Thursday, 28 March 2013
Wacky Hair Day
Look at the wacky hair in Room 5! Well done everyone for supporting such a worthy cause...Child Poverty. Check out "KidsCan" http://www.kidscan.org.nz/ for more information on how our donations go towards helping out children in need.
Saturday, 9 March 2013
Hosting Junior Assembly
On Friday, Room 5 hosted Junior Assembly. Everyone in Room 5 was a great role model, sitting up the front with excellent listening manners. Our hosts Jack M and Clara did a fantastic job of speaking clearly in loud voices so that we could all hear what was happening.
We shared our Seaweek sketches of the things we found at the beach and some of us shared our writing describing what we found. Well done Room 5!
Here are some photos of the Assembly:
We shared our Seaweek sketches of the things we found at the beach and some of us shared our writing describing what we found. Well done Room 5!
Here are some photos of the Assembly:
Seaweek
On Tuesday afternoon we visited the beach to celebrate Seaweek. We worked in small groups to be 'beach detectives' by looking carefully inside hoops that we placed on the sand. We found many interesting things and were able to get in 'close up' by looking through magnifying glasses.
Here are some of the things we found:
Here are some of the things we found:
Swimming Festival Fun
On Tuesday it was the Junior School Swimming Fun Festival. Everyone in Room 5 tried their very best and had so much fun on the day! Here are some photos of us in our relay events:
Statistics
Room 5 read the big book, "Number 10
Tāwai Crescent". Then we did some Statistics to find out more about our own addresses and the people who live at our homes. We also drew our own fabulous letterboxes and wrote our home letterbox numbers on them. After Mrs Saker had photocopied the letterboxes, we spent time with a buddy finding many different ways to sort them into matching groups. We then turned our favourite way to sort them into a pictograph and talked about what we found. You can see our letterbox art and pictographs up on the wall in Room 5. Here are some photos of us sorting our letterboxes:
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Car Crash Simulator
Today Constable Julie visited Muritai School to teach the Juniors about seatbelt safety.
We all had a turn in the car crash simulator.
"Who is crazy enough to want to have a car crash this morning?" Constable Julie asked the class.
"I am!" cried Sienna. It was her turn first.
We had to sit in the seat, do up our seatbelt and then......the seat sloooowly moved backwards until it was at the top of a little ramp. Then the seat started moving downhill at 7km an hour, before...CRASH! Suddenly the seat stopped moving but our bodies kept going - lucky we had our seatbelts on!
Everyone said they were very happy to be wearing a seatbelt and that was travelling at just 7km an hour. Most of the time in a car we're moving at around 50km an hour.
Check out these photos of us in the car crash simulator:
We all had a turn in the car crash simulator.
"Who is crazy enough to want to have a car crash this morning?" Constable Julie asked the class.
"I am!" cried Sienna. It was her turn first.
We had to sit in the seat, do up our seatbelt and then......the seat sloooowly moved backwards until it was at the top of a little ramp. Then the seat started moving downhill at 7km an hour, before...CRASH! Suddenly the seat stopped moving but our bodies kept going - lucky we had our seatbelts on!
Everyone said they were very happy to be wearing a seatbelt and that was travelling at just 7km an hour. Most of the time in a car we're moving at around 50km an hour.
Check out these photos of us in the car crash simulator:
Friday, 15 February 2013
Swimming Fun!
Over the last two weeks we have been lucky enough to have swimming lessons with fantastic instructors. On Friday it was our last lesson with them.
After practicing some of the skills we had learned over the two weeks, we had some fun learning how to keep safe in the water.
The instructors turned the pool into a wave pool and we had to make it across from one side of the pool to the other - we got very wet doing this!!!
Then the whole class worked to turn the pool into a whirlpool by running around the sides in the same direction. Then, we took our feet off the bottom of the pool to float and let the water push us along. Next we tried to run back in the opposite direction - this was very difficult to start with!!!
We could then choose if we wanted to have a go in the deep pool.
Some of us stayed in the shallow pool and had fun diving to the bottom to fetch rings and batons. We also had races with the noodles.
Those of us who went into the deep pool practiced hopping into the pool safely by keeping hold of the side of the pool. This helps us test how deep a pool is and if we can touch the bottom or not - most of us could not! We had turns doing 180 jumps into the pool and then we swum about a third of the length of the deep pool without touching the bottom.
Check out these photos of the amazing swimmers in Room 5:
We will still be swimming next week but only on Tuesday and Thursday. Please remember to bring your togs, towels and warm tops.
After practicing some of the skills we had learned over the two weeks, we had some fun learning how to keep safe in the water.
The instructors turned the pool into a wave pool and we had to make it across from one side of the pool to the other - we got very wet doing this!!!
Then the whole class worked to turn the pool into a whirlpool by running around the sides in the same direction. Then, we took our feet off the bottom of the pool to float and let the water push us along. Next we tried to run back in the opposite direction - this was very difficult to start with!!!
We could then choose if we wanted to have a go in the deep pool.
Some of us stayed in the shallow pool and had fun diving to the bottom to fetch rings and batons. We also had races with the noodles.
Those of us who went into the deep pool practiced hopping into the pool safely by keeping hold of the side of the pool. This helps us test how deep a pool is and if we can touch the bottom or not - most of us could not! We had turns doing 180 jumps into the pool and then we swum about a third of the length of the deep pool without touching the bottom.
Check out these photos of the amazing swimmers in Room 5:
We will still be swimming next week but only on Tuesday and Thursday. Please remember to bring your togs, towels and warm tops.
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