Magic Magnets

We have started our exploration of magnets. Stirling kindly came to show us some ways to play with magnets. We have lots of questions about magnets which we hope to find the answers to over the next few weeks.

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The Water Cycle

Last week we wound up our inquiry topic, "Splash". We learned about the water cycle and made bracelets out of pipecleaners with different coloured beads to represent the sun (yellow), clouds (white), rain (light blue), rivers (brown) and the sea (dark blue). These were useful in helping us remember the cycle. We also painted large bits of paper for a water cycle collage, which is hanging up in our classroom.

We talked about ways we can look after water in our homes and decided that the slogan "Think at the sink" would be good to help us remember to look after water.
We coloured in a picture of a sink and added a cardboard disk on a string as our plug and pasted them into our topic books.

Cross Country

After all the rain at the beginning of the week, Room 10 was so pleased to see the sun on Thursday, Nelson Central Cross Country day.
There were lots of people at cross country and we waited patiently until we were called to line up. When the wooden clapper went we were off, running as fast as we could. At the end of the day we felt good, but a bit puffed!

Number Book

We have been learning our number sequence to 10. As we have been learning so many tricky words, we decided to make a number book called 10 Apples up on top (based on Dr Seuss's book of the same name!)which includes lots of tricky words. We hope you enjoy looking at it and admire our balancing skills!!

Warm Welcomes

Room 10 is growing! We warmly welcome Jamie, Greer and Jasmine into our class. We are sure you will enjoy being in our class and participating in our fun, interesting learning activities.

It has also been our pleasure welcoming lots of Kindy visitors over the last few weeks. We are enjoying meeting up with our friends (old and new). During the visits we have been listening to stories and creating pictures and sculptures. We hope you enjoy looking at some of our creations.

Splash!

We have been doing an inquiry topic on water. We have been talking about all the water on the earth; how much is salt water, how much is frozen and how much is fresh water.

This week the highlight was our trip to the Maitai Dam on Wednesday. We thought of some questions to ask "the man at the dam", some of which were:

* Why do you keep the water in the dam?
* Have you ever had a leak out of the dam?
* How full does the dam get?
* Does the dam ever overflow?
* How can dams hold hundreds of water?
* Have you looked after the water really well?
* Have you any fish in your dam?
* Are we allowed to touch the water?

Adrian (the man at the dam) answered all our questions and taught us lots about Nelson's water.

A big thank you to those parents who helped out.

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