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.

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