Botanical Gardens Trip

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Botanical Gardens Trip Part 2 on PhotoPeach

Look At These Seeds Grow!

Click here to go to Wonderopolis to see some seeds growing

The seeds grew really fast and the roots were wiggling at the bottom.   By Oli

It was cool watching the seeds movie because they grew really fast!   By Coredae

The plants were so fast at growing in the video and I really liked it because it was amazing.
By Kaitlyn

The seeds were so fast at growing. The sprouts were growing fast and so were the roots. The roots looked like tiny little worms! By Leland

Seeds Experiments

Leland

Do you know  what seeds need to grow?

This term we have been doing some science experiments and thinking about how seeds grow.

Tuia

We gave one seed water, sun and soil to grow.

 

Oriah

I see great big green leaves and a bright green stem.

Kaitlyn

I think it will grow big and get healthier because it has everything it needs.

Brooklyn

I wonder why it needs soil and sun and water?

Shayne

Can a seed grow without water?

We gave one seed just sun and soil to grow and….. NO WATER!

 
Naina

I see nothing. I see soil. 

Oliver

I think the seed needs sun. I think it needs soil and water too.

Kayce

I wonder if it’s not going to grow at all or if it’s going to grow later?

Ashton

Can a seed grow without soil?

We gave one seed just water and sun and ….NO SOIL!

Ryley
I see a seed with a little sprout and a root growing out and the root has a black end.

Dylan

I think the water is like milk and the seed is like a baby. I think the seed is sucking up the water like when a baby drinks milk.

James

I wonder why the seed’s skin is coming off  ?

I wonder what plants are for?

Oli

Can a seed grow without sun?

We gave one seed just soil and water and…. NO SUN!

Coredae

I see a tall white sprout and really small yellow leaves at the top of the sprout.

Rylan

I think the plant is a little sick because it is so pale and it needs some sun.

Alex

I wonder how the seed knows it’s dark when we put it in the cupboard?

Our Assembly Item - Seeds

We have been learning about cycles and looking at the plant life cycle.

We have been doing our own science experiments to work out what seeds need to grow.

SOLO helped us with our thinking skills and we used the model:

I See......

I Think.......

I Wonder.......

Last Thursday we had our assembly item and shared with everyone what we have learnt about seeds. Mrs Beach was very proud of us as we were fantastic on stage! Everybody enjoyed our bean dance too!

 Check us out in these very cool movies....

In these movies you can't see our slide show so you will have to go to the Seeds Experiments post.

Soccer Training

I liked being the giraffe. I had to hold the ball and stretch up high.
By Oli

I liked balancing the ball on my neck and making it fall off my neck.
By Andrea

I liked soccer because we were balancing the ball on our neck and it was kind of hard. I managed to balance the ball on my neck and I felt proud of myself!
By Alex

I liked the soccer because we played the Animal game and I had to be a camel and balance the ball on my neck which was a little tricky. But I got the hang of it! I liked the Cat and Mouse game because we had to try and kick the ball to the end when the teacher wasn't looking. It was funny because Ashton kept standing still even when the game had finished!
By Leland

I liked playing Shark Attack and loved being the fish. I didn't see Alex coming to eat my ball. It was funny because I nearly didn't get Leland's ball but then I did and I ate it!
By Tuia

I liked playing Animals and being a giraffe. I had to put my hands up high and put the ball above my head.
By Brooklyn

I liked the soccer because it was fun playing Cat and Mouse.
By Coredae

I liked kicking the ball.  Coredae was really funny when he kicked the ball.
By Naina

I loved playing Shark Attack because I was it. I was a shark and I had to pretend I was eating the balls. It was very funny!
By Kaitlyn

I liked Shark Attack because we had to show the sharks our tiny little bums! The sharks showed their strong muscles and then the sharks attacked the fish!
By James

I liked the Shark Attack because we had to get to the white cones before the sharks grabbed our balls.
By Shayne

I loved Shark Attack because someone caught me with the ball. I did a very good job on the first go because no one got me!
By Rylan

Music- Room 14's Rhythm

This term we have been going to Music with Mrs Bevan once a week. We have been learning to read music and play rhythms by clapping or using instruments.

Have a go at playing this rhythm at home by clapping, tapping something, banging on the floor or playing an instrument.

Kiwi Art

Here are our fabulous kiwi art pictures. We have used pastel and dye. If you like our kiwi art you can buy a calendar, diary or set of cards with our art work on them. They make great presents for family and friends, especially for Christmas.
Kiwi Art on PhotoPeach

RJ Fathers Day Card

AW Fathers Day Card

AR Fathers Day Card

KG Fathers Day Card

DM Fathers Day Card

OB Fathers Day Card

LW Fathers Day Card

RG Fathers Day Card

CH Fathers Day Card

TM Fathers Day Card

SS Fathers Day Card

AL Fathers Day Card

OG Fathers Day Card

Alex's Transport Model

Ryley's Transport Model

Zivan's Transport Model

Kayce's Transport Model

Leland's Transport Model

Kaitlyn's Transport Model

Shayne's Transport Model

Sniff and Sneeze Poem

Transport Trip

Wow! Today Room 14 and 17 went on a big adventure into the city. We travelled on a bus, train and ferry. Check out our slide shows from the trip.

Transport Trip Part 1 on PhotoPeach



Transport Trip Part 2 on PhotoPeach

Maths Websites

Here are some great Maths websites we use in class.
Click on the links below so you can play some Maths games at home and become a
superstar at your Maths!

Topmarks Maths Games

Arcademic Maths Games

BBC Bitesize Maths

Mathletics

Please note you can only access this website if you have paid the Mathletics fee at school. See Mrs Beach if you would like to know more about Mathletics.

Sumdog

Reading Websites

Here are some links to websites we use in class.
Click on the links below to access them at home:


Reading Eggs Login Page

Starfall

Tumble Books

Monday 21st July Maths Game

This week practice your skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s.
See if you can skip count to 100 so you are ready for our 100 days of school party next week on Tuesday 29th July!

Click on the link below to play some skip counting games:
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering

Making Fairy Bread

We have been learning about fractions in Maths. We worked really hard so Mrs Beach let us make our own fairy bread sandwiches. We had to cut our fairy bread sandwiches in to halves and quarters.

First we spread the butter on the bread. Next we put hundreds and thousands on the bread. After we cut it in halves and then we finally ate it. It was crunchy but it was delicious.

By Oriah

We put the butter on the sandwich. We put the sprinkles on the sandwich. We cut it and we got to eat it.

By Ryley

First we put butter on the sandwich. Next I put sprinkles on and I cut the sandwich into halves. Finally we ate our sandwich and it tasted like a proper sandwich. I had fun making the sandwich.

By Brooklyn

First I put the butter on the bread. Next I put the sprinkles on my bread. After that I folded the bread. Finally I ate it up and it tasted like chocolate!

By Rylan

First I spread margarine on my bread. Next I put rainbow hundreds and thousands on my bread. Finally I got to eat my sandwiches. My sandwiches were delicious. I liked my quarters.

By Andrea

I made hundreds and thousands sandwiches. First I spread butter on the bread. Next I put sprinkles on. After that I cut it into quarters. Finally I got to eat it. Yummy!

By Kaitlyn

We put sprinkles on the bread. We cut it. We ate it. I like the sandwich.

By Naina

First I put butter on the bread. Next we put the sprinkles all around the bread. Then we cut it in halves. After we got to eat it at home and it was delicious. It looked like a fairy sandwich.

By Shayne

 

First I put butter on the bread. Next I put hundreds and thousands on the bread. Finally I cut across the bread.

By James

First we spread butter on the bread. Next we put sprinkles on. After that we cut it into quarters and halves and it was delicious.

By Tuia

We put the butter on the bread. Next we put the sprinkles on the bread. Next we ate them. They were tasty and we ate them.

By Alex

 

First we put the butter on the bread. Next we put sprinkles on the bread. We cut it. Finally we could eat it. It tasted crunchy and delicious.

By Kayce

 First we put butter on the bread and it was cold. Next I put tiny hundreds and thousands on. They looked like tiny jellybeans. There were green and yellow and orange ones. There were blue ones and red ones too. Then we got to cut them into halves. Then we wrapped them and we got to take them home. Finally I got to eat them and they were delicious.

By Leland

First we put on butter on the bread. Next we put sprinkles on the bread and it was colourful. Finally we got to eat the bread. It was nice.

By Coredae

First we put butter on the bread and then put hundreds and thousands. Then we cut the fairy bread into halves. Finally we could eat them and it tasted really yummy. It was fun making them.

By Zoe

We put butter on the bread. Next we put sprinkles on the bread. Next we cut the bread. Finally we ate them and it was delicious.

By Oli

On Thursday I made fairy bread. First I put butter on it. After I put lovely hundreds and thousands on my bread. It looked like a swimming pool of little people! Finally I cut it into halves. Our hundreds and thousands sandwiches were crunchy and delicious! Yum Yum!

By Dylan

 

First we put butter on the bread. Next we put hundreds and thousands on the bread. After that we cut it into halves with a knife. Finally we got to eat it and it was delicious.

By Ashton

First I put on the butter on the bread. Next we put on the sprinkles and it looked beautiful. We cut the bread into halves. Finally we could eat it and it tasted delicious. I really liked the fairy bread.

By Zivan

Goodbye Mrs Dowson

Room 14 were very sad to say goodbye to Mrs Dowson. We made her a card. Leland drew the the picture and we all wrote a message inside the card.  Then we sung a song called 'You are my Sunshine' which made Mrs Dowson cry!

Goodbye and Good Luck Mrs Dowson

Leland drew the picture on the card

We all wrote a message for Mrs Dowson

We are lucky to have a new office lady called Mrs Davy and she is there to help us now. Welcome to to Howick Primary School Mrs Dowson.

Room 14 Assembly Item

Thank you to all the families that came to watch our assembly item.
We loved "talking into the microphone" and doing "our mission impossible walk!"

Mother's Day Messages

Room 14 made some special messages for their Mums for Mother's Day. We wrote and read our messages ourselves and then made a little talking photo using an app called Chatterpix kids on an ipad. We had a lot of fun decorating our photos with graphics.

Here are some Mother's Day messages to share with you:

                                                           

The children were very excited making these movies and I know would enjoy making some more at home. Great for sending messages to grandparents too!
This is the app we used on our iPads:

Reading Games

Yay! We have finally had our mimio interactive whiteboard installed in the classroom.
Last week Room 14 used it to play some interactive reading games.

Here we are using the mimio board in our reading groups.






You might like to play some of these games at home. Click on the picture below:

Burying The Time Capsule

Howick Primary School turned 50 years old last term and had a special jubilee celebration.
We have been learning about school in the olden days and comparing this to our school today.

Our big thinking questions for our Connections topic were:

How are things linked?

How are things the same or different?

How are we connected to people from the past?

Everybody in the whole school wrote a letter to themselves to put in the time capsule.

Then we had a special ceremony to bury the time capsule. It is going to be buried for 50 years. 

When we are 64 years old we are going to come back to school to dig up the time capsule and read our letters that we wrote to ourselves when we were 5 years old! Wow!

Today Howick Primary School is going to bury the time capsule. When we get older we can dig it up and you can read my work. I feel excited.  By Ashton 

First we watched the man put a frisbee in. Next he put a school uniform in and our letters. I will dig up the time capsule in 50 years. I will feel happy like the song happy.  By Zivan

Today we buried the time capsule in the hole and we had fun. We put a swimming cap and a frisbee and a dictionary and a ball and some reading books and our letters in. In 50 years time we will come back to school and dig it up. It will be exciting and fun and we will read our letters to everyone. Howick Primary School will be old and we will be old.  By Silas