Room 27 children all graduated to Year 3 at the end of the 2009 school year, but Miss Brookshaw has a new Year 1 class now. You can read our news by visiting: www.room18meadowbankschool.blogspot.com
Bye for now!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, July 20, 2009
Robin's holiday
Lucky Robin! He got to go on a trip around the northern part of New Zealand with one of Room 27's students. You might remember that Robin came all the way from the U.K. to learn about New Zealand. He thoroughly enjoyed his trip and got to see lots of new things!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Life Education
This term the Life Education Caravan came to Meadowbank School. Harold the Giraffe lives in there, and he taught us all about healthy eating! We talked about how important it is to eat a balanced diet. We need to eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables daily, as well as rice, cereals, bread and pasta. We also need to make sure that we eat nuts, eggs, beans, fish, meat and milk products. We also discussed how we are allowed to eat treats, as long as it's only occasionally! We had a great time visiting Harold, and hope that he enjoyed meeting us too!
Tie-dye
We wanted to explore how we could change the colour of a piece of fabric, so we did some tie-dying. We each had a piece of calico, and first of all we scrunched up our piece of fabric. We then wrapped elastic bands very tightly around parts of the scrunched up fabric. Next we dipped the fabric into buckets of cold water dye. After a couple of minutes we took the fabric out and removed the elastic bands. We wanted to see whether the fabric that had been covered up by the elastic bands had remained the same colour, and sure enough it had!
Weaving
We practised weaving using strips of different types of fabric, and created these colourful works of art!
Tapa Designs
As part of our "Fabrics and Fibres" Topic we have been finding out about tapa cloth. We looked at some examples of Samoan tapa cloth to see what sorts of designs might be used. We then created our own patterns by cutting out and tracing around our own shapes, and then flipping or rotating them. Can you work out which designs have been created by flipping shapes? Can you see which designs have been made by rotating shapes? Which designs have some uniquely Kiwi pictures?!
Comparing two stories
In Term 2 we have been reading a variety of traditional tales from around the world. Close to the end of the term we read "Rainbow Bird," which is an Australian folk tale, and "How Rabbit stole the Fire," a North American story. We were looking for similarities and differences between the two stories, so that we could compare them. To help us organise our thoughts we used a SOLO compare map to record the ideas that we brainstormed. We found out that both stories have FIRE in them! Here are some of the other similarities and differences that we noticed:
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