Funky flowers

Room 8 created some bright colourful flowers to brighten their home room....tino pai rawa atu!

Yahtzee fun

This week our maths group played yahtzee with a place-value twist. They all worked really well with their learning buddies to help each other learn the rules.
Well done!

Exploring Adcock reserve

Today our team ventured "over the fence" to explore Adcock Park as part of our inquiry "Our Place". The tamariki sketched using viewfinders. A highlight was attracting the eels with raw eggs....thanks for volunteering to have the eggy hands Mr T!

Team maths challenge

Every Friday for maths in 9A we have team challenges. The children are given questions, and they need to work in their team to find as many possible solutions as they can. The questions for today were:

How many ways can you show me the number 9?

The answer is 10. What is the question?

This is our favourite maths time of the week!

Team One working together

Jayden and Tayah sharing their answers

Nikki-Ray and Liam working together

Team two working hard

Reading time in 9A

This week in reading our favourite activity has been to use the bananagram tiles to make words.

This week we read the book 'A Bunyip in the Billabong'. Our activity was to describe the bunyip and draw a picture of it.

School Wide Inquiry 2017

On Monday we launched our school wide Inquiry. Our inquiry is called Our Place - Parklands, Christchurh's North East Oasis. Turangawaewae - a place to stand. Our big questions for this inquiry is What is this place, and what happened here?

On Monday we started by looking at the legend of Maui and the fish hook. We watched the video below and it taught us lots of information. You could ask your tamariki the following questions about it:
- What was special about Maui's hook?
- What did the brothers become?
- What did Maui catch?

We are all keeping class inquiry journals, feel free to pop in an read them and see our learning journey!

Sketching and drawing

On Tuesday 21st March, we practiced sketching a landscape because we are going to Adcock park tomorrow as part of our inquiry into Our Place.
Here are some of the drawings the children did. They are very clever artists.

Liam's sketch

Jackson's sketch that he finished at home.

Autumn's drawing.

Haley's drawing.

Value certificates

Well done to the tamariki that received awards today. Serena and Jack also got certificates. Tino pai rawa atu!

Team whakataukī

We have finally got our team art project up in our foyer. Come and check it out, it looks awesome!

Shared Reading Video

Every Friday the children read the big book aloud to the teachers to demonstrate their improved fluency and expression. Here they are reading the final page in Fearless Phil by Jill Eggleton.

YouthTown Sport

YOUTHTOWN SPORT 

16 MARCH 2017

We practiced underarm throwing today! We had to get the bean bag into the hoop!

Then we played a game of Rob the Nest!

Paige is determined to win!

More running! We tried to get the Golden Egg!

So much fun!

Wet day exercise!

Here we are doing our go noodle fitness because  we can't get outside!

Go noodle is a fantastic website that you can sign up to at home also. 

Shared Reading in 9A

We have had a great time this week reading 'The Enormous Gynormous Hole'. Here we are reading our favourite page.


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Whānau Hui

Well done to our amazing tamariki who received values awards this week!

Team work!

Together we made a web to show how we need to work as a team. If one part of the web is weak the whole web can collapse. By all contributing the web remains strong....kai pai tamariki!