Writing

Jack and Rosie are writing.

Peer Mediators

Hannah and Kian are Peer Mediators.

At playtimes and lunchtimes

Peer Mediators are available to help sort out

 children's problems. Most of the time they are successful.

If it is a tricky problem, 

then they discuss it with a duty teacher.

Making Bread and The Little Red Hen

As part of our study of Fungi, 

we have been studying yeast with Ms McNeill.

Today we used yeast to bake bread.

We borrowed Sarah's breadmaker.

First we got the ingredients and made a bread dough.

We put it in the breadmaker.

What next?


"The bread looked floury.
Then the bread looked gooey.
Then it looked like a white ball.
Then it grew into a BIG loaf of bread.
Thank you, yeast!"

Then we read a large shared book called,

"The Little Red Hen."

It is about a hen who grows some wheat, harvests the wheat,

and makes some bread.

It is a traditional story.


The following Little Red Hen stories
were found on Youtube.


Some stories have a dog, a cat and a rat.
Some stories have a dog, a cat and a goose.

(Fungi contain no chlorophyll. They are simple plants that include the yeast, molds, rusts, smuts, and mushrooms.)

Gymnastics

Today Room 7 began Gymnastics at the Event Centre.

Ms McNeill is taking this subject.

Sarah is our new School Chaplain.

Welcome to Sarah Thompson, our new School Chaplain.

Sarah has been sharing the job with Marion this term 

while she learns what the job involves.

Today is her first official day.

She also works in Room 7 as a Teacher Aide.

Fundraiser Dinner at MCI

On Saturday evening a fund raising dinner was held at MCI.
The money raised is to go towards the Drama Groups visit to Wellington
for the Sheilah Winn Drama Festival, held on
Queen's Birthday weekend. First course was a trio of Salmon delights.

Lava Lamp

Room 7 children made a lava lamp in a science experiment.

This is a digital image of a Lava Lamp.

Create a Lava Lamp

Mrs Sheridan.

Today was a sad day for Twizel Area School.
It was the last official day for our school chaplain Mrs Marion Sheridan, as she has now retired.
She has been the school chaplain for the last 10 years, but her ties to the school go back much further than that as her eight children all went to either Twizel  Primary School, Twizel High School, or when they combined, to Twizel Area School. Now several of her grandchildren attend our school. Mrs Sheridan has been a mentor to many children and has been there to offer a friendly smile or a ready ear to children whose problems have been both big and small. She has also been there to offer support in the classroom and has always been ready and willing to lend a helping hand.
Marion is also known for the book she published about Twizel, called "The Dam Dwellers."

Marion, you will be missed for many a day to come.
(Photo to come.)

Sunset on 24th May.

Last night there was a colourful sunset.

The temperature got warm and at 10pm it was 14 degrees.
A big change from the minus temperatures we had on the weekend.

Daffodils

Today we planted 20 daffodil bulbs
in ice-cream cartons.
They are Tete-a-Tete daffodils.
There are 5 bulbs in each carton.
We watered them well!

One day, they might look like this!

Paintings

We have been experimenting with 

paints. These are some of our 

paintings.

Room 9

We watched Room 9 out on the
field.

They were working on improving
their ball skills.

Exciting Autumn Seeds

Some of our radishes went to seed. 

This is one of the seed heads.

We will open a seed pod to look inside.

We wonder what we will find?

The Autumn leaves are covering our garden now.

Washing your hands kills GERMS!!!

Linda Merrilees,

our Public Health Nurse,

came to our class and talked about

 germs and bugs.

We found that the proper name for germs
is bacteria.

Bacteria have strange names!

Here are some nasty bacteria.

If you wash your hands, you can kill most germs.

First, wet your hands.

Put some soap on them.

Rub your hands together.

Rub the soap on the backs of your hands and make them soapy.

 

Rub your fingers together;

                                                                  

Then wash your thumbs. 

Link your hands together to wash your fingernails.
When you have finished washing your hands
(for at least 20 seconds)
rinse all of the soap off,
and dry your hands thoroughly.

Sneeze Safe

We have been learning about keeping our bodies healthy.

We are learning how to sneeze safely.

We are also learning about stopping the spread of germs by 

washing our hands.

Check out safe and unsafe ways to sneeze
at the SneezeSafe website.

http://www.sneezesafe.co.nz/


There are some games to play at this site.


http://www.kleenex.co.uk/sneezesafe/games

Laminated Leaves

Two weeks ago we collected Autumn leaves
and we  laminated them.

They have turned brown now.
We love looking at them
on the window.

Apple Fractions

We got one apple

Then we cut it into 2.

We made halves.

Then we got another apple and cut it into 4.

We made quarters.

We made eighths, sixteenths,

thirds and sixths.

Then we ate all of the apples.

There are 14 children in the class and 2 adults.

We all ate one sixteenth of an apple and that was 

the end of that apple!

Finn and Mack

 

Finn has got a new puppy.

 His name is Mack.

He can retrieve sticks and carry them. 

Finn likes playing with Mack.

The Magic of Fungi

We are studying Fungi
and yeast is part of the Fungi family.
We put some yeast in a test tube. 

We added warm water.

What else do you think we added to the test tube?

Then we put a balloon over the test tube.

This is what happened to the balloons.

Monday 21-05-2012    3.00pm

Monday 21-05-2012  3.30pm

Monday 21-05-2012   5.45pm


When we got to school on Tuesday morning 
all of the balloons had gone down. 
It was minus 6 degrees outside
and we think it was too cold.
We did the experiment again so we could see 
the balloons blowing up.

Tuesday 22-05-2012  3.00pm

Jesse visits school

Jesse is having a school visit. 

She begins school towards the end of term.

Room 4's Maths Display Showing Ways To Measure Time

Room 4 children have been studying time for Maths.

These models are on display outside their classroom.

They have constructed different models to measure time.

They had to time their models to see how long they took. 

They did several tests to get an accurate time.

One model  was  timed at taking 2 seconds.

Another one took 6 minutes.

Some of the smaller models were 

demonstrated at Assembly.