Welcome Miss Hunter
Today Room 4 welcomed Miss Hunter a student teacher from Massey University into their classroom. Miss Hunter is observing Room 4 until the end of term. She will also take some small Reading groups and [...]
Te-Hawere-a-Maki (Goat Island) Visit
What a fun packed day we had. Upon arriving at Goat Island we had our brain break and then we turned into scientists. Using our square metre, we prodded and poked to discover what was in the sand [...]
Student Voice Reps
Congratulations to Tara Williams and Andrew McNaughten for being voted to represent Room 4 at Student Voice meetings. Erin Ostermann is our back up representative, if either Andrew or Tara are unable to attend meetings. [...]
The Potato Obstacle Race
Our science experiment for the next few weeks is placing a potato in shoe box giving it some soil to rest on and some things we use in the classroom and a hole at the [...]
Future Black Caps
Yesterday morning Room 4 got the opportunity to experience holding a cricket bat correctly. Especially which side of the bat was to connect with the ball. Then we learnt how to place our hands so [...]
The Skylighters
Sara's mum came to school today and read one of Sara's favourite books. The Skylighters. Today we experienced a lot of bad weather - thunder, lightning, heavy rain, and so Sara's mum thought she would [...]
Wait and See
Science Experiment this week involves using our eyes only. We needed 2 eggs, 2 containers, water and vinegar. Filling one container with water and one container with vinegar we put one egg in each container. [...]
Smell and Taste
Room 2 discovered that you need to use two senses to get a taste - small and taste together. Hold your nose and loose the sense smell and you could not guess correctly whether you [...]
Room 2 Scientists
Room 2 turns into Scientists on Thursdays. Room 2 are going to use their 5 senses: touch, smell, see, hear and taste to investigate science experiments. The first experiment we did used: - water - [...]