Bridge Building Challenge--let's see some innovation!

Bridge Building take 1 from Gillian Menaker on Vimeo.

Skyscrapers revisited

Today the red group had their second attempt at building skyscrapers.  We used what we had learnt about how to make our structures stronger and our skyscrapers are much taller.

Weet bix challenge....

Chrissy's writing group had a challenge...they had to put their inventors hats on and come up with some creative and interesting recipe ideas using weet bix...here are some photo's to get your taste buds going!

We are learning all about 1/2, 1/4 using containers and blue water!

Finding Quarters

Today in Maths Ruth's Tui group practiced sharing in quarters.  We shared our pizza muffins cookies an juice between 4 people so everyone had an equal share.  We each got 1/4.

Fun at the Beach

We spent the afternoon at the beach practising skills for the athletics.

'ar' Word Family

Our sound group are learning about the word family 'ar'. We wrote our words on the outside blackboard. These are some of the words that we made.
bar
car
far
jar
tar
star
shark
dark
park
arm
farm