Swimming

Swimming lessons have begun.  The children were so well behaved and it was great to see them all give their lessons 100%.

Discovery Time

Last week for Discovery time we had a focus of 'Taking Turns'.  Autahi, Jack and Harrison got together and created this short clip about taking turns.  Check it out!

Athletics Day

Here are a couple of our recounts from athletics day that we wrote on the iPad.  (unedited)

Rosa:

Autahi:

Athletics Day on PhotoPeach

Click Clack Moo the Story

Assembly Awards!

This weeks class awards went to Ayla and Dylan! Congratulations and keep up the good work!

Our class also won the Tidy Kiwi Award. Each class in the school has a zone to keep tidy and free of rubbish. Piwakawaka work hard this week to make sure they picked up any rubbish they could find in their zone. A great team effort! Rosa accepted this award as our class Student Councilor. 

Throwing and Sprinting

We have been focusing on the skills of throwing over-arm and sprinting in perpetration for Athletics Day.

And this is my holiday picture... (playlist)

More Book Week Fun

With our class theme being Julia Donaldson the children have been having great fun making games, doing some craft and activity booklets all based around her latest books.

Ben and Logan work on making a Gruffalo's Child with arms and legs that move:

Holly and Emma are practicing using different voices to retell the story of the Gruffalo using their story wheels to guide them:

Hamish, Luke, Ronin and Caleb enjoy a game of memory they have made using different pictures  and characters from the Gruffalo story:

Alani, Bojana and Heidi are busy at work on their Julia Donaldson Book Week Booklets:

Holly and Rose enjoy a dice game of Gruffalo Puzzle Match:

Book Week Begins!

Today for the start of Book Week we went to Our buddy class, Kereru and they read us some stories! 

Air Resistance

Check out our clip of us learning about Air Resistance. We had heaps of fun!

Why we LOVE our Dads!

Happy Father's Day to all you amazing Dad's out there!


Why we LOVE our DADS! on PhotoPeach

Fair Testing Our Cars

We have been learning about Forces.  At the moment we are learning about FRICTION.  We know that friction can make things go fast or slow.  Today we made some Mobilo Cars and tested them on different surfaces to see how they went.  Our testing showed that smooth surfaces made our cars go further because there was not much friction and the rough surfaces made our cars not go very far at all, some of the rough surfaces even made our cars crash!
Here's some of our thoughts after all the testing was finished and we looked at our results...

What we found interesting:

• pushing the cars fast
• pushing along the pavers and watching the car bump 
• building the cars

What didn’t surprise us:

• that it didn’t go very good on the bark
• that the car didn’t go very fast at all
• because the bark was all bits and pieces, it made it crash
• it went fast on the concrete

What did surprise us:

• that it went well on the concrete
• that my car didn’t go fast even on the smooth floors
• that my car went really fast and far on the lino

Making our cars:

Testing out our cars:

Recording our results after every test:

Talking about our findings:

 A Sample of our Results:

How many JellyBeans in the Jam Jar?

This week our sound and letter 'j'. We had a competition to see who could guess the number of JellyBeans Mrs Jeffries had put in a Jam Jar. The number was between 20 and 100. It was so exciting counting them all out in groups of 10. Azarie was the winner, with the exact number of 74! Lots of kids had guesses that were close too though! 

(Photos by Autahi)

Making Roimata's Worms

This week we made worms and Mrs Jeffries said we can make 6 worms each and two fishing rods each too.  To make it you need these things, you need to get a pipe-cleaner and glue eyes on and use two eyes if you want.
Then you get a straw and put wool through and glue a magnet on and you can't put them in your mouth because..............you will get a sore tummy.  You can't put a battery in your mouth either and we made a box to put the worms and fishing rods in.

By Rosa