Agricultural Day 2011

 Everyone in Room 1 certainly enjoyed making these wooden toy trucks. The children all had the same wooden parts and what a wonderful array of colours and final designs we had! All the children had a part in cutting and hammering but had total control over the choice of colours and placement of the parts.

 'My truck has an aerial on the back!', said Levi.  'An awesome truck Levi!', said Mrs. Swanson

 What beautiful Sandsaucers! The children were able to display some very interesting and beautiful patterns. Well done to everyone for your lovely work.

 The children had great fun doing this art work and produced some very good colour combinations and contrasts.

 An arrangement in a cream bottle. Well done Kathleen for remembering to have a focal point and some height in your arrangement.

Modules - Gardens

This is Room 1's garden. We are planting vegetable seedlings and seed potatoes in our garden. We planted lettuce, silver-beet, cabbage and broccoli. We also planted radish seeds. We had turns watering the garden. We could see the radish seeds growing, they were coming up through the soil. They are white shoots and they have the seed case on top.

Daffodil Day at Koputaroa

On Friday, August 26th, the children and staff of Koputaroa School joined the national 'Daffodil Day' in support of the Cancer Society. Everyone had a lot of fun dressing in yellow as a way of showing support. We also made a gold coin donation to join in the fun! There was also a Student Council prize for the best dressed student in each class. Well done Eva for your great costume and being the winner of Room 1's prize, your daffodil hat was awesome! Room 1, you all had great ideas and made a wonderful effort to join the fun day! Well done and thank you for helping others!

Snow at Koputaroa School

Snow at Koputaroa School was a real highlight and something we don't usually see!  Room 1 had an exciting time playing in this amazing new environment! After morning tea we had a wonderful discussion about this very new experience and some great writing has been produced about the snow. Well done Room 1 you have used some exciting words in your writing today!


The snow is slippery.  (Harrison)
I played snowballs with Levi.     (Michael)
I played in the snow. It was cold.   (Levi)
I played in the snow. It was freezing.  (Olivia A.)
I saw snow on the ground, it was freezing and it was soft and it was brown from the mud.   (Sam)

HOT Learning - Creativity

The class had a great discussion about creativity using our Green Hat Thinking. We talked about what creativity was and how we could show it to others during our HOT Learning. The children had many great ideas and we have displayed them on the following chart. The most important idea was that what we do will be our own ideas and therefore our own special creative production.

NZ Kiwi Habitat

After looking through books and taking part in our class discussions the  children  painted what they thought a Kiwi habitat would look like. We now have a wonderful display in the classroom giving everyone the feeling of looking at a native bush scene.          Well done Room 1!

Modules - Print making

We have been going to Room 3 with Mrs. Robinson to learn about printmaking. First we had to very carefully cut out our kiwi shapes. We had to use the roller to spread the ink and the press to put the ink on the paper.
 

Here are some stories that Room 1 have written about their module experience.

We printed a Kiwi and it was  fun and we used ink.  (Sam)
We did printing Kiwis with Mrs. Robinson.  (Toby)
In Room 3 we printed the Kiwi on a piece of paper.  (Kathleen)
I printed a Kiwi in Room Three with Mrs. Robinson.  (Jacob)
In Room 3 we printed a Kiwi and it was fun in Room 3.  (Kayleigh)

Modules - Music

Room 1 has been having fun with Mrs Papworth this week during the music module. They have been learning about beat and rhythm. They have also enjoyed using the instruments to create their own music and dance.

Modules - Cooking

The children have had two cooking sessions and made some Rice Bubble Crackles and a Chocolate Cake. This was a great learning experience and created a lot of discussion. Everyone enjoyed eating the yummy things we made!
Some comments from the children:

"It will taste yummy!" Michael, about the cake.
"It is very sticky." Harrison, about the rice bubble mixture.
"The sprinkles make it look pretty." Charli, about finishing the icing.

Room 1 activities

Here are some of the activities that we have completed for Art and HOT Learning.