Letter of the Week Ii

Our letter of the week this week was Ii and we did find some things to take photos of in our classroom. We had to find a photo of an iceberg and a photo of an igloo as we don't get snow in Auckland. We will post our photostory on Wednesday when we have finished recording the audio. Room 8

Water as Liquid, Steam and Ice

We did an experiment to find out about how water can change when it is heated. It changes into steam and then when it cools down again it changes back into water. We saw drips on a spoon that we held beside the jug while it was boiling. Then we poured some water into ice cube trays and put it in the freezer to keep it very cold. The water changed into ice. But we noticed that it started to melt quite quickly when we took it out of the freezer and had it sitting in the classroom! We wrote lots of words for ice to describe what it looked like, what it tasted like and how it felt.

Our Ideas about Food!

We have started our new topic What's Cooking? and have been enjoying doing lots of fun Setting the Scene activities for the last 2 weeks. We did a mindmap of which foods are good for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Have a look.

Letter of the Week Qq

We worked on the letter Qq last week and found it tricky giving little q nice long tails. We practised writing Q and q in rainbow letters, on little whiteboards, on laminated cards. We also formed the letter using little stones and clay. Then we took photos of items beginning with Q. We didn't find nearly as many as we did for C. Ms F is going to upload our photostory once we have recorded the audio and typed the labels on Wednesday. See if you can think of anything else beginning with Q that we missed?

To the Garden

Watch the video and see what you learn about how to eat vegetables from the garden.

Letter of the Week Cc

Our photostory about Cc is ready. We took photos and typed the words with labels so we got the spelling right. Then we chose colours for the words. We found lots of different things for Cc. We didn't have time to record audio this time so we put in some music instead!

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

We have been looking at some paintings by Arcimboldo. We think they are funny but interesting because they are faces painted in fruit and vegetables! We have made a list of all the fruit and vegetables we can see. Can you find any we have missed? Ms F