Swimming @ Hilton Brown

 Kicking hard using a float board

 Arms stretched

 Bathing beauties

 Renee jumping into the deep end of the pool

Swimming in small groups helps us to learn swim strokes. 

"We learn how to do back stroke" Jayden

Animation using the classroom ipad

 We worked with a buddy to plan the story board, we highlighted the scene we would animate

 Together we drew the back drop and foreground.

 This is Kaelyn and Amber filming- taking lots of shots to create the animation using the ipad.

It took concentration to make the 3D characters, it helped having a buddy to talk to about the problems.

Junior Athletics Day

 The seven year old girls wore white. The girls are waiting to be called for their next event.

The seven year old boys wore black. They called themselves the "All Blacks."

Trip to Ivy Cottage & the Enchanted Garden

What an experience at Ivy Cottage and what fun in the enchanted garden.

"Arr me mateies",  a warning from Ricci.

"We are going to turn you into a toad"

Listening to Fairy stories

Having fun making fairy wands.

A chance to make pirate flags.

Looking for treasure- going on a hunt.

Swing high on the tyre in the enchanted garden.

Bye Fairies after a great time at Ivy Cottage and the enchanted garden.

Fantasy Immersion

Exploring activities which stimulate our  imaginations

These are a few of the 'stations' we visited.

 Making potions with interesting ingredients.

 Viewing video clip of popular Ogre story.

Imaginary play using sand trays and toys.

Book Week Characters

Forces of Flight

                                                                       Lift

               Thrust

                Drag

                Gravity

Talented Class mates

We have wonderful talented dancers and musicians in room 18. They performed at our Music school assembly on Friday.

Popcorn Adjectives

Popping corn kernels gave us a chance to revisit adjectives. We had fun describing the smell, how it looks, how it felt, what we heard. We all got to taste it too. We are learning to make our sentences more interesting.

             "Bursting up like a spaceship, popping kernels out." Rachel

"It looked like mini clouds bungy jumping 

into the white bowl." 

Charlotte

Experiments on lift and weight (gravity), two of the forces that help aeroplanes fly. 

Model aeroplane

Paul came to school and showed us how he flies his model aeroplane.

MOTAT here we come

The day finally arrived. We were off to MOTAT with the rest of the Trailblazers to see the aeroplanes.

                                  The planes were massive. 
              Come visit us and see the book we made about our trip.

            Ricci is pointing to the oldest plane in the hanger. 
                                     It has an open cockpit.

"Let's go fly a kite, up in the atmosphere... "

After decorating our kites using wax crayons we tried to fly them outside on the field.
They were so light, they flew immediately, we just had to stand, letting out the string slowly.
We were so excited to hold onto a kite that actually flew!

Team Trailblazers Flight Immersion

Immersion happens in a block of time when we spend time at stations to experience and wonder how "something" happens or to try "something" out. We end up with many questions.
Our Flight Immersion was done with the Trailblazers Team. We "had a go" at 8 different stations to find out about the 4 forces that help aeroplanes to fly.

Here some of us from our team are making cloth parachutes. I wonder if they will fly?

The air fills the cloth parachute and it gently glides to the ground.          Does that mean the parachute flew?
"I wanted to try my parachute again, we got to take them home, but not the teddy bear." JK

                  We could make two different designs of paper darts and fly them outside.                                             These were the two stations in Room 18. 
                  Look at the other rooms' blogs to find out the experiments in their rooms.

"The BIG Apple Crunch" - with Jazz apples supplied to the school.

We are gathered with the rest of the school, ready to bite into our"jazz" apples, we are waiting for the count down.

For some of us "the big apple crunch" was painful because we have wiggly front teeth!