Road Safety entries...

Over the last several weeks some groups of children have been working hard on creating a storyboard about staying safe as they come to school.

This was the process each group followed:
1.  Brainstorm different ways to keep safe on their way to school.
2.  Choose one of the ways to keep safe.
3.  Decide who their characters will be.
4.  Plan a beginning, middle and ending for their story.
5.  Follow their plan and create a storyboard (stretch out their beginning, middle and ending).
6.  Re-read their storyboard, change, add or delete...
7.  Miss O'Neill put their creation onto a powerpoint, then printed it.  The groups then had to re-edit it.
8.  Record their voices reading the story.

So you can see it was an extremely long process - how clever are the children from Room 10!

Here is Rosie and Timothy's creation:

Rosie and timothy safer journeys from keenyoneill

Here is Alura and Julie's creation:

Alura and julie safer journeys from keenyoneill

School Holidays

Mr Bojangles resting.

Oh dear!  Both Miss O'Neill and Mr Bojangles have been sick with the flu over most of the holidays.  Luckily after lots of rest we are feeling much better and can't wait to see everyone again on Monday.

While we were sick we discovered some ways to stop our germs reaching other people.  I wonder if Room 10 know these too?

1.  Wash our hands, especially after using the toilet, coughing, sneezing and blowing our noses.  In Room 10 we share a lot of things like pencils and crayons...let's show WE CARE by washing our hands regularly.

2.  Cough or sneeze into our elbows if we can.  If we cough or sneeze into our hands...remember to wash them straight away.

3.  Don't come to school sick!  Keep your germs at home!

Adam from Kelly Sports

On Monday Room 10 were lucky enough to have Adam (from Kelly Sports) come and take us for PE. We love Adam!  He teaches us how to play so many fun games which make us move, jump, pass the ball and lots more.

Here we are playing Volcanoes and Valleys!  Make a comment if you are interested in how to play this game!

Mr Bojangles trip to Orana Park!

Rosie took Mr Bojangles to Orana Park the other day...what a treat!

A view from the sky...

Here is a picture of our beautiful school from the air.

See if you can find the following:
1.  Room 10
2.  Middle playground
3.  School hall
4.  Lunch area
5.  What else can you see?

Room 10 Photo

A few weeks ago we had our class photos done.  

Here is ours.  

What an absolutely good looking classroom we are!

A wee mistake...Warren was also absent on photo day.

June 22

Yay!  The sun came out today!

To begin the day we had Discovery Time (which was cancelled last time due to the snow).  In Room Ten, children could choose from three activities.

1.  Spinning wool!  Alura's nana (Mrs Renaud) brought along her spinning wheel and some wool for children to spin.  Lots of boys and girls wanted to have a turn.

2.  Mini-computers!  Some children practiced their math, word and problem-solving skills on some online games.

3.  Mexican Hats!  We decorated some polystyrene cups with felts, then popped them into our new oven.  The children loved watching the cups shrink into mexican hats.

A huge thank you to Denise Renaud (Alura's Nana) and Leah van Zijl (Martina's Mum) for helping out at Discovery Time.  Parent help is always valued and appreciated.

As earlier stated Otakaro have a new oven!  Not only that but we actually have two new ovens and 2 new hot plates.  We are very excited about them.  So in the afternoon we made some biscuits as part of our Inquiry on 'Changing Matter'.  We discovered the term viscosity  (different thicknesses of liquids).  We made a biscuit dough which is a liquid (but very thick) and turned it into a solid by cooking it.

Rosie and Shikana mixing the butter, sugar and egg together.

The biscuits cooking in our new oven!

Rosie and Shikana think the biscuits look pretty good!