Olympic Day

Here's the video that we made today using Movie Maker. It shows what we got up to during our Olympic Day at Canterbury Agricultural Park. Enjoy!

Science Buddies

We had tons of fun doing science experiments with our buddies on Friday. We found out about chemical reactions. We mixed calcium chloride and baking soda in a bag, then added water. Wow! The mixture heated up and made a gas and we even had a few exploding bags! It was hilarious! Then we mixed baking soda and citric acid with water. That mixture went really c..c..c..c..cold! Brrr! The last experiment involved trying to mix oil, food colouring and water. Like all good scientists, we made careful observations and started asking 'What if...' questions. We all agreed that science is heaps of fun!

Poppies for Anzac Day

Art Gallery outreach visit

Emily, from Christchurch Art Gallery, visited us in school and showed us some of the work of Juliet Peter. We layered stencilled wax rubbings, dye and printing ink to create our own night gardens. The results were gorgeous and photos of the finished masterpieces will follow shortly! Thanks to Emily for teaching us heaps and to Kate's mum for giving up her time to parent help.

  

Science Week

It's Science Week! We have been experimenting in Room 15!
What happens if you half fill a jar with water, put a piece of card over the jar's opening and turn the whole thing upside-down? Will there be a big splash? Try it and see! We did!

Welcome to Term 2

What a busy start we've had to Term 2. We did lots of work about Anzac Day, learning about the first world war and the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli in 1915. The children did some beautiful poppy pictures with collage and they wrote about Anzac Day, explaining its importance. They also imagined what it would have been like to be a soldier in the trenches and they wrote their ideas as poetry.