Room 7's blog!

Bye room 7...

2010-03-30T19:29:00.003+13:00

Hi everyone!
Just to let you know that I am at a new school this year called Mission Heights Primary.
Sad to say that this blog has therefore ended...but don't panic it will still be here, but no new posts will be added after this. Hopefully the new teacher in room 7 will start up a blog for 2010!
If you are keen to check out my new classroom blog however...come and visit us at
wwwlz6mhp.blogspot.com

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

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Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Our stop animation!

2009-12-12T19:35:00.003+13:00

For our final assembly we had a colour theme so Room 7 decided to make a stop animation to a colour song we liked. We used lollies to make our pictures and had to take a photo every time we moved something. It took a whole day to make it but everyone got to make a picture each. We are VERY proud of this!!

Market day!

2009-11-22T20:27:00.002+13:00

We had a fantastic market day a few weeks ago at the end of our money unit. We all got opportunities over a week to earn money in the classroom (play money of course!) and then we had a market day so we could spend it!! Both room 6 and 7 joined in and during the week we made stuff to sell on market day like jelly, popcorn, fairy bread, magnets, finger puppets and fruit kebabs. We had 15 minutes to be a seller so we had to work out change for people and 15 minutes to be a buyer where we had to work out what we could buy with our money. Mr Thew even came and joined in! It really helped us to learn about money and the value of things and it was heaps of fun too!

Jump Rope day!

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Iron Brion

2009-11-02T21:50:00.003+13:00

Last week Iron Brion visited our school and was talking to us about healthy food. We all got a yummy hamburger to eat! We got to do the Iron Brion boogy which we all enjoyed too!

2009-10-28T18:24:00.005+13:00

We found this video on YouTube and thought it was really funny! We like how the guinea pigs follow the person round in a line...maybe we could train Bert and Ernie to do this??

Tabloid sports!

2009-10-27T19:21:00.002+13:00

We had a great time doing tabloid sports on wild hair day. We had turns at different games and activities out on the astroturf. Lots of fun in the sun!

Spiral snakes!

2009-10-27T19:09:00.002+13:00

After visiting the show of 'Snake and Lizard' we decided to make some spiral snakes to hang from the net in room 7. We took our time making patterns and colouring in carefully with pastel. We think they look bright and colourful...and not scary at all!

Check out Bert and Ernie!

2009-10-19T22:18:00.002+13:00

We can not believe how much Bert and Ernie the guinea pigs have grown!
They are so friendly that they will eat out of our hand and sometimes we can even take them for a walk on a special guinea pig lead! They like to cuddle up inside our jumpers and listen to us read books! We love them so much!

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Glogster

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Our holiday stories

2009-10-15T19:13:00.002+13:00

Check out the voicethread of our holiday stories! We were all very busy over the holidays and have shared what we got up to. Each of us illustrated our stories and took a photo of it to go on the voicethread.

Skipping!

2009-10-12T20:12:00.002+13:00

We are beginning our skipping programme for P.E. this term and in a few weeks we will have 'Jump off day' where we do lots of different skipping activities to music. Today was our first day trying to skip - some of us were amazing...and some of us need a wee bit more practise! Look at our wild hair in some of the photos! (we are getting ready for wild hair day on Friday!)

Lizards, lizards, lizards!

2009-09-30T19:29:00.002+13:00

Look at our fabulous lizards!! We have been reading a book called Lizzie the little lizard and we are also going to see the show 'Lizard and Snake' next term so we decided to make our own lizards for the wall. We did drafts in our art books before enlarging them onto paper. We used mosaic squares to create patterns on our lizards and dyed them so they would be camouflaged in all our leaves! We think they look very cool!

Monkey's shoes!

2009-09-21T19:31:00.003+12:00

Our shared book this week was Monkey's Shoes by Jill Eggleton. We loved reading it so much that we decided to record us reading it! Here it is with images we have drawn!

New playground game!

2009-09-18T20:42:00.002+12:00

Our lovely student teachers have made this fantastic new playground game for us. It is a kiwi version of snakes and ladders called...Lizards and ferns! It is big and strong enough for us to actually play the game ON it which we think is very cool...thank you!!!

Simple machines!

2009-09-10T21:34:00.003+12:00

We have been learning all about simple machines. Our favourite ones are levers and pulleys because they help us lift things. We have been playing with them in class to figure out how they work.

Fraction fun!

2009-09-08T20:03:00.002+12:00

We have been learning about fractions in maths and our student teacher had a fun lesson for us. First we got to play with playdough and make pizzas! We were learning about halves so we cut our pizzas in half and shared them with a friend. Some of us even pretended to eat them! Then we traced around lots of shapes on paper and cut them out and folded them in half. We cut them down the middle with scissors and glued them into our maths book. Now we are starting to understand what a half means...next up we will try quarters!

Our lamb visitors!

2009-09-03T22:07:00.008+12:00

This voicethread is about our lamb visitors that we had recently. You can play all our comments by pushing the play button or just to hear one of us you click on our pictures. It will automatically go to the next page or you can click on the arrow. We loved having the lambs come and visit us at school!

Gymnastics!

2009-09-01T20:22:00.002+12:00

For the last few weeks in P.E. we have been doing some basic gymnastics. Last year we were lucky enough to go to the Bruce Pullman Centre with proper instructors and equipment, but this year we managed to still have lots of fun just doing what we could at school. We used our playground and some basic equipment in the auditorium to work on our balancing, jumping and landing skills. We noticed great improvement in our balancing and upper body strength in just a few weeks! And of course we had lots and lots of FUN!!

Making marvellous muffins!

2009-08-26T22:29:00.003+12:00

Last week our shared book was called 'The King's cake' by Jill Eggleton. We loved reading it and thought it would be a good idea to make a cake in our class! Miss Baker looked for a cake tin but could only find a muffin tin but we liked that because it meant that we got a little cake each!! We made yummy banana chocolate chip muffins and each of us took turns to measure and mix. The video shows how we made them and how much fun we had!

We miss Kashin!

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Dear Burma,
I am sorry about Kashin dying. I will miss her and I feel very sorry. I loved Kashin and I hope you feel ok. I liked it when you played with each other. Kashin was clever to push logs with her trunk. From Chelsea

Dear Auckland Zoo,
I feel sad because Kashin died yesterday. We visited the zoo this year. We saw Kashin rolling a log in the log race. Kashin was a clever elephant and a tickly elephant. We will all miss you in Room 7 Kashin. From Kevan

To the Zoo,
I feel sad. Kashin was my favourite animal at the zoo. Kashin was the bomb!! She had a big brain and was nice to people and was good at lifting. The zoo keepers are the bomb too because they looked after her! From Drew

To the Zoo,
I am sad because Kashin died. She did cool tricks and she looked soft and hairy. Kashin liked mud baths so she didn’t get sunburnt. I wish I could hug Kashin. You must be sad at the zoo too. Kashin was so brave and she had big muscles. From N’Kastro

Dear Burma,
Do you miss Kashin? All our school miss her. I liked it when Kashin dipped her long trunk in the water and squirted water out of it. I think the zoo keepers will miss Kashin a lot. I do. From Georgia

We love buddy reading!

2009-08-23T22:12:00.002+12:00

In Room 7 we love to read! And we especially love buddy reading! Sometimes in class we get a chance to read to each other and twice a term we buddy up with another class in the school! Last week we did buddy reading with Room 17 from the middle school. It was nice and sunny so we went outside to share our reading. The whole school was buddy reading at the same time so everywhere you looked people were reading to each other...how cool is that!!

Pasifika parade!

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Pasifika parade on PhotoPeach

We celebrated Pasifika week by having all sorts of activities throughout the school. On Friday we had a parade to celebrate all the diversity we have in our school with so many cultures. Children and teachers dressed up in outfits to celebrate their culture and heritage! We marched around the courts to music and clapping from all the parents who had come to watch. It was a lot of fun for everyone, especially the dancing at the end!

Maori arts rotation!

2009-08-02T20:07:00.003+12:00

As part of Maori language week some classes took part in a Maori arts rotation where children made putiputi (flax flowers), kowhaiwhai patterned headbands and poi as well as participating in traditional waiata and rakau (stick) games. Everyone had lots of fun and learnt some new skills!

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

2009-08-02T19:56:00.003+12:00

Kia ora everyone! As you probably know last week was Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori - Maori language week! We celebrated this by trying to use lots of Te Reo in the classroom and made a wall display using photos of some of the words that we know. These are some of the pictures up on the wall - do you know what they are? (hint - the photos are a big clue!)

Guinea pigs on holiday!

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Grumpy Bear!

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We have made another movie! This one is also about one of our big books - Grumpy Bear by Jill Eggleton. We had lots of fun getting into our character roles and making our headbands. We think our Grumpy Bear is very clever to remember all the words and actions! Hollywood here we come!!

Holidays are...

2009-07-22T21:35:00.005+12:00

We have been writing poetry about what holidays are to us. This is a 'word cloud' made from some of our ideas! (to make it bigger just click on the picture!)

The bird dance!

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Room 7 does the 7 Jumps!

2009-06-28T18:21:00.003+12:00

For our P.E. programme this term we have been learning various folk dances. The junior school shared some of their favourites with parents last week at our folk dancing festival. Room 7 were the lucky last class up and performed the '7 Jumps'! We had lots of fun and got to pull all the parents and teachers up to join in the bird dance after we had finished.

The sandwich that....made!

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Arbor Day tree planting

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Crumpet the cat!

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Today we had fun dramatising our big book of the week 'Crumpet the cat'. We all made cat masks to wear and then we acted out the story. Miss Baker videoed us and we watched it on the smartboard. We thought it was a great way to really get into the book! MEOW!!!

Healthy hamburgers!

2009-06-15T19:56:00.002+12:00

We made delicious and healthy hamburgers in Room 7. To make our hamburgers healthy we used lean meat and wholemeal breadcrumbs to make our own patties. We chose fresh vegetables and low fat cheese. We cooked our pattie with no added oil or fat. They tasted soooooooo good!

Look out McDonalds - we think our burgers are better than yours!

Kidpix fun!

2009-06-12T20:04:00.003+12:00

We have been playing on the computer using kidpix software. As it was our cross country that day we decided to make pictures and sentences about that. This is the first time we had played with kidpix...next time we are going to figure out how to add video to our pictures! We love going to the ICT room and trying new things!

Cross country 09

2009-06-11T20:45:00.004+12:00

A few weeks ago it was the Junior School cross country. We had been practising for weeks during fitness and had got pretty fit. We had 4 races - year one girls, year one boys, year two girls and year two boys. Some of us had to run around the field 3 times!! It was exciting because our parents could come along and cheer for us. It was pretty tiring too!

I spy pictures

2009-06-07T18:36:00.003+12:00

We have been reading lots of I spy books over the past few weeks and decided to try and make our own I spy pictures! We collected things from around the room and put them together on a table and then we photographed it. We choose six things that we wanted people to spy and Miss Baker helped us to make a rhyme for the words. They are all on our wall and we think they are great. See if you can find all our things!!

Fruit kebabs

2009-06-01T17:27:00.005+12:00

Yum, yum, fruit kebabs! As part of our healthy food unit we decided to make these using our favourite fruits - apples, manderins, kiwifruit and banana! (We even added a marshmellow as a special treat!) We all got to make them and then eat them before writing a fantastic story in our writing books. What a delicious story writing lesson!!

Elephant art

2009-06-01T16:58:00.002+12:00

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We made some elephant pictures earlier this term after we had visited the zoo. First we had to draw our elephants - thinking carefully about the legs and trunk! We went over the lines with black vivid and then we coloured them with grey crayons. We went outside and coloured on the concrete so it would look like texture on the elephant's skin! Miss Baker cut them out and put them on the wall with our elephant stories.

M&M lolly challenge

2009-05-24T19:46:00.003+12:00

Last week during mathematics we participated in the M&M challenge!
We had to sort and tally count our M&Ms and graph them according to what we each had.
When we were finally finished and Miss Baker had checked it...we got to eat the M&Ms!!
We think that is a really good way to work on our maths skills!!

Yummy popcorn!

2009-05-17T22:43:00.004+12:00

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We are learning all about healthy foods and decided to make healthy popcorn in room 7. We air popped our corn and did not add any butter, oil or salt. It was great fun watching it spin around in the machine, it was a bit like a tornado and then it exploded like a volcano out the top and into the bowl for us to eat it! Yum, we like popcorn!

Autumn leaf stories

2009-05-17T16:15:00.001+12:00

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We took lots of macro photos around school of the autumn leaves. After we wrote our stories, Miss Baker typed them onto the leaf photos that we took. They are all on our classroom wall but here are a few to share!

2009-05-17T11:45:00.002+12:00

We have been playing with the software called Comic life and created these alphabet posters for our letters of the week. We first saw this idea on another blog from room 3 at Whakarongo School down in Palmerston North. We love coming up with ideas for photos and when we get a new camera we will be taking them ourselves!

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During P.E. last week Miss Baker taught us a new game called noodle hockey. We used soft foam noodles to hit the ball into the net. We had to listen carefully for the numbers that she called out. It was lots of fun and a little bit crazy!! We think in a few years we will all be in the 'real' hockey team at school!

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Our gorgeous guinea pigs!

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gickr.com animation

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Autumn is made for tossing leaves!
Make your own animation

2009-04-30T21:02:00.001+12:00

We have been doing some amazing art work that we like to call Rainbowland! They are based around the work of an Austrian born artist called Hundertwasser. He loved painting brightly coloured and slightly strange looking buildings. After looking at his work we spent some time sketching buildings around school and then made a composition of different types of buildings before colouring in the background with pastel and the buildings with brightly coloured dye. We think they are very eyecatching and look amazing on our classroom wall!

2009-04-23T22:15:00.001+12:00

We are now a Duffy school!!! Yay!! These photos are of room 7 receiving their very first Duffy books from our very own author, Mrs Scott. We love reading our books and sharing the stories with our friends.

2009-04-23T22:07:00.001+12:00

Early in 2009 we discussed how we help out at home. We wrote stories about this and Miss Baker decided to make our stories into pictures with the help of photoshop. We think they look cool!

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Earlier this year the junior school celebrated the end of the swimming season by having a swimming carnival. Parents were invited to come and watch their children show off all the swimming skills they had learnt and join in the fun doing the hokey tokey!

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We made lion masks at school! Lots of fun!

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After visiting Auckland Zoo as part of our science unit, Room 7 made a photostory of our trip. We loved visiting all the different animals!