Grow Your Mind Day with Susie and Gabrielle's Base Groups

Wow! What a fabulous day we had. Our base groups had the opportunity to participate in many workshops led by parents, student leaders and teachers.

First up during the morning block we certainly grew our minds and developed new skills as we took part in Poi making with Michelle, ukulele with Sophie and Vicky, soccer and coding with our senior leaders.





After morning tea we were super lucky to have Jenny and her awesome drumming crew teach us some African Dance moves. We also took part in a sketching workshop with Gabrielle and some of us got to sew some cool monsters with Jacqui and Ainslee.



In the afternoon our wonderful student leaders ran a gymnastics, dutch and violin workshops. We also had a chance to work with Dana, who ran a workshop around the importance of looking after native plants and Shaz took a workshop that taught us how to crochet.

 

A big thank you to all the people who helped make Grow Your Mind Day possible. We had the best day filled with lots of new learning, challenges and tonnes of FUN!

Fun things you can do at home during holidays ....

What?! Why do I have to do anything in the holidays ....

Wait, don't worry. Here are some fun things you can do online to stretch your brain while you rest your brain... (I hope this make sense!)


First up - many of you mentioned you want to learn typing. Here is a BBC site you can play and learn touch typing (type without looking at the keyboard) at the same time.
Click on the link

Second - Read some poem written by New Zealand children. These poems are collected from Paula Green the New Zealand poet. Have a read and let them inspire you!
Click the link






Third - another poetry website. Hey this time you get to make your own with some magnetic words. Yes, it is just like those on the fridge ...
Click the link 





Do you have some ideas of what you will do to stretch your brain?
Please let us know!

Have a safe and wonderful holiday Tautoru whanau!

Grow Your Mind Day

What a fantastic day. Scott and John's base groups joined forces and spent the day learning, challenging ourselves and sharing knowledge.

We had students leading workshops from google drawings, creating beats, basketball, and netball skills sessions.













We also had a number of parents join us to lead workshops. Students were able to try out sewing, gnocchi making, fitness, photography, and acting.

More play based learning

We had another great afternoon of exploration, sharing, construction and play.





The students have loved working together to create a cafe, an art gallery, a fort and many other fantastic creations.



We are getting faster at resetting the classroom. We make sure that all of the materials we have used are put back into their correct homes and ready for the next group to use.

Literacy Activities.

During literacy we have written lots of letters and made up some stories using the little objects in the surprise bag. We had fun practising our reading and writing.

Thanks for our new play equipment.

Look at the exciting games we have been able to play since we received our new play equipment.

Thank you very much! We put our "Creativity" to work this week!

An art gallery.

A Cafe.

A Tent.

A Castle.

Powerful Superheroes in Tautoru.

 We are creating some art showing how we have been powerful this term, thinking about character strengths, playground behaviour and work habits. We have also done some writing to go with it. They are work in progress!!

Measurement

We had fun in Maths today. We were estimating how long we thought a line would be and then  measuring it with a metre length to check our estimations. To start with we were not very accurate. We thought the line might be 5 metres and it was only 2, but the more we practised the better we got. After a while we were guessing the line might be 20 metres and it was actually18 metres. We enjoyed maths outside today.

International Friendship Day Movie Project

Our International Friendship Day Movie

At Worser Bay School, we are excited to learn about different places and cultures. We have started a project that is linked to International Friendship Day (this is celebrated in Singapore to celebrate collaboration and connections with other cultures). Schools from across the world have signed up to share a short movie about their country. 

You can see the movies on this site.  

Estimating to 1 Metre !

During maths this week we have been estimating objects that are shorter, longer and around 1 metre in length or width. Estimating is when you make a guess.

 

We headed outside and first drew a line with chalk that we estimated to be about 1 metre long. Then we measured it with our 1 metre piece of string. Most of us had drawn a line pretty close to a metre.

 

Then we spent some time locating objects that we thought may be around 1 metre in length, shorter than 1 metre and longer than 1 metre.


Objects that were longer than 1 metre: our arm span, the height of the door, trees.
Objects that were shorter than 1 metre: whiteboard duster, leaves, shoes, length between our hip and foot.
Objects around 1 metre: some branches and plants, the teacher station, width of some tables.