What is an earthquake?

Giraffes can't dance artwork

Look at our amazing artworks!!! We are so proud of ourselves. We think our paintings look fantastic! What do you think?

What do we like the most about our artwork?
We like our night sky because the glitter sparkles.

What did we find the hardest when creating our artwork?
It was very difficult to make our animals look like they were dancing. We persevered and got there in the end.

Earthquake Observations

Today we observed photographs of earthquakes that have occured in Christchurch. We have made a voicethread telling our observations - what happens in an earthquake.

Todays maths challenge!

For todays maths challenge, we had to create a symmetrical pattern using a range of maths equipment. Look at our interesting symmetrical patterns! We were very proud of what we came up with.

We are learning about SYMMETRY!!

Look at all the objects that we found around our classroom that are symmetrical. Some of these objects have more than one line of symmetry. We are clever!

Blend of the Week

2digit numbers

We are learning to how to make 2digit numbers. We have made the numbers using number fans, place value blocks, arrow cards and the abacus.

We can find 2digit numbers anywhere...Where can you find a two digit numbers?
'On your classroom' - Alex
'On your letter box' - Caitlyn
'On a 20 and 50 dollar note'- Max
'The date has 2digit numbers. Today is the 12th August.' Kaleb
'Calandars have 2digit numbers.' Josie
'A birthday card might have 2digit numbers.' Charlize
'All around our classroom we can see 2digit numbers.' Jayden B
'You can find numbers on the internet.' - Tom
'The labels on our clothes and shoes might be 2digits.' Miss Bradley

Blend 'st'

This week we have been learning about he blend 'st.' We found some images on google that begin with 'st.' Storm and Stick Insect begin with 'st'.








What other words do you know begin with this blend?

Different Uses Key

Today we jump started our brain by using the 'Different Uses Key.' Miss Bradley asked us to think of the many different uses for a cardboard box. 'You could turn it into a scary mask so you can jump out at people.' Alex
'You could make it into cut it up and make a farm.' Kyla
'You can turn it into a cage for an animal.' Eva
'You could use it as a treasure chest.' Emily-Kate
'You could make a fire with it.' Manaia
'You can hide in it.'Terry-Lee
'You can put your easter eggs in it.' Kalvye
'You could hide your special things in there.' Kaleb
'You could turn it into a car shed by cutting a door into it.' Jessica
'You could turn it into a boat.' Brooklyn
'You could make pretend food out of it.' Caitlyn
'I would hide in it and jump out to scare somebody.' Levi
'You could turn it into a doll house.' Hannah

Ballet Movements

Today we observed and took notes of how a ballet dancer moves their body.

Miss Bradley
Hannah
Alex
Jessica
Kalvye
Brooklyn
Kaleb

What if...

Today for our brain energiser, we used the 'What If Key' to help us think creatively. We had to think about the what if statement, "What if...pigs had wings and could fly."
'You could sit on them and fly in the sky.' Jessica
'We could use flying pigs instead of aeroplanes.' Alex
'If we had a pet flying pig it could fly us to the supermarket.' Kurt
'If pigs could fly they could touch the clouds.' Emily-Kate
'The pigs could rest in the trees.' Kaleb
'They could have pig houses like bird houses but bigger.' Kalvye
'They would be hard for the farmers to catch.' Miss Bradley

Our Wonder Wall

We are in the 'Wondering Free' phase of our Inquiry, Lights, Camera, Action! We have been participating in a range of art related activities. These are some of the questions that we have been asking from our experiences. Excellent learners know how to ask good questions.

Brain Energisers

This morning we jump started our brain by using the 'VARIATION KEY' We thought of the different ways to...Make someone laugh.

You can tickle them on their feet - Kurt
You can tell a funny joke- Hannah
You can jump out at them dressed as a clown - Alex
You can fart - Kaleb
I dont think they will laugh at the smell - Miss Bradley
You could put a jumping snake in their lunch box - Emily-Kate
You can do a long burp like Homer Simpson - Levi
You can poke a funny face - Jessica
You can be silly - Brodie

Lights, camera, action!

We talked about how a cat moves and then put these moves into action. Miss Bradley thinks we were excellent at pouncing, stretching and stalking. Can you move like any other animals?

This weeks blend is 'pl'

What is happening in this Photo?

Listen to our voicethread.

Visual Arts

Today we used the venn diagram to compare 'Starry Night' and 'The Lady'.

Latin Dancing with Mrs Linda

Today was awesome because we got to learn Latin dance moves. We learnt to take little steps and to dance with a buddy.

Plus Points - We wanted to learn this dance - Emily Kate

People had a go even if they were scared or nervous - Hannah

Minus Points - Some people were doing big steps when we were supposed to do small steps - Brodie

People were being silly somtimes - Jessica

Interesting Points - I learnt about latin dance moves and music - Alex

We all thought the music was interesting - Room 21

Media Watch

Look at this amazing photo.

What do you think is happening?

The whale is jumping over the boat - Levi

It's jumping onto the boat - Brodie

It might be jumping onto the boat because he thinks that they are trying to hurt him - Hannah

How do you think the people on the yacht are feeling?

I would feel annoyed because it might have given me a fright - Emily-Kate

I would feel so scared because the boat might sink - Kaleb

What will happen next?

I think another boat will come to the people so they don't die - Jessica

I think the boat might sink because the whale will crash the boat - Manaia

I think the people will jump in the water and swim to shore - Caitlyn

Giraffes can't dance

Today we read the story 'Giraffes Can't Dance' By Giles Andreae. The junior team will be turning this story into a stage performance in week 7 this term.

We were interested in the different dances that the animals did in the story, so we looked at some youtube clips to see what they look like.

The warthogs did the waltz.

The rhinos did Rock n Roll.
The lions did the Tango.

The Chimps did the Cha Cha.

The baboons did the Scottish Reel.

What is Creativity?

This term we are learning about the value, CREATIVITY. This is what we think creativity is in Room 21.

'I think being creative is making something interesting.' Hannah
'I think it is drawing an exciting picture.' Kurt
'I think being creative is when you try something new.' Emily-Kate
'I think artists are creative because they paint good pictures.' Brooklyn
'I think making things out of playdough is creative.' Alex
'I think scientists are creative.' Kaleb

What do you think CREATIVITY is? Please leave a comment!!!

Coolest Caption Competition!

Put on your GREEN thinking hat, leave a creative caption to match this hilarious photo and you could win a prize! Anyone can put in an entry, just click onto the word 'comments' below and type away. Don't forget to leave your name and room number after you have made your comment. I will annonce the winners through North Street News on Friday 23rd July. Winners will receive a prize from my treasure chest in Room 21. Miss Bradley :D

Today was Right Choice Day. We came to school dressed as animal. We showed our parents or groovy costumes at the parade. We walked down the cat walk like our animal. Alex and Eva got a prize for best dressed animal in Room 21. Eva was a beautiful butterfly and Alex was a slow turtle. Jessica liked Alex's shell because it was made from a washing basket.

Mr Sharp, Mrs Hagan and some parents painted our faces. We also made some animals masks in Room 15. In Room 20 we made biscuits and watched Hairy Maclairy. In Room 21 we watched funny animal videos. We also drew some interesting animals.

At fruit time Harold arrived on a trailer. Mr Sharp was pulling Harold along on his quad bike. We got very excited!!! We finished right choice day with a shared lunch - yum yum!

Red Hat Thinking - What did you enjoy the most?

'I enjoyed making the biscuits - I made a rhino buscuit.' Levi

'I enjoyed seeing Harold.' Terry-Lee

'I enjoyed having a shared lunch.' Caitlyn

'I really enjoyed seeing the creative costumes!' Well done parents!

Inquiry Interview - My ody body!

Today we reflected on our Inquiry Unit. We used our thinking hats to help us with our thinking.

What did we enjoy the most about our Inquiry?

'I enjoyed watching Suzies baked bean experiment. It taught me about what happens to our food.' Emily Kate

'I enjoyed watching Suzies world when she taught us about our brain." Kaleb

'I enjoyed doing the baked bean experiment with the class.' Kurt

'I enjoyed seeing Harold. Harold taught me about the different kinds of food that are healthy' Brooklyn

What facts have we learnt?

'I have learnt that our stomach munches and crunches our food and turns it into a smoothy.' Jessica

'I have learnt that we need a variety of food, oxygen, sleep and water to survive.' Kyla

'I have learnt that we have saliva in our mouth so that our food can travel easily down our oesophagus.' Manaia

'We all learnt that we have 206 bones in our body. Our help us move. If we didnt have bones we would be like jelly.' Room 21

What would we like to learn more about?

'I would like to learn more about a variety of foods.' Caitlyn

'I would like to learn more about what happens in our body.' Brodie

'I would like to learn more about how our hair grows.' Jessica

'I would like to learn more about our bones.' Levi

Our 'bl' words

Terrific Temperatures

We have been learning about temperatures. Temperatures tell us if something is boiling, hot, warm, cold or freezing.

Miss Bradley asked us what the most 'freezing' or 'boiling' things or place we could think of. Have a look at the images we found that are freezing and boiling.

Winter Stories

We have been writing stories about winter because we are in this season right now. To plan our writing we talked with our buddies about how it made us feel, what it looks likes and how it effects the way we dress. We then used our bubble map to plan our writing. We put 'key words' into our bubbles that described winter. We the put these key words into sentences that made sense.

What do you think of our winter stories? Please make a comment on them, we would love to hear your feedback!

'Sc' Words

At discovery for the last four weeks we have been doing a fitness circuit. The different parts of the circuit are...high beam, hula hoops, balls, ribbons, tramp, ladder, hurdles, long mat, stilts and low beam.

Today, Miss Bradley asked us to put on our yellow hat to think about the good points about exercising.

This is what we think the benefits are...
"We puffed when we exercised. This is good for our heart." Caitlyn
"Our heart pumped the blood around our body quickly." Kaleb
"It was good because we got to try new things. I learnt to balance on the beam by myself." Emily-Kate
"I practised the tramp and I got better at jumping higher." Levi
"I got better at the ribbons." Eva

Gl words

We have been learning how to skip count in 2's, 5's and 10's. Check out this cool skip counting rap that I found. Can you sing along? From Miss Bradley:)

Learning to Skip

We are learning to skip because NSS will be participating in the Jump Rope for Heart in September. This is what a good skipper does....
1. We have to hold the handles in the right position.
2. The rope has to start behind our feet. Now we are ready to swing the rope.
3. We swing our rope down and then up over our head. We make circles with our arms.
4. We have to make sure that our rope does not tangle. If it does tangle, we try to untangle it ourselves.
5. We try to jump the rope with both of our hitting the ground at the same time.
6. We try to stand up straight when we jump and we bend our knees.
7. We try to keep the rope swinging. We keep trying to jump the rope.
8. We persevere - we keep trying until we get it right!!!

How many skips can you do in a row? Post a comment to let us know!

Harolds Picnic

Harold went on a picnic and possum ate all his food. Todays mission was to create a food basket for Harold to take on his picnic.
Have a look at the VARIETY of foods we have chosen for Harold!

Room 21 are interested in what healthy food you would take on a picnic with Harold. Post a comment and let us know!

Funny Caption

Anybody can post a comment on our blog page now. Can you think of a funny caption to go with this photo?

Bones, bones, bones at Discovery Time!

Today during discovery time, we have been exploring a variety of animal and human bones. We drew different kinds of bones using white chalk and black paper. After that, we looked at the skeleton graph to find the name of the bone we traced. The names were really unusual!!!

We also drew a skeleton, Manaias drawing was excellent because it was detailed. We put the loose bones together in the right places. We were unsure about the arm bones, so we used the skeleton picture to help us.

We want to find out more, here are some of our questions...

Do our bones look like the skeleton bones. - Jessica

Are the bones from a real animal? - Angel

I was wondering how we did the organ puzzle - Hannah

I wonder what our bones are made of? - Kurt

Harolds Visit

Harold and the Life Education Bus have visited us. This is what we have learnt and enjoyed.



'Harold sung us a cool song. We blew stars up into the ceiling' (Kaleb)
'Harold sang us a nice song about our body.' (Brodie)
'I enjoyed the pretend picnic.' (Emily-Kate)
'I liked it when we threw the stars up. The stars lit up the ceiling.' (Alex)
'I liked it when Harold like us pat him. He felt really, really nice.' (Jessica)
'I liked it when Harold sung us a song.' (Kyla)
'I liked it when we threw the stars up in the air and when we blew them out.' (Hannah)
'I liked seeing Harold.' (Mark)
'I liked it when Harold came out and saw us.' (Kurt)

What we like most about North Street School.

Cookie is a sometimes food.

Which food is healthier? A cookie or a piece of fruit? Watch the clip and find out:)

Suzy Teaches us about Lungs.

This is Suzy Cato. Today, we watched her show called Suzy's World. She taught us some interesting things about how our lungs work. We took some notes as we watched the show.

We learnt that...
Air travels down our oesophagus into our lungs.

We have two lungs.

When we breathe in, our lungs expand - they get bigger.
When we breathe out, our lungs shrink - they get smaller.

Oxygen is in the air we breathe. If we don't have oxygen, we can't survive.

We went for a run around the junior team playground.
After we ran, we found that our breathing changed. Our breathing got faster, our tummy and chest moved up and down quiockly, and felt hot.

We love learning about our body!!!

Food and our Body.

Today at discovery time we made sandwiches. First, we put margarine on our bread. then we could choose what spread we wanted. We could have vegemite, jam and peanut butter. We used a knife to spread it on. Then we cut it in half and took a big bite.

We put on our Black Hat and thought about what we found difficult...
We found it difficult to spread the ingredience on, we had to hold the knife correctly.
Alex's sandwich tasted too salty because he put on too much vegemite. We learnt that you only need a little bit on our knife.
During Discovery Time, we also traced around our buddies body. Inside the outline, we drew the brain, lungs, heart, bladder, stomach, small and large intestine, and liver.

We put on our yellow hat and thought about the things we enjoyed the most...
'I enjoyed tracing around Sinead.' Jessica
'I enjoyed eating my vegemite sandwich.' Kyla
'I enjoyed making my plate of food.' Jayden
'I enjoyed Alex and Kaleb tracing around me.' Levi

We are having so much fun learning about how our body digests food!!!

Healthy Food Song

Check out this cool healthy food song. It's sung by the cookie monster.

Values Award

Manaia got the Values Award in fridays sharing assembly. He got this award for showing EXCELLENCE in his attitude towards learning.

Manaia shared what he did with Leeroy, the values toy.

Manaia, we are proud of you! What a great role model!

Food Pyramid

Today we put food into six groups. Our everyday food groups are diary, fruit, vegetables, meat/fish/nuts, and breads/grains. The last food group is high in fat and sugar; this group of food we only eat for treats.

We looked for pictures of food in magazines.

We cut the pictures out and decided which group it belongs in on the food pyramid.

What did we learn?
We need to eat six servings of bread and grains everyday.
We need to eat five servings of fruit and vegetables everyday.

We also learnt that it is important to eat a VARIETY of foods from each group to stay healthy.

Discovery Time 'food, food, food'

Today we made fruit kebabs. First we had to wash the apples, grapes and pears. Then we cut the skin off the kiwifruits, bananas, oranges and pineapple. Then we cut the fruit into bite sized pieces. We finally put the fruit pieces onto our scewers.
The pineapple and orange was the juicest.
Some of us had never tired pineapple. We thought it was delicious!!
Look at the patterns we made:)

Kalebs Bird Nest

Today, Kaleb bought a birds nest to school to share with us. We looked very carefully at the nest and took turns sharing what the bird nest looks like and feels like.

We also made a list of our wonderings.
I wonder what kind of bird made this nest? (Emily-Kate)

I wonder how the bird put all of the dirt, straw, and grass together? (Levi)

I wonder how long it took the bird to make this nest? Eva

Thank you for bringing this nest to school, Kaleb. We found it very exciting and interesting. We want to find out more about birds and the kinds of nests that they make.

Marvellous Measuring

This week we have been finding the volume of different 3D shapes.
We filled the shapes with cups of water, spoon fulls of rice, toy cars and teddies.
We found that the cube had the biggest volume.

We found that the cone had the smallest volume.

Shape Collages

This week we have been looking at Picassos paintings. We have looked at the different 2D and 3D shapes in his artworks. Picasso was our inspiration when creating our own shape collages.

We overlapped our shapes, coloured them in carefully, and then dyed it with a bright colour to fill in the background. What shapes can you see?

Netball Skills

Today we went to the hall. We learnt how to pass a net ball.
We stand with one foot infront of the other.

We make sure our buddy has their target ready.

We throw the ball from our chest.
We were really good at catching the ball, it hardly fell on the ground.