Ice Cream

We made ice cream in a bag on Thursday and tried out lots of interesting flavours thanks to School Kit who sent us the ingredients.

Waitangi Treaty Grounds

On Wednesday we had a great day out at Waitangi Treaty Grounds. We did some waka drills, learned a couple of new games and made windmills from harakeke.

Maths games

We played some maths games this week. One of our favourites was 'Bunches' from the Figure it Out books.

Te Huarere

We have been learning some new vocabulary in class.

Multiplication, Pepeha and Fish & chips

We have been learning to use arrays to show mulitiplication problems:

Our multiplication museum

We also illustrated our Pepeha inside our decorated korowai:

Tia

To say goodbye to Whaea Lucinda on her last day of practicum in Room 7 we had hot chips for lunch:

They were delicious!

A new waiata

Whaea Lucinda taught us a new waiata:

Drink bottles, tukutuku patterns and chickens

Thanks to School Kit we all received a drink bottle for summer. 

We practised making tukutuku patterns.

And we used our new Kitchen Science Cookbook to make Chicken in a cup.

STEM passion week

For the last 3 days of Term 3 we had Passion Week. The junior students who chose STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) came to Room 7. Our favourite activities were sticky ice and the ping-pong rollercoaster.

Building our roller coasters

Picking up an ice-cube with a piece of string (no hands)!

The supply teacher

This week Mrs Squire and Whaea Helen both relieved in Room 7. They taught us a lot of interesting things about space and we did some creative artwork.

When Mrs Bingham came back on Friday she was really pleased with us!

Our poem this week was called 'The Supply Teacher':

Here are some of our illustrations:

Cupcakes, science and logging trucks

We made delicious cupcakes on Tuesday and decorated them beautifully.

Emily came for a visit to do some science with us. She taught us about acids, bases and neutralisation. We liked watching the paper change colour and we were very good at making predictions. 

 Then we went on a bug hunt. They were hiding from the rain so it was a bit tricky to find them.

On Friday Northland Wood Council brought two massive logging trucks to school. They taught us how to be safe around trucks. We got to sit inside the truck and we even blasted the horn. It was loud!

The story of Rona

Whaea Lucinda played the story of Rona for us and we had to listen carefully and draw what we heard. Then we wrote about our picture.

Crazy Hair Day and First Aid

We had Crazy Hair Day to raise money for Daffodil Day.

Whaea Nikolai from St Johns taught us what to do if somebody is unconcious. We also found out how important it is to know our full address in case we need to dial 111 for an emergency.

Taku Akomanga

We have been learning some new vocabulary to use in our classroom. Here is our collaborative poster so we can check that we are using the right word when we korero Maori in class: