Adventures at Toitu and The Dunedin Art Gallery

The House

When we went into the house at Toitu, I liked the roof because the rain could not get in. The roof is made out of sticks and reeds and cutty grass.
The bed was not comfortable.
By Cooper









                                                                             

Lego Creations

I enjoyed playing with the Lego at the Gallery because we could smash things down and re-use the blocks to build our own things, or we could add to the humungous sky scrapers.
All of the blocks were white. I like Lego.
By Cooper

Toitu Early Settlers Museum Trip

We went to the Toitu Early Settlers Museum to look at inventions made by the Maori people and the early settlers.We saw a canoe made by Maori people and it was made out of reeds. They used flax to tie the canoe altogether.The Maori people invented this idea so that they could go fishing for food and for travelling across the lakes, streams and rivers.

Welcome to Room One's Blog for Term 2 2014!
We hope you enjoy reading about our learning journey this term. We are very excited about our integrated curriculum topic, Inventions. We would like to hear about the awesome (and perhaps the not so good) inventions that you remember in your lifetime.
We would love to have you comment on the items that we put on the blog. Enjoy!!

My Swimming Fun

Fun in the pool

Happy in the water

I had so much fun at swimming.
I love playing games at the pool like counting to 3 and jumping off the side of the pool, playing "choo choo" with the noodles with Vicky and riding down the slide.

Water Play

WATER PLAY

At Maths time we filled a big tub with water and got some different sized containers and counted how many times we had to fill a small container of water to fill up the bucket. We guessed how many first and then had another guess about half way.

We had lots of fun in the sunshine at Mathstime.
When we were finished we both worked together to help empty the big tub. It was heavy.

By Ethan and Jack M

Taking turns

Ethan is waiting for Leila to finish her move, then it will be his turn.

Room 1 Imaginary Islands - landforms

In Room 1 we have begun to learn about the landforms and examples of erosion that are found on Earth. As part of this we have been brainstorming the different types of features that we can see around us, such as mountains, rivers, plains etc. The children in groups put their learning into practice and worked together to design and create an imaginary island that had many of the features we are studying. They certainly created some wonderful Islands and play dough models!