Maze

 Room 16 had "The Gardener's Maze" for their shared book. The class enjoyed learning how the gardener think, planned and made his maze. 

This inspired the children to make their own mazes. 

On the last day of enjoying the book, we made a maze using the things we see in our classroom. We then learned some positional terms such as forward, backward, left and right turns. We also learned the term 'debug' to go back to the original position. The children had a lot of fun working in pairs and figured out ways on how to solve their own puzzles.

Maker Space Activity

Room 16's Maker Space activity for weeks 1 and 2 is to find some solution for the current problem of Hamilton City. With the move from old recycle bins to new ones, plastic bottle caps are not to be recycled anymore. This meant that plastic bottle caps will end up in the regular bins and add up to our rubbish. Room 16 tamarikis brainstormed together and thought about some ideas on how they can re-use bottle caps so they do not end up with general rubbish. Days of brainstorming and planning ended with a day to 'create' and put their ideas into reality. Some students made useful home display such as photo frames, coasters while some went to the extra ordinary like game boards, animal figures and transportation vehicles. It was indeed a very fruitful and fun day for the tamariki, this also created in them a love for the environment because we want to help reduce waste materials.

Planting in Room 16

 Yesterday, room 16 put little seeds in little pots. I got a cauliflower seed. I want my plant to grow.

by Oto

Yesterday, Ivy grabbed some oaoer pots. We designed it with pens. Some classmates designed theirs with flowers. We watered the soil and put them in pots. We dropped the seed in pots. I planted a leek.

by Spartak

Yesterday, Room 16 was delighted to plant a vegetable. I planted a lettuce seed. This is how we planted: First,mwe put a seed and then water on top of the soil. Ivy put the mixture in our pot. I'm going to say nice words to my plant at Takaro time so it can grow for me.

byKristi

Today, I planted a carrot in a small pot. Ivy smashed the soil with a fork, then put the dirt back. I sprayed it with water. I wonder if we could make a garden, that will be good. My grandad would be so happy but he is not here.

by Tumai

Yesterday, Room 16 planted a seed. We decorated the pot of plant. We also wrote our names on the pot. The next day, we looked at the plant and my one grew a bit.

by Winter

Different Volcanic Eruptions

 Term 3 was a time Room 16 explored more about volcanoes. First, we learned about the parts of a volcano and how it erupts. 

Then we did different experiments which showed how different volcanoes erupt. Here are the illustrations made in groups and some description the students shared:

Strombolian Eruption

           Thick lava- Eiva

          Big explosion!- Thiana

          Ash, rocks and lava come out together- Zeppelin

         Lava and fireballs burst out.- Winter

Vulcanian Eruption

       Ash fall eruption - Leighton

       It's like smoke that comes out of chimneys. - Dre

Effusive Eruption

       Lava flows slowly and it is not explosive.- Kristi

      Eruption that has lava flowing out from the crater and vents. - Safwan

       

Pelean Eruption

        Sticky lava flows and then smoke and ash come out too.- Akshay and AJ

        It is like saying it is going to explode but have thick lava first. - Te-Tare

The Volcano

As part of our theme on volcanoes, Room 16 learned a poem and used self made percussion instruments to express the movements that a volcano has. The class had fun identifying the verbs in the poem and cooperatively came up with rhythm to accompany each. It was a team effort as we took turns saying some lines of the poem with expression. Click on the video and see how each tamariki gave their best in performing this poem.

 

Class Volcano Diorama

 Room 16's tamariki have been working so hard into making our class volcano diorama. We also did some writing about how we made the volcano, then we planned on what we can put to improve it. It is a work in progress!

Room 16 made a volcano last Friday. We tore cardboard. We used glue and water. We painted the volcano brown and green.

By Leighton

Room 16 made an enormous volcano. We used a cardboard and tape. Some of us made goop with glue and water. I am going to put house and it will be made of paper.

By Kristi

Hurray! We made a volcano. First, Ivy took a square card from her bag and we put glass in the middle. We sticked some tape to get the shape of a volcano. We placed card to fill in the sides. We put glue and water to make a slime and put it all over the volcano. Then six days after, it dried and we painted it. We had farm animals around it.

By Spartak

We made a perfect volcano diorama last Friday. First, we tore cardboards into bits of tiny pieces then we mixed glue and water. We put a glass cup on a flat cardboard and stick it with tape and cardboard into a volcano. We poured glue and water in the crater. We melted red crayon and it dripped on the side of the volcano.

By Safwan

Room 16 made a volcano diorama. I plan to put some boats and a lake. The lake was over the big volcano that was about to erupt. The volcano will not have a big but an effusive eruption.

By Tawaewae

I notice the volcano burnt and my idea was a good idea. We melted wax to make lava.

By Raihan

We made a terrific volcano diorama. We put the crayons on the crater. I plan to put houses and people running so far that they couldn’t even see it again.

By Tumai

Soda and Sand Experiment

We poured sand into the soda and it burst because of the pressure it gave to the soda. It took its place in the bottle. 

By Kristi

We shoved sand into the soda, it zoomed up because the pressure pushed it up. The sand wanted the whole bottle to itself so it asked the fizzy to get out. It did not want to get out of the bottle so the sand had to push it out.

By Zeppelin

We sprinkled sand into the soda and it gave it pressure so it exploded and fizzed. It made the soda want to come out.

By Winter

We sprinkled sand into the soda, it zoomed up because the sand took its place and give pressure for the soda to come out.

By Spartak

We poured sand into the soda, it zoomed up because the sand put pressure in the soda.

By Safwan

We shoved and sprinkled sand and the soda zoomed up into the sky and bubbled because it made the pressure squish the soda to come out.

By Tumai