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 :-) 

Maths for the holidays :-)

Here are some cool games to practise your maths over the holidays! Just click on the link... Enjoy!!!!!

Ladybird Doubles http://www.maths-games.org/ladybird-doubles.html

Funky Mummy Addition http://www.ictgames.com/funkymum.html

Caterpillar Number Ordering  http://www.ictgames.com/caterpillar_slider.html

Counting in 2's http://www.ictgames.com/fishy2s.html

Owl Addition http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/numbers/ch1.shtml

Can you make 5 and 10? http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/numberbond.html

Count the bugs Addition http://www.dositey.com/2008/addsub/addex1.htm

Number Names Memory http://www.maths-games.org/number-word-memory-to-20.html 

Week Nine- Term Two! One more week to go until the School Holidays

This week has been Te Reo Maori Week. We have been super busy learning lots of legends. We spent time in MR Class, AS Class and GH Class learning legends! Here are some of our creations. We made suns, mountains and taniwhas! 

During reading time this week we also read a book about how to make paper frogs and dogs. We made them all by ourselves! This is what they turned out like: 

Just a quick reminder that School will be closing at 2.00pm on Monday the 8th of July and Tuesday the 9th of July! Have a lovely weekend :-) !! 

Wet, Windy Wellington

Our Cross Country got cancelled on Tuesday due to the bad weather but we are running next Wednesday instead between 9 and 10.40am. We have some real athletes in the classroom so make sure you come down and support our class! We also have Science Fair on Thursday so it will be a busy week in MR. 

We have had lots of fun with Mrs Brown this week. She came into our class and showed us three science activities. We got to put a nut in a balloon and spin the balloon around. This made such a cool noise! We also got to make a catapult. We had pom poms flying all around the classroom! Then we got to join to bottles together to make a tornado of water. We shook the bottles together to make the water form a tornado. We added glitter and a spider too!

We were lucky to have Mrs Jennings on Wednesday afternoon too. We painted some trees to hang up in the classroom. We listened to all the instructions so they turned out really well! 

Keep safe and warm over the weekend! 

Matariki Week at Discovery

We have been reading lots of books about Matariki this week and learning lots of new information. We wrote some stories about what we have learnt. Here is a few: 

There is a group of stars called Matariki. Matariki can be seen most of the year. They disappear in April. They can be seen in winter (in May or June). There are other names for Matariki like The Seven Sisters. Some stories say that Matariki is the name of the eldest sister and guides the other six sisters to their places in the sky. We can celebrate Matariki like learning how to weave and carve and enjoying with our family and friends. (William)

Matariki is the biggest star of all her sisters. Red stars are the coldest starts. Stars can be different colours. There are blue, white, yellow, orange and red stars. Matariki is the time for planting trees and for winter crops. It is a good time for sharing stories. It is the time for making and flying kites. (Tegan)

The Seven Sisters (blue stars) are the hottest stars. The red stars are the coldest stars. It’s the Maori New Year. On Matariki day people can celebrate. It’s a time for making and flying kites. I like Matariki. (Zachary)

You can share family stories at Matariki time. You can try to know how to look after the land. It is a time to get together with your family. You could make a kite and after fly it. There are a big group of stars called Matariki. You could also call them the seven sisters. All the blue stars are hot like an oven or even hotter than that. Is that really hot? (Caitlyn)

We had a Kapo Kapo Ceremony today and we presented the Kapo Kapo group with our School Korowai that we all worked hard to make. It turned out so beautiful!

It was another busy week in MR. We have been doing lots of practice for our cross country. It is important that we remember to bring running shoes and warm jackets because it has been very cold lately and we play outside lots during school time!

Our topic for Science this year is SOUND! We had heaps of fun last week learning about sound and we wrote some great stories too!

At School Assembly Ryan received an achievement award for always following instructions. Well done, Ryan! 

Next week we have a busy four day week. We will be continuing to practice our adding and subtracting in maths, practicing for cross country, doing lots of reading and writing and of course getting right into our science. 

See you next week! :-)