On June 15th it was Global Wind Day. We made pinwheels and went around the school to see where the windy spots were that day. They spun really fast when we were on the hill.
We found we could put the brakes on our pinwheels by turning them away from the wind and we could make them turn faster by facing into the wind. We decided they were good for showing where the was wind blowing and which direction the wind was coming from.
It was a lot of fun.
We started this term in Autumn. We could see the leaves on the old oak tree outside our window and the trees on the field changing colour and falling off the trees ready for winter. We went out on an Autumn walk to look at the leaves. We collected some to make colourful Autumn leaf art. We used waxy crayons to make our rubbings. We used Autumn colours like orange, yellow, red, brown and even some green to make colourful Autumn leaves.
We worked with a buddy. Our buddy held the paper still to stop it moving while we did the rubbing so the leaf rubbing would not get blurry. Then we swopped over. When we finished we cut the leaf rubbings out and made Autumn leaf pictures.
We have been learning about the letter Jj.
We made some jelly and tried to see if we could make it jiggle.
J is for jiggling jelly.
To make our jelly we used a packet of strawberry jelly and boiling water. We put some grapes in our jelly too.
We needed bowls to mix the jelly, a spoon to stir the jelly, a kettle to boil the water and a plate to sit it on when it was set.
We used the fridge to help the jelly cool down so it would set in time for us to jiggle it and eat it before hometime.
When we put the grapes in we put in 2 grapes for everyone so we could do fair shares.
We put half the grapes in at the beginning.
They sank to the bottom.
We put the other half in after it had been in the fridge and was starting to set.
They floated near the top.
We all had some to eat before we went home.
The children said "it's fun', "it's yum", "it's slippery", 'it's pretty', "it's jiggly'.
We all liked making jiggly jelly and we all liked eating it.
Making jiggly jelly on PhotoPeach
Ruben the Safety Bear came to our school to teach us how to keep safe on the road.
Here are some of the safety rules we learned.
Be bright, dress bright!
Seat yourself right, buckle in tight!
Look out for sneaky driveways!
Stop, look, listen and link - hold hands with a grown-up.
Look about before stepping out
Helmet on right and tight if you ride a bike
It was fun learning to be safe and singing safety songs with Ruben.
You can visit Rubens website at http://www.ruben.govt.nz for more safety tips, games and activities.
When we made our poppy wreath for our ANZAC service we did some Maths counting and sorting with our poppies.
We all made a black and red poppy for the wreath. There were 16 children so we made 16 poppies.
We sorted our poppies into 2 groups so we could put some poppies on the front of our wreath and some on the back.
We made our 2 groups the same size so we could put the same number on the front and back.
We had 8 for the front and 8 for the back. 8 and 8 is 16
Then for fun we grouped them a different way. We put them into 4 groups. There were 4 poppies in each group.
We found out that 4 and 4 and 4 and 4 is 16
We had some extra small white poppies on paper. We counted all the little poppies on the white paper. There are 100. Wow! That's a big number.
We looked at our 100's board. There are 100 numbers on the 100 board.
We looked at our poppies. There are 100 white poppies on our paper.
We counted them together by 1's and by 2's and by 10's to get to 100. Our teacher helped us.
We had fun doing maths with our poppies.
Today is Pimk Shirt Day. Pink Shirt Day started in a school in Canada.
It was established in countries worldwide to raise awareness and help stop bullying in schools. By wearing a Pink Shirt on the 14th of April, we show our support against bullying where we live, work and play.
We had a Pink Shirt Day at school to show our support of the Anti-bullying message. Lots of children and teachers wore pink to show that we think bullying is not OK and we do not want bullies in our school.
