I Will Survive Assembly Dance!

We LOVED performing this dance to the school today during our assembly.

The 3 R's

Koru Art

We have been learning our pepeha and doing lots of te reo Maori practice. We created whanau koru art to represent the people in our whanau. Welooked at different koru, how to draw them and their features. We used pastel and dye and had so much fun doing it. We hope you love them as much as we do!!!

Forces in our environment

Today we took our learning outside! We explored, observed and recorded the ‘Forces’ we have around our school.

We loved this activity because we got to experience different forces in our everyday environment.

Some of the forces we observed;
Pushing
Pulling
Kicking a ball
Swinging a swing
Climbing
Dropping
Birds flying
Winding blowing trees
Gravity

S L I M E ! ! !

We have been learning about procedural writing. We decided we wanted to write a recipe or instructions for something. Whaea Chloe was lucky enough to be sent some ingredients to make slime so we decided to make it and write how we did it.
We know that the key parts of the recipe were:

• Title
• Ingredients
• Equipment
• Method (Step by step instructions)

We got into groups to make the slime and it was so much fun!

Here are some of our recipes.

 

Rippa Rugby Fun

We had Hayley from Northland Rugby Union come to school and teach us how to play Rippa Rugby. It was so much fun! We got to learn new drills and have a game against the other teams. Some of us were really speedy at running through the others and getting tries and some of us were really good at ripping off the tags. We enjoyed learning how to play rippa and we are going to play it with Whaea Chloe because Haley gave us our own set of rippa rugby gear.

Real Rad Reading!

We had the re-opening of our library. This was an exciting day because we also had character day and could dress up at our favorite book character. We also had lots of fun reading activities planned for the day. The one we liked the best was buddy reading. We got to read to the younger students and some of the senior read to us too. This was so much fun and it was awesome to work with the tuakana and teina of the school. We talked to our principal about doing buddy reading more so hopefully we will get to do it again soon.

Room 1 Winners!

We were lucky enough to enter an Eeny Meeny 'decorate a reindeer' competition and WIN!

Room 1 was so excited to receive an awesome arts and craft prize pack. We can't wait to get creative with our new art and craft supplies. We will keep you posted with our creations.

The Myth of Rumatahi awa

This is our second movie we made. Hope you enjoy it!

Breaking News by Room 1!

We had to make a movie for the local movie festival. We came up with an idea and a script for a movie about pollution of our waterways. This is one of our finished videos! We used green screening and imovie to make it.We will vote for the top 3 from our school to go to the festival.

What floats? What sinks?

We were learning about floating and sinking. We wanted to find out what floats and what sinks.
Some of the things we learned is that some materials float first then they soak up the water and become heavy.
It was fun. We liked discovering that something we thought would float actually sunk.
Trace liked being a scientist and discovering new things.
We learned some new vocabulary like density, buoyancy, and mass.

Video clip from the DDF dance crew visit.

DDF Dance Crew come to visit!