Clifton Tce School Room 7 2010

Today we made fruit salad to eat with jelly and ice-cream. YUM!

2010-12-14T01:47:00.000-08:00

A busy week for us!

2010-11-20T20:41:00.000-08:00

This week has been a busy one. On Wednesday we went on our trip to Mapua to visit the aquarium and the wetlands. The trip was a great way to cap off our Ocean unit. We saw lots of interesting things and got to touch. Judy's highlight was touching the stingray.

We did a wonderful job taking assembly on Friday. Some of us introduced things speaking into a microphone, and we all helped with our dance display and singing.

The Ocean

2010-10-31T00:05:00.000-07:00

As part of our ocean study Jenny took us for an art lesson about hot and cold colours. We could choose the hot or cold table to paint our fish. We decided to put them on the wall with a speech bubble. Judy was very pleased with the way we tried to give people a message about responsible fishing. Here's some of our work.

And then there was this one........

Some comments about our circuit making

2010-10-24T22:29:00.000-07:00

Circuits are fun to make.

2010-10-21T14:24:00.000-07:00

On Monday we went to the science room to use electricity to make a circuit.
We used crocodile clips to connect the wires. We had to press really hard to open the crocodile clips. If we joined them up the light would glow or the motor would turn. Something funny happened. One of the motors got caught up in Hayley's hair. We had to cut it out! We used batteries to supply us with electricity.

2010-09-15T03:18:00.000-07:00

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Montessori Visits Us

2010-09-06T02:08:00.000-07:00

Today children from Nelson Montessori visited us. We showed them our junior playground and let them have a turn. After play we set up some activities for them to try. We ended the visit by having lunch together. We hope our visitors enjoyed their visit and got to see a little of school life.

Friday Discovery Time

2010-09-06T01:51:00.000-07:00

On Friday afternoon we have discovery time. Our teachers set up different activities and set us some challenges based around our keys for learning. One of our activities was making ice-cream. Yum! We had to organise our own groups and work together. Eating it was definitely the best part.

This is how we did it. Try it at home.

Ice-cream Recipe

You will need:

a zip lock bag
a large screw top jar
ice
salt
2tbsp icing sugar
150ml milk
2 tsp vanilla

Instructions:

Into the bag put the milk, vanilla and icing sugar.
Place some ice in the bottom of the jar. Sprinkle some salt over it.
Put the bag on top of the ice.
Put more ice on top and sprinkle with salt.
Screw on the lid.
Shake and shake and shake!
Keep shaking until the ice-cream thickens.
Serve up and enjoy!

Daffodil Day

2010-08-27T00:51:00.000-07:00

On Thursday we had a mufti day. All the money went to the cancer society. Don't we look gorgeous!

Peter And The Wolf

2010-08-21T00:30:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday morning we set off for the Theatre Royal to see a performance of Peter And The Wolf by the Nelson Academy of Dance. We all went in the bus.
We were impressed with the costumes, music and the skill of the dancers. We were shown how Grandad used make-up to make him look old. There were some funny bits in the show too. The duck was very cheeky as she shook her tail at us!

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Sacha's great masterpiece

2010-08-12T02:03:00.000-07:00

This week for news, Sacha shared with us a sewn mural she made with her Mum. We all thought she did a wonderful job. She used fabric paint to add detail and colour. Judy loved the clouds and the addition of grass using long stitches. Sacha loved her rainbow. She didn't have to sew in a purple strip as she was able to use the background colour. We were so impressed with Sacha's efforts that Judy is going to put out some things to sew at Discovery Time. Well done Sacha!

Maths on Friday

2010-08-06T02:22:00.000-07:00

On Friday's we work together on games and activities that help us learn our basic facts.

All the activities let us work at the level we are ready for.

Today we used dominoes. We had to add all the dots and place the domino on the chart showing the total number. We are all able to count the dots one by one. Some of us know the answers without counting. Sometimes we make the pattern with our fingers then recognise the number because we practise our finger patterns. If we are unsure what the digit looks like, we count up on the number line.

2010-08-02T15:58:00.000-07:00

Science with Stirling

2010-07-23T02:57:00.000-07:00

Every Monday we go to the science room for science with Stirling. This week we were asked to predict what would happen as Stirling performed some experiments.
We started with balloons held over a candle. The first one popped, the second one didn't. Can you think why the second one didn't pop? Ask your child to explain. Next Stirling pushed a skewer through the balloon. We all covered our ears because we expected the balloon to pop. The first two did but the third one didn't. Stirling changed things for the third balloon. We finished the session making erupting volcanoes. We learnt that certain substances, when mixed, react with each other. We had lots of fun!

Celebrating Our Last Head Start To School Session

2010-07-14T22:28:00.000-07:00

To celebrate the last session of Head Start To School we made then ate popcorn. Yum!
We enjoyed it so much we made three lots. That's a lot of popcorn!
We also invited our big buddies to join us. Our big buddies will look out for us when we start school.