Part 2 of our Wonderful Trip!

Our Awesome Airport Trip!

We were lucky enough to go the Dunedin Airport for a trip as a end of our inquiry celebration. We went with Room 5 which is another room in our division, and Room 7 went on the following day.

We had an awesome time and we were LUCKY enough to have a very kind parent who works at the Airport set up a tour through Mainland.

We got to go INSIDE the Aeroplanes and pretend to steer the planes. This was magical and we would like to thank Mark who is Christians Dad for his awesome help. A special Waa Whoo for you Mark!!

We got to see the fire engine and have a go with holding the hose. It was such a lovely sunny day that it didn't matter too much if we got wet. The fire man dressed Ava up in a fire suit, she looked cool.

We went inside the airport and we got to see the man who checks your suitcases and bags, he put one of our mothers handbags through the machine. It was a bit like an x-ray machine you could see all of the things in her bag on the computer screen. He also used a metal detector on Casey's Dad to see if he was carrying metal, because he might have had a weapon or something dangerous.

We watched some big planes land and take off, the propellers were much bigger than the ones we have seen.

It was such a great way to end our Inquiry. It was the best trip I have ever been on in my whole 12 years of teaching.


This is Lily and she is a pupil in Room 6. She has published her poem about the trip for us.

Here is an acrostic poem from Lily about our trip.

Dud is the name for our tag

U sit down in the plane

Noise of the fire engine and wonderful water

End of the gutter the water went down

Down the escalator we went

Inside the plane there is lots of passengers

No food on the plane please


A great time we had

Inside they have seats

Rushing to arrive in time

Parents came to help we looked in Megan's Mums bag, the machine took an x-ray

Open the security door

Running on the grass playing a game of duck duck goose

Time to see from the window to watch the big 747


Mothers came to our airport trip

Ate our lunch on the luscious field near the fence

I had a wonderful time

Nice of Christian's Dad Mark to organise

Love watching the aeroplanes and looking inside them

Ate an apple for lunch

Night - it felt like night when the lights went off

Did as the instructors said

Room 6 leave a comment and tell us what you remember, and your highlight of the trip.

Our Friend Kaya!

This is Kaya and he came to our class for 2 weeks. He was from Auckland and he goes to Rosebank school.

He was down from Auckland for a family wedding and Mr Mac his uncle worked at our school, so Kaya came to see what school was like in Dunedin.

He was lovely to have and he liked playing on the flying fox, playing soccer, playing with balls, playing on the tyre rope, doing his art picture that you can see in the slideshow and learning about times tables.

On his last day he bought us a cake with a smiley face on it and you can see in the slideshow us eating it outside on the grass. He also bought us some scorched almonds.

We really enjoyed having Kaya and we hope he keeps in contact with us!

Leave a comment Room 6 and tell us what you remembered about his stay.

By Nathaniel and Billie

Anti-Litter Posters!

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We have made Anti-Litter posters and the children have decided to put them around the school in the classroom windows. They also have decided to gently remind people when they see them littering! Room 6 have been very proactive in their thinking.

The children have been picking up a bag of rubbish every day in their table groupings. They have noticed the school looking cleaner and have been making up games around picking up rubbish, this I feel was a very creative idea.

I was impressed with their art work and design!

Go to our link "If I could change the world", and check out our other blog and leave a comment. The link is on the right hand side of our blog.

Our Inquiry Progress!

We have been working hard on our Inquiry in Room 6 and the children have learnt lots of exciting things, this was evident in our new wonderings.

In this slide show there are photos of our own machines that the children designed. They can be used in water, sea and land. The children described how their machine worked and what it was used for and labeled them. There were some very creative ideas.

You can also see our Great Green Vine of Learning which is our own Room 6 Inquiry model.

Casey's grandparents from Canada - Alicia and Roy!

Today we had a MARVELOUS example of the connected world in action. Casey's Grandma Alicia and Grandad Roy live in Canada and had been reading our class blog and leaving the odd comment or two. Today they turned up in person!!!

Grandad Roy shared some of his childhood experiences making simple toys and inventions such as steam boats and rubber band aeroplane.

In Canada he had went out especially to buy a Steamboat kit to show our class, this was a very kind and thoughtful thing to do. I think this was an amazing experience for me and my class and it just goes to prove how powerful I think blogging is for us.

We also learnt about Scotsquirrel motorbikes, Crystal radios, Steam tractors, Steam trains, Steam engines, Tin cans with string attached for correspondence, Old cars, Motorbikes with a big radiator on it, Radios with a battery the size of a car, Clockwork cars, getting the cane at school, discipline and the way it was in the classroom back then and lots more.

THANK YOU very much Roy and Alicia for coming, we treasured your words. Thank you Casey for sharing your Grandad and Grandma!!

Room 6 leave a comment and tell us what you remembered!

Our guest speaker Nicky!

Nicky came to school to show us Santa, Rudolph and Snowman, she showed us them because we were learning about how things move.

We found out that they moved in sequence and they had to face each in order for it to work. We think they all have a memory chip and a radio signal so that they can remember and know when to sing.

You can see a photo of the signal chips.

If they are turned on by themselves then they will sing all the parts by themselves. When they sing the song by themselves it is different. The song they sing together is jingle bells.

We enjoyed learning about how they moved.

Thank you Nicky and Madison. We thought it was a wonderful impromptu learning time. You guys are AWESOME.

By Madison and Jack

Repeating Patterns.

We really enjoyed repeating these Samoan patterns in Maths. The children did a SUPERB job of them, don't you think?

Leave a comment and tell us what you think.

Artistic Wonder!

What do you think of this wonderful art work? Hasn't the artist been creative, see what you can see!

Leave a comment and tell us what you think.

Fun with Flipper Ball!

Flying Amphibious Update!

As you can see we have worked hard on our Flying Amphibious.
Listed below are all the things it now has!

1. A paint job
2. A motor
3. A Propeller
4. A Gear Stick
5. A Steering Wheel
6 A Key
7 An exhaust


The children have all worked hard on planning and finding out what a machine needs in order for it to go, and they are working away on making all of these for our Flying Amphibious.

It has been a great learning process because they are trying to make their models as realistic as possible.

Room 6 you are AWESOME!

Be the BEST Blogger RULZ!

We will:

• Only use our FIRST name when writing
• Only use SENSIBLE and KIND words
• Not write any of our DETAILS - this includes phone number, address and personal email address
• Be careful when putting PHOTOS on (we have permission slips signed by parents)
  
• Ask PERMISSION when putting on other people's photos - tell them what you are going to do with the photos
  
• Only display nice photos of other people (we don't want people to be embarrassed)
• Try our hardest to get our SPELLING right
• Be RESPONSIBLE when using and writing on our blog.

What do you think?

Thanks to Nelson Central's Blog for ideas for blogging rules.

Room 6 Homework!

Find an unusual fact about a form of transport and leave a comment about it!

Example: Howard Hughes built the biggest plane ever built and it is made out of wood!! It is called Spruce Goose!

Meet Ben!

Hi my name is Ben and I am 7 years old. I like going to Fairfield school because my friends go here and everyone is nice. My hobbies are soccer, touch, making models and swimming.

I made an exhaust with Megan for our Flying Amphibious. We made it with two washing powder boxes, some curly ribbon, a cup cake holder, and a cotton winder.

I looked at an exhaust pipe on my Dads truck and found it had a box for the fumes so we made a box and attached the exhaust pipe to it. The ribbon is the fumes coming out and the cup cake is the extra holder in case the fume box gets too full. The cotton winder is the winder that makes all of the fumes come out.

We painted it red and black to go with the rest of it.

I enjoyed making it because I love making stuff because it is fun.

Photobooth FUN!!

Edgar Sports Day!

What a great day we had at the sports for Yr 3 and 4 at the Edgar Centre on Wednesday.

It was a hectic and exciting day with kids rushing here their and everywhere and we were thoroughly exhausted by the end of the day!

There was a wide range of activities from basketball to gym and it was great to see the children all participating and giving new things a go!

Leave a comment Room 6 and tell us what event you like best!

Photo Booth!!

Here we are having lots of fun playing around in Photo Booth!! We had so many laughs.

Leave a comment and tell us what you think, or if you are in Room 6 tell us what it was like doing it!

Our Knex Prototypes!

If I Could Change the World!

We have joined a Global project called "If I Could Change the World". This is where kids from all over the world investigate the issues of pollution, poverty and violence. We look at ways at which they can make a difference at a local, national and international level.

We decided that we would start looking at pollution and we are looking at ways that we can tackle rubbish in the playground.

You can check out the Change the World, we have added a link at the top of the page. We would love other classes to join us.

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Mrs C-B!

One of my favourite artists is Andy Warhol and as I am sick today (unfortunately), I was playing around in the new Photo Booth after installing the new oxs Leopard operating system onto my computer.

Well as you can see there is a likeness between me and Marilyn Monroe he he. Leave a comment and tell me what you think kids!

Do you like my hair?

When I get back to school this is our project we will be working on, exploring the new Photo Booth!