Ballet Workshop

On Thursday we are going on a trip to Auckland to see the Royal New Zealand Ballet performance of the Nutcracker. We are excited about going to the show.

Today we are having an extra treat at school. We are having a workshop with a lady from the New Zealand Ballet Company in our school hall. We think we will be learning about the ballet and doing some dancing and moving to music. It should be fun. We are looking forward to our workshop.

This term we have been having a great time learning to swim with the Daniel Fulton swim school instructors. Every Wednesday afternoon we hop in the bus with the children from Rooms 3 and 7 and travel to Patumahoe School indoor pool for another great lesson. It's a lot of fun and we are getting better and better at swimming. Take a look at some of our early lessons in this slide show.

Swimming lessons on PhotoPeach

An alien comes to Room 1

Look who came to school with Fynn to see what we are learning about space and planets.

Sun Pictures

This week we have been learning about the sun and reading the Maori legend 'Maui and the Sun'. We are working on some fabulous sun pictures using pastel with black line pastel or felt pen details. Everyone used a Maori pattern somewhere on their sun. We haven't finished yet, but they are looking good already. We will post some more photos later so you can see the finished work.
Sun Pictures on PhotoPeach


Sun Pictures on PhotoPeach

Stardome Visit

This term we have been learning about our planet Earth and where we are in the solar system.
In May, we had a great trip to Stardome Observatory in Cornwall Park, Auckland. When we arrived there, we had a lot of fun and exercise in the adventure playground and on the flying fox. Then we had our lunch.

After lunch we went into Stardome where we learned heaps about the earth, moon and planets in our solar system. When we went inside we looked at a lot of interesting displays about space.

After we looked at the displays we went into a really cool movie theatre. The seats tilted back so you could watch the giant screen on the ceiling. It was like looking up into space. We saw a movie called 'The Secret of the Cardboard Rocket'. The cardboard box became a rocket and went whizzing through space showing us the different planets in our solar system. We saw another movie that showed what the sky looks like at night. The whole ceiling looked like the night sky. We were shown different groups of stars and what they were called. It looked a bit like join-the-dots pictures.

Then the lady showed us how the moon moves around the Earth and the Earth moves around the sun. Three children dressed up as the Sun, Earth and Moon and showed us how they move around in space. We also used globes of the Earth and a bright light for the sun to see how we get day and night. After that, the lady showed us a funny movie of astronauts in a rocket ship in space. We saw them try to eat and move in the rocket ship. Because there was no gravity, everything could float around. It was funny.

After that, we got in the bus for the long drive home. It was a great day out and we learned lots about space and our solar system.

Check it out on our slideshow!

Stardome Observatory Trip on PhotoPeach

Star size

We are learning about the earth, sun, moon and stars.
Today we brainstormed and shared our ideas on the size of stars.

Room 1 Blogging Guidelines

Room 1 Blogging Guidelines.

Today we decided as a class on our Room 1 Blogging Rules.
Blogging is a very public activity. Anything that gets posted on the internet stays there where anyone can access it from anywhere in the world. We want to keep safe and happy when we are online so we have set some rules.

It is really important we all follow these rules because they are designed to keep us safe while we are online!

These are our rules...

We will:

• Only use our FIRST NAME on the blog.


• Only use SENSIBLE and KIND words.


• Not write any of our PERSONAL DETAILS on our blog - Don’t share anything that you don’t want the world to know -this includes phone numbers, personal email address, home address and family information.


• Only have our first name, work or photo on the blog if we have written PARENT PERMISSION.


• Only put nice PHOTOS of other people on. Before you put someone’s photo on check with that it’s OK with them and check that their parent has given permission for their photos to go online.


• Be RESPONSIBLE when using and writing on our blog.


• Get all posts on the blog CHECKED by the teacher before publishing
  
  We also ask that...
  parents and adults commenting only use their FIRST name or describe themselves as "John's Mum" (for example) so they don't identify their child
  
  All comments on our blog are also "moderated" by the teacher first. This means she checks them and they have to be approved by her before they go onto our blog.
  If you have any other questions about the security of our blog, please contact the teacher.