Talent show. 

Todays assembly was a talent show and some of our class bravely sang a song called Bigger by Stan Walker on the stage.  Well done girls you were fantastic!

Hamilton East Library

 We have enjoyed the library this year and today was our last visit.  

Cathy and Madeline always read us a story first then we have the chance to explore new books to read or play a new game for ourselves. There are so many books !

 Last week Caitlin won the School Library competition with her drawing of a butterfly. She chose a prize, well done Caitlin. 

Room 6 Trip to the Hamilton Zoo.

We had such a lovely day at the zoo, exploring, watching, observing, noticing, wondering and learning about all the animals we saw.   

Thank you so much to all the parent helpers !  You were fantastic. 

Did you learn something new at the zoo today...

"The snakeskin was soft" Novem and Drew

"People want lion skin" Meagan

"Giraffes have blue and purple tongues" Harper

"Tigers have stripes and the long grass helps them to be camouflaged" Caitlin

"Every animal has camouflage" Elise

"painted hunting dogs they sometimes lie down" Maya

"Tigers have sharp teeth and claws" Simon

"Tigers are fierce and there's not that many left" Yasmin 

" Giraffes have long necks" Ataahua

" when rhinos lift their tails they are going to poo" Ursula

"Rhinos have sharp horns" Malak

"Giraffes have long necks" Dontae

" the snakeskin was lumpy"  Griffin 

"Giraffes have lots of spots" Zane 

 This week Room 6 have been learning about African animals and grasslands habitat. 

There is so much to learn about these different animals and we realised how amazing they were when we found out interesting facts about them. 

We observed and noticed how the animals looked and moved in their habitat.  

"Their coats are short because it is so hot"

"Lions look like the grass"

We drew our favourite animal from the African Savannah and made a mask.   

They look, fantastic everyone!! 

Sketching the Redwood tree.

 Term 4 is underway and we began our week by sketching our beautiful Redwood tree.  It symbolizes our school vision 'Stand Tall, Reach high,  Tu Tangata, Tu Maia'. 

We will create artwork around this at the end of the week.  Please feel free to pop in and see our lovely artwork. We would love to show you. 

 Just a quick note: This term we are learning all about animals and plan to visit the zoo in Week 6. 

Rock hunting on Putikitiki

 We are volcanologists! 

Room 6 gathered rocks from the school grounds and then observed them in class.   

Gathering the rocks was lots of fun, and we managed to collect so many different shapes, colours, textures and sizes.  We sorted our rocks in lots of ways back in the classroom. 

We wondered if any of the rocks we collected were from volcanic eruptions a long time ago? 

Disco and Daffodil day !!

Disco and Daffodil day !!

Recently we have had lots of fun dressing up and celebrating our Kowhai Disco and Daffodil day. 

 Building Volcanoes in the sandpit. 

Room 6 have been building lots of volcanoes and experimenting with craters and eruptions. 

Check out these pictures !

Pūtaiao with Whaea Georgia

 The volcanologists of Ruma Ono shared lots of their knowledge about volcanoes with Whaea Georgia when she came to see them on Wednesday.

This volcanic vent is full of magma.

We watched this video of an eruption in Hawaii

We predicted, noticed and thought like scientists. What is inside volcanoes? What it gas? How could we tell that gas is coming out of the volcano?

We put vinegar in bottle (the volcano) and baking soda in the balloon. When we tipped it the balloon filled up! On filled up more than the other.

What is going on here?

By the end of the day the balloons looked like this. The volcanologist of Room 3 thought that some air/gas has leaked out of one 'volcano' more than the other. Volcanoes can be different.

Nga mihi Ruma Ono. You are great scientists.

A visit from Buddy.

Buddy the baby goat came to visit our class.  
Cherie, the farmer,  brought her orphaned baby goat to our class and taught us all about looking after him.  We got to feel his soft fluffy coat and ears.
We had a few questions....

How old is Buddy?     "3 weeks old." 

What does he eat?      "milk from a bottle every 3 hours." 

How big will he grow?       "as tall as you !  with very big horns. "

What does he like to do at home?        "climb up high on anything he can! Goats love climbing."