Varjak Paw - Have you read it?

Hoop Huts

Today for PE with Nicole we made Hoop Huts. We were in teams and we had to make the hut and then get our whole team through the hut without knocking it down! It was challenging working within a group and also building the huts, however we did a great job!

Next week we are looking at being blind folded and maybe making more than one storey on our hut!

How do we learn?

Yesterday the Middle Syndicate had an afternoon of activities to think about how we learn. Children bought in some items from home to share as well.

At this stage of our topic we think we learn by:

• experimenting
• using strategies
• trial and error
• learning from our mistakes
• listening
• thinking
• looking
• talking

Pippy Visited Our Class

We were so lucky today to have Pippy the turtle visit our class! We found out from Sky and her mum that Pippy is 7 months old, they got her from Westport and that she will grow as big as her environment allows. Pippy was not shy and moved around our carpet happily. We got to hold Pippy and her claws felt a little sharp.

Frank holding Pippy

Pippy with her red marks by her eyes

Natalia enjoying feeling Pippy's prickly claws

Speeches

We have been working really hard on our speeches. We wrote our speeches at school and then we had a few days to practise them at home before presenting them in class. Our speeches have all been awesome! The children who got pulled out first got to record their speech as a podcast. We are yet to find out who our two class winners are who will be going into the syndicate final.

Listen to Jadan and Coopers speeches!



Jadan Cooper


http://youtu.be/E-rjenG5BsE
Lochlan




http://youtu.be/4g9pZNz5_oI
Ciara M

Gold Medal Comes To Nayland!!

We were very privileged today to have Jo Edwards, New Zealand Lawn Bowler come to our class! We were allowed to hold her gold medal and ask her some questions.

Did you know that Jo has been bowling for 22 years and that she used to play soccer for NZ?
Jo has won about 20 medals from Lawn Bowls outside NZ.

Thanks Jo for coming to visit us, it was so super special! Thanks to the Le Cheminant family for sorting it out for us!

Jadan's Poem

During reading time Jadan had read a poem about a naughty rabbit chewing things. Together we started another poem and Jadan finished it. Here it is....

Puppy Dog
Staying at home all alone
poor wee puppy dog
chewing a bone
chewing a hole in my net
has cut off the power to the TV set!

By Jadan

Limericks

We have begun looking at Limericks. We know that they rhyme, have a rhythm and have one subject usually a person or an animal.


There once was a boy called Jake
who liked to put bugs in his cake
he shared them with his sister
who came out in one big blister
then she chased him all the way to the lake.


Check out the link to limericks under learning links!

Commonwealth Games

Hi Room 13, hope that you are having a great holiday! I have been looking into the Commonwealth Games for us to study when we get back to school. I will keep adding cool things that i find! I have also put some links under the Learning Links subheading for you to look at.

Rapunzel

Rapunzel Show on PhotoPeach

How to make salt dough

We are going to tell you how to make salt dough in 9 easy steps.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 cup of salt
• 1/2 a cup of water
• mixing bowl
• mixing spoon
• baking tray
• skewers (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Pour a cup of flour into the mixing bowl
2. Tip a cup of salt into the mixing bowl
3. Pour 1/2 a cup of water into the mixing bowl
4. Mix the ingredients together well with the mixing spoon
5. Take a small amount of dough and make creations
6. Poke a hole in the dough so you can hang it
7. Bake them for 100 degrees for 2 hours
8. Wait for the dough to cool
9. Paint your creations and enjoy!

Amazing Bonsai Tree

Thanks to Brianna's photography, we captured the growth of an amazing Crystal Bonsai Tree! Oh, and thanks to Libby and Kerri for giving us the tree!

Signs and signposts

Our new topic is signs and signposts! Look what we found around the school!

How do you know if a sign is an international sign?

Do you know what these signs mean?

In Term 2 we are going to be doing a unit of work related to signs and sign posts. How many of these international signs do you recognise?

Can you count in 3's?

Hi Everyone,

Use this groovy song to be able to skip count in 3s!

Enjoy :)

Captain Planet Season 1 Episode17 - Don't Drink The Water

Student of the week

Well done!

Open night

Don't forget Open Night on Wednesday 16th April. It would be lovely to see you all there and for your child to share their learning with you.

Sketching

We have been looking at the sun, moon and shadows. We know how shadows are formed and why they change. We had fun taking photos of them.

We are learing to:

Observe a photo carefully

Use both fast and slow techniques