2012 Huia Range duathlon

Fire Station visit.

Today Room 6 got to visit the fire station. We got to look at the firefighters clothing, the equipment carried in the trucks and had a turn squirting the hose.

Fire Fighter Karen Muir

A melted jug

Today as part of our Firewise programme fire fighter Karen Muir came to visit.
She showed us some things that were damaged in a burning building

A melted light cover

She told us some rhymes to help us keep Firewise

Keep looking while your cooking.

Stay a meter from the heater

Lots wires cause lots of fires.

We are studying shape

2D and 3D Shapes

Shapes are everywhere in the real world, many structures both natural and man-made comprise sets of 2D and 3D shapes. Take a look around and recognise how many cuboids, spheres, pyramids, prisms there are in the objects you see, touch and use everyday.

Fire Senses Poems

  Room 6 had to think about how fire felt, looked, smelled, tasted, sounds.
Fire smells like smoke and burning wood.
Fire feels like a hot oven and sore.
Fire sounds like sizzling sausages and popping corn.
Fire tastes like burnt toast and burnt meat
Fire looks yellow and red.
By Kezia


Fire looks like the bright colours as the sunsets.   
Fire smells like a kind of gas.                  
Fire tastes like burnt toast.
Fire sounds like sizzling patties.                                                           
Fire feels like hot, hot water.
By Jared.

Fire sounds like wind.                    
Fire looks like bright colours.
Fire smells like gas.                        
Fire tastes like burnt chips              
Fire feels like hot water.                
By Awhina.                                    

Fire looks like hot colours of red, orange and yellow.
Fire sounds like sizzling sausages.
Fire smells like the smoke from Grandad's drum.
Fire tastes like hot and burnt toast.
Fire feels like boiling water from the jug.
By Katie.

Fire looks orange and yellow.
Fire sounds like crackling.
Fire tastes like burnt toast.
Fire smells like gas.
Fire feels like an oven top.
By Holden.
                         

Bubbles with Mrs Forbes 21st February

Mrs Forbes was our teacher and she made bubble mixture for us. We had fun blowing bubbles.

Swimming lessons

Last week we had our school swimming sports. Everyone in Room 6 got to show how much they have improved in their swimming. Brittney from Room 6 won lots of her races and won the title of Junior Girls Champion.