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?

Tiger Stories

I am Tiger Ramanaia. I am nice. I like people patting me. I eat meat. I live in the zoo. I like it there. There is another tiger there. I play with it. It is fun. They give me lots of food.

I am Tiger Cameron. I eat salad. I can walk up the walls. I am good and nice because i like people patting me. I have very sharp teeth and claws.

I am Tiger William. I am a nice tiger. I live in South Africa. My fur is as soft as velvet. I like the sun. I do the death roar to get my prey.

I am Tiger Olivia. I live in a house. I eat cats. I've got a strong tail. I would like to live in a cage because people would look at me. I like people patting me because they have got warm hands. I would like some friends to play with me for a fight. I have sharp teeth and my tail is wiggly. I can eat you Mrs S! I am really soft and I have sharp whiskers. I am real tall. I can chop down trees. I am white.

I am Tiger Jazz. I eat spaghetti and meatballs and cow patties. I am a nice, friendly tiger. I won't bite and I am most certainly not a meat eater even though I do eat meatballs. I just can't resist it. I live in a zoo. It's no place like home but I'm used to it. I'm a nice, friendly, happy, greedy, gobbly, funny, silly, wild tiger!!

We have been writing our own Tiger stories after reading "Tigerella." The children have been focussing on using adjectives to make their writing interesting to read.

Super Swimmers

The children worked hard at the pool with Jill Clark and her wonderful instructors. They were floating, kicking, blowing bubbles, breathing, making big circles, splashing, putting heads right under, diving, rolling onto their backs... the list is endless. They made great progress and they loved it. Can't you tell by the big smiles!!

Graphing

This week we have been learning about making graphs in maths. In pairs we had to group m and m's into colour sets and put our data onto a bar graph. This turned out to be a very poular activity and the children worked hard. Well who wouldn't with such an incentive!!

Super Spellers

What a great start to spelling this term. Well done you super spellers.

Tigers

This week we read a book about Tigerella. We painted our own tiger faces. Wow they are fantastic! Here we are sharing our paintings at assembly on Friday.

What's this all about?

Can you guess why all of these things are in a group?

Hats

We are learning about graphs this week in maths. We made a picture graph about the number of children in the classroom who have hats at school. On Wednesday 4 children had hats and 13 children didn't. On Monday, our "no hats, no play " rule begins. That sun is harsh when it shines and we are out at lunchtime in the heat of the day. So bring a brimmed hat to school so you can play.

Handwritng Star

Kaci is our handwriting star this week. She has been working really hard at keeping her letters all the same size and on the line. Keep up the great work Kaci.

SongBong

We had a special performance this afternoon from a group called SongBong. They told us a story about a liitle boy from Africa called Badu and used drums to tell the story. We got to bang on their drums. I think we could have some budding rock stars in Room 10!! Even Mrs S...

Holidays

Happy holidays everybody. Get lots of sleep(said Miss Little), have some fun (said Silva), go to the movies (said Oliver), have a nice day (said Jordan), make friends (said Lucas), be good (said Britney), practise singing (said Ramanaia), go to different countries and make new friends (said Olivia), go to the dinosaur park (said Syun), go to the beach (said Shay), go to Chingford Park (said T.J) and be kind to your mums and dads (said Mrs S.)