Rock Day

 Rock Day

Today we learnt all about rocks. We read a rock book and talked about the different types of rocks. Our favourite rocks were the rocks that came out of the volcano. Miss Pryde even had some pumice rock to show us. It feels a bit like sand. After we talked about rocks we went on a rock adventure and tried to find our own rocks. We found big rocks and little rocks. We saw little gravel rocks too. Our favourite part of the day was the rock art we did. We got to make whatever we wanted. We started by looking on our iPads for inspiration and then we painted them. What do you think of them? What would you make?

Ameer painting his angry bird. Very focused.

Rayne painting her ladybird. 

Tupe made two different types of angry birds.

All the creations. Can you spot the South African flag rock in there? We are going to give it to Mrs Milward for her birthday. 

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

Magnificent Blue Bubble Scooter Club

Magnificent Blue Bubble Scooter Club

Bubble learning means lots of time outside doing the things kids love. Hours of fun on these scooters, it's been very cool watching the kids grow in confidence, learn to do 'jumps', ride two scooters at the same time, go really fast or go down a hill. They have had so much fun and today was even more fun because they got to use knee pads, elbow pads and arm pads to make them look extra cool.

 Scooter races

 

   Carlo wearing his protective gear

                                                    The magnificent blue bubble scooter club

   Carlo has learnt a new skill

Blue Bubble Learning, T4

Blue Bubble Learning

Room 7 has turned into a mixture of room 6 and room 7 and we are called the magnificent blue bubble. Check our blog for daily updates on all the fun things we are getting up to.  

 

Book character parade

On Friday we had book day. We dressed up as our favourite book characters because it was book week. We started the day off by going around the classrooms and listening to stories. Some of the people who read to us were Mr Johnston, our principal, Whaea Mele, Carlo's mum and a teacher at the kindergarten, the Panmure librarians and Mr James. After that we went to the hall for a special book day / Samoan language week assembly. There was a big surprise and Spiderman showed up. Spiderman jumped up on the stage and he was asking questions and all of them were about him. Next, all of the classes went to have lunch with their buddy class. With our buddy class we read books and ate our lunch. The last thing we did was take photos of ourselves in the Thing 1 and Thing 2 board. The day was fantastic!