Term 2 - Week 7 and 8

Last week we began our unit on sustainability. Sarah from the Enviro Centre came and talked to us about the things we could do to reduce the amount of landfill. She brought lots of rubbish with her and we looked carefully at each piece to decide if we could reuse or recycle it. Recycling is great for the environment!

After the visit from Sarah we decided to look at what things we could reuse in the classroom. We emptied out the paper recycling box and looked carefully at everything in it. We decided that we could use all the paper that had only been written on one side again and took it out. Here is the sorting in progress:

After sorting the paper we were still left with a lot. We have been busy recycling the scrap paper into new paper and hopefully everybody will have a piece each to do something special with, Recycling paper is hard work!

Mixing the paper into pulp.

Flipping the paper onto the drying card.

Sponging out the excess water.

The children have been using our Numicon equipment to learn some amazing new maths skills. Coby spent a long time finding different ways to make 10 and Ellebethel ordered the numbers all the was up to 10. Ka pai tō mahi!

Our tinkering area has been a big hit the last couple of weeks. So far we have taken apart some speakers, a phone and an old toaster. It has been very interesting to see what the inside of all these things looked like. Do you have any old (and broken) electronic equipment that we could take apart? If so please bring it into school.

Ka kite everyone.

Weeks 5 and 6

What a great 2 weeks we have had in Room 8, more new faces have joined us and there has been a real buzz in the classroom. We have been busy with 2 trips out of school, the cross country and a visit to kindy. We were fortunate to have a lovely day for the cross country and all the children gave it their best. I have lots of photos of children racing but here are just a few of them:

At kindy there were lots of new things to explore and old friends to visit. We taught the kindy children our good morning song and they showed us their play of 'The Seven Fish of Matariki'. Here is some of the children performing the song and a few action shots:

Last week we had a 'Power Free Day'. Lots of children brought torches to school and we spent some of the morning designing and building huts. There were lots of changes throughout the process but everyone was happy with the final product. Here are some of the budding architects:

Week 7 already next week, the term really is racing by!