Firewise

Kiwi and Tui syndicates will begin our 'Get Firewise ' programme this week.

To get the children excited about this unit we had a visit from some staff and a truck from Tawa volunteer fire brigade.

Getting a run-down of how the fire service helps our community

Everyone had a chance to sit inside

Mrs Serci and Mrs O'Leary raced to put on the gear...it was very hot in there!

We found out there are about 20 hoses on the truck

In the drivers seat

Checking out all the gear

Hockey experts

We have had 4 hockey sessions.  What a great opportunity.  We learned a lot.  It was trickier than it looked.    Everyone had a go.  We got better at it!

Balancing the ball on the stick was a challenge

Nice dribbling Mitchell!

We listened to the instructions

Checking Charlie

After writing time Room Seven are learning how to check and self monitor our work.  

We do this with the help of 'Checking Charlie'. 

 'Checking Charlie' reminds us of 8 things that we need to make sure we are doing in our writing...such as "have I started with a capital letter?", "have I caught some sounds in tricky words?", "are there finger spaces between my words?".  

The pictures below show them checking their writing with a partner.  Everyone is hoping for 8 ticks, but we know if we don't have 8 there is something to work on and remember next writing time.

 

 

100 days of school - day 29

The chain is almost halfway down the slide

The chain nearly touches the ground

The chain stretches to the seventh rung of the monkey bars

On day 29 we decided to measure our chain outside in the playground.  

How long do you think it will be on day 100?

Our experiment

Inspired by the show - 'The magical world of crazy science',

 Mrs O'Leary showed the class her own 'magic' trick.  

Equipment needed: a large PLASTIC bag, water, sharpened pencils. 

"What do you think will happen if I fill the bag with water and poke the sharp pencil through it?" she asked.  

First we made predictions.  Eight children thought the bag would leak and Mrs O'Leary would get drenched.  Five children thought it would be fine, the bag would not leak.

  

Check out the photos below to see who was right!

This is what the bag looked like with 14 pencils poked through it! No leaks!

This is what happened when we took out the pencils!