Term 3 2016 Class Newsletter

Our Solar System Paper Mache models

Our Milky Way

Milky Way pictures we drew

All about planets

In Room 9 we are learning about other planets. we watched this video to learn more about each planet in our Solar System.

Click on the video and learn more. 

Celebrating Matariki

 Matariki Activities in Room 9

Nanny weaves flax 

over one, under one, criss cross criss cross

under one, over one

Zig zag zig zag, My new school bag

We used strips  of paper to weave. 
Over one, under one, under one over one, 
Oh! what fun, we had weaving. We learnt to weave during Matariki week in our class.  

Our Space Exploration

     ROOM 9 Space Explorations

We went to Stardome to learn more about outer space.

We looked at other planets like Saturn.

WOW!! Look at its beautiful rings. We are observing to gather
more evidence about the planets and other space objects. 

This is another largest planet - Jupiter. Its humongous. 

This is our planet Earth. This is where we all live. we call it the  Goldilocks planet because it is just the right planet for us to live on. 

OUR DAY SKY & NIGHT SKY

Our Night Sky pictures

Our Day Sky pictures

WHAT CAUSES DAY & NIGHT....?

We used books, videos about day and night, we used a model of the Earth, Moon and a torch as sun model to see how the Earth's spin causes day and night. 

We now know the Sun does not move around. Its the Earth that spins on its axis. The part facing the Sun has day and the part facing away from the Sun has night. 

We drew pictures to show day and night on Earth.

We played Sun Moon and Earth game. We moved around to show the Earth's rotation around the Sun and the Moon's rotation around the Earth. 

We had a lot of fun playing this space game.

Our Closest Star - The Sun

 We made Sun models. We put words about the Sun on our models.

 We drew pictures about the Sun. We write words about the Sun. we now know a  lot about Our Sun.  

Our Space Picnic - we imagined we were astronauts. We made a list of things we need to take with us if we go into space for a picnic. 

Look at our astronaut model- Thanks to Mrs. Landi our student teacher for helping us with this. 

Our Calendar Maths

Our Learning this term

Room 9 - PE 

GET SET GO.......

Balancing games 

Balancing on one leg 

                                                           Balancing on one leg and hopping 

Room 9 - Adidas Fun Run

Last Friday we had did fun run at our school. A fun run is a friendly race that we all participated to raise funds for our school. 

Ashley & Morgan on their second round of fun run

 Mrs Marin our principal running in support of fun run.

Parents and teachers helping children with fun run.

Term 2 Room 9 Newsletter