Merry Christmas

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year,  and take this opportunity to thank all the Room 18 families for your support during 2019.  I have had a fabulous year helping everyone with their learning.

I wish everyone the best in 2020, and hope to catch some of you after school or on lunch duty to say "Hello" and find out how you are getting on in the Kokutu Team.

Christmas Party

On the last Wednesday of the year, we had a Christmas party.  Everyone brought something for a shared lunch and we all wore Christmas cracker hats.  It was one of the last times to us to enjoy each others' company before we leave the Weka Team.

Christmas mushrooms

Everyone in Room 18 has been working hard to make a Christmas present for their family.  This year,  we sneakily started four weeks ago.  We made mushrooms out of clay and then left them to dry out for three weeks, cunningly hidden on the top of our tall classroom cupboards.

After they had been fired in the kiln, we painted them.  We painted them with a white undercoat first; then we painted the gills on the underside of the mushroom.  Finally, we painted the caps in different colours.

It was fun to position them under the oak tree in the junior playground and see them sprout.   On the last day of school, we made gift tags for them and attached them to the stems to take them home for Christmas presents.

Pool Party

Room 2 and Room 18 were the first classes to return all their library books at the end of the year.  Our reward was a pool party with hot chips at the end, and ten minutes free play.  Let the good times roll!

We even made it into the Cockle Bay Face Book page!

What makes things tick?

This year, we have been dismantling electrical equipment on the Science Table to see the technology that makes things work - these are the inner parts of a computer, monitor and TV.

Paper chains

It starting to get a bit like Christmas . . .

We worked in groups to make the longest paper chain we could in the shortest time:

Fraction Fruit Salad

We practised making fractions from shapes by dividing fruit into different fractions to make a Fraction Fruit Salad on Friday.

We halved these grapes.

We cut these apples into quarters.

We cut these apples into eigths.

We cut this piece of orange into quarters.

Rylee had a cunning tool to cut grapes into quarters!

It tasted pretty good when we mixed all out fruit fractions together.