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

Mrs Nand's Science Lesson

We were very lucky to have Advik's Mum come along to show us some dry ice experiments. It was all VERY EXCITING!

Mrs Nand is wearing a special lab coat to protect her body from the dry ice.   By Zoe and Leland

She put dry ice in the coloured water and the bubbles came up and steam.  By Kaitlyn

Mrs Nand put dry ice in the gloves and the gloves
grew big like king kong hands.
By Jingwen and Shayne

Mrs Nand put the dry ice in the long tube and it turned yellow and gold. By James and Leland

It was very exciting and scary.
By Rylan and Ashton

The big tube looked like a volcano exploding.
By Tuia

It looked cool! By Ryley

We loved the dry ice experiments. 
Thank you Mrs Nand. By Room 14

Sneeze Safety

Winter is almost here and soon there will be lots of germs and bugs around.

We need to make sure we sneeze safely so we don't spread germs and get sick.

Room 14 did a little experiment with green glitter.

We pretended to sneeze germs onto our hands (the green glitter) and then shook hands with somebody else. Every time we shook hands we spread the germs...uhh ohhh!

Green germs

Shaking hands and spreading the germs

Oooh Yuck!!!

Sneeze Safety Rules

1. Use a tissue when you sneeze.

                            

2. Cover your mouth and nose with the tissue when you sneeze.

3. Put your tissue in the bin.

4. Sneeze into your arm if you don't have a tissue.

5. Wash your hands before eating food.

Sneeze Safety Rules

 1.        If I am about to sneeze I can get a tissue.

2.      If I need to sneeze and I don’t have enough time to get a tissue I can use the upper part of my arm.

3.      After that I have to put it in the bin.

4.      After that I have to wash my hands before I eat food.

                    By Advik

Sneeze Safety Rules

In winter we get colds and can get sick. We will sneeze and we need to sneeze safely.

1.We need to put the tissue on our mouth and sneeze.

2.When we are finished we need to put it in the rubbish bin. If you leave it on the floor people will stand on it and they can get sick.

3.We need to wash our hands so when we shake people’s hands we won’t get germs on their hands.

4.We can’t share food because if they are sick you could get sick too.

                               By Jingwen

Sneeze Safety

     1.You blow your nose on a tissue.

     2.We put our tissue in the bin.

     3.We blow our nose when we sneeze.

     4.We do not share food or drinks.

                         By Rylan