Wednesday December 9th

Beach Education
Check out the slideshow below about Beach Ed day yesterday at Kaka Point. Although the weather was a bit cold, we had a fabulous day!

Thanks to everyone who came along to help out!

Beach Education Day on PhotoPeach

Friday November 27th

Pull Apart Afternoon

Last week at the working bee, there was a big clean out of some cupboards in the school with some old electrical equipment being found. This gave us the idea of having a 'Pull Apart Afternoon'. We invited students to bring along any old electrical items to 'pull apart'. This initiative tied in nicely with our current technology unit. There was lots of banging, smashing and pulling at our afternoon of pulling things apart. The students had a great time and found out how things worked with there being lots of great discussion around how and why things work.

See some photos below of our afternoon:

Getting into the hard drive!

James and James about to get down to business!

So many things to pull apart!

Lots of engagement with the pull apart afternoon.

The girls busy getting things pulled apart!

So many things to break apart!

The keyboard is getting destroyed and a toaster is getting hacked into!

Wow, we have broken into the inside of the printer!

A hammer means serious business!

Thursday November 26th

Technology

We have been busy completing our technology unit with the Junior Room. Our unit was around following the technology process to create a finished product, which was a christmas card. We did lots of learning about what cards are most effective and put lots of thought into the planning and design of our cards before we made them.

Here are some photos of us working on our cards:

James working on his card.

Children busy working on their cards.

Busy busy! And very focused!

Hot glue gun action!

Thursday the 12th of November

Cinquain Poems

We have been looking at creating Cinquain poems!!

 We have published some of our poems for you all to read here they are.

Tuesday 10th of November

Sports Extravaganza

We went to the Sports Extravaganza at the Recreation Centre in Balclutha.
We got put into groups with children from lots of different schools. We then spent the day taking part in lots of different activities. We all had lots of fun and can't wait for next year.
Some of our favourite activities were:
The scootering race
The game of soccer
The obstacle course
The tug of war
The Vortex challenge
The tyre pull
Water race with the waterslide

Thursday 5th of November

Jump Jam

We have been having lots of fun having a go at JUMP JAM at fitness time. Some of us are finding that it is really tiring but it's a great way to get our hearts pumping and keeping us fit. Here are some photos of us doing jump jam!

Wednesday 4th of November

                           

We were all really excited to get onto Mathletics and see what it was like. So we had some time learning about what we could do on Mathletics. We explored 'Live Mathletics', 'Rainforest Maths' and  the maths activities. We are looking forward to using Mathletics lots at home and at school.

Monday November 2nd

Rugby World Cup Poetry

Today for writing we did All Black poetry.  The poems we did were acrostic, which is when we took their first name and made up a sentence to go with each letter of their name.  We are doing poetry for writing at the moment.

Check out our collaborative All Black presentation below:

Thursday October 29th

Exploring with Mixing Colours!!

We are looking at George Seurat's artworks. He was well known for painting with dots. Before we start our own artworks using his style we have explored mixing paints. We found it interesting learning that red, yellow and blue are primary colours. We then had a go at mixing these primary colours to see what we got. These colours are called secondary colours. We can't wait to get started on our own dotty artworks!!!

Busy mixing colours!

More colour mixing!

We enjoyed learning what primary and secondary colours were!

Wednesday October 28th

Finding Patterns
We have been learning about patterns. We were creating towers with cubes by following guidelines. Then we had to try and spot a pattern to help us know how many cubes we would need.

Here are a few photos of us working in our groups:

Savannah, Bree and James working together.

Using the iPad to do record our work in our google drives.

Sorting the pattern!

Tuesday October 27th

GOO THE ALL BLACKS!

On Tuesday we made All Black jerseys. We wrote a message to all the All Blacks players on each jersey. We made them look just like a real All Blacks jersey with numbers on them! Here are some of our jerseys. GOOD LUCK THE ALL BLACKS!!!!!!!!

Some of our jerseys.

All Black's jerseys hanging on the washing line!

Friday October 23rd

James Rizzi Inspired Art

We are studying James Rizzi for art at the moment.  He is an artist who likes to do simple things and make them bright!! Check our our James Rizzi inspired bird art!

Wednesday October 21st

Google Presentations
Here are some of our google presentations from our reading can dos last term.  These were about safety and were tied in with our inquiry topic 'How Safe Are You?':

Friday October 16th

Plays

Over the last two weeks of term three and the first week of term four, we have been doing plays.  For the first play we did, we worked with our reading group and some reading groups joined together. For our second play, we got to choose our groups with our class reading groups mixing up. Today we presented our second play to the Junior Room children and year 5 and 6 children.

The names of the plays and the children in them were:

That is So Gross! - Nic, Taylor, Cooper, Maddie and Julienne

Cat School - James, Courtney, Georgia, Chloe and Esther

A Biscuit Trail - Tayden, Savannah, George, Iara and Bree

Here are some photos of us presenting our plays:

Cat School.

 A Biscuit Trail.

A Biscuit Trail.

The audience watching A Biscuit Trail.

That is So Gross!

That is So Gross!

That is So Gross!

Thursday October 15th

National ShakeOut Drill

Today our whole school participated in the National ShakeOut drill to practice what to do in an earthquake. We then made a collaborative presentation about the drill and what the purpose of it was. Collaborative means we worked together in the same presentation to complete it. Check it out below!

Tuesday October 13th

Algebra - Maths

We are learning about Algebra in maths at the moment.  Today we looked at patterns and how to work out what object comes next in a pattern and later on in a pattern without actually having to make the pattern.  We used the New World minis to help us with patterns.

Here are some photos of us learning about Algebra patterns:

Everyone is eager to learn about patterns!

 Having a look at the pattern Miss Ward has made.

 Everyone is eager to answer the questions about the mini's patterns!

So many minis to make patterns with!

A pattern we started.  We worked out what would be in the pattern at certain numbers like 10, 14, 20, 52.

Courtney placing the next object in the pattern.

Nic placing the next object in the pattern.

Cooper working out what comes next in our pattern!

Savannah and Bree working in buddies to do their Algebra work.

Courtney thinking hard about the answer!

Maddie and Georgia working together on their pattern work.

Iara and Esther having a discussion about what they think the answer might be.

Julienne and George working together.

Thursday September 24th

Middle Block - Thursday

In the Middle Room we do lots of work online, in our google drives. Google drives are a bit like a desk, they need to be kept tidy with work in the correct folders. Today we spent some time tidying our folders. We had three expert 'drive tidiers' who checked drives of the people in our class, making sure they were tidy with also helping show people what their drives should like. These experts were Georgia, Iara and Courtney. They wore their vests and were available to help with drives and check them when asked by other class members. This job was built into the middle block of the day, where we could sort our drives at any time we liked as we built our own timetable for this part of the day. We had to complete some reading activity work, do play practice, do some maths work and get our drives tidy. We could do this in any order we like. In the Middle Room we love planning our own parts of the day!

George tidies up his drive while Courtney watches on.

Maddie, Julienne and Taylor practicing their play.

James doing his reading work.

Iara helping Cooper get his drive sorted.