Balloon Static
It was all about balloons in Room 5 today. We were investigating how to make static electricity and show electricity attracting and repelling. We learnt that everything around us is made up of tiny little [...]
Hot Yeast Buns
Today we cooked some hot yeast buns. It was great fun kneading the dough and shaping it into our buns. We had to wait for the yeast to work so the buns would rise. Luckily [...]
Play Centre Visit
On Thursday Room 1 walked down to play centre. We played and had fun. Wish we could have swings at Tomarata School.
Playdough time!!
On Thursday morning we got all our ingredients together - Flour, cream of tartar, salt, oil, boiling water and food colouring. We each had a turn at measuring, stirring, tipping and mixing. It [...]
Maths Whizz
Maths Whizz has had an update. It no longer requires "Flash" to operate which means we can log in with Safari. There is a whole new look to the programme that the students are very [...]
Aussie Rules
We had an exciting time today learning the rules and skills for Aussie Rules. We ended our skills session with a kicking game and we can see already we have some great kickers who might [...]
Monarch Butterflies
We have heaps of caterpillars, chrysalises and butterflies on our swan plants. The caterpillars are running out of leaves and have found our new plants that we were trying to keep caterpillar free until they [...]
Baking biscuits
There were not many of us left at school on our Rodney College swimming day so Room 4 and Room 5 got together to do some cooking. We made chocolate chip biscuits. It was interesting [...]
Energy with Ester
Today we learnt a lot about energy with Ester, from Vector. We learnt about the different types of energy and how we use energy. It was interesting to see how New Zealand generates electricity and [...]
Feelin’ the pressure
We did a science activity with Mrs Dunn involving air pressure. We filled a glass to the top with water, put a card on top of the glass and then turned the glass upside down. [...]