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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Slime Experiment

This is an experiment that I did at home

"Making slime was lots of fun! Lots of good planning, observing and perseverance too. This is my slime - I had to make it carefully because if I didn't it wouldn't work! It was my second try because the first time I rushed and didn't follow the instructions. The second worked much better".

We're loving how our students are so engaged and enthusiastic about our "Kitchen Science" Inquiry.