St Johns with Jo

 Today we had a visit from a lovely teacher called Jo from St Johns. The ASB St John in Schools programme aims to develop confident young Kiwi kids who care for the health and wellbeing of their communities. The sessions deliver positive learning experiences to empower children to prevent injuries and respond to emergencies.

Jo spoke to the class about the number of children who are hospitalised each week in NZ due to being cut, burns, poisons, wheel related accidents, falling off things at home, in the community and at school. Jo talked to the students about the ways that they can keep themselves safe and out of hospital.

The students then had the chance take turns to clean a 'pretend' wound with water and gauze then bandage up an injury. They were so interested and engaged throughout the session and we can't wait to learn more from Jo next time she visits.

Anzac Day Writing

On ANZAC Day we celebrate to honor the soldiers that fought for us in the war. Some celebrate by having a dawn parade . We call it a dawn parade because that is when the soldiers landed on Gallipoli on the 25th of April 1915. We wear poppies and some people might wear their whanau's medals that they won when they were fighting. Poppies are special because they were the first flowers to grow on Gallipoli after the war. We go to memorials and sing , say prayers, say the ode and listen to the last post. At the memorials we lay wreaths on the stones and everybody lays their poppies on them. Veterans are old soldiers that fought in the war and survived. Veterans wear their medals proudly. They celebrate by marching at dawn parades. Some people might cry because of all the soldiers that died for us. There might even be whanau who died. Lest We Forget.

Elena

 ANZAC Day makes us remember about the soldiers that died in war. Poppies mean a lot because it was the first plant to grow on the land that they had war on we should remember them. My great great grandfather served in World War 1. He was 15 and when we go to ANZAC Day we wear a poppy and wear his medals.

Cooper

 ANZAC Day is when we commemorate soldiers and people that have died in the World War 1 and World Wand and other wars and we wear poppies every ANZAC day on the 25th of April. We march, we commemorate and sing the National anthem. We also say the ode. Lest we Forget.

Levi

Look out our lovely poppies we made with Mrs Radich.

Mad About Science

Our second science session was fantastic! Today we had a go at four experiments; Soap Power, Foaming Cups, Elephant Toothpaste and Balloon Blow Up. The class had a fantastic time and had many thoughtful discussions about their;

PREDICTIONS - What do you think will happen?

EXPLANATIONs - Can you talk about what is happening?

CONCLUSIONs - WHY did it happen?

You can find out what you need and how to do them by looking at our class site! Have a look at some of our science photos by clicking on this link!

Science Fun

Last Friday our class had a fabulous day taking part in some very fun science experiments. 

We discussed what we thought 'Science' was and what 'Scientists look like and decided that 'Scientists' are people who ask questions and want to know why things happen. We are all scientists.

With each experiment the class thought about the following questions:

• PREDICTION - What do you think will happen? 
• EXPLANATION - Can you talk about what is happening?
• CONCLUSION - WHY did it happen? 

The first experiment was called 'Magic Milk'. We needed; milk, food colouring and dish washing liquid. 

The students added milk, then drops of food colouring, then the fun began when they dipped their skewer in dishwashing liquid then into the milk. The reaction and responses were awesome especially from our little visitors from Te Pihi.

The second experiment was called 'Crawling Colour's. Hemi, Jacob, Larell and Edmon set this one for the class. We predicted how long it would take for the colours to start crawling. We were so surprised when it only took 30 mins for the colours to move! We predicted it would take 2 or more hours for the paper towels to absorb as much water as they could. Then they would be saturated!

Our last experiment was called 'Lava in a Cup' using oil, water, food colouring and salt. The class discussed why the oil would settle on top of the water and it was great to hear words like 'density' and 'lighter'. We all had a lot of fun creating the lava using the salt!

Check out our class site to find out more - Science on our Class Site.