Learning through play - Sonny

 

Guinea Pigs

Guinea Pigs

Room 7 had two special guests today, Nugget and Waffles. Room 7 and Blue Bubbles super Teacher Aid Mrs Megan brought in her two pet guinea pigs Nugget and Waffles and we loved spending time with them. They were very snuggly and scared but they loved eating all the vegetables we fed them, especially the celery. 

Music Day

Music Day

Yesterday we made shakers. We used stickers, colouring in pencils, pretty tape, toilet rolls and rice to make the noise. It involved a lot of cutting, colouring and concentration to make them. Afterwards we went into the music room and started learning the song 'Oh When the Saints' on the xylophones. We are getting really good. We will practice more next week and maybe we will perform it for you.

 

Baking a quiche

 Today we baked a quiche. Check out the photos of us below. If you would like to try and bake your own quiche then look at the recipe below.

Magnificent Blue Bubble Quiche

(no-pastry quiche)

Ingredients

4 eggs

1 ½ cups Milk

½ cup Self raising flour

1 cup grated Cheese

1 Onion

6 rashers Bacon / ham

2 cups vegetables of your choice, peas, sweetcorn, spinach, capsicum etc

Parsley

Salt and pepper

Equipment needed

Baking dish or muffin pan, greased with butter

Large bowl

Sieve

Wooden spoon or whisk

Grater

Chopping board

Sharp knife

Frying pan

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180C and grease a large baking dish or muffin pan with butter/oil.

2. Put the eggs, milk and flour into a large bowl and mix together well until ingredients are well combined.

3. Add grated cheese.

4. Chop onion finely and chop up bacon. Add to a fry pan and cook for 5 minutes until the onion is softened and the bacon is beginning to brown. 

5. Then prepare a further two cups of vegetables (corn, peas, capsicum, spinach)

6. Add the onion, bacon and vegetables of your choice to the baking dish or place a small amount in the base of the muffin pan.

7. Pour over egg, milk, flour and cheese mixture.

8. Bake for 40-45 minutes, you will know when it is ready when the quiche is set and golden. If making individual quiches in the muffin pan reduce cooking time to 20-25 minutes.

Teddy Bears Picnic

Today we had a wonderful adventure over to Dunkirk park with our teddies. We slapped on sunblock, slipped on our hat and took our teddies on an adventure. Miss Pryde read us a book then we got to introduce our teddy bears and talk about them a little bit. Afterwards we had lunch then we got to play. It was such a fun day out with our teddies. When we got back we got to eat our jelly from yesterday. It was a super fun day. 

What is your favourite teddy bears name and where did you get it from?

The kids letting their teddy bears climb the tree

Free play for the kids. Aanya and Aaliyah are practicing their handstands

Rest time for Louisiana, Tupe and all the teddies

Who is bigger? Tupe or Big Teddy?

The teddy bear picnic crew.

Lunch time with our teddies.

Story time.

Jellyfish Day

 Today has been a big day. We started off with phonics, we did the 'sh' digraph. Some of us did word finds (it was a hard word find) and others cut out letters to make words, some super speedy learners were able to do both. After morning tea we made jelly which wobbles like jellyfish. We put it into the fridge to cool, we are hoping it will be set before we go home. Next we read a fun book about Jellyfish, it was all about being helpful. When the book was finished we got to do some jellyfish art using water colours. It was super fun and pretty easy too. While the jellyfish art was drying we read a jellyfish poem and read it to three of our friends. 

After lunch we got to go for a walk to the eels at Johnson reserve. We had to do zombie arms and put sunblock all over us because it was so HOT! We wore our sun hats too. The water was a bit yucky today so it was hard to see the eels but we will go back later this week and hopefully they will all be there. When we got back to school we were SO HOT so we all had a cup of ice cold water and read a book in the shade. It was a cool day. 

Scientist Friday

Invisible Ink

Materials

- Lemon Juice

- White paper

- Cue tip

- Light source (the bigger the better)

To do this experiment you don't need must, just the four things above. You dip the cue tip into the lemon juice and write your secret message onto the paper. You shine the light onto the paper and it will reveal your secret message. 

Scientist Pryde demonstrating the invisible ink.

 

Athletics Practice

It was a beautiful afternoon so we got outside to have some fun races. We split into two teams the blue team and the red team. You have to walk with the egg on your spoon to the cone. When you get to the cone you throw four bags into the hula hoop. If you miss you have to pick it up and try again. When you get them all in you pick up your spoon and egg and run back to tag the next person in line. 

 

Sunflower Day

Sunflower Day

Today we read all about sunflowers and even read a poem. Afterwards we made some beautiful sunflower art. Below is the step by step guide of how to make them.

Bee Day

Bee Day

Today was bee day. A day all about bees. Keep scrolling to see all the fun bee things we did.

We looked at the long 'ee' sound like in the word bee and the word sleep. Below are some of the words we thought of.

Keep

sleep

weed

weep (this was a new word for us)

three and all numbers ending in teen 

feet

tree

queen

teeth

deep

green

sheep

and the list goes on and on. Leave a comment with your own 'ee' word.

The book we read about bees. 

Fun fact that Ali learnt: Wasps sting bee's. They are enemies. 

The poem we read. We read it to three friends and found all the 'ee' words.

The magnificent blue bubbles bees

we spent lots of time playing with out bees. Some bees had special powers. Alix's bee has special tornado antennae and Khit has special electric powers. How cool.

The last part of the day we played with our bee bots.  We love the bee bots, they are little robots that help us learn basic coding. They also help us with our directions like forwards, backwards, left and right. It helps us with maths because we have to count our bee bots moves and we learn about quarter turns. Check out the video below to see one of our super coders at work.

Giraffes

 Giraffes

The book we read

This book is about a giraffe going to the zoo because he works at the zoo. A lot of different animals were going to the zoo but they were late because they didn't have a bike. The giraffe was on time to work because he rode his bike. 

Some of the beautiful giraffe art the kids do. 

Our Blue Bubble with their art work.

POPCORN

Today it was popcorn day. We made a lot of mess with the popcorn because it was getting too hot and popping the popcorn everywhere. We made 3 flavours, one normal, cinnamon and plain butter.  6 people liked the cinnamon sugar flavour, 3 people liked the butter and nobody liked the normal one. 

We also played the popcorn game outside. You put the pretend oil in the pot then we put balls in the pan which is a parachute and then we go up and down, left and right and pop goes the popcorn. We also did poetry about popcorn. We coloured in the popcorn and we were looking for the sound 'POP' there were 8 pops and one hidden one which made it 9. 

The magnificent blue bubble had an amazing day because of all the popping good times. 

Playing the popcorn game.

Popcorn Song

You put the oil in the pot

and you let it get hot

You put the popcorn in

and start to grin.

Sizzle, sizzle

sizzle, sizzle

Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop!

Making popcorn

Aaliyah and Ava showing us their poems

The popcorn book we read

Library trip

  

We went on a trip to the library for book week. We walked to the library and we got library cards. We got to get some library books to take home. There are some rules about library books. If the book has a hard cover you have to read it on the table so you don't break the spine. You aren't allowed to keep the books but you can have them for 28 days. I got a book called Black is a colour it is about a rainbow where there was black and some people thought black isn't a colour but it is. 

Author: Amarley Ryan                                                                                          

Blood Moon Writing

Ikeli and Juni have been working very hard on their learning. Today they wrote wonderful stories. You can see how proud they are by the smiles on their faces. Good work boys!

 

Last night the moon was red. - Juni

                                                            

I saw a moon in the sky at night, it was cool. It was red. - Ikeli

Learning to take photos

Micaela and Ava are learning what makes a good photo and what makes a bad photo. Above is some examples of 'bad' photos. The first photo they have their finger in the way and the photo is blurry. The second photo they aren't looking at the camera. The third photo they have lots of people behind them and the photo is unfocussed. 

To take a good photo you need to remember to have a background without distractions, the photo needs to be focused and the people need to be looking at the camera and smiling. Don't forget to keep your fingers clear of the camera lens.

Learning Through Play

The last few weeks Room 7 has been learning a range of new and different games, with a focus on card games. This helps us with number recognition, fine motor skills, social skills and is just a lot of fun. Below is some photos of our students learning through play.

Amarley and Ahea worked together to complete a puzzle. Later in the afternoon Rawiri joined in to help out. 

Two groups played Go Fish. We focused on waiting our turn, listening to others when it's their turn and identifying numbers to 10. Next time we might use harder numbers. 

One group played a new game called memory. Our focus was taking turns and paying attention to the numbers people were flipping over and trying to remember where they were. In the photo below you see Khit holding up a pair of fives, he was very excited. 

Isaac and Ziv took to the whiteboards. They took the roll by writing down all the names of the students that were in class and they wrote down all the class rules. Awesome writing skills guys! 

Freedom and Aryah played Pop up Pete, a wonderful game for fine motor skills. It was a bit of a shock to the whole class everytime Pete popped up.

What are your favourite games to play at home with your whanau?

Scientific Friday - Making Sime

 

On Friday Scientist Pryde came to Room 7 and we did chemistry by making slime. Chemistry is putting two or more ingredients together to make a whole new thing. We used food colouring, glue, borax and water to make slime but it didn't work. We are not 100% sure why it didn't work but we think it is because the ingredients were out of date. Have you got any good slime recipes that we could try?

Author: Myah 

Buddy Reading

 

Every Tuesday after lunch room 7 does buddy reading with room 5. We like buddy reading because the big kids read us funny stories like 'Captain Underpants' and sometimes they read us jokes from their joke books. Today we read them our poem called 'Bugs! Bugs!' We only started the poem yesterday so it was good practice for us and when we got stuck the big kids were able to help us. 

Story writing with adjectives

 Room 7 is learning all about adjectives and how we can make our story sound more exciting by adding adjectives (describing words). We brainstormed adjectives describing the monster then we wrote a story about the monster. Tomorrow we are going to try and write our own.

Making Musical Instruments

Todays creating challenge was to make an instrument. This is part of our inquiry about sound. Miss Pryde gave us a pile of old boxed and tubes then she let us go on an adventure hunt for anything that could help us make an instrument. We found lots of noisy things. We found leaves that go crunch, acorns that can make a rattling noise, sticks that can make lots of different types of noises depending on size and how you use them. We all came up with some very different ideas for musical instruments. We are a talented group of musicians.