What would happen if you didn't have a skull?

This week we have been learning about how important our skull is. Just for fun, we each made a paper skull with a cranium and mandible. Boo!

Dragon competition winners!

Last term we finished our dragon descriptions and shared them with our NZ Read Aloud friends. James Russell, the author of the Dragon Defender books, judged the competition and chose Jayden's dragon for third place! And Shaniadawn's entry was highly commended. Here is the video announcing the winners:

Climate change

We have been learning about climate change this week. Here is a video we would like to share with you:

Dragon competition

As part of #NZReadAloud we have been designing dragons for a dragon competition. The winning dragon might feature in James Russell's fifth book in the Dragon Defender's series! Next week we need to write some information about the dragons we created.

The Little House - a play

Two reading groups spent this week making masks and a house for our play. They performed it for the rest of the class on Friday.

Squawk Squad Rangers - Marine Week

This week as part of our sustainability unit we have been learning about the terrible consequences of plastic entering our oceans. Our challenge this week was to find one piece of plastic each day and create a sculpture on Friday.
We were role models for our school value "Ngatahi ai te mahi". Here is our video:

Maker space and measuring trees

We have a new Maker space in our classroom where we can let our creativity run wild. Here are some of our first creations:

Monique and Tailah made a house.

Yozarna made a handbag for the teacher.

Patungahere made beautiful patterns.

Eklypze made Flynn from our Dragon Defenders read aloud.

Thanks to Squawk Squad, we learned how to measure really tall trees with just a pencil and a metre rule. It was nice to get outside in the beautiful end of winter weather.