Length!

This week we are looking at measurement! We are holding an airshow on Friday and the children have been making paper planes. They have been testing them by measuring their flight path, measuring in centimetres and meters using meter rulers. The children will take their best measurment and pick that plane for the air show on Friday!

You can click on the picture of the measuring tape above to practise your measuring on the bbc website.

Ethan's Tornado Story

Well done Ethan for publishing this great story about a tornado. Keep up the great work at home. We hope you enjoy reading it...



The dangerous tornado.
The big tunnel of cloud and dust spins psychotically towards the car.
“Aaaaaaaah’’screamed Lily .’
’Its all right’’says Dave.
“I don’t want to die” cries Joe.
‘’I said it’s all right” shouts Dave.
“All I have to do is reverse the car out of the path of the tornado”. [Meanwhile in Hawea Flat school ].
“I hope Joe is having a good time in America’’ said Dylan .
“ye “says Luca, I wish I was him”.
Back in America the tornado is ripping down the road behind the Roberts car . it zips of the roof and sends it flying . [The next day at Hawea school ].
“Hay” said Isla “did you see the tornado in America?”
“ ye”said Dylan, in the same place as Joe, California .”
“E hello” says Thomas. Did you see Joe’s Mum and Dad on 3 news last
night?”
“Nope” said Red , Luca, Isla, Dylan and myself.
Meanwhile back in California Lily, Dave and Joe are hanging on to the roof struts of their car that is spinning in the tornado. The next second they’re flung to the ground. They hit the dewy grass with a thud.
They looked at each other to check they were ok. “this is a good story to tell the class” said Joe.
The end

Wind

Check out what Room 7 have been busy doing during our inquiry unit so far!
We have been using thinking tools such as the thinkers keys and De Bono's thinking Hats.
Here are a few pictures of what is on display on our classroom wall. Come and see when you visit our classroom next!

Microsoft Powerpoint

Last week for our literacy tasks we learned how to import a picture from a file onto powerpoint.

We looked at changing the size of a picture...

Changing the colour of a picture...

And changing the texture of a picture...

You can come and look at some of our creations hanging in our classroom.

Welcome back to school! I hope you have had a great Easter break!

We have been busy the last two days getting back into routines and having turns on our two new computers!
We are lucky to have been given two computers from Room 6 over the holidays, so we have been publishing writing and playing with photos on Microsoft Powerpoint.

Come into Room 7 and check out our photos that we have been editing.

Fire Wise!

This week we have been learning about how to be fire wise at school and at home.

Doug and Stu from Hawea Fire Brigade came to tell us a few things we need to know about being safe in a fire.

We practised moving through a house that we had to pretend was on fire. This was good practise for us.

At home, maybe you could talk to others about what your fire safety plan is!

Sounds from Jerome Kavanagh