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. 

The Science Van

Last week was a very special week. It was Science week! We did a whole bundle of experiments in class and in the hall!
We had some people from the 'Science Van' come to our school who travel all across New Zealand. They teach kids experiments like the bed of nails (when you hear that you might think OUCH!). It actually doesn't hurt... each nail is supporting your weight. If you were sitting on one single nail it would definitely hurt! A LOT!

But that's not all, there was another experiment called the waterfall effect. It plays a trick on the eyes and brain. If you focus on the center of the video attached, no blinking, no looking away, for 20 seconds, you will see. It supposedly used to hypnotize people, which I don't know if that works or not. What happens is your eye muscles start to freak out because they are working so hard to focus, your brain gets confused. Try it out then look at someone's head! We did, it was hilarious!

We also learned about Isaac Newton's 3 laws of motion and did some experiments around these! But that's a story for another time!

Remember science can be done everywhere, anytime and is all around us! We learned a lot of things about science and it was a blast! I hope I can go to the science van again one day.

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

Korean Archery

Archery

On Thursday 13th we had an exciting Korean experience, doing fun activities native to Korea. This included Archery. We used small bows and arrows to hit targets. It was difficult for some of us to hit the targets, but some found it easy. We all loved the Korean experience. How lucky are we?

By-Abinash, Mia. & Noah.

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. 

Traditionally Korean Calligraphy

Today Room 1 went to the hall to learn about traditional Korean culture and Calligraphy.
Traditionally calligraphy is used to write poems, proverbs, quotations from bibles,
mottoes and much more.

We also learned the Four friends for a calligrapher. 1.Paper, 2. Brush,
3. Black ink bar (or black ink), 4.Ink stone (or white place).

The oriental brush originated in ancient China. Later, it was developed as an art in China,
Korea, and Japan.
In ancient times, Chinese carved their characters on shells or bones and then much later
they used brush and paper. Koreans applied this art to Korean characters.
The paint brushes are usually made with rabbit, goat and weasel hair.

To be a good calligrapher you need a peace of mind, ready to concentrate and to control
the brush.

We all enjoyed calligraphy and the Traditional Korean experience.

By Abby, Ruby & Saralee.

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

Tread Lightly

At Tread Lightly we were using our bodies to make electricity. This then powered the hair dryer and the electric sander. It was really hard to power the hair dryer because it uses 1500 watts!

We also learned about all the different light bulbs and had a go at powering each one by turning a wheel. There are CFLs Incandescent and the most efficient of all the LED. LED bulbs use up to 80 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs and produce the same amount of light. Most LEDs should last at least 15,000 hours – that’s more than 13 years if used every day for three whole hours.

We had an amazing time learning about the environment and our environmental footprint!

Arts Week Activities

During Arts week we had the opportunity to work with other year 6 classes! We took two drama and two dance workshops. We also did Visual Art with our own teachers. 

Drama

Room 1 loved doing the freeze frames with Mr Mac. 

Can you guess the scene/s we are creating here??

Click here for 'Freeze Frames' Video

Dance

We learnt a lot about how to 'feel the beat', Room 1 did a fantastic job. 

Click here to see room 1 feeling the beat

Visual Art

During arts week we began our Autumn artwork (Yes it's no longer Autumn... but the leaves were EVERYWHERE). This is only the first step to creating our new pieces. We used real leaves found around the school to create our realistic prints. It can be a tricky process but it was such a fun experience seeing our prints revealed!

Click here to see Caitlin's response!

Click here to see Xavier's first print!

Click here to see Saralee's first print!

We love dressing up!

A Solid effort from Room 1!

We love giving our all to school activities and events, especially when it's an opportunity to dress up :D

Our Artists

 Our Dancers

 Our Mimes (some even tried to stay silent all day!)

 Our Fashion Designers

Break out

Break out

The break out was so fun and I enjoyed it so much. We were all crowding around a table with all the clues that people had found and there were people at the table putting all the clues together. We had 45 seconds left to complete it, but we did have an extra 10 seconds.

By Kees.

Buddy Class

Every Friday we pop into our year 2 buddy class Room 21!

We help them with their spelling, by taking and marking their spelling tests. We absolutely love connecting with other classrooms in the school.

Room 1 Mrs. Cometti is very proud of how you look at for these guys on the playground and help them in their learning. You are so patient and gentle. Keep being the amazing year six leaders you are!

Warehouse Letter

Room 1 decided to send a letter to the Warehouse because they were asking a couple of students to buy a plastic bag in exchange for a token. They were just trying to help our school pool.

17 the Crest    

Pakuranga

Auckland

New Zealand

Dear the warehouse

To whom it may concern,

My name is James Robb, I am a student at Sunnyhills school.

Three of my classmates were told to by a plastic bag for a token. It cost them ten cents for a bag. It says on your website you are trying to reduce the amount of plastic bags, so why do you have to sell a plastic bag for a token?

One trillion plastic bags are made every year, and approximately 380 billion plastic bags end up in the ocean. A large number of animals die every year.

I understand that the money from the plastic bags funded the school pool heat pump.  but I just don't understand why you have to buy a plastic bags to get a token. Instead of giving a customer a token when they buy a plastic bag, could you instead give the customer a token if they don't use a bag?

I like shopping at the warehouse because you always have bargains. Thank you for helping us get the heat pump. Thank you for reading this letter, I hope to stop selling plastic bags.

Yours sincerely,

James Robb

Life ED Van= Life Education Van

Room 1 and Harold

We learned about our needs and our well being that we need food, water and sleep to keep going for the whole day. We also learned more about the brain and the lungs, heart etc. We all contributed and we shared our learning too. Harold would come out and tell us a joke. His rule was we had to laugh. Whenever he told a joke we would all laugh. One of the jokes were "Why was the giraffe running around the bed, because he was catching sleep"  Harold said. Everyone laughed. And we also played a game of charades we acted out things from a card like drinking water. The Life ED Van was PHENOMENAL

By Shaye

Our ocean Artwork

Check out the Amazing art work room 1 created in response to all we learnt about the ocean during sea week. 

The school were so impressed with how well you did.

We learnt all sorts of things such as watercolor and dye techniques, creating silhouettes and symmetry using traditional Maori patterns.

Thank you to our script writers and presenters Xavier and Hollie for explaining how we created our  beautiful works of art.

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!