Hairy Herb Heads

 Today we planted our Hairy Herb Heads; we have been preparing these this term. We took a tin, painted a face on it, added soil, water and seed. Fingers crossed we get healthy herbs growing!. We could choose from parsley, chives, basil, thyme, oregano.

Gas Bag

Today we did an experiment with our class. We put vinegar and baking soda in a plastic bag and watched the reaction. There were lots of bubbles and it raised up a bit, then the bag puffed up with all the gas.

Balloon On A Stick!

Hey, Room 7 here! Yesterday we did some science, yay! 

What we did was blew up a balloon, tied it up and then got a skewer. We had to dip our fingers in

sticky dish washing liquid, then rub it all over our skewer so that the balloon didn't pop when we put the skewer through our balloons. Next we get our skewer and stuck it through the strong part of the balloon, the top or the bottom  has no pressure on it, unlike the sides which are all stretched. Finally we twist our skewer or needle slowly around and pop it through our balloon! Make sure you get the  strong part here too and don't forget have fun at home with this cool trick anytime!

Kaia's delicious lollipop balloon!

Vichena's  candyfloss balloon!

School Fun Run

 Here are Wade and Recho having a rest but proud to be part of  Ra House who won the cup in the School Fun Run this week. Ra also got points for the best chant!!!!!!!!!!!

Ra Ra we'll go far
We're the sun
We're the star
Goooooo Ra!!!!

Taking our Enrichments to Natureland

The goat was away so the rabbit was able to enjoy Carson's and Finn's enrichment.

Meercats happy with toys to play with and crabs to eat!

What does a monkey carry in its handbag?

Mum pig taking care of her babies and enjoying a box of treats!

Technology Building

We are making an enrichment for a goat. We found an old pipe and Margaret our caretaker helped cut off part of the lid and then we stuffed it with some hay. When we take it to Natureland we will hide some food treats in it for the goat to find.

Cindy and Taila are making the other enrichment for the other goat....they have made a goat seesaw.

It will be cool to see what happens when we put these in the animal's enclosure

Natureland visits

We visited Natureland to see whatsome of the animals have in their enclosures and decide what sort of enrichment we could make for them. We are working in groups and at school we are making an enrichment for our chosen animals. Then we will take them back to Natureland and see what the animals think!

This is a picture of Ms Bankers holding the bearded dragon when we were there!

Erwin's Puffer Fish

This is my fish, I called it Puffer!He travelled from Spain,Germany and to New Zealand!I found it in the garage.I was surprised when I found it the garage!

Snookums visits Room7

Soft, furry, cute, on Tuesday Maise's guinea pig called Snookums came to  Room 7 she's got one red eye and one blue eye. Snookums is white and black. She is three years old. Guinea Pigs only live about eight or nine years.She is quite big and has one pink ear and one black ear.We all got to stroke Snookums she felt like cotton. Then her dad took her home.

Supporting Room 5

Taila and Rachel -'Two heads are better than one'            
 

Smiles all round from Janeille, Felicity, Vichena                    

Room 5 and 7 recently teamed up to research the solar system together. We spent time watching a clip about life on the ISS-International Space Shuttle, then buddied up to solve some questions using the library and espace. 

    Erwin relecting on Naomi's conversation.

ALL Writing

In Room 1 we write about cats, dogs, rugby and WWE. We help each other. I helped Wade. We both did WWE; we did matches. I told Wade all the matches. Our teacher is Ms Bankers, and we meet 3x a week. We call ourselves The Great White Writers, and our aim is to get to Level 2 writing.

Mult-tasking in Room 7

In room 7 we don't like to waste a minute of our precious time-here is Isla, reading and knitting at the same time!

Cross Country

We had our school cross country on Friday. It was for year 3-6. The top photo shows the 8 year old girls at the start line ready to race. Isla's looking backwards to see the finish line, Ashley is looking worried and Zoe is concentrating on waiting for the start hooter! The bottom photo shows us before the race ready to go!

Dance

Got a crocodile coming up! Run!!

Wow, such beautiful islands.

                                                Turn those wings, Emily!

These are our body sculptures completed in dance with Mrs Pearson. Which is the plane? Which is Haulashore island?

Cute Cat

This is James kitten called Milo.She is a tortoise shell she is 13 weeks old.When you turn her on her side you can see a target.She is silky soft and cuddly, cute and fast.She is so small and fluffy, funny very soft to pat.She loves a great adventure.

Cross Country

I liked Cross Country it was a lot of fun I was puffed after I ran because it was
a long run I had a drink before it started when I started running I was getting puffed it was awesome.
Jackson







This is me with Captain Brian before the race.I loved Cross County.I was so puffed because it was a long run.
Levi

Marine biologist visitor

Today we had a visit from Helen McConnell who is a marine biologist. She shared lots of fascinating facts about NZ Marine animals with us.

Here is a picture of  the Hectors Dolphins.They are the smallest dolphins species.They have a round dorsal fin,that we describe it as Micky mouses ear!Hectors dolphins are black and light gray.Maui dolphins are very rare.They are a type of Hectors dolphin.

Helen told us to never approach a sea lion or seal because they can attack people.Helen told us that we can find what they eat by examining their vomit and poop! Yucky!!!!

Sam's Post

Hi this is Samuel I am doing flax weaving so people can sell the flax at the gala.
We made putiputi.

PutiPuti

Here are Maisie and Emily at the school gala ready to sell all the beautiful putiputi made by the year 4 students.

They and their friends worked hard and sold enough putiputi to raise $38.30 cents for the gala.

They were all great ambassadors for our school too.

Can you spot Captain Brian in the photo?

Today we went to the Suter to see the clay art .     First we had a look at the clay art.Then we watched a video of clay coming to life. Next we listened to a story about clay. After that we made shapes of the clay art out of string and and our bodies. Finally we made our own clay art .

Welcome to Room 7's blog. Yes finally we are up and running.! We will add photos and posts of our learning adventures past and present!

Our year began with the Year 4 camp at Paretai. The weather was perfect and everyone enjoyed the river.