Making 5

We have been working hard in maths learning how to make 5.

House Spirit Day

On Friday we had a Spirit Day were we had to come dressed in our house colours. In the afternoon we went into our Houses and did some activities. Each house is coming up with their own flag and song so we can't wait to see what they all are. We also got house points for wearing our house colour - which house to you think won in our class - Totara = green, Puriri = red, Kauri = blue or Kowhai = yellow.

Our Wordles

Miss Nation helped us make wordles on the computer with all the things that we like - colours/animals/food/drink to name a few. We also got to choose the way we wanted the words, the colour and the font. Check them out and let us know what you think.

Our Wordles on PhotoPeach

Bug Wonderings

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Building Tables

We have new building tables at school. We also have new tools to go with. Mr Dobbin came in on Monday and showed us the tools and we got to practice sawing and hammering in nails. We are going to be working in small groups with Mr Dobbin to make our own spinning tops.

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Hockey

We had a fantastic time at hockey. We learnt lots of new skills like dribbling, passing, stealing the ball of others. We also learnt how to hold the stick correctly and how to be safe with the hockey stick.

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Verbs

We have been learning about verbs. a verb is a doing word. Here is our list of words.

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Hockey

We are really enjoying our Hockey sessions - we love them so much we even play it in the rain! Enjoy the slide show of us showing off our skills.

Toy inquiry

As part of our Toy inquiry we have been looking at maori games. We have been learning the rakau and the song that goes with it. Here is the song and hopefully when we get better we will post some pictures or maybe even a movie of us doing it.

Creative Writing

We used these two pictures as inspiration for our writing. Come and read the great stories we wrote.

One day a long time ago my baot got eaten by a shark. I jumped off and I was scared. 

By Baylen

Once upon a time a shark was chasing me when I was on my jet ski. I was chasing him too because we were playing hide and seek because we were friends.

By D-Jay

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Sandcastles

Last Thursday we went into the sandpit and had fun building sandcastles. We then wrote stories about what we did. Here are some pictures and stories.

My sandcastle had a pattern on top and it looked cool and when we busted it it was funny. 

By Baylen

When we went to the sandpit we made a sandcastle and D-Jay helped me do it and we used grass and bark and we used leaves.

By Leeroy

Space invader art

Our focus this term for art is collage. We are starting this off by looking at mosaics. Mrs Larsen showed me some art done by a street artist Space Invader. He makes art work using squares (pixels) and places them in different places all around the word. He bases his designs on the game space invader. Below is a youtube clip that gave us inspiration for our space invaders. Enjoy!

Dinosaur Measuring

As part of maths this term we are learning about measurement. Miss Nation gave us a dinosaur footprint and we had to find things in the class and outside that were the same size. It wasn't very easy to find things - check out what we found. Also don't we all look good in our school uniforms!