Shopping at school

Today our classroom turned into a supermarket temporarily!

We have been looking at financial literacy, money, saving, and needs and wants this term. Today we brainstormed all the things that we can buy at the supermarket.

Then the students paired up, and looked around the supermarket to see what they could buy with their money. They had to write down on their lists what they would buy, and keep a running total to make sure they were coming in under budget. It was a great maths activity and a challenge to figure out what were the best things to buy with our money.

At the end of the session we circled the things on our list that were healthy, talked about why we need healthy foods, and talked about the things that we found difficult in this task.

Suzy from St Johns Ambulance says "Call 111 in an emergency."

Yesterday we had a visit from Suzy at the St Johns Ambulance service.  She taught us all about the very important things that the ambulance service does in our community and how they help us.  She told us about the different kinds of emergency services and how each one can help us.

Suzy talked about what kind of emergency services we might need and when we needed to call 111 and when we didn't.

Suzy asked some of us to volunteer trying on the uniform.  Suzy explained how the uniform helps to keep people protected and safe.

Suzy showed us all some of the equipment that we might see in an ambulance.  It was very interesting looking and holding the breathing mask, bandages, gloves and stethoscope.

Some of us had a go at pretending to phone 111.  We learnt some of the things the emergency operator will ask us if we ever need to ring in an emergency.  Some of the things that we need to know are...

What is your address?
What is your phone number?

Tell me what happened?

It would be wonderful if students could please practise this at home as it is so important that children are able to say their address, phone number and full name.

At the end of the session, Suzy let all of those people who wanted to, to try on the uniform.  Maybe we have some future Ambulance Officers in the making?

Rockets, Rockets, Rockets!

We had a very busy day in Room 12 today and it was all about rockets!

Some students created some beautiful rocket art.  Students used pencil to draw their rocket and then went over the pencil with sharpie.  Next they painted their rockets using lovely, vibrant colours.  They look fantastic and are currently on display on our solar system wall.

We had our wonderful student teachers, Meki and Christina, teach others how to make straw rockets.  They did such a great job at showing everyone what to do.

Many students enjoyed creating rockets out of boxes, containers and all sorts of bits and bobs.

We did a little bit of science today as well and raced balloon rockets.  Can you work out why some went faster than others?

It got a little bit loud when everyone joined in for the countdown with our balloon rocket races.  It was very exciting!

                               

If you would like to have a go at balloon rocket racing over the weekend, here are the directions.

http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2014/07/balloon-rocket-experiment.html

We hope you all have an enjoyable Queen's Birthday weekend with your whanau.