Flower Experiment Time Lapse

During our flower experiment we took a photo of the rose every 30 seconds using our class camera. We did this from 9am until 11am and took over 100 photos. We turned these pictures into a time lapse video. Can you see how the rose changes colour?

Our Flower Experiment

We have been learning about our environment and how to take care of our plants and trees. We made an experiment to see how we can affect how our plants and trees grow. We put some coloured dye into some water then placed a white rose into the water. We wanted to see what would happen to the flowers the next day.

"We have been learning about plants and how they need us and we need them." Will

"We need to treat our flowers nicely by putting them in the sun and giving them water." Tanner

"We need plants and trees to give us oxygen" Shaun

"We put coloured dye into a jar and we put some white flowers in there too. We wanted to see what would happen to the flowers." Emil

"The flowers turned red and blue from the dye." Claire

"This is because the flowers sucked up the water with the dye through their stem." Lucia

"I thought it was really fun because we got to take pictures of it." Afrina

"I learnt that we need flowers because they make the earth look beautiful" Tanner

"I learnt that it is important to look after our plants by not throwing rubbish around and looking after our water and soil." Will

Storybird

Tanner's Storybird

I like this story because it has robots in it. I like writing my own stories on Storybird.

 

Emil's Storybird

This is my Storybird. It has lots of different animals and robots in it. I like writing my own stories because I can do it by myself and I can think of my own ideas.

My Best Friend

Scarlett is our computer 'Paint' expert in Room 7. She created this story on PowerPoint, making all of the illustrations herself using the Paint program on the computer. Well done Scarlett we love reading your story and looking at your amazing artwork!
 

My Wild Self

We are learning to use juicy describing words in our writing. We made our own wild selves and wrote about them using lots of great adjectives. Look at our great writing below:

 

 

This is my wild self. I think I look so pretty and I have a cool t-shirt with love hearts. I love my wild self. I have two ostrich feet.

-         Scarlett



 

 

 

This is my wild self and I have beautiful light orange butterfly wings. For my ears I have warm fluffy polar bear ears. On top of my head I have long nice feathers. I have lots of other cool heathers around myself. I love my wild self! The background looks like a zoo because it is a zoo and a beautiful butterfly!

-         Afrina

 

 

This is my wild self. I have a lightning t-shirt. I have bat wings and awesome glasses. I have cool yellow shoes and so cool black pants.

-         Tanner

 

 

 

 

This is my wild self. I have sticky frog arms. I have spider legs and a stingray top. I have a piece of lightning on my t-shirt.

-         Shaun

If you have a smartphone you can scan these QR codes to read our stories online.

 

         Lucia's Wild Self                                                                                       Zeyad's Wild Self

 

 

Melted Crayon Art

We had an exciting time creating a class work of art for the Big Night Out art auction. We used a hot glue gun to glue crayons onto a canvas then used a hairdryer to melt the crayons down the canvas. We made flowers out of fabric and jewels to finish this colourful wax garden. Our favourite part was watching the crayons drip down the canvas.

 

 

 

 

Science Experiments with Water

Every Wednesday afternoon we become junior scientists as we explore the way that water moves and changes. Watch our science experiment below and look at our diagrams we made to explain how the experiment worked.

 

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Te Ika a Maui

This term we will be learning about water as a part of our focus on "Treasuring our World". To begin our study we looked at the Maori story "The Fish of Maui". We learnt about how Maui caught the North Island of New Zealand on his waka. We retold these stories in our own words... Have a read below!

 

 

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My Toy

 

We are learning about toys and how they have changed over time. We made our own toys with paint, cotton wool, googley eyes and stickers. We labelled our finished work using the Skitch app on our tablet. Check out our great artwork! 

 

 

 

Wooden Peg Dolls

We are learning about past and present toys. As a part of our study we made our own peg dolls from wooden pegs and material.

 

 

 

Our Visit to Howick Historical Village

Room 7 went to Howick Historical Village to explore how people lived, worked and played in the past. We played with old toys, went to a historical school, sung and danced to nursery rhymes and learnt about how people travelled to New Zealand from England on a big ship... It was a 100 day journey! We loved exploring the village at the end of the day, walking through the houses, workshops and community buildings. We had a great day!

 

 

Literary Walk

We had a great end to Book Week with the senior students putting on performances around the school. Thank you for creating a fantastic literary walk we really enjoyed it!

Check out some of our favourite moments below:
 

Author and Illustrator Lyn Kreigler

We were very lucky to be visited by Lyn who inspired us with her funny stories and furry puppets!

 

Lyn told us about when she was a little girl and use to create her own stories with teddies and dolls.

 

 

She taught us how to draw animals using numbers and our names... Did you know the number '5' can be made into a dog?!

 

 

We loved being a part of her stories and making funny puppet voices.

Book Week

We had a fantastic start to Book Week with a parade from another decade! Children and teachers dressed from another decade to learn about how we dressed, worked and played in the past.




Mr Cain and Miss McKeen enjoying the parade
 

Room 7

Jae In's beautiful outfit from the 1930's