Monday 8th May

Whanau afternoon

Today we had our Whanau afternoon. This included having a picnic lunch with our families, sharing our inquiry projects that we had been working on last term, and playing some games. Everyone had done a terrific job with their presentations and it was great that we were able to share all our hard work. It was awesome to see all the parents at our Whanau afternoon. The children especially loved the adults joining in on the games. Thanks for coming!

James showing his slideshow to his Mum.

Taylor showing her parents her presentation board.

Esther showing her Dad and Nana her project.

Kordelia had a big crowd to show her poster to!

Emily listening to Arthur's slideshow.

Bree presenting her project to her Mum and Dad. 

Friday 3rd March

Self Portraits

At the start of the term we did some writing about our holidays. We chose two main things we wanted to tell each other about. To go with our writing we decided to do some self portraits. We had to make sure we used up all the space on the paper and it was in the middle of our page. We used pastels or coloured pencils to finish our beautiful artworks and made them colourful. Finally we had to stick on some giant sunglasses that had pictures of the two activities we had written about.  They are now up on our wall beside our writing so come and check them out.

Don't they look great!

Tuesday 31st January

Welcome back!

Welcome back everyone! It is going to be a very busy term one with lots of activities and events happening along the way. We will be posting updates on here about what is happening in the Middle Room.

We can’t wait for another exciting and fun year at Waiwera South School!

The Middle Room 2017! (minus Courtney!)

Wednesday 23rd November

Technology

Over the past couple of weeks, the Middle Room have been very busy with our technology. We were given a brief that related to our inquiry topic of “Watch us Grow”. The brief was to design and make something that helps things grow. To be successful we had to design something that:

• Can be used in the garden
• Helps things to grow
• Is our own design
• Doesn’t cost a lot to make
• Works properly
• Is interesting
• Can work independently on this
• Doesn’t take a lot of time to complete

We have been really engaged in our work and have been working very hard to get these completed. Have a look at some photos of us busy creating our designs. We can’t wait to show everyone our finished projects!

Girls painting their designs. 

Courtney decorating her worm farm. 

George drilling holes for his worm farm. 

Cooper filling up his bird feeder. 

Boys helping to saw the wood needed fro a planter box. 

Cooper helping Maddie with her bird house. 

Flynn helping out on a planter box. 

George is layering his worm farm. 

Nic is making a container to grow wheat.

James is filling up his worm farm.

Thursday 22nd September

Sports Activator

We have has a busy last week at school. We had a great day for Greer to visit to have another session of touch skills. We start off with some warm-up games which were a lot of fun. Then it was time to practice our skills especially passing and stepping. We round off with a quick game which was very fast paced. We are all improving so much each time Greer visits. These lessons are going to help many of us with our after school touch.

Practicing our passing.

Keep an eye on the ball.

Rats and Rabbits!

Testing our reactions.

Georgia on the run!

George stepping.

Baking

The past few weeks for Maths we have been learning about fractions. We have all worked hard and learned a lot. For our reward for working hard this term Miss Chapman let us do some baking! We had to deal with lots of measurements like ½ cup, ⅓ cup and tsp. The class split into two groups and made lolly cake and russian fudge. They both tasted so yum! Unfortunately we didn’t take any photos of the end products as they were gobbled up so quickly!

James checking Bree has measured correctly. 

Flynn stirring the fudge. It was delicious!

Oral Presentation Day

This term our inquiry has been focussed around Then and Now. We have looked at things from the past to what they are like now. These included transport, household items, clothes, and schools. We have worked really hard to produce a speech about a topic we are passionate about. Today was the day we presented them to the whole school, parents and friends of the school. We were all very nervous but everyone of us did a fantastic job. Then it was time to perform our dances we have been learning with Kayleigh Broad after lunch on Thursdays. These were performed down at the hall and we got a big crowd watching us. We got a lot of great feedback that we did an awesome job! Check out some photos of us delivering our speeches and our Then and Now dance performance.

Esther talked about computers from Then and Now.

Bree dressed as a soccer player! 

Georgia taught us all about singer Daniel Skye.

Nic came as his role model: His Dad. 

Taylor makes a pretty good queen!

George explained all about harvesters.

Flynn had a lot of knowledge about farming.

Kordelia transformed into Justin Bieber.

James told us about old and new tractors. 

Julienne delivered a speech about Meghan Trainor.

Maddie knew a lot about dolphins!

Courtney dressed as her Dad!

Cooper transformed into a logging truck driver. 

Middle and Senior Then and Now dance. 

It was great to watch!