Merry Christmas Everyone!

Can't believe it's that time of year already!  Where has the time gone?.....   

Well done to everyone in Room 17 for all your fantastic hard work over the last 2 terms.

 All that remains to say is hope you have a very......

Merry Christmas

and all the very best for

2016

A Day In Room 17

          Spend the day with us in Room 17

Have you ever wondered..................

       What actually goes on in Room 17 ?

Take a quick look at our movie to find out.........

Spooky Art

Spooky Things Happening in Room 17.......

For ART this term we are focusing on CONSTRUCTION.

Look at our spooky Halloween paper plate ghosts.  We had fun making them and think they are very SCARY! 

Boo!

Teddy Bears Picnic

Teddy Bears Picnic

If you went down to Hampstead School today.... you'd be sure of a big surprise......

Life Education

        Welcome back to Term 4!

      

We have the Life Education Trust visiting our school for the next couple of weeks.  

Our topic is VIP (very important people)  and we have found out how very special we all are.

Who could be hiding in here?

Harold!  Of course!

We have enjoyed meeting Harold and hearing his funny jokes!  Thank you Harold for coming to visit our school.

Love to Read Week

Love to Read Week  

This week has been Love to Read Week. The book we have studied was The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

"There's no such thing as a gruffalo?"

Room 17 have had lots of fun reading, creating and being the different characters within the story.  Today we got to watch the movie and then looked at the differences between the book and the film.

 Harper and Te Arahi share their character pictures.

 Manuia and Leo tell us about their favourite characters.

Ruby and Francis busy with their drawings.

 We had fun re-telling the story with puppets.

Children from Room 3 read the story to us too.

Love to Read Week is a great way to end the term!

Fairy Bread

          Making Fairy Bread .........

You will need:

Bread.

Butter

Sprinkles

A knife.

Steps:

1.  Put butter on the bread.

2.  Put sprinkles on the       bread.

3.  Cut the bread.

4.  Eat it up!

Yum!  Yum!  Yum!

   

Room 17 have really enjoyed learning about instructions!

Literacy Day

On Tuesday for World Literacy Day, we dressed up as book characters.   Check out who we were and what we got up to......

Making Jelly

How to make Jelly   

For writing, we have been learning about how to write instructions.  We have looked at and written about the steps involved in making jelly.  Here are the steps:

1. Put the jelly in the bowl.       
2. Put in 2 cups of hot water.    
3. Stir.                                     
4. Put the bowl in the fridge.
5. Leave to set.
6. Eat the jelly up!

Getting ready to make our jelly.

Put the jelly in the fridge to set

Harper eating orange jelly.

Leo likes orange jelly too.

Burnedine enjoying her jelly.

Yummy jelly for Darcy and Lesteena.

Room 17 now know how to make jelly!

Our Assembly...

Last Friday was Room 16 & 17's assembly.  All the children performed really well.  Thank you to all the parents and friends who came along to watch us sing and dance.

Getting ready to start - we're a bit nervous!

Here come the rest of the school!

Now we're getting into it!

We're gummy bears.. oh yes, we're gummy bears!

Yummy tummy funny bears!

Thank you for coming along to watch us.

                        WELCOME to Lanuola!

                        Lanuola has started in Room 17. 

                            It's great to have you join us!

Lanuola - our newest member of room 17

 Inquiry.....

For our Inquiry this term we have been researching the question

                 "How do we hear our mum?"

We found out about sound waves and how these travel into our ears and send messages to our brain.

Here we are presenting what we found out.

Burnedine telling us about sound waves

Harper explaining about our ear

Te Arahi is talking about how our brain works

Leo puts all the information together