Calendars

The last day for calendar orders is next week, Wednesday18th September.

Library Books for Sale!

Hey kids! The library is having a book sale next week every lunchtime Tuesday - Friday. Books cost 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 cents. 

Have fun finding some books you love.

Great Term 2 knoweldge!

Room 24 loved learning about gold mining life in the 1800s. Eve's mother emailed me Eve's answer  to a gold mining question on stuff.co.nz

Well done Eve!! You have a great memory for interesting facts!

Yoghurt Coolers

Thank you Dakota for bringing in yoghurt coolers for Room 24! You can put your yoghurt in it overnight, either in the fridge or freezer. It'll stay nice and cold all day. Yum, yum.

Butterfly Competition

Click here to view Room 24 Conservation Week entries.

If you go to Butterfly Creek's foyer, you can vote for Arahoe School. They are on Tom Pearce Drive by the airport, click here for the map.

Science Alive!!!

Yes it's science alive alright in Room 24.

Today for 'Facetime,' we took swabs (with cotton buds) around the classroom to check which areas had the most germs.

We will discover what item is the most infected and why... and what we can do about it.

 

In the classroom we have antibacterial soap, detergent, clean towels and antibacterial lotion - so everything and every finger will be as clean as a whistle (but whistles aren't clean says Rm 24!).

Our team of scientists are growing colonies of bacteria from our swabs in petri dishes, kindly supplied by Chris, Edward's mother. Chris works in a lab at Auckland University.

 

 

Edward and his guinnea pig

 



Inside the petri dishes is agar - a hard gelatine like substance, perfect for growing stuff. The dishes will be sealed shut so we can never open them again. We can only observe the results with our eyes...

Today for a treat Jake, Mrs Baird's BEAUTIFUL dalmatian, showed us his fetching skills. He was as fast as a.../He was fast like a... (can you think of a great simile)?

'Groups of' Party

Today we had some lovely mini chocolate cupcakes delivered by Zayan and his grandma. They were all in rows - perfect for multiplication. We made rows of objects around the classroom to make 'groups of' maths stories.