Wellington Zoo

Last week Room 1 went to Wellington for four days. On the first day we went to the zoo. We walked along a footpath and saw a sign that said Welcome Waikawa Bay School. A zoo keeper came out and we went into the zoo school. She talked to us about different kinds of animal habitats and we did activities. Afterwards we went to see the animals. My favourite part was the giraffe enclosure because we could see them getting fed and we could see there long necks and their blue tongues. They were really close. It was cool!

Tino

2 More Weeks Till WELLINGTON!!!!!!!!!

We have a cool awesome camp coming up. We are going to Wellington.

I think everyone is going to enjoy the camp!  Because we have raised lots of money we don't need to pay much, we would have needed to pay around $350.00 each.

We all  helped raise money for our camp.  It's 2 weeks away and I can not wait!

THIS CAMP IS GONNA BE AWESOME!!!!!!

2008 Gala

On the 18th of October we had the most successful gala we have ever had. We had to learn to give change in class. We had raised more than $5000!!! I reckon the most successful thing in the Gala was the Titanic bouncy castle. But everything was Great. The food the drinks and the games.

By D.J

My sweet-as mask!!

Last term we were learning about design and contrasting colours.

We made masks out of plaster, then we copied the design we created in our books and  painted the designs onto the masks,

 and my one looks mean-as!!!!! 

Matthew C 

Wellington Fitness

This term, Rm 1 has been having a huge fitness term.  We have been practicing  for Wellington and everyday we have been jogging down the width of the tennis court.  We have 2 minutes to run and when our time is up we come back in and graph it.  My highest score is 15 laps, really I did 30 but we are only allowed to count every second lap because the width is a short distance to run.  It is tough but we have to get fit for Wellington.  In Wellington we have to walk everyday up and down many different hills.  It would be hard but it also it would be extremely fun.  I am looking forward to going to Wellington next month.

Pereen

Shading

First I thought about where my sun/ light source was going to be coming from. Next I got a light green pastel and slowly started working across the hills, then with a darker green colour  I added shaded areas away from my light source.  I started with the lighter green so it shows where the light shines first.  I used the same method with the sun.

Stephie

Opposing Colors

I have learnt about opposing colours on the colour wheel.  I used red and green, orange and black on my calendar design and I think, so far is looking pretty good! Hopefully when I finish it will be a calendar design my mum want to send overseas to my relatives in England!   

Caspian

POLICE EQUIPMENT

Cops wear duty belts to carry equipment they may need, like... 

Face Shields, Latex Gloves, Mobile Phone, Mini Torch, All-In-One Utility Knife Tool Kit ,Notebook, Pen, Breath Tester, Ticket Book,Handcuffs, O/C Spray, Baton and Radio-Telephone. All these things can come in handy. With all this equipment the Police Force can save many lives, the equipment may seem a little ordinary but its very helpful! 

By Paige

    

I have just found a new tool. We are looking at respect as a quality and I have found a new tool to help me advertise this. What do you think?

Mrs P

Symbols

Rm 1 has been doing symbols about themselves, they drew pictures and explained why they chose those symbols. Not long after that Mrs Parsons got a set of books she found and brought it to Rm 1, she brought books about countries, she only brought some countries which are the main countries who were participating in the great Olympic Games. We are to be the ambassadors of the country. We had to choose five symbols for that country we chose. The country I chose was Beautiful Brazil. The symbols had to be a landmark, sport, food, an animal, ceramics. It was very interesting, as you learn a new culture and learn more about that country. Its a very interesting project and I hope we all do well.

By Pereen

CHINESE DRAGONS

On Wednesday and Thursday Room 1 started and completed our own, paper Chinese Dragons in our own individual styles.We first cut out the head, then the flames to stick on it. We then progressed to the beard, nostrils and teeth. We folded bits of paper together to make the springy body. To finish off we cut strips of paper and curled them to make the tail. I really enjoyed this activity and I think they turned out really well.

By Paige

Maths- multiplying in Tens, Hundreds and Thousands. 

Today Math group triangles, learned about multiplying Tens,Hundreds and Thousands,it's easier than it sounds all you have to do with tens is add a zero 2x10=20 all you have to do is put a 0 on the end of the 2. With Hundreds you have to add 2 zeros 2x100=200 another way to remember this sum is to+ 1 more 100. With thousands you just have to add 3 zeros like 2x1000=2000.

By Eleanor.    

China

This term, Room 1 have been learning about the Olympic Games which is held in Beijing China.

Today, we told the teacher everything we knew about China. I learnt in the year 206BC China exported lacquer ware and silks. In 1959 China invaded Tibet and Dhali Lama went into exile. The Great Wall in the Qin dynasty had an origin , not till the Ming dynasty that it was built to current form. There is NO freedom of speech and lack of human rights. You are only allowed 1 child per family. Its a communist country and China was the name given by the west. It was all very interesting .

Jocelyn is torturing me

Welcome to Term 3

Hayley

In room 1 we have a very skilled gymnast named Hayley Chapman. I've got a really cool shot of Hayley in the middle of a backward walkover. Hayley can almost do a flick-flack and she takes gym class in Blenhiem once a week. Hayley is a really good friend as well as a good gymnast I bet she will achieve stardom one day so keep going Hayley!

By Gloria Harvey ;} :]

the CREPE NIght

 Last night I got picked up form school we went to the jollyroger to pick up Stella there was A flood on the road so we did not go that way we picked up Stella and ran to the car we went to the   down stairs door we saw water in the garg we fort it was going to flood but it did not so we went   up stairs. the end 

                                                                                                                                                                                                 cainwoodford

Thirding

Room's 1 maths group the Spheres is learning about doubling, halving and thirding.  First, we learnt about doubling and halving, like in a multiplication equation you would take the easiest number to halve and halve it, and take the easiest number to double and double it, in order to get the answer, for example...5 x 18 = 10 x 9 = 190 - see?

All I did was double the 5 and halve the 18 in order to get the answer. 

Thirding is just the same except you do it in threes. Like 24 x 3, I third the 24 and triple the 3 to get 24x3=8x9=72!    

This strategy is really cool and I'm sure it will help me heaps in bigger maths problems when I'm older! 

By Gloria Harvey

Prism

On Tuesday I learnt that there is no such thing as prison in maths shapes, but there is such thing as Prison because its where naughty people go.

Now I know that in maths shapes it is not Prison it is Prism!  

SAFETY DANCE

Last Friday we tried Break Dancing and it was hard because you need your own space and you also need to work together Dancing you have to be really careful because you can get really damaged.  So if you try to do something new don't do it by yourself.  If your going to do any sort of dance have an adult so always stay SAFE!!! 

My Imaginative Story

I wrote an imaginative story called Wild Horse. I have learnt how to use a numbered brainstorm and add lots of adjectives so I make my writing is interesting for my audience. When I number my brainstorm it makes it easy to write in paragraphs, this also makes it easier for me to write an interesting story.

Fiordland Holiday By Gloria Harvey

Yesterday Room 1's maths group the Spheres got an awesome new game called Fiordland Holiday.

It's a really fun maths game and it's really good way to learn your advanced times tables like on one of the cards it's got on a Milford Sound day tour, see the famous Mirror Lakes Score 3 x 300 points. Then you would work out the equation and in these circumstances  you would have 9oo points! Sometimes you only get to solve a problem but thats still fun.   You travel round the board and if you land on an animal you get the amount of points that's written down on the board. Whoever gets the most points wins the game.I'm really happy we got the new game and I bet people will stay happy using it! 

Ballroom dancing

I learnt that there are many types of dances that link to Ballroom dancing like Tango, Jive, Salsa, and ChaCha. Ballroom dancing is all about flashy costumes and make up. You have to be fit and learn complicated dance skills, such as turns and dips. There are two different types of tango, the American Tango and the International Tango. Tango came from Argentina and made its way to Europe and gained popularity in Paris. As the European dancers enjoyed the music and the passion of the dance, they began to inject their own culture, style and technique. In an effort to teach a standardized version of Tango, the English eventually codified their own version of Tango for instruction in dance schools and for preformance in competitions in 1922.

Morris dancing

Last Wednesday a group of Morris Dancers came to our school to show us some dances.  I learnt that because the Morris Dancers used to dance in barns, they wore bells around their ankles to scare away the mice, but the bells also help keep the beat. They also used big hankies for some dances and they used them to scare away any witches that might have been about.  Morris Dancing is usually about things that happen in their everyday lives, like a rain or sunshine dance.   My favorite dance was the Lollypop Dance.   

Dance Term 2 2008

This term we are having a school Dance Festival and we are looking at different styles of dance. So far we have learnt that ...
- people dance for fun
- we dance on special occasions
- people enter dance competitions
- dance is for everyone young and old
- cultural dancing shows where people are from
- there are loads of different styles you can learn
- value your body and how it moves
I can't dance but I am looking forward to learning about it.

Sand Sculptures

On Wedsnesday the 2nd of April, Waikawa Bay School went to Whites Bay. We did lots of activities but my favourite was making the sand sculptures. There were turtles, whales, sand castles and a whole lot more. I made a seahorse and I am very proud of it. My friends made great sculptures too.

Shrimps

Last Wednesday the whole school went to Whites Bay we did lots of activities and we walked to the rock pools. We saw some small shrimps and I learnt that shrimps are very small and very hard to see.

Huhu Grubs

When Waikawa Bay school went to Whites bay for a school trip room 1 found some Huhu grubs living in the sand above the high tide mark near some rocks. We had to dig about 15 centimetres below the surface of the sand. They were big , fat and had a gooey feeling. When we put them back on the sand they burrowed back into the sand.

Penny Farthing

Today I learnt about Penny Farthings. Penny Farthings have a big wheel at the front and little wheel at the back. The bike is named after 2 coins named a Penny and a Farthing. It was made in 1971. I think they are really cool bikes.

Curriculum Vitae

Today I learnt what curriculum vitae means. It is a written summary of one's education, qualifications and what I'm good at!!!
By Elly!

Self-portraits

The last few days we have been concentrating on our self portraits. We have been looking at a photo of our self for two seconds and then sketching what we see, this way we get to observe the details. Here are some.

Perimeter work

We learnt what a perimeter was with Mr Easton. At first I thought it was hard, but when I got it and it was easy. Mr Easton also taught us more things and we had an activity book to work from. I was first to finish it, so it wasn't that hard. The year six's had harder work to do but lucky I wasn't a year 6.

Art

In art there are lots of different shading strokes, like Vertcal stroke, Horizontal stoke, Angled stroke, Angled cross hatch, 4 way cross hatch, Angled broken stroke, corner stroke, group hatch, curly hatching, variegated angled stroke, squiggle stroke, and black in stroke.

Mandala

At school we are starting to coulor in neatly a mandala each. Here is an example.

whales

Today I learnt that there are lots of Whales in Kaikoura.

Dunedin

Today I learned that Dunedin is the oldest city in New Zealand.
Dunedin also has a street which is the steepest street in the world.
The earliest setterls that came to Dunedin was the scottish.

New shading in art

Today in art we learned about different shading, we learnt how to shade from the side and inwards and we also learnt how to go from dark to light in to the page. I really enjoyed doing that activity.

By Eleanor.

Learning how to use a dictionary .

The other day Mrs P taught me how to use the dictionary .
I looked up the word translate. To do this I had to say the first sounds so I could look through the dictionary till I got to the 'T's. Then I had to listen to the next sound which was 'r', so I went through the 'T' section looking for the 'tr' words. Then I had to listen to the 'an' part of the the word and finally the 'late' part of the word.

Stream swim by Paige

Today I learnt how to do the stream swim.

The te reo name for Mt Cook

Today I learnt the te reo name for Mt Cook it is Aoraki

last nights barbeque

Last night we had a school BBQ , it was heaps of fun. We played on the skate boards. We raised

money from the drinks. The money is going towards the Wellington year 5 & 6 camp.

Shoe laces

Caspian and DJ have been straightening our shoes laces. We have then decided we were going to swap one shoe lace each, so we both have one black shoe lace and one white shoe lace each. If we ever get a job with shoes we have learnt how to straighten laces.We have learnt how to have funky shoe laces.

Maths and handwriting

In maths I learnt lots about estimating and measuring, I made my own ruler and I also learnt more ways of measuring.

In handwriting I learnt different ways of linking and how to link different letters that can be linked. I learnt the right sizing in letters and what line to finish them on. It was really fun.

Mrs Parsons Rocks

Mrs Parsons a really cool teacher. She is very understanding and she makes learning really fun. She is a very energetic teacher, she is so fun. I am really happy to have a teacher like Mrs Parsons.
By Pereen & Luke.

Volcanoes under Auckland.

I learnt that there are 48 differint volcanoes under Auckland, the youngest volcaneo is in the harbour Rangitoto.

My breathing has improved.

I learnt to blow my bublbes out before when my head is under the water and just then I just have to take a breath when my head roles round.

Working in room 1

When I first went into room 1 I couldn't do link writing and now in 9 days I can.

Room 1 BBQ

Room 1 had a BBQ on the 13 of february 2008.It was a fun BBQ. We were able to go swimming but over parents had to look after us.My parents came along.My parents had a good time aswell Mrs Parsons had a little chat with my parents. I so mostly all mu friends there we had a good time swimming but we had to bring our own food. It was a really fun BBQ.
By Pereen & Luke.

Room 1's The Best

Maths is great but I like swimming more. Maths rocks it may be hard it may be easy but I like it.    I sometimes have a good level like 5/5  I gave back stroke a go and I completed my goal. Sometimes the water in the pool is freezing cold sometime because its to cold I get out because i,m nearly ice cold. Before I came into room 1 I could not swim well but I stuck with my goal and now i,m good at swimming. 

Swimming

Room 1 and I have been swimming for the swimming races I have learnt to do rainbow arms in freestyle and in back stroke I learnt to put my small figure in the water first and to turn my hand in the air.   By Marekama Barclay.    

Improvimg Things.

I learnt how to do rainbow arms when doing overarm in the pool.
I have been a better rollmodel on the mat.
I learnt to do trikey maths problums
room 1 rocks !

Improvimg Things.

I learnt how to do rainbow arms when doing overarm in the pool.
I have been a better rollmodel on the mat.
I learnt to do trikey maths problums
room 1 rocks !

My swiming achevments.

I have learnt to do breaststroke and freestyle.I feel goooooood because I have done it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caspian and DJ

Swimming with Room 1

Room 1 has been swimming and have been improving at that subject. They are having a can do attitude which is really important. Every single day while we have been going into the swimming pool and getting better and at it.
By Pereen & Luke.

Swimming

In the first nine days I learnt how to do freestyle and backstroke in the swimming but if it had not been for my friends encoragement and Mrs Ps suport in swimming.

things we have done.

Waikawa bay  school is the best because we get to do really fun stuff like the BBQs we have

and the galas we have had. 

                                                               BY SOPHIA AND 

                                                                MIKAELA 

Room 1's Fantastic Start

This week I learnt how to swim way better I could only float on my back before. Swimming is great but sometimes its very cold. I am learning how to role and take a breath well I am swimming. Maths is a little bit hard but easy for me its as easy as room 2. I have really enjoyed the first week of school and I am glad I am learning how to swim and I think I am in the right level reading for my age.

Room 1 rocks.

This week room 1 and I have been learning swimming I am achieving rolling my head on to my ear to  breathe in freestyle and in breast stroke to do 1 big one instead of two little ones   . I am also getting the hang of back stroke by tipping my head back. By Eleanor Johnson-Firth.

 

Good Teacher

Mrs. Parsons is a caring and understanding teacher. She has been teaching us the connecting habits . So now we have a better understanding about how to work as a team.

Dean, Josh and Matthew T

Jake's Spider

Last night I found a spider in my shed. At school we look it up in some books. We discoved it was a Wolf Spider. This is what we found out:
The Wolf spider is native to New Zealand and is common in gardens. For five weeks, Female carries her egg sac. Then her 100 or so young climb on her back to be carried around for an other week, until old enough to look after themselves. They hunt on the ground by day, finding its way with polarised light. They are called a Wolf Spider because of the way the way they run down their pray. There are 12 different species known in New Zealand.
By Jake

More Room 1 students learn about blogging

Room 1 students are being taught how to use the blog and how to make postings. We would like to share all our learning with our school community and our wider families.
We are a really dynamic group of kids learning.