Lemonade! Lemonade! Come and Get Your Lemonade!

We had so much fun making our very own lemonade today.  We had oodles of lemons (thanks Mrs H), some sugar syrup and water...the rest was up to us!  We had to work out how to juice the lemons, and how much juice, sugar and water we needed to make our lemonade taste good.  

Room 1 Fun Run Stars!

Fun Run 2015 on PhotoPeach

PRIDE Award

Wow Malachi! You have been working so hard at your reading and writing. Keep up the great work!

Where is Bonobo?

Hooray! Bonobo has moved to Palmerston North. Someone must have picked him up. Palmerston North is south of Hastings. I wonder where he will go next?

Written by Fynn

PRIDE Award

Congratulations Phoebe! You have been a wonderful independent worker . Keep up the great work!

Bonobo the Monkey

Room 1 have been enjoying listening to Mrs Blakesley's geocaching stories all year and today we all got to go geocaching!

We took our 'travel bug' Bonobo the Monkey to a geocache that is hidden near Parkvale School.  We left Bonobo in the geocache so he can be picked up by the next person who finds him. He may travel around New Zealand and even around the world moving from cache to cache!  

We will be able to track his movements and find out where he is on our maps.  

To find the geocache that we placed Bonobo in we had to enter the coordinates into our iPads.  Then we were able to follow the compass on the iPad as we walked.  Before we left school the compass showed us that the container was hidden 364 meters away.  

We followed the arrow on the compass.  

Ayden's mum, Pippa's mum and Mrs Morgan came with us and helped us to cross the roads safely.  We have been learning how to cross the road and to walk safely so this was the perfect opportunity to practice these skills.  We walked sensibly, looking out for sneaky driveways and keeping away from the kerb.  When we crossed the road we listened very carefully and we looked left, then right and then left again.   When it was safe to cross we walked briskly checking both directions as we crossed.  

We are very excited to see where Bonobo goes on his adventures.  Keep an eye on our blog as we will update you with his movements!

Bonobo the Monkey

Bonobo the monkey is a travel bug. I wish I was a travel bug. Room 1 went outside the school and we went geocaching! It was really exciting! Bonobo might travel around the world.
Written and Published by Fynn

Maori Language Week

Last week it was Maori Language Week - Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. We have being practising saying our Maori words correctly and we have been learning lots of new words. We sang Mahunga - it helps us learn all the Maori words for the parts of our body.