Healthy Snacks by Tommy

Today we tasted chocolate, up and go, museli bars, seaweed and jellybeans. We had to write what could be inside the treats. We did this for our inquiry about change. We want to make a snack that will be good for athletes to keep them energised. 

By Tommy

Problem Posing: How much money to we need to grow our garden?

Today in Maths, we were asked, “ How much money do we need to buy plants for our garden?” As part of our Inquiry about Change, we will be finding out about how plants grow.

Our focus was to ask good Mathematical and relevant questions.

We had to work as a team to come up with these questions. Here are some of the questions that we came up with:

1. Where is the garden? Thomas

2. How much space do we have in our garden? Lily S/ Pippa

3. What type of soil do we need? Rim

4. What season are we planting our seeds in? Charlotte

5. Where do we get plants from? Joni

6. Thinking about where we plant our garden, what do the plants need? What conditions do they need? Nela/ Ruby

7. How many plants do we need to buy? Lachlan

8. How big do the plants grow? Violeta

9. How long do the plants take to grow? Leola

10. When is a good time to plant the plants? Emelia

11. Do we need to grow them a little bit inside first? Talia

12. How many seeds are there in one packet? Rim

Message from Shona, Scott, Nicola and Susie:
This term we are continuing our Kitchen Science Inquiry and then moving on to an Inquiry around plants. We are keen to get the children growing various things, so the New World promotion is very timely. If possible, would you please be able to send one free Seedling Kit along to school for your child to grow. (They come free from New World if you spend $40). I have a friend who has obviously spent many amounts of $40 and she has given me her kits, so I have spares if anybody needs one. Alternatively, if you have any spares would you please send them along just in case.

We would also appreciate it if you have any spare empty plant containers that we can recycle and use for growing some other plants. 

And if anyone lives nearby, and has a garden that they are happy for the children to look at, it would be lovely for some groups to see a garden in action.

Travelling Tales

We have been working on a story project called "Travelling Tales". Some of our students helped to write the story. The story started in a school in Luxembourg then was passed on to a school in Taiwan/ Taipei. It arrived with us today. We're really excited about finding out how the story will end... watch this space!

Congratulations Chrissy!

Dear Tautoru,

Hope you are all doing well and you had a brilliant holiday! 

Over the holidays our baby girl was born - her name is Nyala (Nee - Ya - Lah) on the 7th of October 2016 at 12.18am. She weighed 3.1kg which is not very big!! I imagine some of you weighed that when you were born. Maybe ask mum and dad tonight what you weighed and for maths you could do a graph to see the change in your weigh from then until now! That would be interesting. You could also see the different weights in the class and graphs those up! ️

I just wanted to share the big news with you all and wish you all the best for the first day back at school. 

I miss you all so much and will be in soon so you can all meet baby Nyala.

Love Chrissy

P.E.

Today was such a beautiful day that we were able to go outside for a game. 

Susie taught us how to play "Five".

We have to remember our sunhats when we go outside now, because we do not want to get sunburnt!

Digital Safety

This week we have been talking about staying safe on line.

We have to remember to keep our personal details private, not to open anything from strangers and to ask an adult if we are not sure about something.

We want to:

Stay safe inside

Stay safe outside

Stay safe on line.

Welcome back to Term 4. Welcome to our new students and new teacher Susie

Welome to our new teacher, Susie. Welcome to Octavia, Pyrenees, Caspian and Nuala. We're looking forward to getting to know you all. 

Au Revoir Chrissy- We'll miss you!

It was Chrissy's last day today. We will miss her and we're looking forward to meeting the baby very soon! 

Year 3/ 4 Sleepover

Happening now: The Year 3/4 sleepover! Sleep well!

Character Day: Chrissy and Gillian's Base Groups

To celebrate Character Strength Day, we got together and explored what gratitude means, discussed what we are grateful fro, read stories about being thankful and made our own movies.

Here they are: 

Character Day: Nic, Kaths and John's Base Group

Today was Character Day!

Nicola, Kath and John's base group worked together to create some art and music. We made kindness and gratitude cards. We also made some trees for someone that we love.

We made music to go together with a story that we read about bravery and courage:

We learnt this song:

Character Day: Shona and Hamish's Base Groups

Today was Character Day!

In Shona and Hamish's base groups we did all sorts of things to learn about character strengths. We made buscuits for a friend in the group to show kindness. We wrote stories based on character strengths. Ask us what else we did...

Character Day: Scott and Gabrielle's Base groups

Today was Character Day

Scott and Gabrielle’s base groups worked together today. We started the day with a bridge challenge. Groups were given materials to build a bridge suspended between two chairs.

It was great to see students forming new friendships, taking the lead, showing bravery, and there was loads of creativity in the air!

I really liked working together to build our bridge. - Greta

I enjoyed working with the seniors - Gina

I liked how we could work with people we don’t really know - Tommy

I really liked doing something with new people - Charlotte

The quiz about character strengths was good fun - Tommy

Flynn's Poem- When you are sleeping...

Today in Tautoru, for our reading some of us read Flynn's poem, "When you are Sleeping". We liked it because he chose the best words for the purpose. It also paints a picture in our mind. During Independent writing, some of us decided to write our own scary poems. Thank you for the inspiration Flynn!

When you are sleeping...

When you are sleeping, sneaking through streets,

Snatching, eating, gobbling, slithering, he whispers,

In Parseltongue “kill, kill, kill, KILL!”

                          

Cats meow, dogs bark, wind flows, rain flies,

Trees drip, no one sees the monsters,

Roaming feet thudding, houses crushing,

Water rising, trees falling, ground ripping.

People growing, ideas flowing, time spinning,

Coming, going in and out, blackness falling over,

Mountains growing, trucks towing,

Rivers Flowing,

Things Roaming.

By Flynn, WBS,  (Year 4)

Hokey Pokey

Today we made Hokey Pokey. 

We mixed sugar and golden syrup in a bowl. We wondered what would happen. 

Here are some of our predictions:

Nye: Crystals in sugar might get stuck in syrup.

Gina: The sugar will dissolve and maple syrup might get sticky.

Sammy C: Sugar might melt into the syruo then sink.

Blaze: It might change colour

Caleb: It might look like the elephant’s toothpaste.

Eva: It might go gooey.

This is what happened (see what happens when we add baking soda to the mixture): 

 

Unpacking our karakia

By Lillian

Yesterday we continued to unpack some of the messages in our school karakia and set ourselves a goal about something we can work on. 

E tau nei ki runga i a tātou katoa te wairua aroha

Settle upon us the loving spirit

kia ngakaunui tātou ki te hāpai i ā tātou mahi katoa

to enable us to work together

i roto i te hari me te koa me te aroha anō o tētahi ki tētahi,

in joy and with respect toward one another

kia puawai tātou katoa.

so that we all grow and blossom together.

Whakakahangia tātou kia mahi tahi

Also strengthen us to work together

kia manaaki, kia tiaki

to nurture and look after

i tō tātou kura, i tō tātou hapori, i tō tātou taiao hoki.

our school, our school community and our environment.

Mauri ora!

Life force!

Elephant Toothpaste

Today we did an experiment called "Elephant Toothpaste". We asked students to do a creative piece of writing. This is what we came up with:

Elephant Toothpaste

It looked like ice cream
It looked like an ice cream maker
It went into swirls
How amazing
Elephant toothpaste
It looked like it had invisible hands
Slowly rose up like bubbles  
By  Hadley

Elephant toothpaste

Elephant toothpaste … oh my did it erupt?

Elephant toothpaste … lots of bubbles rising up.

Elephant toothpaste … lots of slime.

Elephant toothpaste … it kept going.
By Ruby

Elephant Toothpaste

Slow explosion

Rising up

It looks like ice-cream and don't eat it because it's gross vinegar

disgusting

It's bubbly like bubble mixture
By Blaze

We made some elephant tootpaste art too...

Quadblogging: This week students show us around International School of Luxembourg

We have permission to post this video clip on our blog.

It's such an exciting time! We've started Quadblogging. We are connected with schools in England, Luxembourg and Canada. 

Here are the participating schools. Please take time to have a look at their blogs and leave a comment on their posts. Don't forget to say who you are and where you are from (Worser Bay School, NZ)

St. Augustine’s School, England	http://holly2016-17.sasblogs.net
International School of Luxembourg	https://blog.seesaw.me/islk2jb
Caroline School, Canada	mrsrutschke.weebly.com
Worser Bay, New Zealand	http://tautoruandautahi.blogspot.co.nz/

This week we will be getting to know Mr Bevan's Class Blog at the International School of Luxembourg.

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