This is Constable Pip. We emailed her to ask if she could help us locate some lanyards for our library browser badges. We were so lucky that she found a place that were prepared to give us some and she delivered them to us. Unfortunately Constable Pip had a horrible accident on the netball court and damaged her shoulder, so we didn't get to see her for quite some time. Today she called in to see us and luckily we had our lanyards on and were going back and forth to the library. We gave Constable Pip a card we made and some chocolate Santa's to say thanks and she told us some cool stories about being in the Police Force. We tried to get her to put handcuffs on Mrs Atkinson but neither of them were too keen! I wonder why? Thank you so much Constable Pip for all you do for our school.

Fair Art

Many children from year 1 through to year 6 have been painting in their lunch times over the past month to sell their magnificent art at the fair. The art will all be sold for $10 each piece and the parents who are buying their child's could let their teacher know and we will put a sold ticket on it while it is on display. For those parents not going to the fair they can also order their child’s painting and we will still display it at the fair with a sold ticket on it.

I have been in to see this fabulous art in Room 12. Well done children they are all fabulous. I have my eye on a couple of pieces! If you want to buy or view your child's art it is in Room 12 and Mrs Houghton has been the teacher in charge.

Freaky Friday!!!!!!

We had a "Freaky Friday" and ended up with some new girls in our class and for some strange reason less boys! A great day was had by all, and the wigs got very sweaty and itchy by the end of the day. I think the boys preferred being boys.

Welcome back to Term 4! Our PAI learning for this term is "Scientific Investigation" We started this off with the whole senior team going out on the field and trying to blow up wind socks, Sounds easy you say? well think again, we huffed and we puffed but we still couldn't blow those jolly things up! Mr Hickford ended up showing us how it was done, he's good at things like that. We have lots of cool things planned for this term so remember to keep checking our blog and keep making those comments we love hearing from you!!

hi my name is tyler. Today I did a presentation to the class about safety in the home. My Mum works at ACC and she helped me to learn all the ways to be safe in my home. So Mum and I decided to tell all the kids in Room 20 how to do it too. I felt a bit nervous when I had to be in-front of the class, but I think I did ok and I think they really enjoyed it and I hope they learned something from my presentation. I also had prizes to give out and I read out some safety tips and then asked the kids to tell me what they were, who ever got it right won a prize. I also handed out heaps of pamphlets for people to take home and share with their Mums and Dads and so they can teach them too. I really enjoyed it and I am going to tell Mr O'Reilly and see if he will let me tell the whole school at Learning Celebration.

Icy-poles for Room 20

Hi everyone, we found a cool book in our classroom about kids cooking and on one of the pages we saw how to make icy-poles. We think these will be a very cool idea for the summer and we are asking all parents to please have a look in your cupboards and if you have any spare ice-block trays that you would be happy to donate to room 20 then we would really appreciate it. Thank you so much from, Brooke and Lilly

"Play time" in Room 20

Hi it's Olivia and Jessica, Our reading group read a book called "Hero" It was a non-fiction text and we really enjoyed the story, so we decided to turn it into a play and share it with the class. The book was about a boy called Caine who jumped into the water from a wharf to save the life of a five year old boy. First we had to summarise the book so we made sure we included all the important bits, then we got onto the computer and typed it out. Then we printed it and gave out parts, we then had to practise it for a while. Then we presented it to the class, we are really proud of what we did. We think this is a good way to share a book we really enjoyed to others and we think the class really enjoyed it too.

Photograph by Harley Ritchie.

Thank-You for the offers of help...

Thanks so much everyone for the offers to help us sew up the cushions. We decided (with the help of Anita Ritchie) to let the children take full ownership of their cushions and machine sew them up themselves. Thank you Anita for bringing in the sewing machine and teaching the children to use it. The cushions look great! and it has been a really fun learning experience for all of us. Check out the photos and story to the right.

Jo Atkinson

Please Help us!

Hi Everyone, at the moment Room 20 are making cushions for Art. We have designed and nearly finished painting our cushions. We would love some help to machine sew them up, You will need to sew three and a half sides on each one because we are going learn to hand sew the end after we have stuffed them. If you can help please let us know or leave us a comment after this post. Thank you.

Room 20

Olivia's Reading-Time Video

A typical reading time movie. I decided to show you all the great learning we do at reading time. What I love about reading in Room 20 is we get to research things we don't know about and it is really cool to know new things, We get to choose the learning experiences we do, We can lead our learning by deciding what task is most important for us to complete, and lots more, check out my video hope you like it!!!!!! By Olivia

Dawn's PRIDE Challenge

I did two two course meals. On the first night I did a salmon and fritter sandwich with a herb dressing and for mains I did pumpkin soup. To make it first we had to peel, grate and cook the potatoes in a pan and wait until ready. Then I had too chop, pick and mix the herbs. I then added olive oil and mixed it and put it into a container. When the fritters were ready I added smoked salmon on top then put the sauce on with a little salad on the side. For the main I did pumpkin soup. I picked the pumpkins from our garden then I cut off the skin and put it in the pot to cook until it looked sweaty, then i added chilli and other spices, then I put it all into a blender and did this until it was soft and mushy. I left it to settle. I then cooked and cut chicken into thin strips, When the soup was ready I put it into bowls and placed the chicken on top with some corriander. My family really enjoyed my meal, my sister said it was better than the soup my Mum makes, and my Mum and step Dad said it was really nice. I really liked doing this because when I get older I want to be a cook, I love cooking, I think I am good at it, I'm not perfect but I am learning.
Check out my slide show of pictures just below to the right. (Oh I did another one of these too, I did a roast beef with veges and for dessert we had chocolate pudding, and Abby Rump helped me!)

Mitchell and Hamish around the school

Hi everybody its the cool guys Mitch and Hamish we took a video of us explaining what the maori art on Room16 watch the video!!!!!!

This is Tyler, Kyal and Jackson explaining their reading activity of building a Volcanoe. We had a book on Volcanoes and we liked it, so we went to the library and went on the computer and found instructions on how to make one we printed the instructions off and we sorted out what we needed to get, like who got what things. We cut the top off a fizzy drink bottle then we paper mache it then waited for it to dry, then we painted it brown and the bottom green. Then we shared our learning with the class. We invited them to come see us erupt it outside. We put in food colouring, vinegar and baking soda and it exploded. It was a good experience, I have never made a Volcanoe out of paper mache before. By Kyal, Tyler and Jackson

The Spectacular Room 20 Team.

Hey!
Welcome to our blog everyone. We can hardly believe we are half way through the year already. We have been doing some fab things in Room 20 so far, and probably our most favourite was organising our own camp. This was part of our PAI learning, make sure you scroll down a little further to see some pics and hear about some of the things we had to do.

Please feel free to comment on our blog, we would love to hear what you think. Enjoy the journey - We sure are!!!

Hi everyone!

Welcome to Room 20's blog. This is a cool place where we can share all the great learning we have been doing, and some of the up and coming events or learning experiences we will be doing in and around the school!

Happy blogging!