The Great Room 1 Paper Plane Fly Off

The Great Room 1 Paper Plane Fly Off is coming!

We will be having our competition this Friday straight after morning tea (10.40) weather permitting.

The following categories will be judged:

• Longest Distance - this is a straight line flight to where it lands. If it curls around and lands by your feet that's how far it went.
• Time In The Air - how long can your dart stay in the air? We will time it using a stopwatch.
• Best Looking - the best decorated plane. It still needs to start off being a folded paper plane, where it ends up is .....
• Biggest - what is the biggest dart you can make? You still need to be able to hold it and throw it (even if you can just throw it).
• Smallest - the smallest folded paper plane you can make.

The first two competitions are the most weather dependent. We need a dry day that is fairly still, especially for the time in air competition. Any postponements will be on the blog.

Paper plane 2

Here is a link to a website that has the instructions for 10 paper plane designs.

The one called 'The Champ' is the world record holder for the longest flight time - 27.6 seconds.

 10 Paper Airplanes

Paper plane !

In preparation for Friday I will put up some designs and instructions. This one has a video demonstration as well.
A good one to make with someone older to help the first time.
Don't forget to comment on the blog to let everyone know how your plane went.

Nick's Paper Airplane Folding Instructions

• DIG. 1
  1
  

  Firstly fold the sheet in half along the line shown in DIG. 1 and then open it out again.

• DIG. 2
  2
  

  Fold the two top corners in to the center line to give the form in DIG. 2

• DIG. 3
  3
  

  Then fold the top large triangle over so that the two flaps formed in step 2 are underneath the large triangle. Your paper should now look like DIG. 3

• DIG. 4
  4
  

  From the form in DIG. 3 fold the two top corners into the center line again in such a way that you get the form in DIG. 4

• DIG. 5
  5
  

  Now fold the small triangle up over the two flaps to give DIG. 5

• DIG. 6
  6
  

  Fold along the center line so that the small triangle is on the underside of the plane on the outside along with the two flaps as shown in DIG. 6

• DIG. 7
  7
  

  Fold along the line AB on DIG. 6 then turn the plane over and do the same to the other side producing DIG. 7.

• DIG. 8
  8
  

  Fold along the line labelled AB on the diagram first one way and then the other creasing really well. Tuck the triangular shaped depression inbetween the two wings to produce DIG. 8. This stabilises the plane if you do not make it perfectly since to make it absolutely symmetrically is beyond my abilities.

  
  

  
  

The Old Bill #2

As promised here's the slideshow of the students with the Rugby World Cup. Even their teacher got in on the act!

Room 1 and Webb Ellis on PhotoPeach

Keeping Ourselves Safe #3 - Our Body

Today we talked about our bodies.

We said that: My body belongs to me, and no one can touch it unless I say so.

The message is to give students ownership, and therefore control, of their bodies.

As part of this we discussed the correct names for different parts of our bodies, including genitalia.

I thought the children were very respectful during this discussion especially as I know it was difficult or a little bit embarrassing for some. As one child said afterwards, "It felt a bit like being travel sick."

There is a worksheet that comes home as part of the students' Home Book. I would encourage parents to use the correct terminology at home when discussing it. Also reinforce the My Body Belongs to Me message.

The Old Bill

On Monday we had a very special visitor to Normandale School - the Webb Ellis Cup. All the students got to see the cup up close and have their photo taken with the cup. What lucky people we are.

Thanks to Jade and Liz Fitzgerald who made it all possible.

Check back later when I will try to get a slide show of the individual students' photos up.

Keeping Ourselves Safe #2 - Lost

Getting lost can be pretty scary.
Here are some of the thoughts and feelings that Room 1 used to describe the feeling of being lost:

scared

sad

lonely

stressed

worried

anxious

I feel like I'm not going to be found

scared someone might take me

I'm crying

time - it always feels like a really long time even if it isn't

We watched a video of Bryan and Bobby and came up with a plan in case we are ever lost.

1. Stay Calm
2. Find someone responsible who can help you. This might be a shopworker at the mall, a lifeguard at the pool, a security guard at the stadium, a teacher on a school trip or a policeman anywhere.
3. Say where you last saw your family.
4. Remember your name, address and phone number so they can help you.

The BEST thing you can do is have a PLAN before you get lost. Arrange a place to meet in case you get lost or can't find each other. It might be a landmark that is visible all around (like a light tower) or a place you know really well in the mall.

If you do get separated STAY in that place until your parents come to find you.

Keeping Ourselves Safe #1

Last week we began the Keeping Ourselves Safe programme.

We had two main areas of discussion last week:

• Knowing we are special.
• Learning our address and phone number.

Knowing that we are special is important. Being aware of who we are and why we are special is important because it creates confident children. Confident children are less likely to be bullied or seen as victims.
It always helps that as parents we remind them that they are special on a regular basis.

It is very important that all children know their full names, including being able to spell their surnames. As I have said to the students I consider my surname to be fairly easy to spell - Haste. Among the many spellings I have (regularly) received are Hast, Haast, Hastie, Hase and Hastey.

Knowing their full address and phone number means that they can seek help if they are lost or, in the case of an emergency, give the correct contact details.

Horrible Hands

Guess who has got the most horrible hands in Room 1.

 

 

It is great to see someone taking their class reading home to try it out. What a cold handshake she has!

Making a Thermometer.

Here is a video showing how to make a thermometer just like we did on Friday. 

We skipped the part where she makes a hole in the bottle lid and instead used a large amount of blu-tac to block the top of the bottle and make it airtight. Play-doh or modeling clay would work just as well.

Using a normal drink straw also meant that we didn't need the 'lolly stick' either.

Have a try at home and leave a comment to let everyone know if it worked!