Japanese Visit

Konnichi Wa!

Last Friday Hampstead School were lucky enough to have some Japanese students visit us. We started off the day with an assembly to greet them, where some of our students performed some items and so did theirs.

Room 13 had a group of 5 students visit us and we were taught how to use chopsticks! They showed us how to hold them, let us practise, played a game with us and then gifted us with some food-shaped rubbers. We felt so lucky!

Here are some photos of Room 13 using chopsticks!

Zayla having a go at holding them.

Austin giving it a shot.

A student shows Josh how it's done!

Go Cooper!

Awesome skills Alex!

Brandon giving it a shot!

Danielle is a pro.

Reneea's got skills.

Zayla, Reneea and Ashley helping each other...

Riley's nearly there!

Sometimes we had to use two hands...

We had fun with the Japanese students!

Out of this World Weaving!

Here are our Space Weaving pictures! Creating these took a few steps.
First we had to use some sparkly paint to add a starry feel to our black paper. Next we created our rockets by weaving paper together and then creating a pointy top, wings and fire blasting. Then we weaved blue and purple ribbon through our sparkly backgrounds. Next we cut out some stars, planets, comets from sparkly paper to add to our background. Here are our finished results! We are so proud.

Maths in Room 13

Lately in Room 13 we have been looking at patterns!

We pretended we worked in a supermarket, and created a "Tin Can" Display using plastic cups. We had to fill in a table to find out how many "tins" we would need to create a display that was 10 rows high!

The pattern was to add an extra cup to the bottom row each time!

We figured it out using the pattern then tried to build it! But we found out we didn't have enough cups...

We tried to make our own arrangements up too!  

We found out you have to have a steady hand for this job!

Maths is fun in Room 13!

Term 2 Weaving

Over.... Under..... Over.... Under...

Here is some more of our fantastic weaving artwork! We have been working hard in Room 13.

Some of Room 13 with our woven boats!

Close ups of our boats - how cool are they!?

Busy painting a picture to weave!

Making woven rockets... check back next week for our finished products!

Tyson proud of his rocket!

Weaving can be messy.... but it's fun!

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Jack's Drone

A few weeks ago Jack from Room 13 brought in his drone. It was a present from his Dad from Australia.

He made it do front flips.

He crashed it a few times. Once it crashed into the roof!

Jack getting the drone going.

Apache jumping out of the way.

Where did it go?

Can you see the drone??

Trying not to hit anything!

The best part was when he flew it high over the roof. We were excited when Jack flew his drone.

Cross Country!

Last Friday we had the Hampstead School Cross Country! We set goals in Room 13 and worked hard to achieve them for weeks. We are so glad our hard work paid off!! Here are some photos from the day.

Ashley running hard.

Go Zayla!

Great work Sally!

Trying our best at Hampstead School.

Some spectators clapping and supporting.

Run Jack run!

Go Brandon!

Good work Tyson!

Crossing that finish line! Go Cooper!

Great work Austin!

And a big congratulations to Joshua Pitney from our class who finished first in the 2-Lap in-school Running Competition!

Jack and the Jumping Beanstalk

Last Monday, the Year 0-5s at Hampstead School were lucky enough to be treated to a hilarious and musical rendition of Jack and the Beanstalk that also taught us a lesson about reducing, reusing and recycling litter. 3 actors played a variety of characters and we really enjoyed watching!

Jack and his mother on the stage.

Room 13 Enjoying the show.

The Jumping Bean is hiding in the audience.

Three very talented actors!

Is that a kink in your neck?

Oh no! Jack has been arrested for being a litter bug!