Measurement for Maths

This term for our Strand Maths we are doing Measurement. Today we used a spoon to measure out rice into different types of containers. It was messy but we had a lot of fun!

Royal Dress up Day 9.6.17

The Junior Syndicate had a Royal Week following Queen's Birthday Weekend. We got to dress up on Friday. 

We had many princesses, queens, knights, dragons and a king in our royal court for the day.

The imaginations went wild and the children had a wonderful day.

Science Alive 11.5.17

For Inquiry we are learning about Water. Science Alive came to visit to teach us all about water.

We learnt about how water is absorbed and repelled.

One of these shirts repels the water and the other absorbs it.

The water is absorbed into the flower and the petals open up.

We learnt that some objects sink and others float. It was a lot of fun experimenting with the objects.

We learnt about how water can be turned to a solid and into a gas.

The water in the themos is hot and it created steam. The ice in our hands was a solid and it began to melt in our hands making a liquid.

We learnt about clean and dirty water and how it can be filtered.

We tried to filter the water.

We tasted the difference between salt water and fresh water. The salt water was not very nice.

We had a great day learning about water!

Sign language week

As part of Sign Language week we learnt some Sign Language. 

We learnt some Sign Language for different animals and some sign language relating to our Story Telling.

We learnt how to say The tiger goes over the bridge.

We had to guess what was being said.

Learning Sign Language was fun.

Monster Maths

This week our Big Book for Reading is called Monster's Lunch. We have been having a week of monster fun. For Maths today we rolled two dice together then added them up and coloured in the answer. We worked with a buddy. It was a lot of fun. 

Mr Simpson's final Assembly 12.4.17

Mr Simpson Had his final Assembly at Belfast School today. 

He was welcomed in and then the Kapa Haka performed.

There was a Mister Simpson vs Master Simpson Quiz.

The Buddy Classes gave Mr Simpson something to remember them by. Room 18 and Room 4 went up together.

Mrs Johnstone shared some things we would miss.

The Choir and the school sang "To Sir With Love" to Mr Simpson. He got a bit upset.

Mr Simpson had the final word. He's going to miss us a lot!!!

Then, as per Belfast School tradition, we clapped him out of the hall. This is something we do when people leave the school. He walked out with his Grandson Jacob and family friends Cooper and Jacko. It was very sad!! 

Monkeys in the bed in Room 4