rapid racing spheros

Last Friday we got to play with SPHEROS. The spheros are little robot toys that you control with the iPad.We had heaps of fun learning how to control the spheros we had races and played with the lights  and colors.It was fun  

The Stickilicious Toffee

Ingredients

2 cups of sugar

1 cup of water

1 tablespoon DYC White vinegar

1 tablespoon butter 

Method: 

Put sugar, water, vinegar and butter into a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves. Bring to the boil. Do not stir. Let the mixture boil to the soft crack stage. Pour into a buttered tin. Mark into squares. Cut when cool. 

I think this toffee is stickilicious!! 

Madness begins.

  Swimming

On Friday we went to the pool for a swim because stinking hot and we were exhausted. Everyone jumped in and it was really refreshing. The pool all of a sudden turned into waves. All of the juniors and some of the seniors were there. Most of the classes went to the end of the pool to the deep end and did manu and staples into the pool. There was so much yelling involved. If you wanted to talk to someone you had to yell at the top on your lungs. We were in the cold pool for one hour. 

How to make fluffy slime and regular slime.

What you will need

• Glue (PVA)
• Food colouring 
• Shaving cream (more shaving cream more fluffier)
• Borax (1 teaspoon at a time)
• Bowl

How to make it

You get your bowl and glue out then pour as much glue you want into your bowl. Once you have done that put 1 teaspoon of food colouring in the bowl and mix it till your glue is the colour you want. Then add your shaving cream (the more shaving cream the fluffier it will be). Mix it well till the are all combined. Then get your borax and hot water and get 1 teaspoon of borax and mix till you can't see the borax. Once you have done that get 1 teaspoon of borax and put it in your bowl and mix till it is all sticking together. You can add more borax if it isn't sticking together. 



How to make regular slime
What you will need:

• 1 teaspoon of borax 
• white PVA glue
• 1 cup of warm water
• food colouring (optional)
• glitter (optional)

Add your borax to a cup of warm water and mix until dissolved. Put as much PVA glue into your bowl as you want (as much glue you have is how much slime you have). Add food colouring and mix. Add little bits of activator at a time (dissolved borax) and mix until it all sticks together. Tap your finger on your slime if comes off clean then take it out and knead it and play with it. It will get more stretchy the more you play with it.

Amazing Art

This term we have been doing  different  type of art. We have been going on to artprojectsforkids.org to learn how to draw cool things. We have made a lot of cool things. We think it is an amazing website.

Halloween Art/Writing

This week we have been writing Halloween stories. We got to roll a dice to tell us what our story would be about. We rolled the dice 4 times and each roll told us our character, time, place and problem that we had to integrate into our writing. We had some very spooky stories with some great scary language.

The art work was done in two parts: the first being the painting of the sky. We started with a white circle for the moon and then added either purple or blue paint each ring around the moon, making it darker each time. For the second stage of the artwork we cut out a house silhouette and stuck them onto our painted sky background. Some students added some birds, trees and tombstones to add to the effect of the Haunted House!

I think they look very effective and am very proud of the work the students put in.

Feel free to come in and see them!

Friday 20th October

Friday was a very busy day for Room 7. We had sports activator with Mitch and a group challenge to complete in the afternoon.

In our Sports Activator session Mitch was teaching us lots of cricket skills. It was a fun session on a beautiful Lawrence day. We did a lot of activities and we were able to practice our bowling, catching, throwing, running between the wickets and fielding.



In the afternoon we were put into teams of 3 and given 20 sheets of newspaper and 1 metre of masking tape. Our challenge was to build a structure that was 1 metre high and could stand on its own (without anyone holding or touching it). This was a great team building activity and made each group communicate and problem solve.

Once groups completed that activity they had to make a shelter that all team members could fit under. This was a more challenging task and pushed a lot of people to the edge, BUT...they all persevered and worked well as a team.

Daffodils Trip

Last Friday we visited the daffodils at Wetherston's. It has been re-opened by a group of committed community members. When we arrived we went to the daffodil field. After that we went to the waterfall which was lovely. When we got back from the waterfall we found the old Hart homestead where the Hart family lived. Some students then walked up a track to find the wardrobe only to find it wasn't there any longer. It was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed going up to the daffodils.

Sports Activator - Touch

On Friday 15th September we had our lesson Sports Activator session with Greer. In this session we were practicing our touch skills to get us ready for the upcoming season. We learnt the technique for passing from both sides. We also did a drill that worked on our concentration skills. This was quite a fun drill where we faced our partner with the balled place on the ground between us. Then Greer would call out a part of the body and we had to touch that part of our body, if Greer called out "ball" we would dive towards the ball to try and get it before our partner. We finished of the session with several games of mini touch. We were put in teams and Greer would call out a number. That number of people had to play a mini game of touch.

Elections 2017!

Today Room 7 started their inquiry into the Elections. We were put into groups and asked to find out about one of the main political parties in NZ.

Miss Taylor created a collaborative Google Slide and in our groups we added our research to our specific slide.

It is great to be able to all add our information onto the same document.

Check out our Elections Google Slideshow