All the best for Year 4

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in Room 19 all the best for 2016 and I look forward to seeing you in your smart senior school uniforms in the playground next year.
Kind regards,
Mrs Bear

Our Christmas Castle

We had to cut each lammington in half and off set each brick to keep the walls stable.

Demolishing the castle was easy (and quite tasty!)

Instead of a gingerbread house, Room 19 made a lammington castle.  First, everyone made a plan of the castle in small groups and then we constructed it.  Instead of reindeer, we had a fire breathing dragon and rocket boosters (thanks to Sam and Oliver) but, of course, we had snow - delicious flakes of coconut snow!

Class Christmas Party

We all pulled out crackers at the same time - what a BANG!

Room 19 had a Class Christmas Party on the last Monday of term - crackers, hats, jokes and plenty of good things to eat!

Celebration Night

The entire field was nearly filled with families watching the show.

 The Weka Team went back to the 1970s on Celebration Night when we performed to a medley of songs by the Bee Gees.  We were looked groovy and we certainly had all the moves!

Christmas Art

During the last week of school, we made some Christmas art - we threaded popcorn to decorate our Christmas tree and made a festive banner for the classroom windows.

Christmas Science

It wouldn't really be Room 19 without some Christmas Science.  We investigated how green and red dye diffused through water at different temperatures - icy cold, room temperature and hot.  The patterns the dyes made were beautiful to watch and we thought of some interesting similes as we watched the dyes move through the clear water.

Computer programming

Everyone had a go at computer programming using the code.org app.  At school we started programming Star Wars characters, but there were also characters from Frozen and Minecraft to try out at home in the holidays.

Room 19's supermarket

Christmas came early to Room 19!  Everyone had a New World packet to open.  We were able to stock the shelves of our New World shop with all the items - a great way to end our Money Matters theme.  We were able to choose what we would buy if we had $10 to spend using the New World Christmas flyers.

Triathalon

Sam wore his triathalon Tshirt and medal to school.  You could also see his competitor number on his leg.

Sam and Aiden both competed in the Weetbix Triathalon - well done to both of you.

Red Cabbage Fashion

On Friday, the Science Club made a scientific indicator out of a HUGE red cabbage.  At the school assembly, we could see the indicator changing colour as it was mixed with different solutions. Afterwards, we enjoyed dressing up in the very latest cabbage fashion to hit our streets this summer.

Skirts by Greah, Sarah and Charlotte.

Sun hats by Oliver.

Sports hats by Magnus

Trousers by Callum

A Birthday Princess

The day after Market Day (26th November) was a special day for Lauren as she turned eight years old.  Here she is looking like a beautiful Vietnamese princess.  How lucky to have a Mum who went to Vietnam just before her birthday!

Coco's Chinese lessons

Coco in her Chinese class.

Some students are so clever in Room 19 that they can speak two languages.  As well as speaking  Chinese, Coco is learning how to write all the characters.  She goes to special lessons after school in the library every week.  Great effort, Coco.

The Hot Choc Rock Cafe

At last it was Market Day.  We set out our stall and waited for our customers.  They weren't far away!  People chose their chocolate dipped spoon and then stirred it in hot milk for a creamy, freshly made hot chocolate drink.  Soon our cafe was full of delighted customers.

In the afternoon, we counted up all the money we had made.  We had $236!!!!  The ingredients (plastic spoons and cups, chocolate buttons, sprinkles, silver balls and milk) cost $50 so we calculated that we had made $186 profit!

Ready for our first customer.

Customers found it hard to choose just one spoon - they were all so delicious.

Soon there was only a few left!

After they had chosen their chocolate spoon, customers waited for their hot milk.

The cafe was soon full of customers enjoying their freshly stirred hot chocolate.

Mr Lomas's roses had a little bit of a prune as we collected flowers for our cafe.

CBS Market Day

As part of our Money Matters theme, every class had a stall on Market Day on Wednesday, 25th November.  There was a lot of work to do before the day:  tying ribbons around our spoons, dipping the spoons in melted chocolate, decorating them with marshmallows, sprinkles and silver balls before the chocolate set and making posters to advertise our stall.

Here we are decorating our spoons with ribbons.

We had to advertise or otherwise no one would know what we were selling.

The posters gave our customers all the information they needed.

People queuing up for the Big Dip.

After the Dip, the Decorating!

Aiden's Minecraft money box

Aiden and his Minecraft money box

As part of our Money Matters theme, students were invited to make a money box.  There were over a hundred money boxes to choose from.  Everyone thought Aiden's Minecraft money box was cool.

Constellations

Everyone used their imagination to write a narrative about their own constellation and how it came to be in the sky.  Then we drew our constellations in our starry sky.  We also made telescopes so we can see them when we look though them.

Charlie's Chocolate Factory

Charlie was in the chocolate factory showing off his marvellous chocolate spoon making mountain. You can just see Obalopa Mrs Bear mixing the runny sweet chocolate because a market day is coming !!!!!!!!

You can't have a Chocolate Factory without Charlie!

Written by Sam

Monique and Charlotte's pirate adventure

It's 100 pieces and we started really slow getting all the pieces flipped onto the right side. Then we found all the corner pieces. It was a hard journey.
Written by Charlotte and Monique

ICAS results

I am very proud to announce the ICAS results of students in Room 19.  We achieved distinctions and credits in Maths and English.  Several other students also received a participation certificate. Congratulations to all students who took part.

Next year, in Year 4, all students will sit one or more ICAS exam, so there will be more good news to share next year as well.

Sam attained a Distinction in ICAS English.

Callum and Aiden attained Credits in ICAS English.

Callum, Mia and Aiden attained Credits in ICAS Maths.

Sam and Oliver attained Distinctions in ICAS Maths. 

Sprint finals

Cockle Bay went back to Howick College on Monday afternoon to finish the last athletics event and run the sprint finals.

A close finish in the 8 year old boys sprint finals!

Haniel leading the field in the 8 year old girls sprint.

Monique and Nissi running in the 7 year old girls' sprint