Making 3D Shapes!!

We learnt all about 3D shapes and their features last term. 3D shapes have faces, corners and edges. 

To finish our unit off we got to make 3D shapes with lollies and skewers. Have a look below at the shape we made... do you know which is which? 

Ooh, I wonder what these guys are going to make? 

Look at us working hard! 

What are you going to make those into Yellow group?

Looks like the shapes are close to being made on this table! 

We made a triangular and square based pyramid said Kelly and Hayden.

Wow! Cool pyramid Duncan and Harry!

Amelia and Chanelle made a cube!

We made a triangular prisim said Maa and Alfred

Great cube Zaylah-Cru and Zac! 

Great teamwork to make the rectangular prisim Yellow group! 

Saydie and Wiremu worked hard to make this cube! 

It's a cube! 

The green table are working together to make a big 3D shape...

We made a square based pryamid said Brock and Charlotte. 

Student of the Week

Last Friday in assembly Mr Melrose gave out a Student of the Week award like always... but this week it was different because it was someone from Room 14!!! 

Who was it??

It was Amelia!! She has a great sense of humour and works hard during class time to get her work done. Another amazing thing about Amelia is that she helps others out when they don't understand something in their school work.

Awesome job Amelia, we'll keep you in Room 14!!!

Here is Amelia accepting her award! 

Mr Melrose read out her certificate for everyone to hear

Well done Amelia! 

Snow in Ashburton!

One Thursday afternoon just before pack up time we spotted snow falling outside the window at school!

Boy were we excited!!! Miss Brown said that if we packed up really fast that we could go out and play in it... wow cool! 

It was Duncan's birthday that day, what an awesome present! Some of us had never seen snow before!!!

Can you see the snow?

It was raining before it snowed.... 

It melted when it hit the ground :( 

We had to put our coats on to keep warm!

Bella caught lots of snow on her!

Weaving Baskets

Today Miss Brown gave us a weaving challenge, we had to try and do it all by ourselves.

She showed us how to make baskets out of paper by weaving them and then stapling all the pieces together. 

We worked in buddies to make it a bit easier and we had a great time! 

Have a look at how awesome they look.

Look at everyone working together! 

Great concentration

Was it tricky Duncan and Maa?

Good work Zac! 

Awesome baskets Room 14!!

Science Experiments

This term our topic focus is Science. We have been learning all about light; how shadows are made, what transparent, translucent and opaque mean and different sources of light. 

Last week we did an awesome experiment with a UVA light - that light is different from the UVB light that comes from the sun (it won't give you sunburn).

We had to write a secret message in vaseline to a buddy and then use the UVA light to help it show up... 

Mrs Johnston helped us read our notes

It was sometimes hard to read the whole message

I wonder what Bella's said?

After we wrote with vaseline we tried writing with highlighters on black paper. 
We couldn't see the message without the light but then we put it under the UVA light and it showed up... just like magic! 

Wow! I can read that message really well! 

Harry  wrote a funny note to his buddy! 

The New Bike Track

On Monday Room 14 went to see the new bike track.

This was how we felt before we saw it.... 

We are EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of us are running on the track

Saydie is at the top of the hill

Room 14 thinks the bike track is AWESOME!!!!!!

My favourite part of the bike track is....... 

Bella - The hills!

Charlotte - The side bits where it goes up on the sides!

Brock - The whole track!

Apai -  when we ran the bike track!

Alfred - the bumps!

Saydie - the end because there is a turn and then you go back on the bumps!

Maa - when we ran the whole way around it!

Harry - the sharp turns!

Zaylah-Cru - when we got to turn! 

Kymani-Cruz - the bumps!

Amelia - everything!

Annaliese - the hills!

Duncan - everything!

Zac - the bumps and the hill!

Kaha - all the turns and the bumps!

Wiremu - the turns and the bumps!

Caleb - the big hill!

Kalotia - the hills! 
Miss Brown - seeing Room 14 have so much fun! 

what we like about school

I like school because teacher helps us with our worksheets. From Kelly

What I like about school is playing in the playground with my friends. By kaha