over, under.  I am trying to do my best, it was easy and the best thing ever was making the weaving. 
Nathan

Today around 9:45 am I finished my basket.  It took a long time to make it because we had to weave and weave and weave.  Luca and I worked really nicely because we never fought.  First we had to make the poles then it was time to weave.  In my head I thought it was going to be really tough and hard but it ended up being really easy.
Noah C

I made my basket in 3 days.  Looking at the video it looked easy but it was hard.  Mine looks like a crab pot.  Thanks to Mrs Wilkinson and Mum - otherwise I would still be making my basket now.
Jack G

On Friday Room 9 made some baskets.  We made them out of rolled up pieces of newspaper.  It was really complicated when we started to weave.  First we got a kebab stick, second we got a piece of newspaper.  Thirdly we rolled the newspaper up then cut two cardboard circles and started to weave over, under, over, under and it started to get bigger and bigger.
Aliya

I liked making the basket but it was frustrating because I didn't realise that I only had eight scrolls for the base so it wouldn't weave properly.  I would change how thick my scrolls were and to try and make it less wonky.
Shanelle

Plastic homework

Lola-I made a poi with plastic bags. I went onto youtube and followed the instructions. Mum and I did a four plat for the handles and the whole poi is made from PLASTIC!

 

Robyn-I made a flower out of four plastic bags. I cut handles of and then cut the bottom off until I had one great square then I gathered them in the middle, twisted and tied it in the middle until I had a circle. You can shape the petals by cutting the edge.

Alaina-I made a flower and a ghost. To make the flower I cut circles out of the plastic bags. And to make the ghost I stuffed a plastic bag inside and then tided it off.

 

Kelsy – I made loads of stuff! Out of one plastic bag I made a top by cutting up the bottom of a plastic bag, a belt by plaiting it together, a bow tie, a pompom and a sunflower.  I used 5 plastic bags.

 

 

Izak – nana and mum helped me to plait some more rope for the class mat.

 

 

Shanelle – I made a broach out of a plastic bag. I got a safety pin.

 

Jack – mum and I made a place mat by ironing the plastic bags together.  I used about 4 bags for each mat.

 

Ari – me and dad made a kite.  We used a huge bag for the front of the kite and bamboo poles for the structure. We used insulation tape.

 

 

Written by Wini

 

 

 

 

The Best Class in the Universe!

Room 9 rearing to perform!

What a fabulous way to finish the term!  It was exciting to perform in such an arena as the TSB Showplace, definitely an event to create life long memories. Don't forget to order a copy of the DVD! Hopefully everyone has had a relaxing break and are rearing to start term 3! There are a few things on this term to keep us busy as we head into the summer months.
Roll on Term 3 :) See you Monday

Word Problems FlipChart

Autumn

Read our sentences that describe the stunning leaves that have fallen from the maple tree outside of our classroom. The leaf has curly swirly spikes that are bright red and green. It has bumpy veins. Ethan The leaf has little holes in its bright red veins and it has rips. Corb The leaf has dark red veins. It is a dark red leaf that has bright dots on it and a stem. Noah P Old and dead. Beautiful an leaf with a dark stem. It is as old as the maple tree. Jack G Dark red veins and curly big holes on the leaf. Jack C The leaf has holes in it and dark red veins. Nathan

Room 9's production song

I can see clearly now from Merryl McAllister

WELCOME BACK!

Monday was full of excited chatter.  It was great to see everyone and hear all about their holiday adventures :) Mitchell looked after Butterscotch and Suzie.  It sounds like the girls had heaps of fun in their edible forest.  Wini had several sleepovers and Jack did a bit of pig hunting!

Oh Man. It Rained!

We are lucky in Room 9, when it rains we still get to do our fitness because our classroom has enough space for us to do jump jam. Hooray! We love JUMP JAM! Especially when we have been cooped up inside all day.

Interactive Writing

Coby is writing his ideas down onto our plan

Using our collective ideas to write

Today the vivid writing group used the Interactive White Board for their writing.

We start the day...

We start the day with a karakia.

Followed by several waiata - Te Aroha

 

 

Finishing off with Ko Taranaki

We are also learning songs for the school production in Term 2.  I can see clearly now is the latest song that we have added to our play list!

What are other countries about???

This week we have been looking at other countries (China, India, Arctic, England and Africa).  It has been very interesting finding out what each countries biggest natural feature was (and learning the difference between natural and man made features).  The group who had Africa felt that the giraffe was their tallest natural feature :) wasn't their thinking great!
We were also learning about how to effectively use google to help us find our answers.  Some tricks we learnt were how to read the site blurbs BEFORE we entered them, we looked for key words so we could skim and scan a page and how to refine our questions when we type them.
This task also helped us to develop our communication skills.  We needed to choose people for certain tasks, negotiate who was going to be the 'googler', we had set time frames to complete the task and an expectation that all questions needed to be answered.

The group is in deep discussion about which country they have.... India?

Robyn, Coby and Alaina are all contributing to get the task done.

Wini is looking for the most interesting African animal!

Swanna is applying her new mapping skills :)

Library Day!

We are so lucky to be able to enjoy the pleasure of reading books at our leisure.What a fantastic resource the library is!
On Wednesday Room 9 have their time in the library.

Alaina and Michaela are busy searching for a book on the computer.

Coby is enjoying a relaxing read!

Kyle and Ari are browsing the graphic novels.

 

 

Ella is looking for the PERFECT book!

The library is a great place for us to enjoy, however some of us must remember our book bags for next time so we can take books home too!

Seed books - FIRST DAY!

 

Ari is writing about his pets.

In my seed book I glued in a pictured of a lady who had a wedding dress on because my cousin got married on Saturday afternoon. Another thing I glued in was half a monarch butterfly that my cat caught in the garden. By Shanelle.

Robyn has a page full of duathlon photos!

I have some photos of my other animals in my seed book. I have a photo of me as a baby sitting outside reaching out for the camera. My seed book has a fern and an old ten cent in my seed book. By Noah C

Michaela has a page full of her in her dancing outfits.

 

 Today I didn't bring my seed book because my picture of Tilung is still drying out because we used really runny glue. I still have more stuff to put in like another photo of Mr Snuffles and lots of other stuff and I couldn't put it in because of the glue on the other page. By Mitchell

 

Post by Wini and Lola

 

 

Maths - on Monday

At maths time I was studying with the teacher about times tables and addition. By Coby.

At maths time I was working with Mrs Wilkinson I think I got all the questions right. By Kyle

I was on the computer playing time bingo. I shared with Lola.  By Aliya.

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How do people in other countries live?

Today in we looked at photo's of other people in other countries and how they live.

 We were looking at a family from England.  It was interesting to see the family learnt how to play music and they could sail a yatch.

 Our family was from Thailand.  They had some belongings but not as many as our family does.

 This family have a very few items.  The biggest things that they have are the three bags of rice.

 The family that we looked at have a lot of children and heaps of animals.  They have more people than they have things.

Our family live in Russia.  It is very cold there and they wear these fluffy hats and thick coats.  They also had a wooden T.V.