A Wonderful Time Was Had By All...

The Athletics Sports were held today. At lunch time I was told by many teachers how well the seven and eight year olds behaved and performed. The two Room 16 relay teams ran well, the girls even won the Year Three Girls race. Great job everyone, sleep well tonight! 

A Good Case of the Blues

It's secret admirer week for the staff at St Albans this week. My S.A. knew my favourite colour (for the sky at least) is blue and so I was greeted by this lovely sight this morning.

Thank you Secret Admirer! And thanks too for making the sky blue this afternoon!

Good bye Sam, we'll miss you.

Lucky Ohoka School, they're getting our Sam.
Good luck Sam, we hope you have a wonderful time at Ohoka School.
Keep an eye on us and send us comments and emails.

We're On the Move...Around the Sun.

These children seem to have a good understanding of why we have night and day, and the four different seasons.

The Best White Bread Ever!

Today at school we made bread with Mrs Allen. Some of the ingredients were: water, salt and bread. When we put the bread mixture in and pressed start, the machine started to make a funny noise. After a while it stopped. Mrs Allen said that soon after morning tea, the bread will be ready. I'm looking forward to eating it.

by Kayla

Room 16 are making bread. There are two teams. The key ingredient is yeast, that makes the bread rise. I wish I could open the lid and eat it now! 

Mmmmm... what's that smell? It's the bread - it smells good. I wonder how much time until it is finished.

by Max

Today we made bread because it has to do with measuring and we're learning about measuring in Maths. 

Some of the ingredients we used were water, salt and butter. We used a bread machine. I got to put the ingredients in the machine and push the start button. The other group put too much salt in. I hope the bread is delicious.

by Samantha

Today I walked in the door and Mrs Allen told us that we were making bread. We got into two teams. We put water in a big pot with high grade flour, salt, white sugar and some other stuff.

It got quite messy, so, as always - the dumbest part of cooking (and why I don't cook), we had to clean up - boring!!!

I hope it's going to be ready soon. I'm hungry!

by Isabella

Today Room 16 made bread.  When I first came in I didn't know that we were making bread. I looked at the two machines, they were bread makers. We had to measure the ingredients carefully.
Wow the smell was really strong. Our class smelled like a bakery!
by Morgan

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Thanks Mrs Allen!

Red sky in the morning...

... shepherd's warning. That's how the saying goes and yet today seems to be a great day. You could look up where and when this saying originated and see if it makes sense for New Zealand in 2010 or not.

This is the view from my back door at 6.30 this morning.

This view is slightly more to the East.

I found an explanation  here, but it's a bit tricky to understand. There are some other sayings to help predict the weather at this site too.

Some Space Questions to Ponder

1. How long does it take for Earth to travel around the Sun?

2. How long does it take for the moon to travel around Earth?

3. How long does it take for Earth to spin around on its axis?

4. How long have humans known this?

Planets, Suns and all that Jazz

We thought this website was worth sharing. It gives quite a good idea of how big the planets are in comparison with each other.

Jump Jam Mufti

Let's do our bit to support getting the Jump Jammers to Taupo. They do terrific job of leading our Jump Jam session each week so let's support them by putting on our glad rags tomorrow and bringing a gold coin donation.

Capacity Capers!

We know that capacity is the measure of how much something can hold. We did an experiment to find out the capacities of some containers we had lying around.
We want you to make a prediction about what order these containers go in starting from the smallest capacity to the largest capacity. That means from the container that holds the least to the container that holds the most.
Please send us a comment with your prediction. We will post the answer on Friday. You could set up a similar experiment at home - WARNING it gets a bit wet!
Good luck and good guessing.

Hmm, that's a bit tricky to see...

Ahh - that's better!

Saturday 16th October:  The answer is B, A, E, C and D and F are equal. 

The Poster Process

If you're wanting to find out about some different authors or find out more about some of your favourites, you could come and read the posters in Room Sixteen. The authors featured are: Dr Seuss, Roald Dahl, Lauren Child, Beatrix Potter, Mo Willems, Emily Rodda, J.K. Rowling, Kym Lardner, Lynley Dodd, Dav Pilkey and Korky Paul.

13 October
Room 22 and Mrs Glasson came to Room 16 today to look at our posters and give us some feedback. You'll be able to read their excellent quality comments when you come and see the posters for yourselves!
Thanks Room 22!

Measurement

Fahrenheit got the better of me!

This week we are learning about measurement.

Today we talked about measuring weight, distance, time, temperature, capacity, speed and density. Perhaps at home this week you can explain and show about measuring you do each day at home.

We had a quick look at the fun website Map My Run. You could go there to find out how far away from school and each other you live.

Heart Shaped Stone Collection

I found some new stones to add to my collection on the West Coast. We had sunny warm weather the whole time we were on the Coast - there're not many people who can say that!
I hope your holidays are going well. Have you practiced climbing a fireman's pole? I did in the first week, down at our local park.
See you soon

Ms Ashby