Simple machines!

We have been learning all about simple machines. Our favourite ones are levers and pulleys because they help us lift things. We have been playing with them in class to figure out how they work.

Fraction fun!

We have been learning about fractions in maths and our student teacher had a fun lesson for us. First we got to play with playdough and make pizzas! We were learning about halves so we cut our pizzas in half and shared them with a friend. Some of us even pretended to eat them! Then we traced around lots of shapes on paper and cut them out and folded them in half. We cut them down the middle with scissors and glued them into our maths book. Now we are starting to understand what a half means...next up we will try quarters!

Our lamb visitors!

This voicethread is about our lamb visitors that we had recently. You can play all our comments by pushing the play button or just to hear one of us you click on our pictures. It will automatically go to the next page or you can click on the arrow. We loved having the lambs come and visit us at school!

Gymnastics!

For the last few weeks in P.E. we have been doing some basic gymnastics. Last year we were lucky enough to go to the Bruce Pullman Centre with proper instructors and equipment, but this year we managed to still have lots of fun just doing what we could at school. We used our playground and some basic equipment in the auditorium to work on our balancing, jumping and landing skills. We noticed great improvement in our balancing and upper body strength in just a few weeks! And of course we had lots and lots of FUN!!

Making marvellous muffins!

Last week our shared book was called 'The King's cake' by Jill Eggleton. We loved reading it and thought it would be a good idea to make a cake in our class! Miss Baker looked for a cake tin but could only find a muffin tin but we liked that because it meant that we got a little cake each!! We made yummy banana chocolate chip muffins and each of us took turns to measure and mix. The video shows how we made them and how much fun we had!

We miss Kashin!

Dear Burma,
I am sorry about Kashin dying. I will miss her and I feel very sorry. I loved Kashin and I hope you feel ok. I liked it when you played with each other. Kashin was clever to push logs with her trunk. From Chelsea

Dear Auckland Zoo,
I feel sad because Kashin died yesterday. We visited the zoo this year. We saw Kashin rolling a log in the log race. Kashin was a clever elephant and a tickly elephant. We will all miss you in Room 7 Kashin. From Kevan

To the Zoo,
I feel sad. Kashin was my favourite animal at the zoo. Kashin was the bomb!! She had a big brain and was nice to people and was good at lifting. The zoo keepers are the bomb too because they looked after her! From Drew

To the Zoo,
I am sad because Kashin died. She did cool tricks and she looked soft and hairy. Kashin liked mud baths so she didn’t get sunburnt. I wish I could hug Kashin. You must be sad at the zoo too. Kashin was so brave and she had big muscles. From N’Kastro

Dear Burma,
Do you miss Kashin? All our school miss her. I liked it when Kashin dipped her long trunk in the water and squirted water out of it. I think the zoo keepers will miss Kashin a lot. I do. From Georgia

We love buddy reading!

In Room 7 we love to read! And we especially love buddy reading! Sometimes in class we get a chance to read to each other and twice a term we buddy up with another class in the school! Last week we did buddy reading with Room 17 from the middle school. It was nice and sunny so we went outside to share our reading. The whole school was buddy reading at the same time so everywhere you looked people were reading to each other...how cool is that!!