Wednesday, 14 September 2016

International Dot Day- Art- Starting From A Dot

Tomorrow is International Dot Day.  Schools across the globe will be reading, "The Dot" by Peter H Reynolds. The author has challenged us to make our mark. This story links to the character strengths of bravery and creativity...

"The Dot is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”. What begins with a small dot on a piece of paper becomes a breakthrough in confidence and courage, igniting a journey of self-discovery and sharing, which has gone on to inspire countless children and adults around the globe."


Read by Lily V

The story inspired us to do some artwork. We started from a dot and used our strengths of creativity and bravery to create these: 
By Clem
By Lily V
By Nela
By Marnie
By Ridley
By Greta
By Ruby
By Molly
By Emelia

By James

By Eloi
By Jupiter
By Hadley
By Ari

Maths: We are learning to write numbers in Chinese


It is New Zealand Chinese Language Week In Maths we learnt how to write numbers 1-100 in Chinese. It is a great activity to help us with Place Value. 

You can learn how to write the numerals here: Structure of Chinese Numerals 

And say numbers 1-10:



Tuesday, 13 September 2016

The Dot- Planning for Writing

Drawing by Eloi
On Thursday, it is International Dot Day. International Dot Day is named for the classic Peter H. Reynolds storybook The Dot. Today we read the story and retold the story in pictures. What character strengths does Vashti have?

Auntie Dot Poem

Some of us read a poem called, "Auntie Dot" today. We have been learning to read poetry in different ways. 



Baking Soda and Vinegar Experiment

Today, these guys showed us an experiment with baking soda and vinegar. Before we did the experiment we made predictions about what might happen. We said that it might:

  • rise up 
  • cause a reaction 
  • explode 
  • poof like a cloud of smoke 
  • get fizzy 
  • froth up 
  • create create carbon dioxide 
  • bubble


Monday, 12 September 2016

The dragons are coming ....

Scott's base groups performance .... What a night !


Pizza making

As part of maths Chrissy and Scott's maths groups have been learning about fractions. 

We made delicious pizzas today to reinforce our learning.





Sunday, 11 September 2016

Quadblogging: Favourite Books

unknownWe are very excited to be involved in a project called "Quadblogging". We have connected with schools in Luxembourg, England and Canada and will be commenting on each other's blog posts and working on different projects together.
Week 1: 
We will be focusing on Holly Blog from St. Augustines School in Nottingham, UK: http://holly2016-17.sasblogs.net
They have asked us...
"Hello to all our quadblogging friends. We hope that you enjoy looking at everything we have been up to over the past week and what we get up to this week.
We are reading a book called FUNNYBONES by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. Have you read it?
What is your classes favourite book?" 

Eggtastic experiment

We are exploring kitchen science...here is an experiment we did using eggs and a time. We predicted what the boiled egg would look like after 2,4,6,8 and 10mins then we cracked them open to see if we were right and made our observations. Take a look at the photos below and our seesaw to see our predictions and observations.

Saturday, 10 September 2016

If Poems

Art by Yoshi
We read a poem called "IF" and as a reading response we wrote our own poems:

If the sea was purple and the clouds were pink and yummy,
if the sun was green would everything be green too?
If trees were chocolate would it taste like chocolate too?
What if the birds were rainbow and cats were Orange?
By Violeta and Georgina


If skies were Black
How wood we see?
What if the grass was pink?
It would change the world.
If the trees were gold?
By Greta

If cheetahs chirped
It would be berserk
If blue were red
Then bookbags would be dead
Choclate gold
Hairy bold
By Jupiter


If sun sets were white
And skies were green,
What colour would trees seem?

If dolphins were orange
And sea turtles were red
Would they have to change their name?
To red turtles?

What about watermelons?
If they were purple?
What would happen?

If coconuts were pink
And bananas were grey,
Would everything be the same?

I’ve known orangy pinky sunsets,
Grey dolphins and more
So if the colours were bored and switched around,

I wonder what the world would be?
By Charlotte and Leola

If clouds were blue
And crabs were yellow
Turtles were purple
The trees were plastic
that will not be fantastic
Caves were orange
Floors were caravans
And pigs called inky
We call them stinky.
Maybe ghosts were not invisible.
Flies were gold.
Paper was a cape-flying paper.
By Will J

Spanish: Introducing ourselves to students at Island Bay School



We had lots of fun introducing ourselves to Island Bay students during our Spanish lesson. Next week, we will be joining them for a fiesta!  

Mystery Skype with Auroa School



Today we did a Mystery Skype with Auroa School. They found out that we were in Wellington and we found out that their school was in South Taranaki. It was lots of fun!

Our next steps are to learn how to search the web to get the information that we need. 

Assembly 9.9.16

Well done to everyone who got a principal award for great goal setting!
These guys shared their pizza fractions
Thank you to our wonderful presenters

This is us reading, "Glurp the Purple Alien" by Kenn Nesbit:

Friday, 9 September 2016

Green eggs and Ham

Our poem last week was Green Eggs and Ham. Chrissy's literacy group got to make green and eggs and ham this morning and started to write about it. Look at how funny it looks!! In week 8 we will writing about it and add to this blog post so keep a look out!








Sew Love and Plastic Free Peninsula


We made (#cool #awesome) bags out of a pillowcase and a tie. We paper glued the exclusive logo designed by Hunter T. onto the #epic bag. #sewlove caravan helped Worser Bay School to sew the bags together here is what some people said about the sewing den and campervan club...

Evie said, “I like the sewing machines, that they were made out of a pillowcase and a tie.

Yasmin said, “I like that each sewing machine had a name, they used no plastic to make the bags.”

Jupiter said "I like how it was very welcoming. The idea was #awesome #epic #great #cool #omg."

This is what we do to save the environment!

By Thomas, Jupiter and Edward.

Be good New Zealand!


Image result for plastic free peninsula

Jupiter, Liam, Edward and Thomas would like you to fill out this survey that they created...

Thank you in advance.

Thursday, 8 September 2016

Multiplication and Division

We have been learning about multiplication and division. Here are some clips that show some of our learning that we have been posting on Seesaw. Enjoy!   


Shape Creatures

We have been learning the language of 2D shapes. We have been using http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/web-apps/pattern-shapes/ to create shape pictures. Here are some of our creations...

By Liam 

By Tommy

By Cruz

Bouncing eggs

From, Christiane

Wednesday, 7 September 2016

Scary Slime!

This guy has been experimenting with some scary slime at home. 

He says it is a bit gooey was squishy. It is breakable and it can stick.   

WHAT YOU NEED: 
Borax 
PVA glue
Food colouring


If you would like to make this at home, here is a clip to help...

  

How to introduce yourself in Spanish

We have been making video clips to help people to learn Spanish. On Friday, we will be skyping another school and practsing our spanish with them. (We have changed our names in these clips for privacy purposes). 

This is how to ask someone's name and how to say the response. 

¿Cómo te llamas?

me llamo ...





¿De dónde eres?
Yo soy de...


Gratitude

We are so Grateful to be a stones throw away from paradise !  We set off down to the beach to dial up our creativity in the sea air.  We dis...