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     

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

Principals Award

CONGRATULATIONS CAITLIN!

You brought energy, enthusiasm and creativity to Arts Week this Term. A very well deserved Principals Award!

CONGRATULATIONS JACK!

A huge Thank you to the PTA for the Mathathon draw. I know Jack is super grateful for his prize and it is well deserved (he got 100% in his test)!

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!

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Congratulations Jamie and Riley. You really deserve those awards. You guys have been showing great growth mindsets in class, especially in Maths. You guys never give up in class and that's why you got those awards. You always have smiles on your faces and room 1 are so lucky to have you. Keep it up.

From Adam

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Warehouse letter

Room one and I decided to send a letter to the Wearhouse, it is about them encouraging people to buy plastic bags, just to put a token in the pot. All the tokens would go towards winning our school pool heat pump.

This is what I wrote...

Dear The Warehouse Pakuranga

To whom it may concern

Hello, my name is Blake Pritchard, and I am a student from room 1 at Sunnyhills school. I am writing to you because I do not get why you have to buy plastic bags just to get a token. I have heard that three of my classmates have come to the Warehouse wanting to put a token in the box. However, they have been encouraged to buy a plastic bag, even though they had a reusable bag with them! All they wanted to do was try to get our school pool a heat pump.

I do like shopping at The Warehouse, your prices are super low. Thank you for the heat pump in our school pool, it is very warm in there now. In fact, I did go for a swim this morning and it was so warm I could have stayed in there the whole day. Before I would be begging to get out, that's how cold it was!

Did you know that one trillion plastic bags are being made right now, and over 380 billion of them go into the sea each year?

I found out that your website says that you are an environmentally friendly store, and "take pride in customer service." Though when you say that, some of your staff members are encouraging people to buy plastic bags. It's just preposterous! Still, it says you want to "help customers live more sustainably" Then why do you encourage people to buy plastic bags? It also says on your website that "we take waste and recycling seriously," it's better for both the environment and the business", yet your staff members encourage people to buy plastic bags.

I understand that the purchase of plastic bags is what funded our school pool heat pump. However, it has come to my attention, that the amount of plastic bags sold to our local store, is causing more pollution. As a class, we thought the money raised from reusable bags could go towards the tokens instead. Another option could be to sell compostable bags and remove the sale of plastic bags.      

I do like to shop at the warehouse, but I don't understand why we have to buy a plastic bag just to support our school, please stop the encouragement of plastic bags.

Yours sincerely

Blake

Principals Award!

Two outstanding students celebrating getting the principal's award!

Well Done Xavier for showing room 1 how it's done
Well Done Ashton for showing integrity and great leadership

You make me proud!

Room 1's BLOG is back up and Running, so watch this space ...

Certificates!

Well Done to Heath and Hollie for participating in and completing the 2017/2018 Weetbix Tryathlon Series! 

A huge congratulations to Blake for receiving the Principals award, you are always challenging yourself, staying focused, on task and keeping a positive attitude throughout the day! 

You are all valuable assets to room 1!

Until next time! 😉

Mud buddies

Emily and I hanging out in the mud enjoying the sun and full of laughter. I was so lucky to have Emily there.😀

From Abby Powell

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!

Room 1 Certificates!

Well Done Wilmer and Sara lee for receiving Room 1's first awards at the Kauri Whanau assembly this week!

You have both displayed exemplary Sunnyhills school character, by always putting in your best work with a smile and treating others with kindness and respect at all times.