Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Science and explosions
Yesterday in Room 16 we looked at the sound 'v' and decided it was the first sound in 'volcano'. We wrote our stories about volcanoes, and made a volcano in our phonics books on paper. Then we did our science experiment!
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PREDICTIONS:
"It will explode high" -Kinimotu
"I think it will explode and the classroom will be a volcano" - Mary
"It will explode everything" -Boston
Good predictions everyone! We talked about how a prediction was thinking about what might happen and making a sensible guess.
Then we went onto the field and added our Mentos into the bottles of Coke. We talked about how the ingredients in the Mentos reacted with the ingrediants in the Coke and fizzed together.
I asked Room 16 after our first explosion with 1 Mento what they thought would happen with 3 Mentos. They came up with some very sensible predictions and we thought maybe it would be even bigger!
Have a look at the video below (skip to approximately 35 seconds to see our little explosion).
Saturday, August 1, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Term Topic: Money
Kia Ora everyone, and welcome back to PCS after a lovely 2 week break. This term we will be looking at the topic of 'money' and developing the children's financial literacy.
If you'd like to be more involved with your child in this then have a look at the ideas below!
- Show your child different coins and currency that you might have with you. What do the different colours mean?
- Let your child hand money to a cashier and talk about the change you get back.
-Look at food receipts with your child and figure out how much everything cost.
-Practice using 'niceties' when shopping such as saying, please, thank you and excuse me to retail staff.
On Monday we set up Room 16 as a supermarket and labelled all of our items depending on how much value the children felt they had. We had some interesting ideas! My favourite was certainly that our classroom television cost only 6 dollars.
We dressed up as shop keepers and customers then shopped around for items in the classroom. We had to make sure we had to right amount of money, and that we were responsible and looked after it carefully!
Check out our pictures below :)
If you'd like to be more involved with your child in this then have a look at the ideas below!
- Show your child different coins and currency that you might have with you. What do the different colours mean?
- Let your child hand money to a cashier and talk about the change you get back.
-Look at food receipts with your child and figure out how much everything cost.
-Practice using 'niceties' when shopping such as saying, please, thank you and excuse me to retail staff.
On Monday we set up Room 16 as a supermarket and labelled all of our items depending on how much value the children felt they had. We had some interesting ideas! My favourite was certainly that our classroom television cost only 6 dollars.
We dressed up as shop keepers and customers then shopped around for items in the classroom. We had to make sure we had to right amount of money, and that we were responsible and looked after it carefully!
Check out our pictures below :)
Sunday, July 5, 2020
Matariki and the end of Term 2
Have a look at the pictures of the room 16 children sharing some time with room 12 and creating beautiful Matariki stars together. Thanks for helping us room 12!
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