Term 3 Week 5

We have been busy, busy, busy in MR Class!!! We have started doing gymnastics for PE. We love going to gymnastics and we always try our hardest. We are doing activities like balancing on the beam, jumping on the big blue mat, jumping on the tramp and climbing up the LONG rope! Some of us have reached the top already!! 

Here is some of our artwork that is hanging up in our classroom :-)

We have been using little rods in maths for basic facts and making a family of facts. We are all so clever!!

Our focus in Maori at the moment is Kai (food). We have started to learn some basic words such as:

 banana (panana) 

hanawiti (sandwich) 

pata (butter)

tote (salt) 

pepa (pepper)

We will be learning lots more too! 

Every Thursday we have been doing a Language Experience with AS Class. So far we have used basketballs to bounce tennis balls, done the mentos and coke experiment, felt spaghetti with our fingers and gone down the big yellow slide! 

We love Harold!

We were so lucky last week as we got to go and see Harold! We learnt lots with Harold about breathing, the air, how to keep safe in the sun and lots more! We wrote these letters to Harold and we are hoping that he might write us a letter back. Click on the link to check out what we said to Harold:

http://www.flipsnack.com/7E76ABAD75E/fdnaxqes

Welcome back for Term Three!!

I hope you are all well rested after the holidays! It sounds like the kids have had a great time with friends and family over the break. We have another busy term that involves Life Education (weeks 1 and 2), Maths Week (week 3), and Gymnastics (weeks 4 -7). 

On Thursday MR class and AS class had a turn at going down the big, yellow slide on the senior playground! We came up with some FANTASTIC stories. Here are a few:

Weeeeeeee! Yesterday MR and AS class went to the senior, fast slide. The colour of the slide is yellow. I went fast like a shark, a very long shark. My biggest fear was going on my tummy. I went fast like a bullet train. Weeeeeeeeee! (Keelan).

Woohoo! MR and AS class went down the big, bumpy, yellow slide. We went yesterday. Some people went turbo fast like a jet pack and slow like a stuck rock. (Ryan). 

Cling! Zoom! Yesterday MR and AS went down the big, yellow slide. I shot down the slide like a big bouncy ball! (Mason). 

Zoom! Yesterday MR and AS went down the super duper, wet slide. Oh no! My bum is wet! I went down as fast as a rocket! I had lots of fun going on the slide. (Boh). 

Weeeee, Splash! Yesterday our class and AS went to the slide at Discovery School. The slide was like a big, yellow, shiny, slippery snake. When I slid off I felt like a roller coaster zooming on the track. (Shaun). 

On Friday afternoon we got to go and visit Harold in his van. We were so excited! Harold is teaching us about breathing. We are going back on Monday to learn lots more. This is what we learnt today:

We learnt about breathing and oxygen (Sophie B)

We learnt that If you are human you have to wear an oxygen tank underwater (Keelan)

We learnt that fish have gills and humans do not have gills (Baxter)

We learnt about body parts that help us breathe. The lungs, heart, oxygen pipe (William)

The air goes into your lungs (Zachary)

When you breathe out carbon dioxide the trees make oxygen with it so we can breathe it back in again (Ashleigh)

We can breathe in oxygen and we breathe out carbon dioxide (Chamae)

Trees help us breathe through the air (Caitlin)

What to bring to the beach when it is hot and sunny (Georgia)

We all got a little bit scared in the holidays because there were lots of earthquakes happening. We have been reading books and doing lots of activities about earthquakes  We have also had some practice of what to do in case there is another earthquake while we are at school. Stop, drop and cover!!! 

Have a lovely weekend :-)