Sunnyhills Colour Run

The teachers had a fantastic time getting bombed by all of the students present at the colour run!

We did a run with obstacles, had food trucks, photographers, dance parties, lively music, bubble machines, and hoses out and went crazy bombing each other with colour!

Miss Fullard and Mrs Cometti covered in colour at the Bomb the teacher station!

 Obstacle Course #1

 Team Ruby and Shaye!

 Bubbles

 More Bubbles

I spy with my little eye someone starting with J!!!???

What a day!

If you missed out you better come next time. 

Bye Mrs Cometti

Mrs Cometti is going to leave our class for Italy on Sunday. We won't see her for at least 4 weeks! Which is going to be really sad because she always helps us and does a lot of fun things with us! Meanwhile, Miss Coffer will be teaching us which is probably going to cure us of our 2-week sadness (because the next 2 weeks are the holidays!) We hope Mrs Cometti will have an amazing time in Italy! Ciao and tread lightly!

By- Abinash and Jaime!  (^_^)

Homemade Lava Lamp

In science week, people can do safe experiments inside the classroom!

One of the people who volunteered to be a science teacher for a day was Elise. She showed us how to make these amazing lava lamps which should be in our class forever because they look amazing!

She starts by adding water, then added cooking oil on top. The oil floats because it has less density than the water, its the same thing that makes the water strider floats!

Then she adds food colouring which sinks to the bottom of the oil layer but NOT the water because it has more density than the cooking oil, and it cushions on the thick layer of oil at the bottom, how amazing!

But that's not all, she adds a tablet that dissolves in the water (like Berocca), the tablet takes the dye with it, and when it "teleports" to the water (along with the surrounding colouring) it dissolves and makes the water blue, including blue bubbles that rose to the top! Everyone was wowed by this.

By Wilmer

Mentos and Coke

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At the beginning of science week, Room 1 & 2 did the classic Mentos in a coke bottle experiment. The carbon dioxide in the soda (coke) reacts with the mentos very suddenly, shooting up into the sky and drenching anyone within range of the bubbly, volcanic-like soda. When the mentos was dropped in, using a very clear contraption, the coke came funneling up instantly. It was huge! 
Click on the link to watch the video :)

Quote "Taller than Mrs. Cometti"

By Emma & Elise

Traditional Korean Clothing

An amazing activity during our time with the Korean Teachers was the traditional clothing station. We got the opportunity to try on different traditional Korean clothing, mostly worn at festivals, the clothes were so soft and very comfortable!

By Kees, Ashton and Jack!

Sunnyhills speech Final!

Congratulations Mia for getting 3rd place in the finals! Congratulations Auralie for competing in the speech finals!

Mia and Auralie did an awesome job with their speeches we all enjoyed listening to them. Mia's speech is about <<why Zoos are bad>>. Auralie's topic was on littering and the negative stigma around rubbish.

You should have been there! Their speeches were EPIC!

By Donnacha, Heath, Jamie,
   Tim, and Andy

Walking Water

During Science week some students in room 1 became the teacher for the day and taught science experiments to the class. Donnacha's Science experiment was called 'Walking Water'. He filled two cups with water, placed two paper towels in each cup to another with yellow and blue in the outer cups and left the middle cup with no coloring. Then we waited for the science to happen. We looked at it after lunch and the food coloring had traveled up the paper towel, and into the middle cup coloring t green.

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By Hollie

Magic Cup

This is Zaina's Vacuum cup experiment. The method was .... 

1. put a layor of water on the plate. 2. light the match and allow it to burn using a lemon slice to hold it straight. 3. Place the cup upside down over the match.

The air around the flame is pushed in all directions. Warmer air needs more space than cooler air! So, the air pushes under the small gap round the rim of the cup and lets the water in, pushing the water upwards!

By Emma and Zaina. 

Rainbow sugar

For science week, some people taught the class a science experiment. Abby's experiment was called 'Rainbow Sugar'. The first thing Abby did was put some water in the bowls. Next, she put three skittles in a triangle and let the colours drain out. When the skittles had gone white and the colours were merging together Abby put a sugar cube in the middle. The ice cube either absorbs the colour or repels the colour after some time. When the sugar cube dissolved Abby changed some of the independent variables to see if anything would change!

By Elise     

Korean Tuho

Korean Throwing game - TUHO
Tohu is a Korean game, also called Pitch Pot. This game requires 5 sticks or more and a pot with three to five holes. We used 5. The 4 holes around the outside are each worth one point if you land the stick. The middle hole is worth 5 points! The team with the most points wins. The traditional game only has two holes around the outside and is traditionally played outdoors. This game was really popular among royal and upper-class families.
It was really fun and great for increasing your aim
Tip: Throw like a rainbow!

By Adam, Xavier, and Blake

International Student's

We were so lucky to have some new friends join us in room 1 this Term. Bella, Steven and Kobe have all gone back to China :(. We will Miss them so much. 

Lucky we have Andy with us till the end of year woohooo!

 Kobe

Bell

Big Foot Bike School!

We have been so lucky to have Big Foot come and teach us all about Bike safety. 

The training included: 

• What we should wear to protect our head, body and feet, 
• How to check our helmet for cracks 
• How to bike safely to, from and around the school, 
• Road rules, including what we do when we need to turn left or right,
• How to make sure we are in a 'bike ready' position, and 
• The four check process to ensure our bike is safe to ride,

Thank you Big Foot!

Our Stars of the week!

 Certificates from the Kauri Assembly 

Well Done Kees!

It is awesome having a student in room 1 who is always willing to help out.

You always put your hand up and we love it.

Keep it up!

Well done Samantha!

You are a fantastic roll model of mindfulness to others in room 1.

You go out of your way to help others achieve their goals, whether it be buddy reading, proof reading or feed forward. 

Amazing work!

You are VALUABLE

The most important wall in our classroom!

A space promoting a growth mindset, encouragement & of course to show off our wonderful published work!

Each child has their own clipboard, ready to put up their latest piece of writing!
Term 1's published works have been made into a book for the Library, ready to read.
Now our wall is ready to go for the amazing work we will do in Term 2, 3 & 4!

Our Class Treaty

Room 1 are very happy to present their class treaty!

Together as a class we brainstormed everything we believe is an integral part of our class culture. How we would like to feel when we walk in the room and the ambiance we would like the classroom to have.

We then voted on our favorite ideas and put these together as promises to ourselves, our classmates and our school.

All 27 students have signed the treaty. 

Library!

Room 1 were very happy that we finally made it into the Library this week.

Well done to our Librarians Abby and Zaina that got straight to there job without even being asked!

Looking forward to camp next week. Woooohooooo!

The Blog is Officially up and Running!

Keep updated with Room 1's notices by checking the 'Weekly Reminders' at the top of the blog.

Looking forward to a great week!