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Room 4 Arts Extravaganza. Just like Fire by Pink on PhotoPeach

Arts Extravaganza

Room 4 Arts Extravaganza. Just like Fire by Pink on PhotoPeach

Florence, Myah and Emilys video

Arts Extravaganza 21/9/16 22/9/16

Olivia.M.B

Thursday 8 September

Friday 2nd September

Monday 29 August

Calendar Art 2016 Room 4

Friday 26 August

Tuesday 23 August

News Article

Level 2 page 6 (a)

Thursday 11 August

10August

Monitoring boArd

Mind Up Programme

Being Mindful -
Paying attention

• On purpose
• In the present moment
• Non judgemental

Practice for 30 seconds. Head down, eyes shut, focus on your breathing. Notice, Notice, Notice.

Passing the pen from one to the other. First time was slower than the second time. Neurons are making connections. The first time is sometimes hard, the more we practice the easier it gets.

Deep Belly Breathing
Put your hand on your tummy. feel your hand moving up and down slowly as you breathe.

Breathing will make the connection between your pre frontal cortext reconnect when you have flopped your lid.

Really important to practice.
OUTCOMES
being happy
better sleep
control anger
better memory
less worrying
better friendships
being calm

S homework sharing

Tayla - Skates

Skiing - Luke

Samba - 

Sand castles

Slither - Gus & Xiarn 

Snow report - Jaimee

Faraday Centre Trip

On Thursday we went to the Faraday Centre. We learnt about lots of different things, such as the Van de Graaff Static Electricity Generator. It gave us electric shocks! Most of us found it super scary, but the rest of us didn't really mind. There was also an activity where we used a magnet to move iron sand. Mrs Te Whaiti made a rooster with it!

But best of all was the Tesler Coil. It made purple lightning! Well, sort of. Apparently it was a failed experiment, but they still use it anyway. We had to cover our ears because it was so loud. 

We had a really great day, but everyone was exhausted afterwards!

Unison Visit

Today Ethan from Unison came to visit us to talk about electricity.

He showed us where we can find electricity - power lines and power boxes.

What uses electricity - T.V, devices, fridges, microwaves, heaters, lights, vacuum cleaners.

Why is electricity dangerous? Because it can travel through you and give you a shock.

What happens when electricity travels through a person? Your heart stops pumping, it can be hard to breathe and it can burn you really badly on the inside and the outside of your body. Sometimes you can't let go.
Where does electricity want to travel? The ground. If it can it can travel through you to get to the ground.
How fast does electricity travel? Seven times in one second.

How do we stay safe around electricity?

1. Stay away from power boxes. Don't sit on them! Don't poke them with a stick!
2. What do you do if the power box is open? Stay away from it and call Unison

What Bob uses to get shoes off the power line.

Bob from Unison visit

Olive getting geared up

Electricity bus stop activities

As part of our new inquiry on electricity we gave the students the opportunity to explore using different 'smarts'. The idea is to give the children lots of different opportunities to learn, discover and explore electricity.

Static electricity

Circuits

Writing a song about being safe around electricity

Reading about electricity

Making a poster about how electricity is made

Making a song about electricity safety

Maths games about electricity - circuits

Electricity safety poster

Creating a wordle using key words about electricity

Poster about electricity