Bike Skills with Constable Dave

Fundraiser for Japan

Well done to our Japan Community and school for their efforts to raise money to help the Japanese people in their time of need.

Our schoolwide mufti day raised over $800 to give to Red Cross for support to Japan. The students got to add their coins to the coin trail in the hall today.

We have some incredibly generous-spirited students at Red Beach who gave much more than just one gold coin and from their own pocket money. RICH HEARTS all the way!

Athletics at RBS!

What a stunning day we had with the Athletics Carnival and the incredible Samoan Community athletes - you guys were awesome. Athletics is about PARTICIPATION AND CELEBRATION and we did lots of that. Here you are in action...

Popcorn Maths

Ahhhhh...there is nothing like the sound of popcorn exploding around a saucepan over a hot gas cooker to do some thinking and learning about measurement. Today we were investigating the volume of corn kernels before and after popping, and the capacity of different size spoons to measure the kernels.



Our investigation using popcorn in maths today turned up some interesting conclusions. We got to measure corn kernels using three different kinds of spoons and fill up a container that was near enough to half a cup. We found that the teaspoon took 30 spoonfuls to fill half a cup, the dessert spoon took 11 spoonfuls and the large serving spoon took only 2 and 3/4 spoonfuls to fill half a cup.


We found that you could get more kernels onto a larger spoon and we learned that the CAPACITY of the larger spoon was greater than the teaspoon.


We also predicted how much half a cup of popcorn kernels would actually make and we chose what we thought was the most suitable container to put the popped corn into. Here is us guessing which container it might fit into.





We found that half a cup of popcorn actually makes quite a lot!
Then...of course we had to eat it!

We learned today what volume and capacity means - tomorrow we are going on a hunt around our classroom to find things that have volume and capacity.

Pancake perfection!

On Friday Room 9 and Room 21 got together to make some delicious pancakes with the help of some of our awesome parents! We had read an online book on Studyladder about making pancakes and we had completed some tasks during the week to help us understand the process of making pancakes.

In our powerful learning process we were using GET IT! SORT IT! AND USE IT!

To GET IT, we read the story about making pancakes and we found what ingredients and equipment was needed.

To SORT IT, we completed a task to show our understanding of how to make pancakes and we had to SORT ideas in our head, especially when it came to choosing our favourite toppings and selecting the most favourite one.

TO USE IT, we took what we had learned to actually make some pancakes and put our favourite toppings on. Mmmmmmmmmm - they were delicious!

Random sentences

Room 21 have been experimenting with writing random sentences.

Random word - Fox
One day there was fox and he crept up to a chicken house in the dead of night and stole a chicken. Hamish

One gloomy, dark night a cunning fox family sneaked out to get the white chickens who were dumb enough to be caught! Katie G

A beautiful fox got saved by a man and the fox went away because he thought the man was scary. Vaughan

Foxy Maloxy ate my egg so I karate chopped him in the nose and made his eyes water! Carlo

A sly fox came creeping up behind me so I ran for my life! Alannah

The sneaky old fox was waiting in the bushes at Shakespeare Park, for the birds, so she could feed her babies. Hayley

My fox is digging up a burrow so he can hide in it so he could pop up to eat the rabbits. Megan

The terrifying fox opened his huge scary mouth with huge big teeth that were pale brown. Charlotte

A smart fox ran up the humongous tree to get away from the fierce lion. Ben

Random words - world and young
Were the people in this world young before I was born? Tanatswa

When I was young the world was an humongous place. Bailey

I was young when I entered this world and I was zero years old. Jayden

The young person went all over the world travelling to different places. Hamy

When I was born, I was really little and the world was much bigger than me. Katie B

I am small like a little young baby in the great world. Olivia T

I live in a young, enormous world with beautiful places, yucky places, cold places, hot places, dry places and wet places. Vaughan

The very young world woke up one day and discovered it could move and it shook causing an earthquake. Hunter and the class

Spelling Buddies

Room 21 are working well towards achieving the target of learning all 230 words on the essential word list.

WHY do we learn how to spell?

Sew we can rite ackuratly an mor importintly, so uthas can red wot we rite ezely!
(Did you have to read that carefully? :-)

Here is Room 21 at work as buddies, testing each other on a Monday afternoon. I wonder who will be the next speller to achieve the infamous 230 words in room 21?

Making A Difference!

It was so heartwarming to see children bringing their pocket money, and money given to them by friends and family, so they could contribute to the needs in Christchurch.

I was blown away by the generosity of children in Room 21 - some raising upwards of $30 by helping out around home and trying to earn money to give. Awesome effort Room 21 and Red Beach School! We raised over $2000 on Friday. Ms M :-)

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