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: