Happy 50th days at school!

Today we celebrated with the rest of the Junior classes, 50 days of being at school. At Jump Jam we only had half of the songs.  Back in class we read half a story and played some maths games counting to 50. We iced half a biscuit and sprinkled it with 100s and 1000s.  We were also very lucky to have hot chips on this cooler Autumn day.

Ella was visiting Room 2 today and will join us after the holidays

Lucas had half a pair of different shoes on.
Jordan and Ashriya had half a pair of different socks.

Ms Boyd painted half of Mikaere, Aarav and John's faces

Paige, Hazel, Jayden and Blair liked the face paint, but only on half of their face

Science Day!

Today we had a science day. Professor Chupa  Chup and Professor Campbell came to help us learn about science.

Professor Chupa Chup asked us if we knew what Science and a Scientist meant.

Then we drew a picture of what we thought a scientist looked liked

                                    

 

 

 

One of the experiments we did was called 'Magic Milk'

Professor Chupa Chup said we can do it at home as long as we have an adult with us.

We put some milk into a plate and then added food colouring. Most of the class liked the pink

colour.  Next we dipped a q-tip (cotton bud) into some dish washing liquid.

Finally we carefully put the q-tip into the milk and the colours all moved around the plate. It really was 'magic!'

 

 

We made 'Oobleck' or slime. Did you know that this is a Dr Seuss experiment? It gets it's name from the Dr Seuss book Bartholomew and the Oobleck

 

 

 

 

This term we have been studying transformation.  So as scientists we planted a bean seed and we are going to watch it transform into a bean stalk.  We even made our own castles and clouds just like Jack and the Beanstalk.
We must remember our seed needs water, sunshine and lots of talking to it!

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Professor Campbell taught us about solids and liquids, followed by a melting activity. 

 

 

 

Professor Campbell let us transform chocolate from a solid into a liquid. Some of the chocolate transformed into liquid.  Can you tell your friends and whanau why only some transformed into liquid?

 

 

We then put the chocolate into the freezer and it transformed back into a solid!

 

And one of the best part of the day... EATING THE CHOCOLATE!

 

 

 

 

 

Room 2's book

Last week we read a big book called "Smile" said Dad.  We learnt about rhyming words, and speech marks in the book. It was funny, so Ms Boyd decided to make our own class book.
She hopes you enjoy it!
(apologies for not being able to put it into a book form)

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

But Ekansh was swimming.

 



“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

But we were playing with instruments.

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

 

But Salolo had his finger in his mouth.

                    
                  

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

                  

 But we were busy eating.

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

But Ashton was climbing out of the pool.

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

But Andy was looking at Mrs Campbell.

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

But Lucas was making trumpet noises with cones.

 

  

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

But we were busy in the sandpit.

 

 

 

 

“Smile” said Ms Boyd.

 

Everyone smiled.

“Too bad”, said Ms Boyd

“I’ve run out of film!”

 

A foggy start for Tuesday

On Tuesday it was a foggy morning. We walked down to the field, and the Sky Tower and other buildings had disappeared!

Ashton explained to us that the moisture comes down from the sky, then the clouds come down and it gets foggy.
 

Welcome Salolo and Aarav!

Room 2 is pleased to welcome Salolo to our class. Salolo comes from Tuvalu and has only been in New Zealand for a few weeks. He has a sister Melanie in Room 13, and his cousin Ruby also attends WHS. We are looking forward to helping Salolo learn English. 
Salolo likes swimming and to play games on the mobile phone. 

Tuvalu means 8 cultures or "8 standing together", which refers to the 8 traditional islands of Tuvalu.
"Talofa" is the greeting (this is the same greeting as Samoa)
 You would need to fly to Suva (Fiji) and then another flight to Tuvalu.
Most people use a motorbike as transport.
                    





Room 2 also welcomes Aarav.  His older brother Aryan was in Ms Boyd's class last year, and is now a Year 2.
Aarav likes to climb trees. At home he likes to play with his hot wheel cars!