STEM challenge

We had  STEM challenge at school today. House groups competed against each other in class. In Room 7 our challenge was to make the longest paper chain out of 6 pieces of paper.

Koura

Weta

Tuatara

Tuna - red and blue makes purple!

Harleen and Cevrynce hard at work

Aurora and Morgan making chains.

Corah-Marie and Mei doing their best for Koura.

Jayna-May and William were the only 2 Tuna students!

Koura was the clear winner.

Recycling, rubbish and fishing rods

We have been learning about ways to reduce, reuse and recycle our rubbish. 

Anouk talked to us about rubbish.

We learned what happens to the rubbish we create.

Using ziplock bags in our lunchboxes. They can be washed and reused.

Harleen, Cevrynce and Corah-Marie with their litterless lunchboxes.

Morgan won the fishing rod! Tino pai.

Our farm trip

The year 2s and 3s from Kaikohe West visited a dairy farm in Ohaeawai. Thank you to DairyNZ for sponsoring us so we could have a free day out with lots of treats. Here are some of the awesome things we did:

We watched the cows being milked.

Then we drank the milk!

We made some delicious butter by shaking cream!

Before the tanker came to collect it.

We worked in teams to show milk's journey from the paddock to our tables.

We fed the calves.

With colostrum!

Writing for a fishing rod.

At the end of last term we wrote some stories about fishing. The best story wins a brand new fishing rod. Do you think we will win? Click on the link to read our stories.

Our fishing stories