Kia Ora from Mt Maunganui
Postcards From Home on PhotoPeach
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Our Legends in Blue
Mt Maunganui Police Station Visit on PhotoPeach
Out of this World Creatures
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Monday, April 5, 2010
Wild and Wacky Hair Day
Mt Primary celebrated the last day of Term One with a 'Wild and Wacky Hair Day' to raise money for Child Cancer. We flew to school in our favourite 'Super Heroes' costumes and rocked outrageous hair dos for the cause. Highlights included most teachers getting into the spirit of the theme and a 'look at me!' parade around the courts. Mrs Simpson might just get used to the orange hair...
Trip to Te Puna Quarry Park
We are on the Learning Wave!
Welcome to new Room 8 Children and Families!
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Our Sock Creatures with Features
Out of This World Puppets on PhotoPeach
Tay St Beach: Meet Team Lee!
Tay St: Meet Team Lee on PhotoPeach
Our Backyard Birds
Go Rockin' Robin! on PhotoPeach
Nimbus the Horse says Neigh!
The Mighty Nimbus on PhotoPeach
My Favourite Tree
My Favourite Tree in My Backyard on PhotoPeach
Presenting: The Team
The Team on PhotoPeach
End of Year Adventures. Happy Holidays!!!
The Grand Finale 2010 on PhotoPeach
Something Fishy
Something Fishy on PhotoPeach
Flower Power
Flower Power on PhotoPeach
Rain, Rain, go away!
Rainy Day on PhotoPeach
Commonwealth Games Day
Commonwealth Games Day on PhotoPeach
The Super Fun Supermarket
Last week Team Tay visited the local NewWorld Supermarket as part of our Term Two 'Food' Topic. We had a good look behind the scenes in the bakery, chiller, butchery and packing area. We have written about our highlights for you to read:
Our KidPix Bug Life Cycles Movie
Our Good Morning Song
The Teddy Bears Picnic
More Adventures with that Cheeky Monkey!
Pop Art Photos of Us
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Welcome 10 new classmates!
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Welcome 10 new families!
Welcome new children from Room 12 and your parents and caregivers! We are working to ensure a smooth transition in becoming a Room 8 Great. Feel free to come and have a chat if you have anything to share or questions to ask :)
We Love Iron Brion!
The Iron Brion Roadshow visited Mount Primary last week. We learned about the 4 different food groups:
Meat and meat alternatives, vegetables and fruit, dairy products, bread and grains.
Now we know that to be healthy and strong we need to eat foods from all of the groups.
The children that eat meat were given a hamburger to enjoy for lunch - yum!!
Thanks, Iron Brion!
Water, Water, Everywhere!
Last week, as part of our Water Topic Inquiry we conducted some simple science experiments to find out what kind of classroom objects float and what kind sink, and why.
We found out that the shape, weight and density of an object affect how much water is displaced, and whether it will sink to the bottom, or float on the top.
We excitedly took turns to dunk pencils, paper-clips, erasers, cotton-wool, corks, coins and the teacher's apple(!), into containers of water -and observed and recorded what we saw.
Some objects sunk quickly, and others more slowly.
Earlier in the week, we also investigated the differences between salt-water and fresh-water. The taste-testing part proved popular!
Bubble Bubble
This week we began our writing topic outside blowing bubbles. As well as having a lot of fun, we looked very closely and asked ourselves some questions.
What did they look like? What shapes were they? What did they do? What did they feel like? Some children also discovered what they tasted like... :-/
The children took photos of eachother creating the bubbles. Next they wrote descriptions of their bubbles on Kidpix on the C.O.W. laptops and imported their photos in as the background picture.
Finally we used ink blowing through straws to create a picture of our favourite bubble. Miss Walker made sure we used tissues to stop us accidently tasting the ink...
Bubble Magic!
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Life Education Week
Room 8 is gaining from our time in the Life Education mobile classroom this week. We are learning about how to look after our bodies and what our heart, lungs, stomach and brains do. Some of the children were invited to be 'doctors' and to show their classmates where these parts of the body belong on the model.
We also gained some tips on how to be a good friend and look after each other. We are all special!
Book Week
As Term 2 began, Room 8 celebrated Literacy Week by reading about and dressing up as, our favourite book characters. Pirates, witches, fairies and more, played happily with Hairy Maclary and his friends.
Didn't we enjoy the parade!
We also decided to learn more about local Author Lynley Dodd, as her books were among the most enjoyed in our class library.
Hairy MacLary - you're a star!
Busy Bees
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Rainbow Magic
We are learning about rainbows this week, as part of our Weather and Water Topic. How many colours does a rainbow have? What are the names of the colours? What order do the colours go in? We used Kidpix to show our learning. It was tricky to draw all the colours together in an arc shape! Everybody's rainbow looked different, just like we do!
I can see a rainbow!
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