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Miss Rae x

I can't believe we forgot to take photos!

Room 13 has had a fun day! To start with we had quite a few people complaining about aches and pains so we asked everyone "How are you today?" If the said good or okay we clapped and cheered. Then we finished writing our popcorn making instructions. Some people had difficulty explaining how to cook popcorn so we went to the kitchen upstairs in the staffroom. We did fake cooking and Miss Rae tried to stirfry her popcorn! After morning tea we had bad news - we couldn't do PE because the field and hall were being used for setting up the gala. SO we got the popcorn maker from Room 6 and we made popping popcorn! We ATE it! It tasted DELICIOUS!

How are YOU feeling today? Good?

Gala time!

How exciting! It is so exciting - I think everyone will have so much fun! Miss Rae won't be there having fun but she will be busy. She is joining the march up Queen Street for the World teacher's day celebrations - watch out for her on tv :) Room 13 will have lots to tell her on Monday about the gala!

Holiday weekend news.

What a busy weekend we had - having an extra day off for Labour Day was nice!

Cherkia and Kieran both went on picnics. Pyper headed off to the bach. Alexa, Georgia and Zion both went to the swimming pools - lucky! Catherine went to the pools too for her lessons. Liam, Mackenzie, Georgia, Jensen and Miss Rae all spent time at the shops! Miss Rae also visited Eden Gardens with her family. Arnay went to a Diwali festival celebration and saw fireworks. There are more Diwali celebrations this weekend. Arnay also had a busy weekend with parties. Ben M went to Dargaville and went to the Everything shop. It sells everything! Cool! Kieran, Jensen and Georgia both went fishing at the weekend but Room 13 hasn't seen any fresh fish for lunch! :) Joseph did housework at the weekend - hope he did a good job! Joshua's Grandma came over and they went to explore the rock pools at the beach. Christopher spent time with his friends. Logan went with his family to the garden centre. Jude's sister celebrated her birthday. Liri went to a waterfall at Te Henga. Ben G had fun at the skatepark. Dana's family had some sad news at the weekend :( EunChae's dad printed off photos of her travels to Europe last year. Jessie went to Waipu Cove for the long weekend to spend some time in the sun. Amber went to Rangitoto on the boat and stayed there.

It was lovely weather at the weekend - a sneak preview that Summer and Christmas are on their way! YAY!

HELP! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!

We need 3 parent helpers on each swimming trip for us to be able to go. SO far we have 3 helpers on the first Monday, 1 on the first Wednesday and 2 on the 2nd Monday. We will not be able to go unless we have adult helpers.

Aunties, Uncles and Grandparents welcome. A parent helper needs to help us get on the bus, ride with us, and help us get ready. At the pool the swimming instructors do everything so parent helpers can sit and watch. PLEASE contact us if you can help!!! Either send a note or ring the office or send us an email.

Thanks!

Guatemalan worry dolls

Guatemalan Worry Dolls
According to legend, Guatemalan Worry Dolls listen when you tell them a problem. You place the doll under your pillow and the worry goes away!

A few people in class have been worrying about different things so this morning we made our own worry dolls and wrote our worries on them. Then we sat on the mat. Each person shared their worry and the rest of the class gave them strategies to deal with the worries. The worry dolls are in book bags ready to go under pillows tonight!

We also learnt to find our happy place. We lay still and imagined hopping on magic carpets. We flew over the school, up Kyle Road, over the city and then into the country. We flew over fields of different and beautiful coloured flowers, over the gentle green sea, then over the blue foamy waves and landed on our island. We walked up ten big concrete steps and came to a big door. It was heavy and creaked as we pushed it open. Inside the room was full of sunlight we saw a door and opened it using the old fashioned key. Inside was our own private room. In our imaginations we looked around, out the windows and we felt happy and warm and safe. Then we left we went out the door, down the steps, over the ocean, over the fields, across the city and then back to UHPS. We can use our happy place to go to whenever we feel bad, mad, angry, sad, scared, worried, frightened and confused. No one else can see our room except for us!

3D shapes!

This morning we were learning how to make 3D shapes with toothpicks and marshmallows. We made cubes, triangular prisms, square pyramids, triangle pyramids, and cuboids. We thought about edges, faces and corners. We had a great time. After we made different shapes we had to divide the marshmallows into equal groups and then we ATE them!

Yum - 1 lesson and we did Geometry and Division and then later on we are going to write instructions on making 3D shapes!

Dental Clinic

The dental van is currently screening students that are due. If you have a problem and need to see a dental nurse and it isn't your turn, then you can call the Target Road Dental Clinic and make an appointment on 444 4272.

Miss Rae has been playing...

hope Room 13 likes the new look!

In class today...

We looked at the scientific method. We looked at some new blogs -

Mrs. Bachetti's Grade 2 Blog

Room Two North East Valley Normal School

We had an AsTTle reading test. We had our five minute maths test (great excitement). We shared our news... we copied down our spelling and that was nearly the whole day! Time flies when you're learning...

We saw it, liked it, borrowed it! Thanks Room 15!

Science fun!

Today we were discussing scientific method. The question was raised again - was Oobleck a solid or a liquid? It can't be classified as either as it is a strange and special substance called a Non-Newtonian fluid. We also looked at a fun website called Brainpop and we have a free 5 day trial to look around - username and password both room13uhps. Have fun!

Back to the Scientific method. When we do an experiment we will always follow this way:

Ask a question - what do I want to discover?
Make a hypothesis - I think... use information/research to help you.
Method - what steps will I take?
Results - what happened?
Conclusion - What do the results mean?
Draw a picture.

Welcome to the world of wonderings and discoveries.

OOBLEK!

Apologies for the sound - the microphone wasn't the best :)

The mystery of Ooblek!

Today some mysterious STUFF appeared at school called Ooblek. We had a look at it and then went away to wonder about what it might be. We thought it was chalk, dinosaur poo, slime, hard goo, spew, sticky, snot, green dog poo, squashed up green bananas and so much more. It looked green, slimy, shiny, wet, runny, hard, soft, gooey, muddy, bubbly, solid, gungy, sticky and sloppy.

Then we had a turn feeling it. We grabbed it, we stood in it, we walked through it, we picked it up, and we got stuck in it! What was this crazy stuff?

We discovered that it was hard when you touched it but runny when you pick it up. When you stood on it you sunk and you could get stuck. It made a footprint and then ran back together so the footprint disappeared. It felt like playdough. It was solid green. Afterwards when it dried it felt like chalk.

Hmmmmmm so was it a liquid or a solid? No one really knows.

Ooblek was actually a science experiment. When we were at Jump Jam Mrs Aitken and Mrs Millet made the Ooblek for us to look at. It is an interesting substance because it appears hard to the touch but when you move through it, it is runny. You can make ooblek at home with ingredients from the cupboard!

Cornflour and water were turned into Ooblek (and colour was added). You can mix 3 parts of cornflour to 1 part of water and stir, add colour. Is it liquid or solid? You decide!

Geometry!

Today we thought about all the shapes we could remember - and we even remembered that they were either 2D or 3D shapes, then we watched this funny video by James Blunt and Sesame Street.

Stuff needed!

We are really lacking in newspaper when we do art. Please send along your newspapers when you have finished with them - we would really appreciate it!

Also this term we are going to start long stitching calendars, so please send along any spare wool - red and green are always in high demand!

Hats are needed to be worn this term so please make sure you have your hat and it is named clearly.

Swimming notices went home this afternoon - please note the parent help request, we always need so many helpers for this to happen.

Phew! It is going to be a busy term with lots of fun and exciting learning :)

Best book of 2010!

The best book we have read this year is by far "Skippyjon Jones"by Judy Schachner. He even has his own website! Skippyjon says he isn't a Siamese cat and would rather be El Skippito, the great sword fighting Chihuahua. We have great fun reading it aloud and it is well worth reading again at home!


Listen here.






And here.

And last of all Miss Rae's favourite bit is here.

Some new rules for Term 4

The arrival of Smiggle in the classroom creates a lot of disturbance and distraction. From tomorrow onwards Room 13 students cannot use electronic rubbers or pencil sharpeners in the classroom - these are items to be kept at home. Pencil pots do not have a place in the classroom as we just don't have enough room on our tables. Also we do not have enough room for millions of pencil cases. Students may have 1 pencil case on their desk - it is okay to have more than one as long as they fit and live in tote trays.