Wednesday 13 September 2017

Te Reo Maori

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori



We have been celebrating Maori Language week ....  all year!

Here are some videos of the students asking each other how they are feeling. It is has been great to see the students confidence growing when speaking in Te Reo.





Use the information below to practice with your children at home.







No Toy Swap at the Disco

Hello!

We have decided that we are going to save the TOY SWAP for a different event in the year.
This is so we can enjoy all the other things that our beautiful Worser Bay Disco has - like the epic dress up theme!!!

Come along in your best 80's costume!

Tuesday 12 September 2017

How different are animals to humans?

The Plasma literacy group are working on their own mini inquiries.

They have selected a number of animals to investigate. Our inquiry into the power of our own bodies has inspired this reading group to inquire about animals.



The cat team is investigating the following questions.


Are cats intestines different to ours?
How long does it take for them to digest food?

"Coco has found out that a female cat is either called a Molly or a queen."
"Emily research led her to the fact that all male cats are called Toms."

We also have a team investigating Gorilla. They are keen to find out the following.



Do they have the same number of bones?
How much bigger are gorillas to humans.



Nuala is interested in sharks. "An interesting fact about sharks is that they are partially warm blooded!"

The shark team is also interested in what a shark brain looks like.





There is also a humming bird team that is interested in the following questions.

Why can they fly backwards and upside down?

What is a hummingbird?


Thursday 7 September 2017

Maths

We have had fun creating our own problem solving examples. See if you can work out some of these:

There were 3 chickens. Each chicken laid 36 eggs. How many eggs were laid in total?


If there were 55 robbers and 11 jails how many robbers would share a jail?


Wednesday 6 September 2017

A visit from Marco and Sam from Scots College

We had a visit from two boys from Scots College today.



Marco and Sam have spent the year researching the issue of rubbish in our environment and, in particular, our ocean environment.



As part of their own inquiry they have organised a Beach Clean Up Day.

If you are interested head down to the Seatoun Wharf this Saturday at 10 am and join other people in the community cleaning the beach of rubbish.


Tuesday 5 September 2017

Inquiry

What do we need to do to make our bodies healthy?
We chose our own groups to work with, did a brainstorm of what we already thought our bodies needed to be healthy, wrote some questions and now we are researching to find out the answers.
The next step in our Inquiry is to sort our information and create a way to share it. 
We are hoping to convince others about what they need to do to be healthy. 
Ask us.....we will tell you what YOU need to do!


We have lots of things to say !!

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