Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Art Splash Choir! By Billy and Harry

On Monday most of room 7 and the year 4-6 went to art splash practise at Hutt intermediate school. We sang 12 songs including super troper, aleluia, waterloo, radio ga ga, any dream will do, chikatita, preyer and lots more! It was very fun, room 7 loved it even though they missed morning tea.


By Billy and Harry

Worm farm, compost and gardens by Margarita and Bridie

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Last week Room 7 made a worm farm for the year three and fours. We researched about how to make a worm farm and then made instuctions. Later in the week, each table group helped put the worm farm together. We put shredded paper in for bedding, some organic waste from our year 3 and 4 compost,and dirt on top for grit for the worms. Mr.Eames is going to give us some tiger worms from the year 7 and 8 worm farm. Outside Room7 we have planted vegtables in wooden troughs that Ted made and are growing really well. We plan to have a vegetable soup day soon

by Margarita and Bridie

Worm Farm by Emma

this week our inquiry is to make a year 3&4 worm farm.We have been working so hard to get as far as we have,we're already up to putting the worms from MR. Eames. How to make the worm farm is simple first you plan how you are going to make the worm farm second, you make the worm farm third, you set up the worm farm with soil,shreded paper and food and put them in after that you're ready for the worms!!!
By Emma

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

World of Maths




On Tuesday we went to the "World of Maths" interactive workshop in the Hall. We spent an hour solving all sorts of different mathematical problems. Most problems were 'hands on' and involved strategic thinking, with plenty of opportunity to experiment with the different possible solutions.

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Worm Farms!

What have we been up to lately?

Our school garden inquiry has been focussed on worm farms and composting. We visited the Year 7-8 compost and looked at what we could use the compost for.



We now have our Y3-4 compost bin up and running in the garden outside Room 7 and 8.


We visited the Y7-8 worm farm and Mr Eames talked to us about how to look after a worm Farm.






We then spent some time improving our mindmapping skills while researching what worms do that make them valuable enough to ‘farm’





We are really excited about building our own worm farm this afternoon.