TE PUAWAI CONCERT!

Today is the Te Puawai concert and Hangi. 

We went out to see the men light the hangi.  

Here are a few photos for you...

MATHS IS FUN!

We love maths!

Today we have been learning about place value...

 and decimals!

MACHINES ALIVE!

Today we got to choose which activity we wanted to do.  

Those kids that stayed in the Rainbow Room, did an activity called Machines Alive!

We listened to some music and pretended to be robots.  We had to do some actions.

Then Mrs Lunn gave us some pictures of toys.  We chose which picture we wanted to do and we made up some actions for how we thought it would move.

Baeley, Bailey and Zia were a rocking horse

Cameron, Kalas, Dylan and Saul were a racing car

Sam, Jack, Tyler and Issac were a train

Jayden, George, Riley and Alex were a toy boat

Ethan, Leah and Naomi were a rocking horse

To be successful, we had to think creatively.  We talked about our ideas and we gave them a go and changed them if we needed to.

We did it!

Well done guys!

RIGHT CHOICE AWARD!

Congratulations to these fantastic kids who got a Right Choice Award for playing nicely together at lunch...

BEING CREATIVE!

This term, our Nga Matapono focus is Being Creative.  

Today our teachers issued us with a challenge:  We had to make something that MOVES! 

Here are a few photos of us in action...

GENIUS HOUR!

Today in Genius Hour, Jack and Sam made some dinosaur puzzles.  Jacks LOVES dinosaurs!

ATHLETICS CHAMPIONS!

Congratulations to Ashlyn, Matty, Nate and Olivia, for their awesome efforts at Athletics.

ATHLETICS DAY!

On Wednesday we went to the Riverdale School Athletics Day at Massey University.  We had a blast and were so pleased to show off all our skills that we had learnt during our practice sessions at school.  Here's a couple of photos of us in action...

DAWSON'S WICKED WEDNESDAY!

Yesterday afternoon, Dawson chose to go home with Saul's little brother Guy.  

They had a the coolest afternoon ever!  Here are some photos showing what Dawson, Guy and Saul got up to...

The three boys drove to Foxton Beach.  Good job Dawson for wearing your seat-belt!

They enjoyed fish and chips on the beach for tea.

Aw... so cute!

Dawson got to meet Saul and Guy's new puppy!

Dawson and the boys finished off the busy day with a few stories in bed.

Thanks for taking such great care of Dawson, Guy and Saul. 

 He is so lucky to have you both as friends.

PLAYER OF THE DAY!

Woo-hoo!  

Look who got the Hurricanes Player of the Day trophy at Rippa Rugby today.

Well done Nate - you are a try scoring machine!

CANDYLAND

Look who got a Candyland Press Pass!

Well done Matty!

RIPPA RUGBY

On Thursday we started our Rippa Rugby module.  We had a great time and look who got Player of the Day!

CALENDARS!

Here are a few photos of our calendars that we have made.  Order forms came home with us yesterday.  If you would like to purchase our amazing artwork, please send the form and the money back to the School Office.  We hope you like them!

BOOK CHARACTER DAY!

On Friday we had a Book Character Day at School.  We had to dress up as a book character.  We had Terry from the library come and read to us and we had a parade.  Here are some photos of us...

REMINDER!

Don't forget Book Character Dress Up Day tomorrow!

GREATER THAN AND LESS THAN!

Today in Maths we learnt about greater than and less than.  We made a greedy crocodile mouth.  The mouth ALWAYS opens to the biggest number.  

Next we made two sets of different sizes.  We put the crocodile mouth facing the biggest set.  Then we read the mathematical sentence.

For example:  2 is less than 5 

5 is greater than 1

You could get us to practice this at home.

WHAT'S MISSING?

Today in Maths we made patterns.  Then our friend 'stole' one of our objects when we weren't looking.  We had to guess what was missing.

Here are some of the ways we figured it out:

• "I read the pattern to figure out what was missing" - Max U
• "Sephia read the pattern to see what was missing" - Leah
• "Molly thought, which one is missing?" - Stevie
• "I just looked at the pattern and then I figured it out" - Kalas
• "I repeated my pattern" - Nate
• "I memorised my pattern and so I could tell which one was missing" - Noah

You might like to play this cool game with us at home!