Hi Wonderous One.
I hope you have had a great holiday. I know holidays are awesome but it will be nice to get back together and see each other again.
We have a great term coming up. Miss McLeay will be back for 4 weeks starting on Monday. We have an exciting new inquiry topic. I'll let you in on the secret next week. I have put up your Don Binney paintings and they look fantastic. We'll take some photos and put them on the blog next week.
Hope you have tried out study ladder. I have had a look and see that lots of you have completed heaps of activities.
I am looking forward to seeing you all on Monday. Enjoy the last weekend of your holidays.
Mrs Hill

week 10 term 2

This week in wonderous one we have been doing a powerpoints about space for our place our space on inquiry. We had a big question it was how is the earth different from the rest of the universe? So on Tuesday we have to show the whole school our powerpoint we are so excited. For our fitness we are facing room 2 in hoopla for each others mascot and we know we are going to win because we have been practicing hard. We have also been doing mulitplacation and divison problems in all of our groups everyone is getting really good at timetables. We have made it so far for our taraniki sprints which is a sheet of one hundred timetables questions. One person is up to eigth timetables it is a real hard challenge. We were lucky today to have Aaron Crueden from the turbos to come and speak to us about things that he had to do to get in a high standard of rugby. We all got to have a photo with him.

J.L and S.B

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