Hockey

Today we had Dianne and Chelsea come to school to teach us some hockey skills.
We learnt...

• you need to hit the hockey ball with the flat side of the stick
• we need to keep the hockey stick below your knees (but in a real game of hockey its below your shoulders)
• three types of dribbles - Indian, open and closed dribbles
• how to hold a hockey stick properly - left hand on the top and right hand down on the shiny part

After we practised these skills we played a game of hockey stuck in the mud.

Watch these videos to see us in action!

What sport do you play?
What is your favourite sport and why?

Making musical straws

Today we made some musical straws. This is how we made them...

1. Flatten one end of the straw.

2. Cut the corners to make an upside down V

3. Blow through the tip of the straw to make a sound

4. Cut the bottom of the straw shorter and shorter and keep blowing

What did we notice?

The straw made different sounds.

As we cut the straw shorter the sound got higher and higher.

Shorter = high sound, Longer = lower sound

We found out that to make the sound the air inside the straw was vibrating.

Maori phrases

Listen to us speaking maori.

listen to ‘Toby’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Courtney’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Loren’ on Audioboo

Book Fair Week 2012

Book Fair Week and Character Dress-up Day on PhotoPeach

This week we had our Book Fair week.
We visited our library to see all the new books that we could buy.
We ended the week by dressing up as our favourite book character.

What characters can you see in our photopeach?


What is your favourite book character and why?

Happy Mothers Day to all our Fantastic Mums!

We love our Mums! We hope our Mums have a Happy Mother's Day on Sunday!

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Our school logo

Welcome to our quadblogging buddies!! We hope you enjoy viewing our blog this week and making comments. We will try to reply to your comments so please ask us questions so we can reply!

This is our school logo. Loren has created a comic life page that tells you all about our logo.

What did you learn from our school logo?

What did you find interesting?

What questions do you still have about our school logo?

ANZAC biscuits

Today some children made ANZAC biscuits because tomorrow is ANZAC day.

We learnt about the history of ANZAC biscuits and this is what we learnt...

Katie "I learnt that ANZAC biscuits ingredients didn't go off becasue there are no eggs or milk in them and they were good for the soldiers Mums and wives to make because they didn't go off"


Dakota "ANZAC biscuits used to be called soldiers biscuits"


Megan "ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps"


Toby "ANZAC biscuits used to be made out of different ingredients than the biscuits we buy today"


Loren " ANZAC biscuits were first made nearly 100 years ago"


Courtney " ANZAC biscuits were good to make for soldiers because they were really easyto make" 

Here are some photos of the children making ANZAC biscuits.

Thank you to Miss Rogers who helped us make them! They were yum!

Quadblogging - Round 2

We are signed up for round 2 of Quadblogging! Yahoo! What a great way to make global connections with other bloggers!

Here is the timetable..... (Click on the photos below)

Week 1 - St Augustine’s Junior School

Week 2 – Uphall Primary School

Week 3 – Vardon School (That's us!)

Week 4 – The Kinkaid School

Watch this video and listen to what these students think of quadblogging.

Our pre-ideas about ANZAC Day

Hi Room 7

I hope you have all had a wonderful holiday!

Before we learn about ANZAC Day tell me what you already know...

When we have all added our pre-ideas we can start our learning journey!

Waitomo Caves Posters

Our Waitomo Caves Posters on PhotoPeach

Visit our E-journals to see our individual reflections on our posters. 

Science Experiment

Listen to Katie and Loren explain today's science experiment. 

Earth Hour

What will you be doing at 8:30pm on Saturday 31st March during Earth Hour?

 

Crystal Flower Experiment

Watch our Animoto show about our science experiment- We made crystal flowers. Tomorrow we post how we did this experiment and what is happening so far....

Thank you to these children who wanted to explain what is happening so far to our crystal flowers. Stay in touch for when up update the progress again and also our scientific knowledge of how the salt crystals are actually forming.

Amazing Caves around the World

Watch this video clip on Amazing Caves around the World. Do you think the Waitomo Caves will be in it? Why?
What are the similarities and differences between these caves?
What do you find interesting and what questions do you have? Make a comment...

Waitomo Caves

This is a video that Toby made about our trip to the Waitomo Caves.

Swimming Demonstration to Parents

Our Swimming Demonstration to Parents on PhotoPeach


Today we had a swimming demonstration to parents. We showed our parents our wonderful swimming.

Caves

The Waitomo Caves
What did you learn from our trip to these caves?





The Cave of Swallows in Mexico.
This cave is 400m deep!
PS - Do NOT try this at home!




We saw sinkholes on our caves trip. Look at these HUGE sinkholes in Guataemala.
How are sinkholes made?

Our questions about caves

Tomorrow we are going on an adventure to The Waitomo Caves.
Today we brainstormed some questions about caves and cave creatures.
Here are some of our questions...

1. How does a glow-worms light work?


2. What do glow-worms look like up close?


3. What do stalagmites do when they reach the top of the cave?


4. How long has Waitomo Caves been around for?


5. How many years does it take to make a column?


6. How deep is the water in the caves?


7. What are caves made out of?


8. Why are stalagmites and stalactites made in caves? why aren't they made anywhere else?


9. Do glow-worms sleep?


10. What do glow-worms eat?


11. How long does it take for a cave to change shape?


12. How do caves change shape?

We are hoping to answer all these questions when we get back from our trip! :)

Waitomo Caves

On Tuesday we are off on our Waitomo Caves adventure! Yay!
Look at this voicethread...
1. What might it be like inside the cave?
2. What is the second photo showing?
3. What are glow-worms?

29th February 2012

2012 is a leap year. Do you know what that means?
The link about is a blogging project. Let's click into it to see if we can join all the other bloggers around the world on 29th Febrary 2012!

Class Award

This is a photo of Room 7 and the class award that we got presented with today, on Friday 24th February. We got it because we worked hard to make a great class tone.
This means we have worked together as a team to make our classroom a happy and safe place for us to learn. We are using nice words and being kind friends to each other. We are using the 4 R's and being Powerful Learners. The 4 R's are; resilience, resourcefulness, relationships and reflection.
We feel happy and excited that our class got chosen by Mrs Paton who is our Deputy Principal.

Powerful Learners

This week we are focusing on being Powerful Managers of both our learning and behaviour. In groups we discussed what this means and are trying to 'spot' members of our class being a powerful manager!
Listen to how we are going to show that we are being powerful learners at school.

Tadpoles and Frogs

We have one tadpole left in our class. We used to have three but unfortunately two passed away :(

We have asked questions to find out more information about tadpoles and frogs.

Can you please tell us what YOU know about tadpoles and frogs. You can either leave a comment or email us at room7@vardon.school.nz.

School Tabloids

Room 7 having a tug-of-war competition!!! PULL, PULL, PULL

It was Tabloids yesterday and we had fun! There were activities like; spoon races, parachute, water activities, sack races and throwing games.

Katie thinks "It was really good how we didn't have the same games like last year"

Loren says "My favourite activity was the water activities"

Toby "The acivity I liked the most was the parachute games"

Leah "My favourite game was the sack races because there was lots of bouncing and cheering"

Courtney "My favourite part was having fun with my friends and competing against the other team"

Dakota "I liked the water activity because Mrs Paraha kept spraying water on us with the hose"

Christian "I like tabloids because I did a sponge race and spoon and egg race"

Makayla "I liked the egg and spoon race because it was fun competing against other teams"

Megan "I enjoyed the sponge race because you had to have the sponge and put in the water and run back and squeeze the water into the bucket"

Jade " I liked the water activities because you fill the bucket up to the top with water to win"

Korean Visitors

Today we had visitors from Korea. First we introduced ourselves.

We sung a song about catch the mouse. We wrote our names in Korean and we learnt to speak a few words.
We also played games for fun.

Here are some videos of us singing and speaking in Korean.

Responsibility

Pop Art

We learnt about Andy Warhol and Pop Art. We also learnt to turn our portrait photos into a piece of Pop Art by using bright colour pastels and different pastel techniques to create our art.

Pop Art on PhotoPeach


Check our our E-Journals where we will post our pop art pictures and a reflection (within the next week).

ICT Challenge

Mrs Gunn and Mrs Natusch have set an ICT challenge for Room 7 &14 (Blogging Buddies).
Here is the challenge....

Visit our E-journals to see if we have been successful!!!

Maths

We are learning to carry out an investigation.

We have asked a question and we are recording the answers on a tally chart.

We enjoyed learning about what room 7 likes and finding out information about Room 7.

We will post our graphs and conclusions on our blogs soon!

TEAM activity

This is an activity that Room 7 enjoyed because we had to use TEAM work and we had lots of fun.

From Toby

ICT suite

This is our first time in the ICT site this year. The Year 4's were the helpers and they were amazing!!

The year 4's helped us with logging on the computers, signing in to our blogs and writing our very first post.

Learning survey

Our School - Vardon School

our school on PhotoPeach


This is our school.
We hope you enjoy the photos!
From Room 7

Room 7 2012

Hello!

Room7 is back at school we have 20 people in our class with 12 girls and 8 boys we also have 9 year 4's and 11 year 3's. Our school has 15 class-rooms and 330 students. Our favourite things at school is reading, writing, maths,spelling and we love art.

By Loren and Katie

Here are some questions for you.

How many people are at your school?

How many people are in your class?

Do you like researching on the computer?

What is your Principal's name?

Our Qualities....

Let us know what qualities you think makes a happy, safe and positive classroom.

To our quad blogging buddies... feel free to add your own ideas either with a sticky note or a comment :)

Good-Bye 2011

Thank you for a wonderful year Room 7. You are truly amazing!!!
Have a great summer holiday.
See you back at school on 31st January 2012!

From Mrs Natusch

PS - Year 4's - Enjoy the senior school.
Year 3's - I can't wait to see you develop into year 4 leaders!!!

Room 7 2012

We are looking forward to....

Megan "Harder maths"

Loren "Being a role model"

Aaron "Being in art club"

Adriaan "Reading"

Courtney "Writing"

Titus "Being in Kapa Haka"

Leah "Getting to go on the middles playground"

Ashton "ICT club"

Jade "On the middles playground"

Dakota "Being a Year 4"

Victoria "The year 2's getting to know us"

Katie "Getting to be a year four leader"

Kasiti "Coming to room 7"

Christian "ICT club"

Stars of Room 7 2011.... What a year it has been!!!

Our end of year picnic!!!

Tug-of-War

Today we had fun with Dianne from Project Energize. We had a game of tug-of-war against other classes.

Room 7 versed Room 10 and Room 10 won.

"It was hard" Maia

"I had lot's of fun" Kharma

"I thought it looked like it was lots of fun" Megan

"I like how room 7 tried to pull the rope but they just couldn't beat room 10" Katie

Thanks Dianne for coming to school and taking this fun lunchtime activity!!!

Christmas

Christmas Song

Parent\Teacher\class relays

Parent/Teacher/Class relays on PhotoPeach

We had so much fun running against the teacher and parents!

Christmas song

Relays

Relays!!!! on PhotoPeach

High Jump and Long Jump

Athletics on PhotoPeach