Back at School!

It was a very exciting day today as most of the children returned to school.  We are keeping safe by distancing ourselves in the classroom as well as outside.  The children have been very good at practising "My place, My space" while still having fun, seeing their friends and continuing their learning.  We had a fun day, today.

Distancing inside our class and everyone has their own things in a tote tray

Lining up outside the class on the orange marks

Samson knows how to cough into his elbow

Having fun outside in the sunshine with bubbles but still keeping our distance

Our Shared Lunch

Room 16 and 18 had a shared lunch out under the tree to celebrate the end of the year.  We had pizza, chips, strawberries, popcorn and an ice

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Room 16, 2019

To begin the year in 2019 there are sixteen year 1 in Room 16.  We had a photo taken outside under the tree to celebrate the beginning of the new school year.

All Present

This is what Room 16 looks like when we are all here.  We have eighteen beautiful children in our class now.

Another New Buddy

We have another new buddy in Room 16.  Welcome to Room 16 , Oydn.

Odyn (right) with Flynn and Bentley

Odyn with some of his classmates

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Working in Kid Pix

Working in Kid Pix using a mouse requires different skills than drawing on our iPads so Room 16 has been busy practising on our class computers.  You all look very engrossed in your work.

Jump Jam on a wet Friday

We were going to have some fun games outside after team assembly but the sun didn't come out.  We had to settle on jump jam inside but Room 16 found it was good fun doing it with their friends.

Get, Set Go.

At Get, Set, Go we had great fun learning to balance.  We balanced on one leg, on our tummies on our bottoms and in all sorts of ways.  We had to listen carefully to what Alan wanted us to do.  We found that putting your arms out and not talking helped us balance.

Ahasi balancing with no hands and no feet on the floor!

One elbow, 5 fingers and two knees balancing on the floor.

A Day at the Beach

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We finally managed to have our school picnic and what a day we had!  The children had a great day  finding crabs, covering each other with sand, making castles and decorating them, having a picnic under the trees and going for a swim with their friends.

Swimming like Dolphins

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Recently the children had 8 swimming lessons over at the Glen Innes pools.  With practise, they were all making progress with lots of shouts to "Look at me!" as they mastered a skill.
Many thanks to the instructors for helping to keep the children safe around water over the summer.

Making Jelly

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Making jelly was a great way to see the changes that happened when a solid becomes a liquid and then using cooling becomes a solid again.  It provided motivation for the children's writing.

Jeyda wrote, "The jelly wobbled because it was solid in the packet.  Now it is a liquid but it needed to be put in the fridge until it was good for us to eat."

Savanah wrote, "The jelly was wobbly and sticky because when we made it, it looked like it was frozen."

The texture of the jelly was also a writing motivation with Adrianna writing, "The jelly is yummy at school.  It wobbled and wobbled, left and right.  It wobbled sideways."

Marius enjoyed the jelly, "I was eating jelly in Room 16.  Everybody chose their favourite colour.  The jelly was amazing.  I loved the jelly.  I ate it all.  The jelly was wobbly and it stuck on the spoon."

Making Pikelets

This term we have been looking at changes that happen to liquids, gases and solids when we heat, mix or cool them.  Room 16 made pikelets or mini pancakes to see the changes that happened to ingredients when we mixed them and then heated them.  Liquids became solid when mixed with flour, baking powder, sugar and salt.  We even used our maths to double the recipe.  The best thing was having a taste at the end.


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Winning Ways

Wolves are usually pretty speedy - well they need to be speedy in most of the stories they feature in.  But this wolf is really "out of shape".  Watch our movie to find out how he succeeds in achieving his dream.

The stars of our movie are Marius as Mr Wolf, Jeyda as Little Red, Savanah as Harold, and members of Room 16 as Wolfie's friends.

Measuring and Maths

At present we are studying measuring in maths.  And yes this is maths!  We compared our height to each other to work out who was the tallest and who was smallest and this is what we found!  Great measuring and comparing Room 16 you did a great job at finding out the answer.

Books are Friends

We were very fortunate to be given two Duffy Books each.  The children were so excited that they wanted to sit and read their new treasures - they comment how nice and new they were and how they even smelt different!  The books were treasured and taken home to share.  Thank you Duffy Books.

Making Champions

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This term our inquiry topic has been about champions.  Room 16 found there are many ways to be a champion and luckily we are not all champions at the same thing.  Harold helped us be healthy champions by getting lots of sleep, eating and drinking healthy things, exercising our brains and our bodies and being good friends because we all need friends.

Supporting our Athletes in Rio

To celebrate the Olympics we had a Mufti Day dressing up as competitors and supporters.  We looked like we are ready to help our althletes be champions.  Khyani dressed up as supporter complete with her t shirt, cap and flag.  You looked like a very enthusiastic supporter Khyani.

Room 16 Olympic supporters.

Khyani gets help from Adrianna to fly the supporters flag

Bubblegum Dance Group

The Bubblegum Dance Group came to visit us today.  They showed us their amazing moves that they are taking to the World Championship Hip Hop Competition in Los Vegas next weekend.  We enjoyed watching and joining in their dancing and had a whole school selfie with them.

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Holiday Hats

Team one usually make hats at the end of term and wear them to the final assembly of the term.  We made paper hats and decorated them with our "as i see it" pictures.  HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Making and Munching Matariki Stars

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The end of term 2 coincided with Matariki celebrations so we made some yummy Matariki stars to eat as well as colouring some paper stars to decorate the class with.