Frosty Morning Fun

At 9.15am this morning the temperature outside was 1.2 degrees and it was much colder overnight 

(-2.8 degrees at 6am)! 

We had fun exploring the frosty morning and then describing it in our writing.

The frost is cold and I went on the white grass.  I saw my footprints and it was crunchy.

Written by Terrell

This morning when I went outside I froze.  It was really, really cold.  I couldn't move a muscle!  It was so icy cold that it felt like I was in an ice cube.

Written by Mana

Wow!  What an enormous frost.  At school we played on the frosty, icy ground.  I slipped on the beautiful ice crystals.  It felt very, very cold.  I think if it was a little bit cooler we would have a big blanket of ice.  

Written by Maddie

What a frosty morning at school.  I was skidding on the icy tracks and the grass was turning back to normal.  I touched the grass and it was freezing!

Written by Jerome

In the cold morning I got out of my home and went to play on the grass.  It was white and crunchy.  I was freezing and I left my footprints all over the ground.

Written by Erin

Slippery, sliding on the lawn at school!  I was ice skating on the icy, white grass.  I licked a blade of grass and it tasted like water.  I left trails of green grass where ever I went.

Written by Tyler

When I got outside I got a shock!  My lawn was covered in white.  I rolled in it.  It was freezing cold.  I froze to pieces and felt like an ice block.  I screamed and ran inside!

Written by Sienna

This morning my grass was white.  Brrrrrrrr!  I was cold in the car and I had brain freeze.  It was hurting my brain.  Oh no!

Written by Hunter

Forces and Movement

What are Forces?

Working with our learning buddy, we placed a tennis ball on the table top.  Our challenge was to see how many ways we could make the ball move.  

We moved the ball by...

throwing it

dropping it

poking it

spinning it

blowing it

flicking it

hitting it

pushing it

pulling it

lifting up one end of the table

We discovered that these pushes and pulls are called forces.

We are looking forward to learning more about forces!

Autumn Writing

We went for an adventure outside to play in the autumn leaves.  We also worked in groups to create a pic collage about Autumn.

Then we used our experience to create some descriptive writing using I see, I hear and I feel...sentence starters.  These pieces have lots of descriptive wow words in them...

I can see beautiful colours on the damp leaves.

I can hear leaves bump into each other when I stomped on them.

I can feel pointy sharp claws on my skin and it was ticklish.

By Keiarliya

I saw leaves all over the wet, green grass.

I saw beautiful orange, red, yellow and brown leaves.

I heard birds singing in the trees.

I felt soft smooth leaves.  They were colourful.

I jumped in the leaves and they were ticklish.

The tree trunks were massive but I got leaves in my long hair.

It was good fun and Finley and I threw leaves at each other.

By Sadie

I see thousands of colourful leaves on the damp grass.

I feel crackly leaves under my shoes.

I hear the leaves shuffling around.

By Finley

Sienna's Pride Award

Congratulations to Sienna who received this weeks Pride award at Assembly.  
Sienna received her pride award for her consistent work ethic in Room 1.  She is always showing Parkvale Pride in all her learning and she is a caring and considerate class member. 
Well done Sienna!

Where am I?

Hi Room 1!  Can you guess where I am in this photo?  

See you next week!

Maia and Hunter's Pride Awards

Hunter:  For your interesting and clever writing Hunter and for always being such an enthusiastic learner with a smile that just lights up the room!

Maia: For working so hard to make your writing detailed and interesting and for striving to do your personal best in all areas.  Keep it up Maia!

Wow Words

We have been working hard on adding wow words to our writing.

Wow words add detail to our stories and help paint a picture in the reader's head.

We have been writing about our adventures at the Redwoods and today we learned a little bit about the history of the trees.

The magnificent Redwood trees were planted in the 1930s.  They are 80 years old.  Mason Chambers planted the ginormous trees. The Redwood trees are so wide.  I can't wrap my arms around them.  When I looked up I could only see the humongous tree trunks of the trees.  The trunks felt lumpy like a hard rock.

Written by Tyler


The Redwood trees are humongous and they were planted in the 1930s by Mason Chambers.  They have been growing heaps and heaps and now they are huge trees.  We loved going to see them.

Written by Brianna 


The Redwoods trees are humongous.  I saw hundreds of spiky sticks.  Mason Chambers planted the trees in the 1930s.  Te Mata Peak used to be under water.  I was excited when we were at the big Redwoods.  

Written by Benji

Our trip to the Redwoods

Manuka Hub had a fabulous day visiting the Big Redwoods up Te Mata Peak on Wednesday. 

We started the day by making our own sandwiches for lunch before the buses arrived to take us up to the Te Mata Peak carpark.  We hiked to the little Redwoods for morning tea, spotting a little Manuka tree and a fantail on the way.  Then we carried on, following the purple markers until we arrived at the Big Redwoods. 

We played, explored, climbed, created and collected among the GIANT trees. 

It was an amazing day!

 Maddie, Maia and Niamh independently making their sandwiches.
What yummy combinations!   

 Hannah helping Reese and Maddie wrap their sandwiches.

 Keiarliya, Hunter and Sadie

 The bus ride was a lot of fun, especially on the windy and bumpy Te Mata Peak road!

When I hopped off the bus I was so excited! We walked on the bumpy track and Manuka hub went on the steep track.  By Jerome

 Off we go!

 We spotted a cute little fantail flittering around us.

 Can you see the fantail?

Wow!  What a long walk to the big Redwoods.  I saw a fantail flittering around a Manuka tree.  We found out that Te Mata Peak used to be under water because there were shells along the path.  By Finley

 To get to the Big Redwoods we had to follow the purple markers.

 Some of the tracks were wide.

On Wednesday Manuka hub went up the steep track.  I got hot when I was walking up the long track.  I found a fantail.  It was flittering around the branch of the tree.  By Hunter

 Morning tea time.

 Parts of the track were steep and narrow.

On Wednesday Manuka hub went to the Redwoods and the paths were bumpy and wavy.  I kept falling over.  I was scared of the one path.  It was very steep.  We had to be careful.  By Erin

Manuka Hub arriving at the Big Redwoods.

 Brianna and Raiha found lots to collect.

 Erin, Maia and Jorgia

 Sadie and Keiarliya

 Oh no!  Where's Coby's foot gone?!

 Isaac and Reese next to one of the amazing huts.

 Ashanti enjoying the sandwich she made.

Jorgia with a huge stick.

 Marcus hanging out on the perch he discovered on a Redwood tree.

 Tyler and Mason in their hut.

 The girls using the sticks as wings.

A class photo to end the day!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all our wonderful Mums!  

We worked hard today to create something special for you!

Pic Collage

We have some new ipads in Room 1!  Today we were learning how to use the pic collage app.  We had to create a pic collage about ourselves.  Our collage had to include - our name, our photo, a background and some pictures or photos of things we like.  Once we had completed our collage we had to email it to Mrs Blakesley.  We did well learning so many new skills!