Class speech competition

This week we had a speech competition in class. Nathaniel from Room 13 and Jade from Room 12 were our judges because they represented Kaikohe West School at the interschool competition. They did an excellent job. Most people wrote their speeches about looking after Papatuanuku. Aurora won because she had the loudest voice and she was very persuasive. The prize was $5 cash! Our runner-up, Jayden, received a bag of lollies which he shared with the class.

Duffy Theatre, World of Maths and electrical circuits

This week Duffy came to school and performed a show for us. Duffy got stuck in the Magic Bricks game and it was hilarious.

We also did a lot of Maths problem solving this week when World of Maths came to our school:

Finally, on Friday, Room 1 came to work with us on our electrical circuits topic. We visited the Science for Kids website to play an interactive game. Some of us found it challenging but we didn't give up.

Healthy drinks and Blurbs about books

Whaea Fui came back to teach us about healthy drinks. It is amazing how much sugar is in some drinks!

Water and milk were the only drinks with no sugar in them.

The Gold reading group read a book called Haunted House and wrote a blurb to encourage somebody else to read their book. Eklypze did a great job of making us want to read Haunted House:

Cybersmart

Mrs Wallace came in to teach us about being Cybersmart. We learned the difference between personal and public information and what should and shouldn't be shared online.

If you want to check out what we did have a look on our class site: https://sites.google.com/kaikohewest.school.nz/room-7/cybersmart

Calendar art and healthy eating

We sent our calendar art to Mainfreight for their 2020 calendar. The topic was "what we can do to look after our world". Jayden drew a picture of his whanau picking up rubbish:

Whaea Fui from Project Energise talked to us about Healthy eating. We learned about Grow and Glow foods and Slow foods.

Buddy class and 'show don't tell'

We spent Monday afternoon with Room 10 for some buddy reading. 

For writing we have been learning how to "show don't tell." Lots of us managed to use similes as well!

Autumn leaves and blooming flowers

This week we did some leaf rubbing with Mrs Miller to match our autumn leaves poem.

We also made some cards for special people on Mother's Day. One of the cards we made had a paper flower that opens in water. We didn't manage to get the whole thing on video but this might give you some idea of what happened: