Amazing Bridges

Learning the doubles to 20!!

Our ketes of strengths!

These our our ketes of strengths!! We have written our strengths on "seeds of knowledge" and placed them inside our ketes.

What do you think of them? Please write a comment.

Bridges and the Waikato river - HISTORY

Gourd

Mrs Anderson came into our class a told us about what a gourd was.

What do you know about rivers?

What do you know about Bridges? Pre-ideas...

Message from Mrs Natusch

To Room 7


Wow! What a wonderful term! It went by so quickly!


I have enjoyed seeing everyone work together as a team. Year 4's... I have been impressed with your leadership skills. I loved seeing you acting as leaders for the year 3's and modeling what working Room 7 looks like, sounds like and feels like. May it continue in term 2! :)


Year 3's... I have been impressed with how quickly you learned the Golden Rules! Well done!


This term we have another exciting topic to study!


Our topic focus is Technology and Social Sciences. We will be looking at our Waikato river and our Hamilton bridges. We will link this topic to Maori culture and what it means to us here at Vardon School.

Please click onthe wall below and post your first thoughts about the Waikato River and bridges.


See you soon!


Mrs Natusch :)

Raglan Videos

Maths practice

Click on these links to practice your times tables!!!! :)

http://www.mathsisfun.com/timestable.html


http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/


Click here to practice adding and subtracting!! :)

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/numberskills.html

Onomatopoeia

We learnt about Onomatopeia... words that look like they sound!!!

Cutting flax with Mrs Anderson

Mrs Anderson talked to us about how to cut flax. We had to say a karakia before we cut the flax to bless the flax. Then Mrs Anderson showed what flax to cut and what flax not to cut. We only cut the outside of the family (grandparents and the parents). We can't cut the baby flax because they need to grow. We also were showed how to cut the flax on an angle so the rain can drip off it.

We took the flax back to class and plaited it to make flax ropes.

We used the flax ropes to act out the legend of How Maui slowed the sun.

camp week

Our camp week was so fun because we all like going to beaches and camping over night . We all had fun !!!

Our Middle Syndicate Amazing Camp!!!!

camp week

Maui and the sun

For our topic we are studying solar energy.
We read the legend of Maui and the sun.
We also listened to this legend retold in maori.

Solar Energy

Which colour absorbs the most heat?

This is our colour experiment. We wanted to find out which colour absorbs the most heat?

We wrapped 3 chocolate biscuits in whit, red and black paper. We put them in the sun.

The black paper melted the chocolate chips, the red paper warmed the biscuit and the white paper didn't warm the biscuit.

So.... black absorbs the most heat!!!!

Working as a team!!

We had to line up in order of height without talking!!

To achieve this we had to work as a team and use facial expressions and gestures.

Shadows Experiment

Our pre-ideas..... about shadows.

Listen to Ella, Trinity and Alannah talk about their shadows experiment.

PS - turn your volume up loud so you can hear us!! :)

We learnt that our shadows moved because the sun was moving.

Our shadows started off long and then got shorter and shorter. They also moved to the left.

The higher the sun in the sky the shorter the shadow.

WELCOME TO 2011!!!

Welcome to 2011!!!

We have an exciting year packed full of challening and fun learning!!
We hope you enjoy reading our class blog.

Click into our individual blogs to find our how we are going with our learning.

Room 7 and Mrs Natsuch