Welcome Class Of 2014

Welcome to my class of 2014.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday.

See you in February.

From Mrs Eden.

Merry Christmas From Room 14

Meri Kirihimete

Merry Christmas 

We wish you a happy and 

safe holiday season.

From Room 14

2013 

School Talent Show

Zoe And Alyssa from Room 14 on Vimeo.

Zoe And Isobel from Room 14 on Vimeo.

Thank you Rees

What a fabulous surprise! Today Rees's clever Mum brought in these wonderful cakes. The green one had all of our faces and names on it. There was a rainbow cake inside. It was so yummy. Mrs Eden was really excited about her teacher cake. Clever, clever Kushla. Thank you so much. We will miss Rees next year.

Room 14 Christmas Stars

Pine Cone Decorations

Today we painted pine cones and added glitter to make Christmas tree ornaments. They looked great.

Our Folk Dancing Afternoon.

Folk Dancing Display
 Thank you Carlo for making all the yummy scones for the invited guests. You are a real star!

Looking Forward To Christmas.

Making Truffles

Making Truffles.  

  We made truffles. As we were making them and eating them we were thinking of lots of adjectives: sticky, yummy, delicious, magnificent, awesome, great, nice, exciting, fun, tremendous, scrumptious.

The Teddy Bear's Picnic.

Today the School Council and Mrs Miles organised a fun Teddy Bear's picnic for the Junior School Thank you. We all had a great time.

Teddy Bear's Picnic

Camp Reflections

Quinney's Bush

We went on our Year 2/3 syndicate one day camp to Quinney's Bush today. It was very successful and enjoyed by everyone. Thank you so much to the parents who came to help us.

Quinney's Bush Number 1. on PhotoPeach  

 Quinney's Bush Number 2 on PhotoPeach

Quinney's Bush Number 3 on PhotoPeach

Tired and happy after an awesome day!

Thank you everyone for your wonderful behaviour during the day.

You achieved your challenges and you should all be very proud of yourselves.

From Mrs Eden.

Room 1 and 2 Mini Fair

Room 1 and 2 Mini Fair.

We Love Singing.

Dad I Want To Be A Camel from Room 14 on Vimeo.
Today Room 19 took the assembly. One of the songs they sang was "Dad I want to be a camel".We like it too. In this video we are singing the first two verses.

Symmetrical Patterns In The Sandpit

Another design for our technology unit.

Today we made another gift box for our technology unit. We are developing our own ideas about what we will need to think about when we design our final box. We are looking forward to making the chocolates to go in the gift boxes as well.

Junior Athletics

This morning we had Junior Athletics Day. We had sprints, hurdles, high jump, long jump, relays and throwing. It was very hot. The parents enjoyed watching us. Alyssa and Asha got certificates because they won places in the finals of the sprints.

Nina's Powerpoint

Nina's Powerpoint from richmondeden

Riley's Powerpoint

Riley's Powerpoint. from richmondeden

Technology Unit

We are well underway with our Technology Unit. We are going to design a gift box to give as a thank you present. We will make three small chocolates to go inside our box. Today we made a sample box. We have to decide what design will suit the person we are giving it to.

Syndicate Folk Dancing

Folk Dancing
Our Syndicate has been learning several folk dances. 
We have been having fun.

Discovery Time Again

We had Discovery Time again today.Our focus is still Relating To Others and Self Management. Our activities included building with blocks, painting on black paper with cotton buds, a craft table, box models, learning to play padder tennis, exploring with magnifying glasses and making patterns with Duplo. We had reflection time at the end of the session. Here are some of the ideas we discussed: - It was easier to use the tennis bats if you just do little hits first. - It was fun building the patterns and following instructions with the Duplo. - Everyone had to collaborate to make the big block construction. - If we put the teddies close together it was harder to keep them all standing up. - We see lots of interesting detail when we look carefully through the magnifying glasses. - It is hard to cut the cardboard but friends can help you. - It feels really good when friends give you a compliment. - Discovery Time is a happy time. - The pipe cleaners were not so easy to cut because there is wire inside them. - The feathers and pompoms were fun to explore with on the craft table. - We enjoyed painting on black paper. Some people did not help with cleaning up. We are a team in Room 14 and that means we need to all help keep our environment clean and tidy. Learning With Friends

Mrs Armstrong Is A Tap Dancer

Mrs Armstrong is a teacher and the Syndicate Leader in the Year 1 area of our school. She is also a tap dance teacher. Today she showed us some tap shoes and told us she has been dancing since she was 8 years old. We went back to class and wrote a report about what we had learned. We also did paintings of Mrs Armstrong that you can see displayed in the corridor outside our room. Thank you Mrs Armstrong. We were super impressed.

Mrs Armstrong

Tuesday Athletics With Matt

Jumping And Throwing With Matt. on PhotoPeach

Mixed Media

We have been making mixed media art. We used paper, paint, tissue paper, tin foil, fabric and plastic.

Making A Raft

The Sharks reading group read a poem in Junior Journal 34 about a Raft. They made these rafts ice block sticks. Well done!

Blowing Bubbles

Blowing Bubbles from Room 14 on Vimeo.

The Whales reading group read about a bubble blowing activity in Junior Journal 20. They then went outside and made this video about bubble blowing. What fun!

A Visit From The Makos

Today we had a visit from some of the Makos who won the 2013 ITM Cup. They beat Hawkes Bay 26-25 in the final. The answered lots of questions and signed some autographs. Well done guys . We are proud of you.

Static Electricity

Our Science Investigation this week is about static electricity. We all had a balloon to explore with. Here you can see Zoe using the static electricity to pick up some tissue paper.

Static Electricity from Room 14 on Vimeo.

Our Finished Science Project.

We have now finished our Science project about Germination. 

We wanted to find out if seeds germinated faster in light or dark.

Cinquains

Fitness

Running around.

It is fun.

Jumping on the mat.

School.

By Asha

Halloween

Scary ghosts.

Witches with brooms.

Spiders and scary monsters.

Fun.

By Angelo.

Halloween

Scary pumpkins.

Halloween is scary.

Yummy lollies are good.

Jack-0-lanterns.

By Riley

Halloween

Scare people.

Witch and brooms.

Light the pumpkins up.

Costumes.

By Zoe

Weekend

Rock pooling.

Finding cool fish.

Having lots of fun

Home.

By Nina

Discovery Time 24 October

As you can see by our weather app it is a rainy day today so we had to have all of our Discovery Time inside. We had sewing, painting, Klikko, origami, card making and Zingo.We had lotsof fun participating and contributing to our group efforts. We did problem solving and tried to persevere with our projects.

Another Science Experiment

This morning we did another science experiment. Mrs Eden didn't have any white vinegar so we used malt vinegar instead. We put baking soda in the balloon and when it reacted with the vinegar it formed bubbles and the carbon dioxide made the balloon inflate.

Athletics With Matt on PhotoPeach

Our New Klikko

Today Mrs Eden presented us with ask new box of Klikko. We watched a DVD that tells us lots of ideas of things to make. We are so looking forward to challenging ourselves to make many different models.

Great Nelson Weather.

 Syndicate folk dancing .

It was a lovely warm Nelson morning as you can see by the

 temperature data on this photo.

 Room 14 and Room 13 joined together for buddy 

reading on the Junior Playground.

 We had to find a shady spot to sit and read to or listen

to our buddy.

 Please remember to bring your sunhat next week.