It is the start of the year in Room1 and so far there are 5 boys and 6 girls that have settled in extremely well. We have a new coat of paint on the pool and now the pool is up and running. Our swimming time is really fun and the temperature is perfect when we go in the afternoon. Our topic for term 1 is 'Looking After Ourselves' and we are getting really good at drawing ourselves. We will learn how to keep our body's healthy and fit by running around and eating lots of fruit and veges. We are also learning how to be safe around people.

Face Painting

As part of our birthday unit Mrs Greenwood came and face painted all of us.

I went to cross country and I came 2nd. It was fun.

I went to cross country and I came 5th. It was tiring.

Dress Up Day

Hi I am Brendon and I am Captain Hook.

Hi I am Sarah I dressed up as Sleeping Beauty on dress up day.

Today we did some juicing. We got some grapefruit from the school tree and we used an old juicer to squeeze the juice out. It was an amazing machine. Next we used a winding juicer and juiced some grapefruit with it. Last of all we juiced some apples and carrots in an electric juicer and this worked like magic. Then we drank the juice.

Room 1 does cooking every Tuesday with our teacher aides. This week we made gingerbread men. We cut them with cutters and then we decorated them with icing.

For the Canterbury earthquake Tomarata School had a red and black day. Room 1 participated well and had a great time. We all wore red and black, we also made a gold coin donation but some people brought more.