Sorting Out Rubbish

Mrs S. brought her black rubbish bag to school and we helped her sort out her rubbish. She was going to throw it all away!! We sorted it into cardboard recycling, glass recycling, plastics recycling, reusing and landfill groups. Out of all the rubbish, only three things would end up in the landfill. We had to look carefully at the plastics containers to find the number inside the recycling symbol. Only numbers 1 and 2 can be recycled. We are going to reuse the polystyrene cups to make christmas decorations. We had to flatten the cardboard and put it in a plastic bag so it can be recycled.

Super Spellers

Great spelling this week from all of these children. Keep practising!

Printmaking

We have made string pictures of drums with Miss Little. Today we used crayons to take prints from our string pictures. We rubbed the side of a crayon over paper covering our string picture, and we made a print. You could do this at home with coins or leaves. Have a go...

Super Spellers

Well done. Children have been doing lots of practise to get their spelling words correct. Keep up the great work!!

Green Island Landfill Trip

Room 10 and Room 2 went to the Landfill. It was not too stinky. We saw some books and toys. There was a big bulldozer that was so humungous. It was crunching up rubbish.
I wouldn't put batteries in a black plastic bag. At the end we held ketchup bottles. We had to decide which would be the best bottles to use. We chose the ones you could recycle. By Oliver

Handwriting Star

Great work this week Lucy. You have worked hard at keeping your letters all the same size, and you have worked quickly to finish on time. Ka Pai Lucy!

Dinosaur Link

There are quite a few people who are very interested in dinosaurs in our class. I have finally added a link to our blog, about dinosaurs. A lovely parent sent this link to me quite a while ago and I am only just adding it now. Check out "Our Links" to find it.

Super Spellers

Half of the children in Room 10 all got their spelling right today. They have been practising. Well done super spellers!! We are proud of your efforts.

Finding out about Sound

We have been doing some experiments to find out about how sound travels. We found out that we can feel and hear vibrations when we use a tuning fork, and a string telephone. We found out that sound travels through water and glass.
How does our ear hear these vibrations as sound? Miss Little has a model of an ear that we are going to look at closely, to find out about how our ear hears sound.

Origami Spinning Tops

Syun's grandmother is visiting from Japan. She spent many hours before she came, folding beautiful colourful spinning tops out of paper. She had made one spinning top for each child in the classroom. We think Syun's grandmother is very clever and very generous.
Thank you very much. Arigato gozaimasu. We hope you enjoy your visit to New Zealand.

Careful Listening

Shhhh! Listen carefully. We went outside this afternoon with Miss Little to listen to sounds we could hear. We heard cars, skateboards, birds, hammers, bouncing basketballs, children's voices, leaves rustling...
We are learning about how we hear sound and how it is made with Miss Little. What sounds can you hear at your house?