Slip and slide

Slip and Slide

This afternoon the children had fun out on the field slipping and sliding.  The children had to run across the slippery track whilst the seniors whacked them with noodles and squirted hoses.  The children had a great time.  Check out the photos below.

Athletics day

Athletics fun day

We had such a fun day and luckily the weather was fantastic.  We did hurdles, 3 legged races, obstacle courses, the fitness track and many more fun activities. Here are some pictures of us in training at the long jump.

Buddy Class

Making decorations with our buddy class

On Friday we had fun making Christmas decorations.  We made the salt dough and cut out the shapes in the morning.  Thankfully the weather was fantastic and they dried out, ready to paint in the afternoon. Afterwards we had a delicious shared lunch.  Thanks room 5 we have really enjoyed being your buddy class this year.

Technology

Musical Instruments

We had a lot of fun designing, building, painting and playing our musical instruments.  We made guitars,drums, shakers, flutes, a harp, oboe and banjo! Great instruments room one.

music

Christmas songs

Technology

Room 1 have been learning about sound.  For technology we are making our own instruments using recycled materials.  We have drawn our designs and we will be building them over the next week.  We plan to put together our own class orchestra.  Watch this space for updated pictures!
This video is all about making sound using our bodies.  We hope you enjoy it.

Fun at Te Manawa

Dinosaur Day Out

Room 1 and 7 had a fantastic time at Te Manawa today.  The children enjoyed seeing the replica fossils and skeletons and meeting the robotic dinosaurs.  A big thank you to our parent helpers who gave up their time to be with us today.  We couldn't have done this trip without your help.

Here are a few pictures. 

 

Gingerbread Man

Writing

After reading the wonderful  story of the Gingerbread Man, we rewrote the part when the Gingerbread man crosses the river on the fox.  I hope you enjoy reading our stories.

Dinosaur dance

Learning About Patterns

Patterns

In maths we have been learning all about patterns.  We have looked at repeating patterns and growing patterns.  We have made patterns out of shapes, colours and numbers. We even made pattern art with Mrs Shannon!

Here are a few pictures of our fabulous pattern activities.  Great learning room 1.

Pet day Fun

Pet Day

The rain held off for a wonderful Pet Day morning.  The children enjoyed demonstrating their leading and calling skills in the lamb , calf and goat rings.  There were also pigs, chickens , dogs and cats on display.  It was an awesome day! Here are a few pictures.

Preparing For Pet Day

Part Day Art

Room 1 has been getting ready for Pet Day.  Here we are hard at work painting and decorating.  Make sure you come and check out our wonderful art and crafts in the hall on Wednesday.

Halcombe School cross country video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSyNafEnTdE



Click on the link above to view the cross country video.

Getting Fit For Cross Country

Training for Cross Country

We have begun our training for Cross Country.  We go outside every afternoon and do laps around the field.  We are given a coloured stick for every time we go past the teacher.  We try to bet our lap record every day.  Awesome running Room 1, Mrs Buckley is going to get fit too!

Disco Friday 21st October

Cross Country

Get Fit For Cross Country

Cross Country is at the end of Week 2 next term so we will be running every afternoon for the first 2 weeks!

Make sure you go for a few runs during the holidays. It's a good thing to do as a family.

If you don't do much running here's a few tips to get you started:

• interval training is a fast way to get you fit.
• jog lightly to warm up for 2 mins then walk 1 minute.  Repeat the intervals 2-3 times (run 2 mins, walk 1 min). Don't forget to stretch your calves,quads and hamstrings during the workout.
• If you live in town you can use the lamp posts to mark out distances, e.g. run to one then walk to the next.
• Gradually increase the amount of time you run for and reduce the walk time so you are  eventually running for 15 -20mins.
• keep hydrated and stretch your muscles after they are warmed up.
• have fun.

Pet day craft making

Pet Day

Please save any 1.5 L fizzy bottles and small yogurt pot containers (i.e fresh and fruity pots) over the holidays, ready for our Pet day art. Please bring these the first day back.

Thank you.

  

Science

Science Can Be Tasty!

This week for part of our fizzing and foaming topic, we tasted the ingredients in sherbet. The children tasted each of the separate ingredients and wrote about its texture, smell and taste. Here's what they said

"it's disgusting"

"it bubbles"

"it's gritty"

"it tastes sour" 

"it fizzes"

"it feels like sand"

 The next day we combined the ingredients to make sherbet fizz and their reactions were quite different!

Dance video

Room 6 created this dance video, check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x8iUMpi3fc

wheels day

Bubble Art

Science and Art

Today we combined science with art.  We coloured bubble solution with dye and blew bubbles onto paper.  As the bubbles landed they created different patterns of colour.  The children experimented with spray bottles as well. It was messy but so much fun! 

Continental Drift

Room 1 please practise at home

Science Fun

Science

We have just started our science unit on fizzing and foaming.  We had so much fun making erupting volcanoes and making magical potion. Check out our video below.  Great science room 1!

Taniwha

Taniwha

We read the myth about the Taniwha of the Wellington Harbour and retold the story for our shared writing on Friday, which we illustrated together.  We have also been working on producing our wonderful Taniwhas.  We drew patterns on their bodies and coloured them in with pastels. Then we applied black PVA glue over some of the patterns and painted the sea using blue and green dye.  

Persevering at maths

Maths time

We have been focusing on perseverance in the classroom.  We brainstormed what persevering at maths would look like.  Here's what we came up with...

Never give up

Keep trying

Try to solve it a different way by using a different strategies

Use different equipment to help you

Think positive thoughts like...

"I can do this"

Here are some of us persevering with our basic facts

Taniwha song

Room 1
Don't forget to learn this song.

Learning to Persevere

"I do not like Green Eggs and Ham"

After reading Green eggs and Ham we created some wonderful art using pastel and dye. We wrote about things we never used to like until we tried them! There were plenty of interesting answers. Great art room 1.

Well done Sarah Goss

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/fielding-high-school-all-started-nz-sevens-captain-sarah-goss

Fabulous Gym Skills

Gymnastics

We have been working hard at improving our gymnastic technique and skills. Here are some photos of us in action.

What a fun morning!

NH90 Lands at Halcombe

All the children had a wonderful surprise this morning, when an airforce NH90 touched down on our playing fields.  The aircrew kindly gave the children a tour around the helicopter and the children got to ask questions and sit inside. 

Thanks for such an exciting morning, we will be doing some exciting writing about this tomorrow!

Super Writers

Welcome back to room 1 

I hope you all had a fabulous holiday and feel refreshed and ready for some great learning! Also a big welcome to Max, Blake, Cooper, Emily, Paige and Maggie who have joined us from room 7.  I look forward to a great couple of terms ahead.

Celebrating Writing

Our topic for term 3 is Perseverance.  For writing this week, we listened to the story called The Dot.  This is a delightful story about a girl who hated drawing. The book teaches us about perseverance.  We did some wonderful writing around this and here we are celebrating our writing on our Super Writer's Throne.

Awesome writing room 1!

Maths time on Thursday

Baking chocolate chip cookies

On Thursday we did some baking. We had so much fun measuring and weighing the ingredients for our cookies, but the best part was mixing and shaping them before they went in the oven.  We got to taste them straight away and they were delicious!  Thanks to our wonderful room 5 helpers Jacinta, Mataora, Blake and Bethany.

Lighthouse art

Mr Grinling's Lighthouse in mixed media.

After reading the Lighthouse Keepers Catastrophe, we created these wonderful lighthouse pictures.
We coloured our lighthouses with pastel then applied watercolour.  We created a picture frame using cardboard and collage.  We added black pva paint to add depth and dimension to our art.  They are a colourful addition to our classroom.  Awesome mixed media art room 1.

Show and Tell

We always have an awesome show and tell, but this week was extra special.  Thank you to Ben's family for kindly sharing the Wahine artifacts with us.  We saw a life jacket, news paper clippings and even the dress his Granny wore on the boat at the time of the disaster. It was fascinating. 

Our boat video

We had so much fun making and sailing our Pirate Ships, here is our video.

Buddy Class

Fun with Room 5

On Thursday afternoon  we had a blast with our big buddies in room 5. We have been learning about directions in maths, so we put it to test in a game of blindfold trust.  Our big buddies gave us directions and we had to move forward, backwards, left and right.  We are pretty good at our left and rights now!

Afterwards we had a game of dodgeball.

Thanks room 5.

 

Boats

Researching about Boats

We have been researching all about boats.  We have been learning about how they float, famous boats and the different types of boats we will find on rivers, lakes and the sea!

We published our wonderful writing and it now sits in our library corner.

Well done room 1, fabulous research!