Cross Country Training

Every day we are training for cross country next term.  We run around the field for 10 minutes and try to challenge ourselves to run further each day.  We are very excited because each day this week we have perservered and each child is running further.  Go Room 1!

New Games and Cushions

Thank you to all the families who worked hard selling chocolates earlier in the year.  The money you raised has gone towards new cushions for our class library, 2 x ball launchers, 2 x stilts and a balance maze board.  Room 1 are going to have lots of fun burning off all their extra energy with these fun new activities.

Creativity

Today there were a lot of boxes in our class.  Lincoln asked if we could make things with them.  We used our imagination and here is what we created.

Can you tell which ones are:  caterpillars, mermaids swimming around a boat, bulldozer, jack in the box, New Zealand army helicopter, aeroplanes, robots and toilets?

Let Us Entertain You Notice

On 25th September Halcombe School is putting on a show to entertain you.  Room 1 are going to be Wild Things and we need some costumes.  If you have any animal dress ups or slippers that look like animals, can you please bring them to school for us to borrow. We would appreciate it very much. Thank you.

Wind Turbine Art

We looked at the wind turbines and then we created turbines with magnetics.  We used water colour paints to paint a beautiful sunset.   Then we cut out black paper to create the turbines.  They look amazing!

Wonderful Writer

Once Upon a Time

Once upon a time there were 3 mermaid fairies.  Their names were Twilight.  They lived in a fancy meadow.  The problem was the fairy grew a mermaids tail.  The problem was the spell could never be broken, but one day the tails fell off and their legs grew back. 

By Milla.

 

Letter of the Week - Xx

Winter Warmers

Over the past 2 months, Room 1 have been a part of the Feilding Library programme called Winter Warmers.  Each child was given a booklet where they needed to complete 10 book activities.  The children enjoyed completing these booklets by redesigning new book covers, describing main characters, and writing book reviews.  Once everyone in the class had completed 5 activities, Jenny Hogan came and gave them their first incentive:  a tattoo, mug, and spoon.  The children were very excited and were eager to complete the rest of their booklet.  Once all 10 activities were completed, Jenny returned with a wonderful book for every child who participated.  Thank you very much Feilding Library for the amazing prizes each child received.

Daffodil Day

We supported Daffodil Day by dressing up in yellow.  Everyone brought some money to donate to the Cancer Society.  Together everyone raised $300.  Well done, this is a fantastic effort.

The school had fun dancing in the parade to show off our fabulous yellow clothes. Congratulations Annabel and Matthew for being the best dressed in Room 1.

Gymnastics

Art Day

Art, art, art!  We did art ALL morning!  This was our favourite day this year.  In Room 7 we made Kadinsky Circle Trees.  In Room 1 we learnt to draw dragonflies.  In Room 2 we used masking tape and water colours to create tree silhouettes.  In Room 3 we used cardboard, tinfoil and indian ink to create 3D art.  Come and have a look in our class at our beautiful masterpieces.  Thank you to all our wonderful parent helpers, you made the day a huge success.

Conservation Week

Room 1 and 4 went on a walk through the village collecting rubbish.   We couldn't believe how much rubbish was on the side of the road.  Everyone, listen up. 

Put your rubbish in the bin!

When we put our rubbish in the bin, the village looks more beautiful, we are not polluting our water ways, and the animals will not eat it and die.

 We know it is important to water our plants every day.

Room 1 Garden

Sophie, Molly and Jaxson had fun putting new plants in our class garden.  They planted cauliflower, brocolli and lots of new flowers.  Our garden is going to look beautiful when it starts growing.  We need to make sure we water it all the time so the plants live.  Thank you very much for all your help Molly.  

Maths Trail

During Maths Week we went on a hunt for shapes and numbers around our school.  We were given a piece of paper with photos on it.  At first we thought it was easy, but there were a few hard photos to find.  Even Mrs Simpson didn't recognise one of the photos.

Buddy Class Fun

Wow!  What fun we had listening to music and finger painting to the beat.  When the music was fast we painted quickly.  When the music was slow, we painted slowly.  When the music made interesting sounds, our fingers jumped and bumped and wriggled around.  It was a crazy mess, but lots of fun!

Show: The Big Pond

There were 4 tadpoles swimming in the pond.  Some of them got eaten by a turtle, an eel, and a big fish.  But 1 tadpole lived and turned into a frog.  Ribbet!  There were lots of animals and flowers at the pond.  But then ... a cod carp was put into the pond.  People also through lots of rubbish in the pond.  Cows pooed in the pond.  Yuck!  All the pond animals were very FURIOUS at the people and they left the pond.  Oh no!  We helped pick up the rubbish.  We caught the mean fish, a clock and a boot that smelled like stinky socks.  We pulled the plug out of the pond to empty the muddy water.  When it rained there was lovely fresh water again and the pond animals came back to again and lived happily ever after.

It is important for everyone to remember 

DO NOT throw rubbish in water so it keeps it nice and clean for the animals to live!

 

Afterwards we sang a frog song we know,
called 5 Little Speckled Frogs.

Big Buddies

Thank you big buddies for teaching us how to use PuppetPals.

Tangram Maths

Today we were given the challenge of creating a picture with a tangram.  It was really hard, but we had lots of fun.  Here are some of our pictures we made.