Welcome to Room 8's blog for 2017. We are an energetic Year 0/1 class and our teachers are Mrs Grant and Mrs Turner. We are looking forward to working together and learning lots of exciting and new things this year! Check our blog regularly to see what we have been up to. We would love to read your comments.
Team 8 are investigating and learning about different cultures for their Inquiry.
We have been learning about Matariki - Maori New Year. This is celebrated at this time of the year. Team 8 have found out that at this time of the year some Maori families like to gather together to share food. (Kai) Make sure you ask the children of Team 8 some of the other interesting things that we have learnt about Matariki.
Here are the photos of us making and eating out Maori Fried bread... Delicious!!!!
We're ready Mrs Grant
The Ingredients are ready to go.
Sugar
yeast
Water
Not to much!
More Flour
Flour
What does it smell like Jarrett?
Stir
Stir
Great folding in Cairo
and more flour
Come on Mrs Grant has it risen in the oven yet?
The yeast made some magic happen
A dough monster
Yum Jam
Jam or Vegemite Ayra and Lachie?
Vegemite for Maddie
Faster Mrs Grant, we are hungry!
Yum yum
I had Vegemite and Jam!
The left over dough
It was squishy
That feels yucky!
But so fun!
It was great day. Team 8 wishes everyone a happy Matatriki... Don't forget to get up early in the holidays to see if you can spot the 7 Matariki stars.
Next Thursday Team 8 would like to share with you their Genius Time 'creations'. We are very proud of them would love you to come along if you are available.
When: Thursday 6th July
Where: Room 8
Time: 1:45pm
(I will send an email home if anything changes)
All family members and friends are more than welcome to come along (please sign in at the office).
Don't worry if you can't make it, I'll take lots of photos and upload them on here.
In the meantime here is a sneak peak of what we've been up to...
Today we had a very special visitor. Her name was Kirsten and she is a civil engineer. We learned all about what civil engineers do.
Did you know that civil engineers design and help to build our roads, bridges, services(sewer and wiring pathways) runways and tunnels?
She showed us a heap of pictures and told us about all the different types of bridges and how they work.
We tried out making bridges with our bodies. Can you guess what type of bridge we are trying to make?
THEN... The most exciting part happened! Kirsten let us build our very own arch bridge. Team 8 did a super job working together as a team to put all the wedges in place. It was a little tricky, we had to check what side of the wedge we were putting towards the middle.
Look how strong arch bridges are!!!! we can even stand on them!
Afterwards, Mrs Clyde told us that the very top wedge of the arch bridge was called 'they keystone'. It is the strongest part of the arch.
We get to keep the 'bridge kits' in our room for the next few weeks, so if you have some spare time come in and have a play - Can you make a bridge that is strong enough for you to stand on?
It was a pretty cool experience. I think that some of team 8 might take this new learning into their Passion projects/Genius time next term!
