Don Binney Art

Take a look at the amazing art display on the wall in Room 1. We have used New Zealand artist Dion Binney as inspiration for these amazing pastel artworks. Come and check them out on our wall. They look amazing.

Matariki

Today Whaea Ngareta talked to us about Matariki. We watched a video which told us one of the stories behind Matariki. The Matarrki stars were Tane Mahuta's tears that he had thrown into the sky. We celebrate Matariki by sharing Kai and getting together with family. Matariki is the Maori new year.

Ultra Quack Returns

We would like to announce that we have won back our class mascot Ultra Quack. After loosing him to room 12 in ball passing relay we challenged them to a game of Hoopla. Yesterday afternoon we won the challenge and got him back. Our time was 7 min 28 seconds and room 12 lasted 4 min 34 seconds. So, it was a spectacular victory. GO ULTRA QUACK!

Now we can challenge other classes. We'll keep you posted.

Term 2 Week 3

This week Wonderous One has been making paper planes. For maths we have been measuring how far our paper planes have gone. We have been learning about metres and centimetres. Wonderous One has been learning about space. Our big questions is, HOW IS THE EARTH DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE? For PE we have been learning about basketball. We were learning how to dribble.

H.A and A.F

Term2 Week2

You would have smelt the delicious aroma of choclate if you visited us on Monday. We followed the instructions for making milo that we wrote as part of our procedural writing unit. They were all delicious with a few interesting additions like grated chocolate and mini marshmellows.We realised that instructions have to be clear and specific! A couple of groups couldn't stir their milos because it wasn't in the instructions.

We have been working hard on inquiry and have chosen our bir question;

How is the earth different from the rest of the universe?
First we have to find ourt what is in the universe. We'll keep you posted.

Great weather on Friday so we could have our winter sports rotation. groups played soccer, hockey, basketball and netball.
We've had a great week

Term 2 Week 1

This week Wonderous One started to learn about space and wrote what we wanted to learn on a piece of paper. After that we cut out the questions and glued them onto a blank white piece of paper to organise them under headings. We started doing dear diary writing to write our own stories in our own books. Also we started to do some new Te reo. We are learning to ask the days of the week.

Ko te aha tenei ra?

Ko Ramere tenei ra.

At first only about 2 or 3 people said it but now nearly everyone wants to do it. It was a very busy week of spelling lists, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 of them but some people wanted to do list 8! But that's not all Mrs Hill decided to write the ingredients for how to make a milo because we are doing procedural writing. Some did really good. Some didn't do enough on the piece of paper. Next week we are going to use our instructions to make real milos. Last of all we started to do soccer skills for P.E.

S.J. A.H.

The end of term one

It is the last day of term one and we have been remembering some of the things we have done this term; new friends , class picnic, school council speeches, collage, young leaders, triathlon, duathlon, swimming sports, lido swim, wonder wall, The Iron Man novel,The Iron giant movie, assemblies, Hoopla, ripper rugby, Mascot challenge, Miss Mcleay, RE assembly, making bread, tabloid sports, Mrs Eccles art, the blog, new computer programmes, cultural celebration performance, red and black day, chopstick challenge, WISE, our square visit, sir Peter Blake award speeches... Wow! what a busy term we've had. We can't wait for term 2.