Wonderful Writing

Today we watched a little movie clip in class which inspired some wonderful writing. 
Mrs P loved our writing too!

Run Jump Throw

Springston Junior Run Jump Throw 2014 on PhotoPeach

Pet Day

Pet Day

It was Pet day at school today. There were all kinds of pets that came to school for the morning. We all enjoyed the day.

Fun Friday

OOps! It looks like we forgot to get out of our onesies and pyjamas today!

Future Black Sticks

It was fun today learning about how to play hockey. The flat side of the stick hits the ball. Maybe one day we might play for the Black sticks, the New Zealand hockey team!

Room 7's Adventure

Xanthe created this pic collage about our great adventure to the Lincoln Fire Station. 
We really enjoyed spraying the water around with the big hose.

Fire Station Adventure

We had fun going to the Lincoln Fire station today. 

Maths Fun

We have been learning to order and compare objects by length. We read the story of the Gingerbread Man then had the challenge of building a bridge for the Gingerbread Man to cross so he didn't meet up with the sly old fox. It had to be long enough to cross the river. We also compared the lengths of our bridges with the bridge of others using language like longest and shortest. 

Who has the longest bridge here?

Great Reading

We have been learning to read in a smooth talking voice. Listen to Olivia reading in her smooth talking voice.

People Who Help Us

We had a visit from a policeman who told us some of the things a policeman has to do. The Police can help us in an emergency and help us keep safe after disasters like storms and floods. We got to look in his car and he put the flashings lights on.

Lincoln Fire Fighters Visit

We have been learning about what to do if there is a fire so the Lincoln Brigade Fire fighters came to school on Wednesday to help us out with our learning.

When there is a fire in the room you need to 'Get Down. Get Low. Get Out.' Here we are practising with the Fire Fighters.

Book Character Day

What fun we have had at school today. We dressed up as book characters, had a parade and did some jump jam. It was a wonderful day.

My Snowman Stories

What do you think of our Snowman Stories we wrote today?

 We were also trying to talk with a clear voice.

An Alien Visitor

Look who came to school with Deklyn today, an alien! He even wrote a story at writing time. 

This is what he wrote:

I bounced on the trampoline and I pretended to rip a hole in the trampoline!

I Hear Thunder

What do you think of our attempt to sing the song in two rounds!

People Who Help Us

Look what came to school today. Toby's Mum and Dad came to school to share with us the work they do as volunteers for St John. They are great helpers when there is a disaster.

A+ Learners

Wow! When Mrs Carter arrived back from a break this is what her wonderful class were doing without a teacher. Great self managing Rockets.

Reading Stamina

We have been working on building our reading stamina when reading to ourselves this week. We started off reading for five minutes and by the end of the week we were all reading to ourselves for eleven minutes without getting tired or giving up. Mrs Carter thinks we are amazing A+ learners in Room 7.

Community Group Challenge

Great team work Tawhirimatea Community Group in the challenge of building the tallest free standing flagpole with a flag attached. It was not easy but you were very adventurous and gave it a go.

Litter Free Lunch

Ka pai Josh for having a litter free lunch. 
We are working towards being the class who has the most litter free lunches at school.

Buddy Time

We love reading and playing games with our buddies on Friday mornings. 

Leaf Maths

Look we are using colourful autumn leaves to work out number problems like 2+1=3.

What is 3+2?

Elephant Toothpaste!

What a great day we had today with the teachers dressing up as scientists and experimenting with all sorts of things that we could try at home. In Room 7 we made elephant toothpaste with Mrs Carter. Look what happened!

Why do you think this happened? What would happen if we used stronger hydrogen peroxide and a bigger bottle?

What is a Scientist?

Scientists study all sorts of things. 
We found out today that Mr Johnston is a plant scientist who investigates grasses. 
He loves working outside and travelling the world to find out about different grasses to grow. 
We asked lots of interesting questions.

Being Adventurous and Accountable

We talk a lot about being adventurous and taking responsibility for ourselves at school. I saw this video and thought you might like it. Don't give up Springston Rockets. If you keep trying you will succeed :)

Our Book About School

We made this book using Book Creator on the iPads. We took the photos and wrote the words too. 

Pictures made out of shapes

As part of our maths rotation yesterday some of the children had a chance to work with different shapes.  They named the shapes they used and made pictures with them.  Have a look below to see what great imaginations our students have.  There is a robot (Blake), a dog (Vincent), a rescue helicopter (Thomas) and a stable for a horse (Xanthe).  Well done!

Craft Day

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Turn the pages to see some of our great art work that we created for Craft Day on Friday.

More writing on Kid Pix

We've had another go with publishing students writing with the Kid Pix computer program.  Have a look at our amazing writing.  Well done Room 7.  You are all so talented :)

Room 7 Writing with Kidpix

On Friday, Room 7 students used the computer program 'Kidpix' to publish some of their writing.  They drew the pictures, choosing from different backgrounds, stamps, colours, and writing tools and then wrote their sentence.  Their buddies were there to help them if they needed but most of the work, if not all, was done on their own.  Well done to all the students in Room 7.  Your writing looks amazing!

Grouping and Graphing Cats

This week in maths we have been talking about how to put things into groups by looking at how they are similar and how they are different.  We have been reading quite a few Greedy Cat books, so we decided to draw some cats that we know.  We then put them into groups and made them into pictographs.  Have a look at some of the work the Room 7 children have been doing, it's pretty amazing!

Here is a pictograph with all of the cats that the children drew.  See if you can answer all of the questions and write us a comment to see if you're correct.

Ukelele Lessons

Today at Choice and Challenge some children chose to learn to play the ukelele. Some of us have had lots of lessons and some of us played for the first time today. How do we sound?

A 'Jolly Roger' movie made by Josh

Here is a movie that Josh made using Puppet Pals on the ipad. He read from the book 'Jolly Roger and the clever green parrot'. He was the voice for Jolly Roger, the Big Pirate and the Little Pirate. This is the first time he has made a movie like this. Well done Josh!

Holiday Time

Isaac read Holiday Time today. He is a great reader and enjoyed this book very much.

The Pencil

Listen to Nathaniel's great reading. When we read, we point to each word and we make sure each word looks and sounds right. The picture helps us to know what the story is about. We have been at school for 3 weeks so this is great reading. Our next step will be to make our reading sound just like talking - smooth and natural.

Face Painting

James, Olivia and Thomas had their faces painted at Choice and Challenge. Choice and Challenge is what we do on Friday afternoons. We get to choose from lots of special activities like swimming, ukelele lessons, art and craft, bike riding and riding on our scooters, building with the large construction sets and science activities. We have a parent who comes and paints our faces. She is an artist.

School Milk

At playtime we can drink a carton of milk if we want to. The milk is free. We have to fold the box in a special way when we have finished. We put it through a slot in a light blue collection bin and when they are collected, they all get sent to Asia to get made into roof tiles for houses.

The milk is very good for us, and by recycling the rubbish we are being good to our environment.

Welcome

We are the Springston Rockets. We are Year One learners and you will find us in Room 7 ready for our learning challenges this year. Our fabulous teachers are Mrs Rose, Miss Welch and Mrs Carter when she recovers from a broken ankle! 

Triathlon

Check out Room 7 students meeting the challenge of their first triathlon.  Please write them a comment to say how proud you are of their huge effort.  Make sure you tell us who you are: Sammy's Mum, Aunty June.