Wish Tree

We have been thinking about other people who are not as fortunate as us. We made a Christmas Wish tree to show our thinking.

Here are some of our wishes....

"I wish that everyone could be happy at Christmas time"

"I wish that war would end and that the world could be peaceful"

"I wish that people would raise money for the poor so they could have a fun Christmas too"

"I wish that everybody could see more of their family at Christmas"

"I wish that everyone would be treated fairly"

Here is Yasmin putting her wish on our tree.  It was her last day at Sumner today  - Goodbye Yasmin!  We will miss you in our class :)

Grassmen in Room 10

In Room 10 we have been making grassmen. We made them with potting mix, grass seed and pantihose. Today, we put them outside in the pouring rain to help them grow!  We hope the sun shines over the weekend so they grow.

Human Graph

We are learning about statistics and investigation in Maths. Here we are making a human graph to show our favourite sports!

Soiree

On Tuesday night the Year 3 and 4 students performed a soiree. A soiree is a french word which means a mix of music, art and dance. These are some of the arts that we performed; drama, recorder, dance, ukulele, visual art, poi and singing.  There were lots of parents, children and grandparents that came to watch us. At the end we all felt proud of ourselves!

Cyber Safe

We are learning to be cyber safe in Room 10. We have come up with important ideas for keeping ourselves safe on the internet.

Egg sitting Diaries...

We are learning about looking after ourselves, our friends and our families.  Our egg babies are being well looked after :)  Read our diary entries to see what great parents we are....


31.10.12
Day One,
Room 10

Dear Diary,
Today when I walked into the room Egghead had a big smile on his face. He was so pleased to see me after school. I'm going to get into my costume and go trick or treating with Egghead. After tea me and egg will get into our p-jarmies and eat our lollies!

By Reuben.

31.10.12

Day One,

Room 10

Dear Diary,

Today Bella was really egg-cited to see me. I gave Bella an egg-cellent hug. She was so happy to come to my house because she wants see what it looks like and meet all my family. Hannah and I had an egg-cellent playdate with our eggs!

By Ava.

31.10.12

Day One,

Room 10

Dear Diary,

Today when Yogi saw me, he said he might come trick or treating with us. He wants to ride on my hand and dress up as a ghost!

From Samantha

Constable Cole comes to class!

On Friday, Constable Cole came to our class for Keeping Ourselves Safe.

He told us about all the types of abuse and told us some stories. We had lots of fun and we can't wait until he comes back!

By Dylan,Joshua, Bryn and Hannah

Dougley comes to School....

Lila bought her new bunny to show us. His name is Dougley and likes to eat grass, hay, carrots and apples. He was a brave bunny when everyone was patting him!

Welcome to Milo and Welcome back Freddy!

A huge warm welcome to Milo and welcome back to Freddy.  We are all excited about having new people in Room 10!

This term is looking busy with athletics, music soiree and Keeping Ourselves Safe.
Please remember to bring your hats and wear them whenever you are outside :)

Our Science Learning

Check out the action from our Science Inquiry this term.  We worked hard on our Predict, Observe and Explain.

Science Inquiry on PhotoPeach

Goodbye Liam

Today we had a shared lunch to farewell Liam. He is going to Akaroa School next term and we will miss him lots!

Our happy class!!

Yum, yum, yum...

Goodbye Liam :)

Breakfast comes to Sumner

We had a very early wake up this morning! Tamati presented the Breakfast show from Sumner and we showed everyone what to do in an earthquake because it was the national "shake down" day. Check us out on Breakfast Show comes to Sumner



Mr Cameron is at about 13min 10secs Miss Smith and Room 13 are about 24mins 20secs We are all in the hall at about 40 mins and 52mins

Calendar Art Work

Calendar Art 2012 on PhotoPeach

Solids, Liquids and Gases!

Miss C found this cool Science song..... come and sing along!

Ice. Ice, Baby

Today we investigated the changes in state that happens when ice melts.
We each got an ice "baby" to look after. We predicted what would happen depending on where we chose to put our baby. Some of us chose to put the ice baby in the shade, some in the sun and Dylan put his in the cupboard!
We observed the change of state (solid to liquid) then we explained what happened and why.

Sumner School Spectacular Swimming

Over the past few weeks, Room 10 has been having exciting swimming lessons at Pioneer Pool. Every morning at 10:15 we caught a bus to the pool with Room 9. Sometimes we played "silent bus" and we were the champions!
On Tuesday we got to wear our pyjama's in the water and we did some water safety activites. Some of us went into the deep pool and we practised how to get in and out of the dinghy. We wore lifejackets and we huddled together for safety. In the little pool we made a wirl pool and lay on our backs and floated.
We had an awesome time at swimming!

Scientists at Work.....

Yesterday, we had an afternoon of Science fun with a teacher from Science Alive. We used our prediction and observation skills to solve a mystery about which white powder was left at the crime scene.  We added water, iodine and acid to different white powders.  
At the end, the teacher made a rocket out of acid and water -  it flew across the room! Lucky we were wearing our safety glasses !


Look at us working hard to solve the mystery!

Our Class is Expanding..

The population of our classroom is growing!  We have two new people who have joined us.  Reuben has moved to Sumner from the North Island and Cuddles Junior is going on some adventures with us :) We are looking forward to having them in our class.

Welcome to Yasmin too, who has moved back to Sumner from Australia!

Room 10’s Lunch-Munch-Crunch Rhyme

We had sooo much fun writing this poem today :)

 Room 10’s Lunch-Munch-Crunch Rhyme 

Can you tell me, if you please,
Who likes mouldy cheese?
Hannah and Jamie like mouldy cheese!

How about Fred?
Fred likes bread.

How about Bo?
Bo likes dough.

 How about Sam?
Sam likes jam on ham!

 How about Blake?
Blake likes steak and cake!

 How about Bryn?
Bryn likes eating from the biscuit tin!

 How about Ava?
Ava likes flavour!

 Ok then, tell me if you can,
 Others in Room 10 what do you like?

Setting Descriptions

Here is Bryns fantastic setting description. Can you guess where he is describing? This place is really tropical with the glistening water and the dazzling bright sun. At night there is no birds tweeting just crickets chirping on palm trees as the super warm water appears on the gritty golden sandy beach and washes away with a load of bright green and dark brown seaweed. The island is really busy as people bustle around in the middle of the day in Avarua [the islands central town]. But it is especially busy when the hot gleaming sun rains down its delightful beams.

Journal Writing Star

Our best journal writer today was Dylan. We are working on making our journals more interesting by adding adjectives: Journey to Australia: day 2 On Friday morning, I woke up extra early. At first I had forgot where I was until I remembered I was in Australia. The first thing I did was quickly rush to my cousin Willis's and he showed me the awesome game Temple Run on his Mum's iphone. That day we drove to Sea World. We ran to the seal and dolphin shows, rode on a flume ride and saw tons of funky fish and sweet sharks! That night, we walked to someones house for a tasty dinner. A woman let me keep a blue angry bird. We saw Ice Age 2 and had brownies for dinner. Finally I fell asleep. Part 3 coming soon to a blog near you.

Creating and Sharing

We are finally at the creating and sharing stage of our playground inquiry.  Look at our models in the making....