Water rockets recounts.

A man named Greg came to our school and taught us a few things about water rockets.  We launched a few and we learnt that if the rockets have a heavy nose cone they go  a lot higher and faster but if they have a light nose cone it doesn't go that fast or high.

By Orla

I made my water rocket by myself.  Some of it came out really bad but the good thing was I got a lego man.  Then we launched like 10 or 20 rockets.  Every time we had to do a count down ...5...4...3...2...1... BLAST OFF!

By Tim 

5, 4, 3, 2, 1 blast off.  If you make a tall water rocket try not to kill yourself or anyone else.  If you make a small one with a hard nose cone it will launch up fast and good.  I made a small water rocket but we haven't launched it yet.

By Sienna

On Monday at school after morning tea we went to launch some rockets with "oh great one".  There was one that went over the sick bay and then it nearly hit someone in the head!

By Nikao

I launched  my rocket.  It is black on the body and has yellow tape so I could decorate it and put my name on it.  When I saw them  choose my rocket I did not want to launch it.  But then after I had launched it I wanted to launch it again!  It went and it just touched the cloud.  

By Molly

TODAY WE LAUNCHED SOME OF OUR WATER ROCKETS!

WATER ROCKETS

 Today Mr Fawcet came to visit us.  He is an expert water rocket maker.  He taught us how to make awesome water rockets.  We even got to watch them being launced.  Gravity is AMAZING!

We watched the water rockets being projected into the air.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1  BLAST OFF!

FORCES

National Poetry Day

Learning about money

  

Today Tessa from ASB came to talk to us about how to be a superhero about money.
She taught us a chant that goes like this:

A melting pot of cultures

This term in Social Studies, we have been learning all about the cultures within our families and those who come into the area we live in.  We all made a family tree at home and here they are displayed in Room 1. Every family has a their own culture.  We all have similarities and differences.  It's great learning about each other.   What a great job Room 1.  

MEET OUR PET ROCKS

OUR ROCK BUFFET

 Today we made sedimentary rock.  We used kruskit biscuts, icing and sprinkles.

 Next we ate our layered rocks.

Nothing but delicious!

THE SEAGULL

What fantastic beady eyed seagulls Room 1!

Room 1 children learning Maori through games

WORKING AND LEARNING TOGETHER IS LOTS OF FUN.  HERE WE ARE LEARNING BY PLAYING A NEW MAORI GAME THAT MS NEILL TAUGHT US- AWHINA HOKI

OUR GEOLOGY STUDY

How the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was discovered.

Maybe some people sailed in the sea and they saw the rainbow and they followed it to see if there was anything at the end. They saw the pot of gold and they wrote it on a piece of paper and brought one of the coins with them.  They took the coin back and the piece of paper back and put them in the newspaper and on the computers for everyone to see.  That is how the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was discovered.

By Alice in Room 1 who is 6 years old.

WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT 2D AND 3D SHAPES THIS TERM

We are finding shapes everywhere.
In the classroom.
On our clothes.
On the patterns of our clothes.
Outside in the playground.
In our lunch boxes.
Wow!  Shapes are everywhere.
See what shapes you can find at home.

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 2

Here we are all back at school enjoying and inside lunch.  We are very hungry today!

CASS THE COLOUR ROBBER

OUR BIG BOOK THIS WEEK HAS BEEN CASS THE COLOUR ROBBER.
He steals all the colours from nature and puts it in his colour sack.  When everything is black and white around him he decides he does't really like it so he sets all the colours free.
Room 1 love this book.  Here are some of our pictures of Cass we are drawing.