Healthy Drinks

Millie from Project Energize came to school to talk to us about healthy drinks. We have to order the drinks form the least amount of sugar to the most amount of water.

Water has NO sugar and E2 has the most sugar - 20 teaspoons!!!!!

We sorted the drinks into... everyday drinks, sometimes drinks and occasional drinks.

Our thoughts....

Ariana "Raro has 4 teaspoons of sugar in it and that E2 has 20 teaspoons of sugar" "I was surprised the V has less sugar than coke!"

Lucas "Don't drink unhealthy drinks with lots of sugar in them:

Maia "I thought that V would have more sugar then E2 and coke would more sugar than E2" "I thought that flavoured water would be healthy but it has sugar in it"

Loren "I learnt that every time you breath you lose water from your body"

Kharma " Don't drink drinks that have caffeine in them at all!"

Mrs N "I like flavoured water and I am surprised how much sugar it has in it!"

Holiday sharing....

Wyton Rufer visits our school

Today we met the famous soccer player.... Wyton Rufer!!!

He is a retired soccer player and he now coaches soccer. He told stories about soccer and the soccer world cup in 2009.

He asked us questions and the correct answers got a prize!!!

Ian Foster's talk to Vardon School

This morning Ian Foster who is the ex-coach of the Chiefs came to our school to talk to us at assembly.

His key messages were:

• how the 4R's help with both rugby and at school



• "stand tall" is a positive phrase that you can say to build relationships



• resilience - never give up with our learning - that's just the same as in rugby




• even though they have lost some games they have to keep trying and knowing that they are still good. So at school we can keep trying with our learning.

Now.... after we have listening to Ian Foster's messages we are going to....

• we are going to use the 4R's to help us with our learning!



• NEVER GIVE UP!!!

What we know NOW about Matariki!!

We learnt a lot about Matariki. This is what we learnt.....

Matariki

Our pre-ideas about Matariki....

Our river walk

river walk on PhotoPeach

Made by Toby

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

Last post for 2010

To room 7

Thank you for an amazing year!

Each one of you has grown in skill and confidence in different areas of your learning. You should be very proud of your achievements!

Keep working hard next year!!

P.S - Year 3's... I'm going to enjoy watching you continue on your learning journeys!!

From Mrs N :)

Dancing Queens

Well done to our Dancing Queens who came 5th in the National Jump jam competition.

From room 7 we had....

Brooke, Ariana, Deepika and Alannah.

You girls were AMAZING!!!

Opening Ceremony World Rowing Champs 2010

TERM 4 BIG IDEA

Our focus this term is .... CHALLENGE.

Think about this.... What is a challenge?

Do you need to win to succeed?

NZ athletes winning medals!!!

http://www.3news.co.nz/3Sport/CommonwealthGames2010/tabid/1436/Default.aspx

What challenges did these athletes have to overcome to get medals at the 2010 Commonwealth games?

Happy holidays!!!!

To all the wonderful children in room 7

Have a safe, relaxing and fun holiday!!!
See you back for term 4 soon!!
Be ready for lots more exciting learning!!!!

From Mrs N :)

Master Chef cook-off

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To end our topic of CHANGE we had a master chef cook-off. Each class made something.

Room 7 made hokey pokey to show that..... the baking soda releases all of its gas (CO2) and makes a chemical reaction with the sugar and golden syrup. That makes it bubbly and frothy.

Here is the recipe:

Put 5 tablespoons of sugar into a pot.

Put 2 tablespoons of golden syrup into the pot.

Out the pot on a low heat to dissolve the sugar.

Boil on a low heat for 4 minutes.

Put one teaspoon of baking soda into the pot.

Stir quickly and spoon out onto a greased tray.

ENJOY!!!

Science

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Learning 2010

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Watch this slideshow to see some of our amazing learning!!!

Danika's Experiment

Making Hokey Pokey

Watch us mix baking soda to our sugar and golden syrup to get...... hokey pokey!!!

Science experiment

What is happening in this experiment?

Baking soda and vinegar experiment

Chemical reaction (Jude)

The baking soda and vinegar made a chemical reaction (Bailey)

The baking soda and vinegar created Co2 gas and bubbles (Deepika)

You cannot get the baking soda back (Maia)

Soluble (Koston)

Irreversible-the baking soda cannot come back (Jahmin)

Yeast is alive!!!!

Did you know that yeast is alive??

What happens when you add sugar to yeast and warm water?

Why does bread need yeast?

Watch this experiment to see how yeast produces Co2 (carbon dioxide gas).

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Jarrod explains to Kheola about our experiment... why some liquids don't mix.

Do you now why some liquids don't mix?

Cross country

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We have a new blog called Sensational Spelling.
This blog will explain what we are learning to do in spelling, examples of what we are learning and reflections.

We are in the process of linking this spelling blog to our individual blogs.

So... watch this space!!!!!

Cross Country

This week is our Middle Syndicate Cross Country.
We have been training for our cross country by learning how to pace ourselves and by setting goals.

The melting ice experiment below should say.... MELTING ICE not winter penguins!!!

We froze the same amount of water in different shaped containers. We watched them melt.

We found out that the more surface area a frozen block of water has the quicker it melts... because water melts from the outside first!!!

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Melting Ice Experiment!!!!!!

This is a fast one (at melting) because it has a large surface area.

In room7 we are learning about science.

We do lots of experiments with Ice and water.

Here we are tiring to figure out which block\cube melts first.

Our big idea this term is on CHANGE.

We are experiementing with ice and how it changes.

We know that...

1. ice is a solid
2. sugar mixed with water and then frozen melts faster than just ice
3. ice melts from the outside first
4. water is a liquid

We did an experiment with a large ice cube. We put water, food dye and salt on it.

The salt dissolved a little bit and it left a hole in the ice.

Welcome back to term 3!!!

To Room 7
Hi guys!
I hope you had a relaxing and fun holiday!
Now it's time to get back into it - setting new goals and trying hard to achieve them!!
You will see on the right side of this blog is 'My Blog List'. All children in Room 7 have their blogs listed... so click into yours and have fun reflecting on your work.
This term we are going to be adding more and more reflections on our learning.
Have a great term 3!
Mrs Natusch