The visit from James Hargest Junior Campus Students.

Yesterday we had a visit from a class at the James Hargest Campus. They came to read us pictures books that they made. We really enjoyed listening to these and lots of us had favourite books! It was a nice sunny day so we could sit outside.

Have a look at our photos!

The activity trailer..

The activity trailer came to Windsor North School and we went to the hall to play with the equipment. There were things like hockey sticks, rugby balls, tennis balls, rolling mats, a parachute, a trampoline, basketballs, big balls, spinning top and spring boards. We had an AWESOME time!
My favourite thing was jumping on the trampoline. By Aless
I liked playing hockey and my team won! By Natalie
I enjoyed getting the ball through the basketball hoop. By Javarn
My favourite thing was doing forward rolls. By Kayla
I enjoyed playing hockey. By Brady We hope you enjoy looking at our photos!!!!

Sun hats

Check out our photo of our sun hats we made on Friday. Miss Lewis said that our sun hats needed to be sun safe. :) Natalie won the "best" hat.

Natalie's instructions on how to cross the road safely.

Lucia's instructions on how to cross the road safely

Here is Lucia reading her instructions on how to cross the road safely.  We have been looking at this as part of our safety unit.

 

 

 

Term 4

This is the last term for the year. This term we are looking at different types of safety. The past few weeks we have been looking at hazards in the home and at school. We have learnt a lot about hazards and now we can explain how to stay safe from these dangers. We enjoyed being detectives and looking for the hazards in these interactive sites
http://www.switchedonkids.org.uk/electrical-safety-in-your-home    http://www.nationwideeducation.co.uk/www/flash/safety-education/home-safety/12-14_hazard-house/container.swf
http://apps.chatham-kent.ca/CkVirtualSafety/virtualsafety.html

 

 

Made in New Zealand...

Some photos of the olden day games!

Yesterday the junior classes participated in playing games that were played in the olden days. 
We played games like tag, noughts and crosses, skipping, hop scotch and tiddly winks.  We had a great afternoon playing these games.

My favourite thing was skipping because we could do double skips.  Said Toby.

My favourite thing was noughts and crosses because I won them!
Said Natalie.

My favourite part was tag with Miss Lewis because Peyton and I were the last people in.  Said Zane

I liked tag because I didn't get tagged because I was to fast.  Said Javarn.

My favourite game was tiddly winks because there is a picture of me down below! By Kayla

 

Made In New Zealand (Original Song)

Mambo No.5 - Bob The Builder

Olden day games.

Check out our video of us playing games that were used in the olden days!

Olden days..

We have started looking at things that were used in the olden days.  Toby, Brady and Zane have bought in things to share with us that were used in the past both by Grandparents or parents.  Check them out!

Term 3

This term we are learning about what happened is the past. We have talked about things that we think were used and things that happened. For the rest of the term we are going to enjoy finding out exactly what happened in the past and how it has impacted on us today. Keep posted to the blog to see what we have been learning about!

Our findings about animals..

Listen to what we found out about animals.  We had some children from Room 6 come and help us to find out what we were wondering about!

Our animal masks...

These are our animal masks that we made.  We enjoyed making these as part of our living creature topic.  Keep posted for our movie about what we have found out about our "wonderings"!

Our Speeches on animals.

We hope you enjoying listening to our speeches on animals. Our finalists that go through to the Junior Sydnicate Finals are Natalie and Kayla :)

Windsor North Junior School singing Islands

Our animal wonderings :)

Visit from the Hits Radio Station.

Today we were very lucky to have James and Rach from the hits radio station in our room because Drew and his Mum had entered a competition and they won! So this meant we got morning tea for the class. We were very lucky.  It was a yummy morning tea.  We had cakes, mini mince pies and sandwiches.We got to play a game and we sung a song which they recorded and it is going to be played back on the radio tomorrow morning so we can listen to ourselves!
Thanks Drew!!

place value math song: ones, tens, hundreds

Fun with Phonics - sw, sl, sc, sk, st, sm, sn & sp sounds.

TH Song

CH Song

PR Song

Tutira Mai action song

Here we are performing Tutira Mai action song.  Room 3 came along and showed us the actions! We hope you enjoy watching.

Our trip to Queens Park

 

This is us sitting in the bus.  We are happy!

This is us looking at the plants.  Connor is looking at the plants up high!

We learned that the fly catchers catch flies.  We learned about the Sap in plants, it is like water!

Here is the Cockatoo.  Javarn learned that it has a sharp beak to crack nuts!
The Cockatoo talked to us, but we couldn't really understand what he was saying to us.  He repeats what he hears from humans.
He can sometimes be very lazy!

This was our last stop for our visit and it was to see the Deer!  They have antlers to protect themselves from other animals.  This is a stag.  Some stags live in the wild.  The antlers come off once a year and they grow new ones.

Look at this wonderful story...

I like writing because it is fun.  I am sometimes a WOW worker.  I am learning to use the 5ws in my story.  They are Who, What, Where, When and Why.  I use these in my story to make it interesting for the person who is reading it.

Brady's Handwriting

 I like handwriting because it is fun and I get to write my name.  I have written the letter D.  All my letters are sitting nicely on the line.

 

Drew's Writing

I like writing because sometimes I am a WOW worker.  That means I get to read my story out to the class.  I am learning to underline the words that I haven't spelt right so I can go back at check them using the word cards.

Term 2

We have started of the Term by looking at Living Creatures.  We have a good display of books and pictures of animals.  We have talked about the word "camouflage" and how animals adapt to their environments.

Here is our classroom display....

We have learned that all living things need food, shelter, water, and oxygen to breathe to survive in their environment.
We have talked about the Elephant.  The Elephant has a long trunk so it can drink water, this helps it to survive in it's environment.  It also has long ears to help it hear things coming from a long way away.  The Elephant skin is brown or grey so they can camouflage themselves from other living creatures.
The mountain goat adapts to it's environment by having hooves on the bottom of its feet so it can grip onto the rocks and mountains without slipping.  If it didn't have these it would not survive in its environment.

 

 

Password for Sunshine online..

Username for sunshine online is: windsornorth
Password: wns2014

Inquiry Learning

Inquiry Learning....

We have been taking notice of the rubbish that is being left behind after lunches.  Mr King come in with the big rubbish bag and showed us the rubbish bag in particular all the glad wrap.  

We have decided for our Inquiry technology unit we are going to make sandwich wraps that can be used to wrap sandwiches in rather than using glad wrap.

Here is a photo of Mr King and Mrs Sander with all the rubbish....

We have been busy making our sandwich wraps and here is a photo of some of the children with their wraps.  We enjoyed making our sandwich wraps.  We got to decorate them with love hearts, hands, smiley faces, dolphins and fish.  We are going to use these to wrap our sandwiches in.  By doing this it will also help to keep them fresh!

Im Lucia.  This is my sandwich wrap.  This is going to help keep my sandwiches       fresh.

Hi I'm Aless.  This is my wrapper.  I use it everyday to wrap my sandwiches in.  It has love hearts on it.

Welcome to Room 2,

This is the class of 2014....

We have settled in well and are enjoying being in Room 2. 
Keep checking this blog to see what we have been up to!