Early Aotearoa

Mr Dobson was talking to us about the way some of the polynesian people
had come to Aotearoa ( New Zealand ) and made it their home. They had survived the rough seas and stopped on all the islands that had never been discovered. For example the cook islands were discovered by the polynesian people. I think this is truly amazing and to be out sea for so many days thinking you may not survive is quite tough.

By Sally.




For inquiry we are talking about the timeline of New Zealand. Today we talked about how the people got to New Zealand and who they where.
We learned that the polynesians came to stay from other places/countries. When one place was filled up they moved on to the next. They found New Zealand by sending out well trained explorers who followed the stars. (a type of compass or map) They used clues like birds, the cloud, things floating in the water and wood floating past to find New Zealand.

By Harry!!!!

"Music Room" classroom music

Today we started our classoom music programme "Music Room". Over the next 8 weeks we will be learning about beat, rhythm, pitch and tone colour. Check out this link to play 'the welcome song' again and add some of your own beats!

First Moon Landing 40th Anniversary

As you all know, Mr Dobson loves anything to do with outer space. Monday 20th June 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the first people landing on the moon. Isn't that amazing! 40 years ago. That's from a time even before Mr Dobson was born!

Watch out for special TV programmes on Discovery, Nat Geo and the History Channel this weekend, that celebrate this amazing human achievement.

If you were the first person to step foot on the moon, what would you say? (You can hear Neil Armstrong saying "that's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind". Not what I would have said!)

It cost BILLIONS of dollars to get astronauts to the moon back in the 1960's and 70's. In todays dollars, it is estimated to have cost about half a TRILLION dollars ($500,000,000,000)

Do you think it is worth the cost to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020?

Harry's Blog

Harry has been very busy on his blog and has recently posted all about Room 7's worm farm project. You can visit Harry's blog by clicking the link below, or by going to the Room 7 publishing blog and clicking the link to the right.


http://harrycrawfordblog.blogspot.com/

Homework games

A couple of weeks ago, Room 7 students were set the task to design a game that would teach a skill to another child. We had some amazing creations. Some games were designed for children to practice basic facts or spelling, others were designed for children to learn a new language or to play a musical instrument. They were all fantastic and we had so much fun playing them on "Game Day".

Vegetable soup!

Remember when we planted the vegetable plants earlier in the year?



Well, some of them have grown realy well!



Today we harvested dome of the veges and made a big pot of soup for the Year 3 and 4's to have at Morning Tea time.