The Secret Life of Charlie

We've been lucky to have Charlie the guinea pig visit us for a few days this week. I wonder what he gets up to when we all go home. Probably just goes to sleep in his cage ….


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The Secret Life of Charlie the guinea pig

Charlie the guinea pig has been leading a double life. 

Yes! He's really a secret agent! 

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Happy Diwali everyone. We had a great time drawing rangoli patterns with our buddy class. Thanks for helping us all the children in room 7.
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The Spaceship and the Plane

Ever wondered what it is like to live in a spaceship? Zoe has some ideas. Anne likes to visit her grandma but she doesn't go by car.
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Stories by India and Harry

Ever wondered what a giant talking banana would say? India has the answer in her talking banana story.  Also, find out which game character Harry really likes.
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Making Patterns

We are exploring patterns for maths this term as an introduction to algebraic thinking. Here's some of the patterns the children created with objects we found in the class.


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Our Cat's Pyjamas

We love the book 'The Cat's Pyjamas' by Catherine Forman so much that we decided to design our own pyjamas for the cat. 


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Snails

In Room 1 we've been going snail crazy!  It's been fun finding out about these slimy little creatures. Here's a video of an experiment we did to find out what snails can move on.
( No snails were harmed in the making of this movie )
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Our mural

The theme this year at Newmarket Primary has been Taonga - a treasured thing. This term we've been talking about our environment as a Taonga. In room 1 we talked about what made our school special with regards to the environment.  We came up with lots of ideas and decided to make a mural to express how our school is a Taonga. The children painted a rainbow to start the mural off.  Here's Ethan and Nicolas hard at work.

Three Stories

Here are some more fabulous stories from Room 1 authors
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We love writing in Room 1. Here are Nina, Miku and Nicolas, each with a story they wrote this week.

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Fruit Salad

We had worked hard all week and felt like it was time for a treat so on Friday we decided to make fruit salad. Then Ethan said, "How do you make fruit salad?" Watch this video to see how it all turned out.
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Greedy Elliot

Elliot is our class mascot but don't let his cute teddy bear looks deceive you, when no one's looking he's  a bit of a Greedy Cat!


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Buddy Reading

On Friday afternoon we met Mr Jamieson and our buddies from Room 7 who came to read with us. The photos were taken by Ivan from Room 7 and music is by the Black Eyed Peas.


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We're going on a shape hunt

We've been talking about shapes in Room 1. We noticed that there seemed to be shapes everywhere so decided to go on a hunt around the school and see how many we could find. 
The photos were taken by the children and the music is by Art Blakey and the Messengers.


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Room 1 Jigarees

We read the Joy Cowley book - The Jigaree, and enjoyed it so much we decided to make our own version.


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Bubbles!

We decided it was good bubble blowing weather so we set about designing bubble wands from pipe cleaners. Then, armed with detergent we headed for the field to test them out.
Would our bubble wands work?
Would our bubbles all be the same size and shape?
Where would they go once we had blown them?
Would we hear them pop?
For the answers to these and other bubble related questions watch this short movie and see how it all turned out.