Wastebusters - Recycling and Reusing

Room 6 has been busy collecting old tin cans this term, ready for when Wastebusters came to teach us about recycling and reusing. Finally in Week 9 (the last week of term) we got to have our lessons.

The first lesson was all about what we can recycle at home - glass, cans, plastic, cardboard, paper... basically most things we use in everyday life!!

Miss Brown was amazed to find out that plastic is made from oil... like oil you put in your car... she was shocked! We also learnt that glass needs to be recycled into it's different colours (clear, green and brown) because they melt it down and then make new glass bottles out of it.

Our second lesson was reusing the cans we had collected throughout the term to make a pencil tin for us to take home, keep at school or give to someone as a present. Have a look at our photos, we have made some pretty cool pencil tins!

Here is the final product... what do you think? Would you even know they were made of cans!?

 

Hockey, Hockey, Hockey!!

We have been really lucky this term, Small Sticks Hockey have been in our school teaching all the junior classes hockey skills.

We learnt how to hold a stick properly, how to hit and stop the ball and how to play a game of hockey.

Michelle, Joyce and some other helpers taught us cool games like tunnel ball and musical hockey sticks - they were so fun!

We all really enjoyed it... see our photos below!

Michelle was so impressed with our class and the way we picked up on the hockey skills... she said we were the best class at Hampstead!

Odd Shoe Day!

Hampstead School kids all got their creative hats on to come up with the wackiest, most colourful, most oddest pair of shoes they could think of to raise money for Camp Quality NZ.

Camp Quality helps provide hope, help and happiness to children living with cancer. They have heaps of volunteers to help them do this and we wanted to show our support by having a mufti day with Odd Shoes.

Heaps of people got on board and below are some pictures of the odd shoes in Room 6.

 There was a prize for the oddest pair of shoes in each class and our class voted Jaidon's shoes the oddest pair!

Fun in Room 6!

Term 3 has been a busy term here at Hampstead School we have had heaps of things happen! But despite working hard (which we do all the time) we still have time for a bit of fun.

In Room 6 we really like to build and create things out of our maths equipment and other things around the class here are some pictures to show you what we have been creating.

Inquiry

Over Term 2 and 3 we have been learning about Space. This term we had to come up with a big question about Space for our inquiry.

As a class we decided that our question would be...

Why is there no air in Space?

 

 

We researched this question using books and the internet and came up with lots of information.

 

 

Then we had to present our findings. Most of us chose to do a poster but one group decided to do something different... A video!

 

 

Tyrone, Josh, Will and Jack decided that they wanted to present their video like they were news reporters. Check it out below!

 

 



Instruction Writing

For writing in Term 3 we have been doing instruction writing. It is something we have really enjoyed in Room 6 because we got to make heaps of cool things!

We made paper plate puppets, biscuit faces and fish in a pond. Our favourite was the fish in a pond because we made jelly and then we got to eat it!!

After we made each thing we had to write a set of instructions to go with it. They always had to have a title, purpose, materials, steps and a evaluation.

Miss Brown has been very impressed with our instruction writing and we worked really hard to write the best instructions we could!


Have a look at the pictures below to see some of the cool things we made!

 

Here are the paper plate puppets.

The cotton balls kept falling off them

and it was like they were losing their

hair!

The biscuit faces were yummy! We had chocolate icing, marshmallows and coloured writing icing for the mouths... Delicious!

 

Here we are enjoying our fish in a pond outside in the sun!