Spelling Success in week two term two

These awesome students have got their spelling correct for eight weeks. Well done Taliah, Eve, Enya and Rayden. They all got a prize from the prize box.

Eve-Ellen's news week one

Look what Eve found in her garden. Eve had a sensible container to bring her find to school. We let it go at morning tea time as it was about to have her babies. She had a very fat tummy. We put her where the birds couldn't get her and she would have lots to eat.

Our bread experiments week one Term 2 2011

The milk has now soaked into the bread of the full fat milk and the cream has dried up leaving a layer of fat around the bread. Flies has started to land on the bread and it had begun to stink so we had to throw it out. On the low fat milk white mould had started to grow in the middle of the bread.

On day two the low fat milk had soaked into the bread. The full fat milk was only half as full. Around the third piece of bread the cream had become like a custard.

We used our three different containers of liquid from our first experiment. Low fat milk, full fat milk and cream. They all had three drops of yellow food colouring and a squirt of detergent in each. The cream container was very difficult to take to the science table as it was so runny.

Science experiment one. Milk

Look at those swirling patterns.

Wow it exploded out to the edges. You have to watch carefully as it is very fast.

We thought the food colouring looked like a bear or a dog. What do you think?

Mr Baker is going to squirt the cream.

We are putting the food colouring into the cream.

Mr Baker was on release so he came in and helped us so Mrs Mortensen could video and take photos.

Woops we put far too much food colouring into the low fat milk so we had to start again.

We got three different types of milk. Low fat, full fat and cream. We poured one cup into each container. Then we added three drops of food colouring. Next we squired some detergent onto the food colouring and watched what happened. We found the low fat milk worked best.

Assembly Room2 week 11 2011

We sang our song "Singing in the Rain."

Our visitors.

Joshua got to welcome our visitors

Tyrese asked everyone to stand for "God defend New Zealand."

It was Room 2's turn to take assembly in week 11. We had some guests who presented awards from sport's Horowhenua. Room 2 played it's in the bag. Ashton was the lucky person who won it's in the bag. He won a $5.00 lunch voucher but missed out on a ride in Mrs Mortensen's wheelchair. Then we sang "Singing in the Rain". Everyone laughed. We are taking assembley again in week 3 of term 2.

Duffy Theatre 4.4.11 New Zealand Post.

Kiri from the Foxton Library talked to us about getting a library card for free.

Here we all are doing the swish clap.

Awesome actors and singers.

We invited the day care up to visit and watch our show. They had great fun sitting with the children from Room Two. We were so lucky to get two Duffy visits in one day. The show was at 11.15 this morning. We all had a wonderful time.

Duffy role Model 4.4.11

Room Two looking at all their lovely new books. We got two each.

Rayden receiving Room Two's books.

Mrs Shirley Corlett visited Foxton Beach School this afternoon. Shirley has been a writer all her life but has only been published in the last 15 years. Her first book "The Hanging Sky" was an adult history book and we found out it took her 10 years to write this book. She has since written young adult books including "The Stolen" which won the Tom Fitzgibbon Memorial Award. She was also shortlisted for the 2005 New Zealand Book of the year.