Monday, October 29, 2018

CINDERELLA - MAKE IT MONDAY



Word must have gotten out!  We are expert problem solvers. We had ANOTHER fairytale character email us today.  Keira read the email out to the kids



Cinderella is tired of her shoes falling off and needs our help to her a pair of shoes.  Cinderella had some pretty strict success criteria that we needed to met.  We were super excited to see what we could make for Cinderella, especially when one of the criteria was that the shoes need to have another use!  What on earth could we do for that?  We WONDER!!!



We brainstormed all our ideas for what we could do!

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Once we had though about what we needed to find out about in EXPLORE, we went through to the other room to get started on our learning!

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Part of being a SELF MANAGER is knowing when you are ready to move onto the next stage in the Learning Process. For us, this is going to our REFLECT CHECKPOINT.  Mrs Kenyon checkpointed us to see if we were ready to move onto the ACT part of our Learning Process.


Once we passed the checkpoint we were able to move through to ACT in the Rainbow Room.  

Look what we came up with!

Royce made Cinderella a hover board.  It's pretty cool!

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Ryla, Ava-Rose and Holly P had a great day making their shoes - lots of pink and strapy shoes today!

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  Keira, Charlie and Amelia made their shoes that could also be used as handbags!  Now that is clever.



Lauren and Katie made a strap so Cinderella's shoes will stay on.












Once we had finished making our shoes we needed to REFLECT.  Did our shoes meet the Success Criteria?  Lots of them did.  We hope Cinderella likes them! .            
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

TIE DYED MILK - SCIENCE

We had a blast at our Science opt in workshop today. 

Adding food colouring to milk looks great.  


But look at what happens when Shyloh adds dish liquid to the milk. 
The colours all move around and create some amazing patterns.

 


You could try this at home!


STATIC ELECTRICITY - SCIENCE

Our static electricity Science opt-in created a lot of interest and fun today.  Check it out!

We borrowed LC 14's Plasma Ball.  We thought it was fascinating when we touched the ball.  The lights went towards our hands!  It was pretty cool!

  

 

This is how it works...




HOLLY SINGING

Holly sung a beautiful song "We are monsters" for us today.  Well done Holly.  You are an amazing singer.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

ACHIEVING TAU

Pa Jack came to talk to us today about how we can create tau (balance) in our lives. We learnt about 3 different things.

Toiora - This is when you are the best at something or you won something.  You are soooo happy and
have lots of energy.


Tau - When you are chilled out, relaxed, and everything is cool.  You feel balanced. The teachers never get tired of people being tau, we want you to be tau. This will help you to make friends. It is when you know the rules and know how to stay out of trouble.


Kahupo - This is when you are sad, unhappy, lost or worried. Maybe you don't know what is going to happen and you have butterflies in your tummy. This might happen when someone is mean or nasty to you.
Kia tau, i nga wa katoa - In all things, seek balance

Everyone will find tau in a different place. Take a look at how some of the children find tau.
 
Braxton likes to play                                                   Charlie likes to lie in her bed.
Rippa with his dad

  Jacob likes to play soccer.
William likes to play with 
his superheroes. 

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

CALENDAR ART

At the very end of last term we completed our Calendar Art for the School Fundraiser.  Mrs Ruawai has kindly put them in folders so that we can show you when you come into school.  Come and see how COMPETENT and CREATIVE we are at Art.

Feel free to pop in soon and have a look...

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We also have a few on display in the class...

ATHLETICS

We started training for Athletics today.  The events we are practising are:  high jump, discus, hurdles, shot put, sprints and relays.

Please remind us that Sunhats are compulsory in term 4.