Making Salt Dough Fossils and Bones

Miss Collins made use some salt dough at home foe us to make bones and fossils out of.  First we had a play with the dough and some of us found that it hurt the little cuts we had in our hands.  Then Miss Collins handed out the dinosaurs and we pushed them into the salt dough to make a fossil.  We had to be careful not push a hole in the salt dough.  After that we pinched and rolled dough to make a bone shape.  We looked at dinosaur skeletons to get ideas.  After school Miss Collins cooked them for us and made them go hard.  Next we will tag them like real scientists.  

The Discovery Room

After our Museum lesson we went exploring in the Canterbury Museum Discovery Room.  We loved it!  We were able to wander and explore different things in this room.  A big thank you to Rahel (Elshadays's Mum, Lin (Abby's Mum) and Paula (Larissa's Mum) who came on our trip to help.  

Billie, Mraz and Drake in the butterfly room

Bug drawers!

Sophie and Levi looking at the nest, the eggs, the hedgehog and rat

More investigating the nest

Looking for fossils

Learning to use the microscope

Susie with the bird display

Mraz in the sand

Our class!

John on the computer

Learning About Dinosaurs With Anthony

This week we went to the Canterbury Museum.  We went by bus and it was exciting to be going on our first school trip apart from swimming.  It was our first school trip for many of us.  

First we had a lesson in the museum with Anthony.  He taught us about dinosaurs and had dinosaur parts for us to look at and touch.  Some were real or some were casts from fossils found.  

Anthony taught us some key things about dinosaurs:

1. Dinosaurs live on land, they can't fly or swim

2. Dinosaurs have scales

3. All dinosaurs have straight legs

4. New dinosaurs have been discovered

5. Dinosaurs lay eggs

6. Some dinosaurs they have discovered has feathers

Anthony getting out the things that we could touch

Anthony telling us about how dinosaurs have straight legs

The Allosaurus replica skeleton

A reptile fossil 

The reals size of a dinosaur skull

Stegosaurus' skull.  It was huge!

A dinosaur footprint model.  Lots of hands fitted inside it!

A Wee While...

Our apologies, it has been a little while since we have updated our class blog.  

The Teachers in Room One have been busy settling the new students in who have started in Room One.   It is exciting to have so many children starting in Room One.  This term we welcome: Daisy, Rocko, Elshadaye, Noah, Billie, Abigail, Amazon, Telesia, Rahnui and we have 

Asten starting next week.

Our class at the Museum this week! 

National Library Visit

Today we had the National Library visit us at LNS. We read a story called 'Pigs to The Rescue' and 'Cow Power'.  

Language Experience - Making Shoes

On Monday we made shoes out of card and threaded laces.  We decorated our shoes with crayons and could add any designs that we wanted.  When we were finished we added shiny ribbon as shoelaces.  We also stretched our mind as part of being a Healthy Hero as it took lots of brain power to thread our shoelaces.  We also wrote some stories about making our shoes.  

WATCH THIS SPACE TO READ OUR STORIES!

Niu and Avonside Early Learning Centres Visit the Kakano Team

Over the last few weeks we have had Niu Early Learning Centre and Avonside Early Childhood Centre visit the Kakano Team at Discovery Time.  

It has been lovely getting to know some of the pupils who will join us later 

in the year or next year.  

We are looking forward to catching up with them again at our 

School Production later in the term.

This Little Piggy...

This week we learnt the Nursery Rhyme "This Little Piggy".  

This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed at home,
This little piggy had roast beef,
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy went...
"Wee wee wee" all the way home...

As part of Language Experience we made pink pig biscuits.  First we got a wine biscuit and covered it with pink icing.  Next we put a pink marshmallow on it for a snout, two chocolate drops for eyes and two marshmallow halves for ears.

Making Butter and Little Miss Muffet

Last week we learnt the Nursery Rhyme "Little Miss Muffet"  In our first week back at school we made butter.  First we sat in a circle and then put cream and a pinch of salt in a jar.  After that we passed the jar around and each had a turn at shaking the jar.  

The cream changed and turned into butter and we were left with whey and butter.

It was interesting to see the cream change into butter.  

After we made the butter, Miss Collins washed it and then we had our butter on bread with honey and sprinkles.  

It was so fresh and yummy.  We were surprised that we could make butter so easily!

McConnell Dowell Visit Room One

Today Jenny and Kelly came to visit us from McConnell Dowell to talk to us about water. We made a map with pictures of things and places like houses, schools, hoses etc that use water. 

We talked about where water starts and ends up and what we use water for. We use water for drinking, cooking, watering the garden and for fun like fishing. 

We learnt lots of things about water and it was fun having experts come and teach us.

Our First Time At Kiwisport

Today Mel came and took us for Kiwisport. We played a game where we had to take other class members bibs.

Incy Wincy Spiders That You Can Eat!

This week Rooms One and Two are learning the nursery rhyme Incy Wincy Spider.  

Today for Language Experience we made Incy Wincy Spiders.  First Mrs Moore read us the story Incy Wincy Spider and then we made our own Incy Wincy Spider .  We pretended to be birds and ate Incy Wincy Spider.  They were yummy!  

A big thank you to Mrs Moore for organising the ingredients.  

We are going to write about what we made today.  Watch out for our wonderful writing!

How To Make Incy Wincy Spiders At Home

Ingredients:

A mallowpuff        4 pretzel sticks       icing mixture

2 M & Ms

Instructions:

1.            Break the four pretzel sticks in half to make eight legs.

2.           Carefully push the legs into the mallowpuff. Put four legs on each side.

3.           Using a little icing stick the eyes to the mallowpuff.