What have we been up to?

Miss Keeling has been very busy during her time with us. She has been teaching us how to look after our teeth. Here is a video of Dr Rabbit showing us how to brush our teeth.

Joshua and Te Aroha showed us how to brush the front, back, side and inside of our teeth...and our tongue too!

All of Room 10 were given their own toothbrush and toothpaste to take home - how cool!

Miss Keeling has also been teaching us how to model with salt dough. The children looked at different types of masks and discussed the various facial features (eyes, nose, mouth etc), then drew a plan of their own mask. We used salt dough to make a model from our plan and painted it to make it look like real life. Here is a video of our masks. Can you see how many masks actually look like their creator?


Don't the masks look ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!

The other day Room 10 earned their third whole class reward for the year. We made jelly, then ate it with some ice cream - yum!


It is Miss Keeling's last day with us on Friday and we are very sad. It has been awesome to have her with us for the past 7 weeks and we will miss her very much. On Friday we are going to have a shared lunch and party. Room 10 will need to bring a plate of finger food to share.

The Muntstones!

Anyone know The Flintstones? Introducing The Muntstones!



(It's a pity the movie makers added the last little bit...it kind of spoils it?).

Room 10 loved this! We thought it was a great way to use humour to hide our actual feelings and try to move on.

We are back!

Yesterday we returned to school after Monday's aftershocks.

It was terrific to see nearly a full class!

Cody spend his day off on Tuesday baking...he brought some iced biscuits to school for us - what a treat! Thanks, Cody! They were yummy!

Lots of turtles!

Today we had a lot of turtles at school!

Once again we were bombarded with earthquakes. At lunch time a 5.5 quake struck, and like the amazing children they are, Room 10 immediately got into turtle position, then congregated on the field once the shaking stopped.

Parents came immediately to check on their children, and were allowed to take them home if desired. We were left with 9 children for the afternoon. So we thoguht we would play some maths games.

During our game of fraction bingo a 6.0 quake struck, and we had to form the turtle position again, then move outside once the shaking had stopped. School was officially closed for the day.

Room 10 - you were very brave! I know you were very scared, but I thought you were ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!

School is closed tomorrow (Tuesday 14th June) while the buildings are assessed. A wee reminder that we are supposed to be boiling our water again (that is if you have water and power!). When school re-opens, please bring bottled water to drink (in case we have not got clean drinking water).

Kia kaha, take care, and look after yourselves.

Maths games

On Friday it poured with rain, which meant no sport skills. Instead, we thought it would be a great way to finish the week with some maths games. We chose a partner and played maths games around the classroom. We had 4 minutes at each game...loads of fun!

The best part was that we learned how to play our new games. Watch our video and see if you know any of our maths games!

Rebuild Christchurch

Rosie and her family found this video about rebuilding Christchurch. Rosie thought her classmates might enjoy it. Thanks Rosie!

Lots of news!!!

It has been a very long time since a post was added to our classroom blog, and so much has happened!

First of all, we must introduce Miss Keeling. Miss Keeling is a Graduate School of NZ Education intern and is working in Room 10 for 7 weeks (she only has 4 weeks left!). We think Miss Keeling is pretty amazing and ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! A big welcome to you, Miss Keeling.

A couple of weeks ago we had another Discovery Time and it was fun!!! One of the activities was the GIANT BUILDING BLOCKS. The children had heaps of fun building all sorts of creations.

Today we had a class reward, as we had earned 20 silver pieces of treasure. So we decided to combine the reward with our blend of the week (SH)....to make sherbet!!! Yum! Yum! We had a paper bag and into this bag we had to put 1T icing sugar, 1/8t baking soda, and 1/8 t citric acid. We were allowed to taste the different ingredients...one was sweet, one was fizzy, and one tasted like orange. It was a great activity to help each other with too.
After school, Cody and his Mum were a little distracted...looked what happened to Cody's sherbet! It went all over his little sister, Ella...oops!

Over the last week we have been busy writing thank you letters to our friends at Halcombe School. Today, just before school ended, we wandered over to the post box, so that we could post our very own letters. A big thank you to Gavin (Robert's dad), Georgina (Joseph's mum) and Reana (Phoebe's mum) for walking with us across the busy road.