BlackOut Day

We all dressed in Black to wish the All Blacks lots of luck!

moveMprove

For 8 weeks on Thursdays we are doing moveMprove. It is a lot of fun as we balance, swing and practise our landings.

Planting veges

We planted some veges in the garden with Room 6 children. We can't wait for them to grow.

Inside the Big Blue Box is...

It was a box with science stuff in it from Hutt Science. 
The theme of this box is 'Sweet and Sour'.

We opened our big blue box today and inside was lots of lunch boxes and some red cabbage!!
The lunch boxes had all the things we needed for the experiments.
We didn't do the experiment that needed the red cabbage.

We decided to make sherbet. All the things we needed were in the box.

helping each other

measuring the ingredients

waiting to taste

Mmmmm - not sure about the taste!

 We had a lot of discussion about what it tasted like and what happened to the powder when we put it in our mouth - it dissolved

Our question was - where did the water come from??
We had lots of ideas
Sophie said the powder mixed with the saliva in our mouth and it dissolved.

We learned that when the citric acid and baking soda mixed with our saliva, it creates Carbon dioxide and this causes the fizzy sensation on our tongue.

It was a lot of fun.

We made a flow chart about what we did...

Our Mysterious Big Blue Box!

We had a big blue box delivered to our classroom. We didn't know what was inside it, so we tried to guess.

Evan thought it could be a dinosaur egg
Lauren thought it could be a little rocket
Michael thought it could be a dinosaur bone
Ana thought it could be new books
Diana thought it could be a talking robot
Nathan thought it could be some new games
Katelyn thought it could be model planets
James thought it could be toy cars
Sophie thought it could be some new balls
Kallam thought it could be a plane
Sarah thought it could be a seal skull
Joshua thought it could be an octopus
Jonah thought it could be tools
Adam thought it could be flags
Connor thought it could be new pencils
Jordy thought it could be word cards
Hannah thought it could be pens
Coby thought it could be new toys

WHAT IS IN THE BIG BLUE BOX ?

Tennis Coaching

Today we had our first coaching session for Hot Shots Tennis. Paddy is our coach.
We started by playing games to warm up. We played a variation of Rob the Nest. It was fun.
When we were warm, we practised throwing and catching the ball over the net with a partner. We then progressed onto hitting the thrown ball with a racquet. It wasn't easy!!
We are all looking forward to next Monday for our next session.

Sunhats

Now is the time to start finding your sunhat ready for term 4.

It is compulsory to wear sunhats in term 4 when we are outside.

Our hats have to have a brim and cover our necks - caps are unsuitable

Suitable hats include...

 

Remember it is...
...NO HAT... NO PLAY

Room 4 Lucky Winners

At our last assembly of the term we had a lucky draw.
In the week before we had to colour a picture of the Popup Ice Rink in Lower Hutt.
Cheryl Salt from the Professionals, donated some family tickets to go ice skating.
Here are room 4's lucky winners...

Don't they look happy

Chinese Dragons

Dragon dances feature in Chinese festivals.
We made our own dragons.