Over the last few weeks Mrs Fulford has been reading about
the importance of play and how it encourages our minds to learn, lets us
explore our world and helps develop our oral language skills. Today after a couple of weeks of collecting fruit boxes
some of the boys created an awesome box fort. It went from a mansion to castle.
The boys used lots of different skills to complete this fort...negotiating,
communicating, perseverance to name a few. They also learnt a new word...
sturdy. Our fort needed to be a bit more sturdier. Here are some photos of the
progress.
On Wednesday middle school had an end of
year celebration. A fun day! There were 8 different activities over the course
of the day and all the children were split into 8 groups so that there were
several children from each class in each group. We had a Lego play room, ice-blocks
and chill time, playground, the sandpit, Mr Martin crazy games, water play, a
treasure hunt and best of all .... nerf war! Look at the smiles.
Yay the new playground has opened, and we are finally
back in a real classroom but it is NOT room 7! We have moved out of the library
and into Mrs Fulford's new class in room 24. This is a bit sad and happy as Mrs
Fulford spent 10 years in room 7 but she also gets to move into new open space
and try some new things. Here are some photos of our new playground.
This week we had our life jacket swim
safety lesson at the Otara pools as part of our swimming lessons with John Walker
Field of Dreams. Here are some photos from the fun!
As part of our celebration of finishing the first Harry
Potter book Room 7 are creating dioramas of our favourite scenes. We had to
write about what happened in our scene, design the diorama and then create it.
We had lots of fun. Here are some photos of our work in progress.
For the next four or five weeks Room 7 will be calling the library home while our room gets renovated. Here are some photos of our new class as well as the work in progress in room 7.
Last week Room 7 finished reading Harry
Potter and the philosophers stone. It was a great read! To celebrate we had a
Harry Potter inspired learning day.
It started on Friday when all the
children received their Hogwarts acceptance letters which included their
equipment list and asking them to be ready Monday for their lessons.
After a busy weekend of preparing
Monday arrived along with 29 very excited children! First, we needed to go
through the secret wall to platform 9 3/4. Each child received their train
ticket and through they went.
Next was of course the sorting ceremony
where the children were sorted into 7 groups of four using the sorting hat.
Once all the groups were ready, we started our first lesson. POTIONS! The
groups had to create a potion for laughter using the ingredients provided.
Powdered mermaid scales (Baking soda)
Ground unicorn horn (Glitter)
Angel snot (Vinegar)
Crystallized sunbeams (Crystals)
Fairy spit (Coconut essence)
Essence of rainbow (Red food colouring)
Christmas syrup (Almond essence)
Happiness elixir (bubble mixture and blower)
Dragons blood (dish washing liquid)
Lots of laughs and squeals when the
ingredients exploded. Lucky we were wearing our protective aprons.
Here is a video and some photos...
Our next lesson was transfiguration class. Each child got their wand and a piece of play dough. Using our magic word for change - mutatio! We had to change our simple lump into a sphere, a cube, a snake, a mouse, a cat and a car. Then the children created their own transfigurations and draw in their Hogwarts workbook.
Here are some photos and a video...
Our last lesson for the day was flying practice. We played rob the dragon nest but we had to fly to get there (we used cricket wickets) Mrs Fulford had a bit of a giggle as she watched the children trying to command their brooms. Lots of up! Up! Up!
Here are a couple of photos of our game...
At the end of the day we totaled the house points and orange were victorious on 160 points. Well done Teylah, Naomi, Sovea and Darnell.
It was a really enjoyable day with lots of laughter and learning. We can’t wait to read our next novel!
