End of the first term already!

Week 10 was a busy week for Room 1 children. We finished up our topic of "Healthy Bodies" by making a class skeleton, some healthy shopping trolleys and a visit from Sue (the health nurse) to talk about healthy teeth.

We painted cardboard rolls with white paint for bones, rolled up paper for finger bones and made the skull and hip bones with paper mache.

Then every thing was glued onto a huge piece of cardboard.

 

When all the skeleton was glued on, we had a vote to decide what to call him. The most popular name was Bobby Bones.

The healthy shopping trolleys were great fun to make. Some very careful discussions went on about what was healthy, what was 'go food' and what was 'grow food'.

We ended up with four very healthy looking trolleys! They are on display in Room 1.

We also had a visit from Sue, the health nurse. She showed us a short clip on how to brush our teeth, then she pulled out a HUGE set of teeth and tooth brush to show us how to brush.

Next it was our turn to have a go!

                           
Scrub, scrub, scrub!

The junior classes ended the week with their sports day. We had four other schools come and join us in the fun. First we had morning tea together, then lined up to hear the instructions for the day.

                                   

Then off we went around the seven rotations.........

Gumboot throw.                                                       High jump.

                             


Grass skies.                                                           Water challenge (fill the pipe with                                                                                  water, but the pipe is full of holes! Teamwork!)

                            
The obstacle course (under, over, around and through...) 

                            

Moon-hopper races and the sandpit dig. 

                            

Everyone loved the sandpit dig, if you found an orange stick, you won a lollipop!
All the schools had a great day and the children had lots of fun meeting children from other schools.

Week 11 and the last week of school for the term, found Room 1 celebrating 50 days of school with a Pyjama party. The children wore their pyjamas to school for the whole day.

We had fun watching a movie and making Easter Egg art.

We tried some crayon and dye egg pictures.....

                                  

.....and some 3D easter eggs that are a bit of a work in progress.

                                 

Luckily we managed to get everyone's egg finished at the end of the week!

Our term ended with an ANZAC ceremony. The whole school gathered in Room 3 for the service,

and watched the raising of the flag.

                          

Then four of the seniors took the roll of guarding the tomb of the unknown solider while we had a short talk about war from a member of the Greymouth RSA.

                           

After this everyone laid down a poppy or wreath in front of a cross. Then we all watched the lowering of the flag.

                              

As a class we had talked about ANZAC day, what ANZAC means and why we honour those who died in the wars. Hopefully our children have a better understanding of the meaning behind ANZAC day and why it is important.

That's all for now, have a great holiday break and see you all next term! 

Two weeks to go!

Here we are at week 9 already!

We have had a busy three weeks with our sharing, math strand and topic.

For math strand we looked at who was the tallest in the class. We lined up on one of the netball court lines and marked how tall everyone was.

We found that Tom was the tallest in the class!

The letter of the week last week was J, and we had some awesome sharing.

                                  Jigsaw                                         

Jandals

Jaw bone

For our topic over these last few weeks we looked at what healthy food we would put in our shopping trolleys. All four groups made good choices following our motto of "Healthy Trolley, Healthy Body". 

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

We also started putting together our class skeleton. The children painted cardboard rolls white for the big bones and rolled up paper for the small bones. They then used paper-mache for making the hip bones and the skull.

We are just waiting for the skull to dry before gluing it onto the skeleton, then Sid the skeleton will be all ready for the classroom display.

End of week 6 already!

Room 1 children have been really busy the last two weeks.

We have been reading "George's Marvellous Medicine" in class. We decided to make our own " Marvellous Medicine" from construction materials. There was shampoo bottles and 'chicken pills', paint and perfume, plus many more things that went into the "big pot" of medicine.

In goes the shampoo!

In goes the paint!

In goes the perfume!

In goes the 'chicken pills'!

This week we had a visit from Life Education's Harold. He taught us more about healthy eating and how good food helps our bodies. We got to see a skeleton and help Harold make good food choices for his lunchbox.

Here we are learning about our bones and why our body needs strong bones.

This is where we we choose if a food is a GO, GROW, SLOW or WHOA food. 

Here we are choosing what is the best type of food for Harold to have in his lunchbox.

In our maths we have been learning about statistics. We tied this in with learning about healthy food by looking at our lunchboxes to see what types of food we are eating at school.

 We made a graph to see how many children in Room 1 had GO, GROW, SLOW or WHOA food in their lunchboxes.

We found all children in Room 1 had some GO food in their lunchbox. That is some fruit or vegetable.

Most children in Room 1 had GROW food in their lunchbox. Milk (provided by 'milk in schools') , cheese, yoghurt, sandwiches and rice crackers.

Some children had WHOA food which they decided they would eat at the end of the day so it wouldn't stop their learning. Ka pai Room 1, well done!