Transition: Autahi to Tautoru

It's transition time. Autahi students are coming through to work with our Year 1 and 2 students in Tautoru because they will be working together next year. We drew superheroes and gave them character strengths. 

Getting ready for next year...

Today we got together with the Year 3, 4 and 5 students to start getting to know each other and work together. Today we started by looking at what character strengths animals have.

Environmental Writing

Today was a beautiful Wellington day. We took advantage of the weather and wrote outside. 

Hadley's poem:
Grass twitching
Birds flapping
Children running
Sea boats making noise
Pizza oven grilling
Sausages sizzling
People silent
Kids sing songs
Fish paintings
View of the water

Blakey Movie

Blakey is from Tauranga Intermediate School. He was gifted to us by Mr Carlin. Blakey has been helping us to learn how to make a movie. We had lots of fun putting this movie together.

Thank you Mr Carlin and Tauranga Intermediate School!

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!