STRIKE

Today we had Strike visit Linwood North at St Chad's.  They were amazing! We loved hearing the different percussion instruments.  Some of us found it a little bit loud but we loved the beats. Mrs Geal and Mr Betts did a great job on the stage playing against each other but Mr Betts won.  At the beginning they put some songs on and LNS sung along to them without prompting and we sounded great!  The performers were impressed with our singing!  Some students got to help the performers by playing the Cook Island log drums and they did a great job.  At the end they use fire and methylated spirits to perform a percussion act.  It was very cool!    

Here we are coming into St Chad's.

Miss Fraser and Rahnui walking down.

Captivated!

Moving and grooving!

Making a tropical rainstorm

Mr Betts and Mrs Geal showing us their moves!

The Cook Island log drums

The fire!

Our May Gold Award Winner

Our Room One May Gold Award winner was Mualijcia.   At school in all places, Mualicjcia is Respectful, Responsible and is a learner.  

 Well done Mualijcia you are as 'Good As Gold'.  

Congratulations  Mualijcia, I know you will wear you badge with pride!  

All of our May Gold Award Winners!

Room One Spelling Superstars

These cool people got 100% in their weekly spelling test.  Miss Collins has started a ' Room One Super Star Spellers' wall on the window.  She writes up the names up in special window pens so everyone can see.  They also got to pick from the prize box.  

We look forward to more names next week! 

Well done Tredestiny, Cody and Mualijcia!

Trying New Things

Miss Collins, one of our teachers loves shopping.  She saw these cool styluses at Paper Plus on sale and thought they would be great from Room One, so she bought one for each iPad to try out.  They are a pencil on one end and a stylus on the other end.  

The iPads are popular in Room One and we are beginning to learn how there are apps for different things like learning apps and fun apps.  Sometimes though learning apps are fun too.  

Miss Collins thought they would help us form our letters and they are the same shape as a pencil which will help with our handwriting grip.  

We used them today with the iPad and thought they were great especially when we needed to form letters and move things into tricky places.  They were cool to use.  We have two pink one and two blue ones.  

Here are some photos of us trying out our cool new toys!  

Micheal and Lucas had finished all of their work and were trying out the pencils on the Lego game.  Miss Collins hung out with them for a little while and loved hearing the boys share their knowledge and collaborate together.  

Nikora chose to explore a new app he had seen Miss Collins use called Duck Duck Moose.  

He found it could do lots of different things and is keen to use it again.  

Tre'destiny explored a Maths app on the iPad.  She enjoyed having time by herself to try and figure out how it worked on her own.  Maybe she will become the expert on this app?

Here is a picture of one of our new styluses.  

Avonside Early Learning Centre

Last Thursday we had Avonside Early Learning Centre visit Linwood North School.  Lots of the pupils who came to visit had siblings or whanau at our School and they loved seeing their whanau.  It was great to meet some new people and spend some time with the Avonside Early Learning Centre Teachers.  

  

Learning About the Letter Oo!

Each week we focus on a letter to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, handwriting, alphabet activities, letter writing, playdough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things.  

This week we are learning about the letter Oo.  We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.    

The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters.  Oo is tricky as it is a vowel and has short and long sounds.  

Room One what can you think of that begins with Oo?

Here is a song to get you started!

Watch this space to see what we learn this week! 

The Gingerbread Man

Last week we decorated  Gingerbread Me at Discovery Time as our letter of the week was Gg.  Mrs Tizzard had made them home so they were ready to eat.   

We enjoyed making the gingerbread men.  After we decorated them, we ate them!  

They were delicious!  

Here is some Gingerbread Man Maths to help us with our counting.

Click on the picture to take you to this counting game.  

School Cross Country

Today we had our school Cross Country.  Room One ran first with Room Two.  We managed to run all the way round without stopping.  

It was exciting taking part in Cross Country for the first time.  

We had been training since last term and when we started running we couldn't run around the field non-stop.  Our fitness has improved!  

We enjoyed cheering our whanau, buddies and friends on as they raced.  

A big thanks to the parents who came and watched us!  

Room One Results

1st Boy - Lucas 

2nd Boy - Cody

1st Girl - Lupe

2nd Girl - Sasha

This photo shows the different things we did today.  We lined up ready to be called for our race.  Then we sat on the start/finish line.  After that we got ready and Mr Marsh blew his whistle to set us off.  We ran around the field without stopping all the way to the finish line.  The last photos are of the first and second place getters in Room One.  

Our Letter Of The Week Is Gg

Each week we focus on a letter to learn, read and write about.  We do this through phonics, singing, reading stories, alphabet activities, letter writing, playdough, Language Experience, make and do and lots of other things.  

This week we are learning about the letter Gg.  We will learn its name, its sound, how to write and recognise it and about some things that begin with this letter.    

The teachers love planning exciting learning experiences to help us learn our letters.  Gg is tricky as it has two sounds.  

Room One what can you think of that begins with Gg?

Here is a song to get you started!

Watch this space to see what we learn this week!  

I lIke To Move It Inquiry Launch

Today we launched our Inquiry "I Like To Move It!"  

Room One and Two got together with their teachers and we talked about what Science experiment that we were going to do.  The teachers showed us the equipment that we needed.  Lots of us didn't realise that there was different kinds of Coca Cola and that Mentos were lollies.  

First we formed a question, which was "What will happen if we put a packet of Mentos into a bottle of Coke or Diet Coke?"  Then we made our hypothesis which is when we predict what we thought would happen.

This is what we thought...

- The Mentos might sink to the bottom.

- The Coca Cola might explode out of the bottle.

- There might be fizzing.

- There maybe foaming and it could turn white.

- There might be Cocal Cola everywhere

We went outside and sat in a semi circle.  

Miss Philp put the Mentos lollies in the full Coca Cola first.   

Here is video of what happened with the Coca Cola...

Then Miss Collins put the Mentos in the Diet Coca Cola.

Here is video of what happened with the Diet Coca Cola...

After the experiment we came and did some wondering and thinking.  We practised asking questions.  Miss Collins wrote them on the window in the Learning Centre so we could see our thinking and come back to it later.  Check out our wonderings...

Science Experiments Using Forces

On Tuesday we did our first Science experiment with Room Two.  First Miss Collins told us that we were going to move paint on a page but we weren't sure how.  We thought we could move it around using a our fingers or a spoon.  Then Miss Collins told us we were going to be given a straw.  Next we formed a question, which was "How can we use a straw to move paint around a piece of paper?"  

After that we formed a hypothesis which is when you predict what you think will happen. 

We thought...

- The paint might go all over us.

- The paint might splash off the page

- Paint could end up in our mouth.

After that Miss Collins and Miss Philp explained what we were going to do and recorded it on our experiment chart.  We wrote it down because that is what 'real' scientists do.  

We carried out the experiment and we found out that we could move the paint around the page by blowing down the straw.  The paint was quite thick and hard to move around.  Room One then tried the experiment again with dye which was thinner and it moved around the page more easily.  The dye spread like fireworks.   

The air forced the paint and dye to move around the page.

Dd is for Disguise

This week for Language Experience we made disguises to dress up in because dress up and disguise begin with Dd.  

 Miss Collins' friend Mrs Bargh gave her some disguises to use in Room One.  Miss Collins thought that they would be fun to try on.  Mrs Tizzard, Miss Philp and Miss Collins thought that we would also enjoy making our own disguises and we did.  

We are using the writing that we have done this week about our disguises to put in our Learning Journals so we can share them with out whanau.  

Here are some of our stories so far...

I made a mask.

- Izzan

I dressed up.

- Cody

I made a mask and some lips.

- Nikora

I was sick and I was sneezing.

- Lorenzo

Here are some pictures of us in disguise.  

We also thought disguise was a cool new word!