Visit from teachers from Wellington Primary School, Singapore

Yesterday we welcomed visitors from Wellington Primary School, Singapore. It was interesting to find out about schools in Singapore. 

Miramar Park: Teddy Bear's Picnic

It was lovely to catch up with those who could make it at the Teddy Bear's Picnic today. We had lots of fun playing games!

3D Print- International Friendship Day Logo

We designed logos for International Friendship Day. At Auroa School they 3D printed one of our designs. 

EOTC Beach Morning

We had a great morning at the beach today making sandcastles and playing games. It was great to see everyone collaborating to make different structures. 

Children's Garden Feedback

Message from Anneke from the Wellington City Council:

Thanks for coming to visit us at the gardens-what a fantastic bunch of students Worser Bay has. I hope the rest of the afternoon went well. I was just wondering if your students would be interested in sharing their thoughts on the characters we are designing for the Children’s Garden. I have attached the images- there’s one for each pillar; food, fibre, medicine and construction- the main uses of plants we will be looking at in the Children’s Garden.

Technology Challenge

On Wednesday we did a number of technology challenges. We had to work together and problem solve.

Our last Spanish lesson this year

On Friday we did our last Spanish lesson. Maria and Nicola were very impressed with all of the learning that has happened this year. We have also been impressed that Spanish has been a choice for you and you all come back every week. 

If you would like to access some of the songs that we have been singing you can access them here: Spanish Songs

Thank you Maria for all of your hard work and time. We have loved your lessons.

Workshops

Thomas's workshop was all about drawing characters.

Today children from Tautoru organised and ran workshops. 

There was a lot of interest from all the children to join or host a workshop.

Each workshop was lots of fun and very creative! Everyone had a great time. 

The children running a workshop showed excellent leadership skills.

Cooper and Theo ran a workshop on how to graffiti write.

At Gina's workshop we were learning to make our own necklaces.

Solly's workshop on how to make a catapult was very popular.

Georgina taught her group how to draw Pokemon characters.

Tommy ran a workshop on how to draw Avengers characters.

Edward lead his group in making games.

Yoshi's workshop was all about making paper planes.

You are Invited to our Teddy Bears Picnic!

Wonderful Tautoru parents,

On Tuesday 13th December we are all going to Miramar Park for a Teddy Bears Picnic!

We will be at the park from 9.30am - 1.30pm. Our picnic lunch will start at 12pm.

We would love for you to join us for lunch.

Look out for the invitations we are bringing home today. They have all the important information we need to know for Tuesday. 

Botanical gardens - roses

Trip to the Botanical Gardens

Botanical Gardens Trip - Kizoa Movie - Video - Slideshow Maker

We have been thinking about growing and planting as part of our Inquiry. Today we met with Anneke from the Wellington City Council to talk about plants at the Botanical Gardens. What a fantastic day!

Hour of Code

Today we did Hour of Code. It is a fun coding simulator. We learnt how to move animals and stuff to get to the right places. The levels get harder and harder. There are ages for each theme. You can learn how to programme video games.  Some of the games are Star Wars, Minecraft, Angry Birds, Flappy Bird and Frozen. 

By Adam and Dylan

Hour of code from Matariki on Vimeo.

Matamata Intermediate Mystery Skype

Today we did a Mystery Skype with Matamata Intermediate School. We are getting better at asking questions to find out where the school is. 

Games in the park

Today we had a great time at Kilbirnie Pool and we played some sports at the park. 

This weeks Spanish song about a house!

Yo Tengo Una Casita

Today our Spanish group practised this song with Maria. It is all about houses.

The link is above if you would like to practise at home.

Christmas Around the World

Pohutakawa Tree by Pyrenees

We have been connecting with schools around the world to find out how they celebrate Christmas. Please add to the Padlet below if you have anything to add. 

Goal Setting Day: Nic and Hamish's Base Group

Today is Goal Setting Day at Worser Bay.

We made an imovie about goal setting.

First we wrote a script for our movie.

We then had to check if our script was good for a movie.

Just to make sure our movie wasn't boring we added a few actions.

We had to find out who wanted to do what in the movie and make sure everyone was included.

Then we started to record.

At the end we added music and audio to the clip.

Then we shared the movies to the whole class.

Kaizen is making small steps to meet a big goal. If you have to eat an elephant, eat it one bite at a time!

By Betty and Theo