PRINCESS & PIRATES DAY

Next Friday (29th November) Room 7 is having a Pirate & Princess Day. Next week we will be focussing on the letter Pp, so we are having a P Party to celebrate.
So, get your outfit ready!

MAD ON iPADS

We adore our iPads! Room 7 kids seem to rush to school each morning hoping to get some time on the iPads before school starts. We are able to use the iPads to learn in many curriculum areas. Even at the end of the day the children are still eager and energised for iPad time.

Change

This term our topic is 'Change'. We have been doing different science experiments and discussing the changes that we have observed. 
Now we have some tadpoles in the classroom and it is fun to see them change.

Today we wrote about our tadpoles.

Olivia wrote...
Our classroom has three tadpoles. They have back legs. Soon they will get their front legs. Then their tails will disappear.

Rachael wrote...
Our tadpoles have back legs. Soon they will change into frogs. They might hop all over the room!

Jake wrote...
Our three tadpoles have back legs. Later they will be frogs. I think that they grow into frogs. They are eating weeds. They will grow too big next year and we will have to fill our classroom up with water.

Tennille wrote...
My classroom has some tadpoles. They have cute back legs. Soon they will have front legs.

Rosa wrote...
In our classroom we have three tadpoles. Their back legs are growing. Soon they will change into frogs.

Samara wrote...
Our classroom tadpoles are growing their back legs. There are three tadpoles in the tank.

Emma wrote...
Our classroom has tadpoles, there are three in their cage. Their back legs are coming out. After that they will grow front legs and their tails will shorten and they will turn into frogs.

Tennille brought along her book about 'Frogs". We learnt lots of interesting facts.
Did you know...
Tadpoles are in their eggs for 9 days before they hatch out?
We thought it was amazing to learn that it took a tadpole a whole day to wriggle free from their egg.
It is also clever that a tadpole grows back legs, then front legs and then their tail disappears and they have changed into a frog.
We discovered where our lungs were in our body and were surprised to learn that tadpoles changed from breathing through their gills to breathing through their lungs.
Thanks Tennille for bringing along your book to share with us.

Santa is coming soon...

Six more weeks until Christmas!
This morning, we wrote letters to Santa. We asked him a question and then hinted at what we would like for Christmas. Here we are, trying our best...

Birthday Girls

Two lovely girls in Room 7 celebrated their 6th birthday today. 

A Very Happy Birthday to Neve & Bella.

Super Reader!

GO SAMARA...
Congratulations on finishing your home reading book...You have done a LOT of reading!

CHANGE

This term our topic is 'Change'.
We did a science experiment and observed some changes.

First we poured some milk into a dish and added some drops of different food colouring (we used blue, green, red and yellow).

Next we dipped a cotton bud into dish washing liquid.

Then we put the cotton bud into the milk and watched the changes 
that happened.

We Love Visitors...

Look who came to visit us...

Jake brought his new puppy, "Jed" along to meet us.

Beans...beans...beans!

Have you seen how quickly our beans have grown?

Congratulations Mrs Forsyth!

On Monday we got a COOL surprise! 
We (room 7 kids) were busy writing.....when...  some visitors arrived, and they were celebrating our wonderful teacher, Mrs Forsyth! She won a HUGE box full of classroom treasures. There were only 15 teachers in New Zealand who achieved this prize...   We are so lucky to have such a talented teacher! 
GO MRS FORSYTH...

And...she was in the newspaper!