STEM (Engineering)

This week Room 1 has being doing some more engineering. The challenge is to make a free standing bridge that can withhold a heavy weight. They are only allowed to use 200 popsicle sticks and either sellotape or glue. It is a very testing challenge where the children have to use their prior knowledge on what they already know about bridges, then answer the questions and test them out. What design are you going to use? How many sticks will you need to build it? Here is some photos of the kids beginning their bridges:

Golf Skills

On Thursday we had Murray Martan come to school and teach Room 1 some golf skills. They learnt how to swing a golf club and make the ball go a far distance. At the end of the lesson we had a competition to see who was the best golfer in the class. A big thanks to Murray for coming out and teaching us some golf skills.

Room 7 buddy reading

This term Room 1 is going to be doing an ongoing buddy reading program with Room 7. Here is some photos of the kids reading to the room 1 students:

Robotic Engineering

This Term for Auroa School's Topic project we are doing Engineering. Room 1's engineering project is Robotic Engineering. For our first project Room 1 had to make a bot and trailer that could carry a heavy weight. The bot and trailer that could hold the heaviest weight won. In groups the kids made their bot and trailer and then programmed it. Some of the bot and trailers failed to carry weights and some of them could carry many. All the kids had a lot of fun building them. Here is some photos of their bot

Making ANZAC biscuits

Today the students of room 1 made ANZAC biscuits. We have recently been working on procedures in class for writing. Here is the procedure/ recipe for the biscuits:

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Edmonds Standard Grade Flour

1/3 cup sugar

2/3 cup coconut

3/4 cup rolled oats

50g butter

1 tablespoon golden syrup

1/2 teaspoon Edmonds Baking Soda

2 tablespoons boiling water

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180°C.
2. Mix together flour, sugar, coconut and rolled oats.
3. Melt butter and golden syrup in pot.
4. Dissolve baking soda in the boiling water and add to butter and golden syrup.
5. Stir butter mixture into the dry ingredients.
6. Place level tablespoonfuls of mixture onto cold greased trays.
7. Bake about 15 minutes or until golden.

Makes 20.

Here are some photos of the children making the biscuits. Also a time lapse of the biscuits baking in the oven:

Skills 4 life!

Today Room 1 had another successful session of skills 4 life with Kendall and Kelvin. They whole class participated in some games involving attack and defence. The skills 4 life coaches have been talking to us about the importance of communication during game situations.

Kaponga Athletics 2016

It was another great performance from Auroa School to retain the Interschool Athletics Challenge Shield in Kaponga last week. All students performed well in their races and we even won 7 of the 8 age group relays. Here is the video Mr Bloor made to showcase Kaponga Athletics 2016.