Science in a Van!

Today Room 1 was so lucky to go to a show done by the Science in a Van! Allan and Emily were our scientists and they explained that science is one way to explain the world around us. 

They came to reach us about the wonderful world of bubbles!! 

We saw small bubbles! We saw big bubbles! We even saw MASSIVE bubbles! 

Allan made some amazing bubbles for us and we had to sit on our bottoms and blow the bubbles up into the air! It was so much fun!

Then Allan asked the mixture expert to show themselves and Emily came up to tell us all about mixtures.  

We learnt that to make a mixture you take 2 things and mix them together to make a mixture!

We learnt about making predictions: guessing what will happen. 

Making an observation: watching and seeing what happens. 

We also learnt that if we are wrong that's ok and we can make another prediction. 

After making some predictions and observations, we 'observed' (:p) that not all things mix together and some things seperate! 

Our next experiment did mix together, a little too well, and we had a reaction! It was so much fun! 

Allan then took us back to the world of bubbles and we learnt what is inside a bubble!! A mixture! And the mixture is called AIR! Air is different gases mixed together :)

Thank you for coming to visit us Science in a Van! We loved learning about the world of bubbles and watching your fun experiments :) 

Dylan went up to help teach Allan how to blow bubbles correctly!

Blowing and keeping the bubble up.  

Dry ice volcano

Dry ice bubbles!

Helium bubbles :)

Getting creative!

Some of us got creative recently and Mrs McGregor was very impressed with our creative minds!!  

Creating words with blocks

Look at our awesome transformers made using out shapes!

And some of us used the geo boards to create beautiful princesses :)

Road Safety Week

Last week was Road Safety week at School. We had a special visitor (Ronald McDonald) come and see us to tell us all about how we can be safe while walking by the road as well as in our cars. 

Ronald McDonald lost his sock and he took us on an adventure to find it. Along the way he taught us many road safety tips. 

We learnt that when we are walking next to the road we must walk on the house side of the footpath. We also learnt about 'Sneaky Driveways' - these are driveways that can have hidden dangers so when we walk up to a sneaky driveway we must stop, look and listen to make sure it is safe.  Another very important thing we learnt while on our adventure with Ronald McDonald was that when we get to a road we want to cross we need to stop, take a step back. Look up the road. Look down the road. Look through the road. If it is safe to cross we can cross but need to make sure that we are looking and listening the whole time until we get safety to the other side. It is also important that we look for a zebra crossing when we want to cross the road because this is a safer place. 

Ronald McDonald taugh us so many important things and we had so much fun on our adventure with him. 

We are looking forward to putting our  new skills into practise and being safe kiwi kids by the road :) 

Disco time!

Friday night was the Pinehill Disco and oh boy did we have fun showing off our great dance skills! We all enjoyed our snacks and doing the limbo but our favourite part was the glow sticks! 

Here are some pics of our fun night out :)

We're going to the Zoo!

Last Friday the Year 1s Pinehill school headed to the Auckland Zoo!  We had such an incredible time seeing the animals and their enclosures, feeding the giraffe and even seeing the elephant out for it's daily walk!  Thank you for having us Auckland Zoo and we can't wait to come back and visit you again soon!!