Exploring Static Electricity

Check out these YouTube clips with experiements and information about static electricity.

               

Family Trees

At last - our family trees are finished. It took quite a bit of organising for the children - having to find out who their grandparents and great-grandparents are/were. Then trying to work out who belonged to who on the family tree. I hope we got it right and haven't got the 'wrong' great-grandparent on the 'wrong' side of the tree! 

After drawing a tree, and dabbing 3 or 4 shades of green onto it with a sponge, the tree had to be outlined with dark green. Then it was ready to glue on the carefully written name tags, and decorate with stars and hearts.

                             

Term 2, Week 9 - Visit to Chillingworth Road

Room were very lucky to be invited to Chillingworth Road - a restaurant owned my Maddox's parents.
It was a great way to finish off our healthy eating unit. Thanks to Leanne for organising it, and making the vegetable juices for us to try. Talk about tricky trying to figure out what vegetables were in them. There were some very surprised children, and adults! Thank you also to Darren for demonstrating safety in the kitchen, as well as making the fantastic mushroom soup. We were most impressed with your knife set and watching your chopping techniques. A bit thanks to the parents, and grandma, who provided transport...without you we couldn't have gone.

 V8 Energiser! (YUM)

 Dragon's Blood!

How to hold and use a knife so you keep all of your fingers.

Always use  equipment CAREFULLY

 Mushroom soup - everyone, (including Ms Betts who thought she didn't like mushrooms), had some!

Aotearoa and Swaziland's Flag

We haven't had homework this week but here is a challenge for the ones who want to earn stones for their jars...

Learning about Swaziland.

Room 3 are learing about at Swaziland. Mr B began the discussion on Wednesday and Ms Betts decided it would be good to look a bit further since all of our Room 3 Thinkers want to know more.

These are the group, so far, and the research questions the class have come up with...

What dangers are there in Swaziland? - Oscar, Riley and Jahniq

What are the different types of housing in Swaziland? - Zoe and Lilly

What food is grown in Swaziland? - Charlotte and Sarah

What does the royal family of Swaziland do? Ethan and Walter, Luke and Kahn

What clothes do people in Swaziland wear? - Tais and Lily, Maddox and Jack

What are the native animals and plants in Swaziland? Kimberley, Amber and Brooke

Next week we wil be doing a lot of research to find key facts. Keep an eye on the blog for updates!

Vegetables... in alphabetical order!

We wrote down all the vegetables we could think of - some we like and eat all the time and some that haven't been tried by everyone in the class. Then, after Ms Betts typed them up, we cut the words out and arranged them in alphabetical order...

Quite tricky with so many words to arange - usually we only have ten words to put in alphabetical order!

More yummy soup!

We made soup again last Thursday. A very big thank you to Mrs Wright and Mrs Maguire.  We split into two teams - The Boys with Maddox's mum and The Girls with Zoe's mum, very original!

The Girls...

And The Boys...

Why was Maddox crying and the boys laughing at him?

And then the whole class watched the carrot soup being cooked and blended...very funny watching everyone jump at the unexpected noise!

 Yum, the soups were delicious!