Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Apple Science!!!

 In Room one we have been learning about what Mapua was like in the past. We learnt about the apple industry and how they use to export apples to many different places. After a bit of discussion we where wondering how did they get apples to stay good while they exported them? We decided to conduct an experiment. We start with discussing fair testing and making predictions about what would happen.
Here is our preserving experiment. We put two table spoons of Lemon juice, vinegar and salt water over 3 different apples. We left one apple with nothing to see what would happen. We did this over 5 days, starting on a Monday. Each day we did an observation of what was happening to the apples. We found out the the best mix to preserve the apple was salt water.

Come and see our science observation books we created!

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Update on the Mapua Forest!

We have progress. We have completed the forest and now it is time to add the wharf in. We will have boats and people fishing. We have also started painting the net to go over our forest..... this was a VERY messy job but so much fun. Our room is now covered in green paint and so were we but it was all worth it.

Here is a look at the progress so far. There is more to come!

This is us having fun, singing, dancing and painting away. There was only 7 of us at school, it was a big job!
This is us singing, dancing and cleaning away! OH MY we made a BIG mess! We were covered in paint head to toe. Even Miss Oldham had it everywhere.
This is the finished net. We cannot wait to hang it up over our forest!






Sunday, September 20, 2015

Fun in Room 1!

Room 1 has been very busy over the last few weeks doing many exciting things. Here is a quick look at what we have been doing:




Mapua School had a dress up day. Every class had a different decade to dress up in. We dressed up as 80s people! We found out what cloths they wore, what toys they played with and what technology they used. We also made up a dance to present at assembly.... WE ROCKED THE HOUSE!

















Room 1 love to play in the big kids play ground. If we are really super dooper awesome we get to get 5mins free time on  it...... we were super dooper awesome last week and we decided to make a train on the big kids playground. It was super fun.

Room 1 is turning our reading corner into Mapua land across time. We are half way there. We first designed our kowhaiwhai patterns, painted them and used them as the back drop. Then we sketched our flax, pine trees, apple trees and native trees and coloured them in with pastel.

Our Next step is pastel birds, painted roads, cars and houses! Watch this space :)