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

Give me half

Ruth's maths groups have been learning about halves.  We read the book 'Give me half' then practiced sharing things with a partner so we each got half.

Cream it For kids

Cream it for Kids MacDonald House Fundraiser

The Student Council are organising a fundraiser for Ronald McDonald house. This will be on Friday the 31st October. The children at Worser Bay School will be able to pre order a tip top small tub of vanilla ice cream for $3.00. This can be done through the schools new online order system or money to base group teachers. Orders need to be in by Wednesday 29th October. Please advise your base group teacher if your child requires a non dairy option.

We are in the planning phase of our super hero spider web engineering. Watch this space !

How to Make a Shrinking Potion

The Shrinking Potion

Is there someone you would like to shrink?

If so you will need some sparkles from a blue ladybird.

White powder from a vanishing zombie.

A fragment of tooth from the Lochness Monster.

An eyeball from a Green Tree monster.

On the night before Halloween you will need to gather in a silent cave with the ingredients for the potion.

Sit in a circle around a fire in the cave with a frying pan and a round table.

When the frying pan is about to explode from heat, add all of the ingredients.

Mix them together, they will go cold. Then put your hand in the potion and you will be able to make a bubble.

Put the bubble into a bottle.

After 1 year your potion will be ready to use.

You will need to put it into someone’s cup of tea and wait for 2 minutes after they have drunk it. Then they will shrink to the size of a grain of sand.

Good luck with your shrinking potion.

By Danny's Literacy Group

Parent Morning Tea

Today we held a morning tea for the parents that helped out before, during and after the Arts Celebration. A representative from each base group stood up to thank the wonderful parents for all of the help.

ALL: Good morning Parents and welcome to our Morning Tea.

Seniors: We are now going to say our food karakia

Juniors: We have a few thank you’s to say

Gemma: Thank you for helping us design our costumes.

Tommy: Thank you for painting the boxes for our set.

Molly: Thank you for helping us create beautiful faces for the show.

Chester: Thank you for all your help backstage.

Lucie: Thank you for taking fantastic photos of us.

Gretel: Thanks for the help with the dance choreography.

Charlie T: Thanks for helping us with all the beautiful dance moves.

Hugo: Thanks for helping us make our costumes.

ALL: Now please enjoy your Morning Tea from all of us at Worser Bay School.

Thank you morning tea for all the parents that helped out before, during and after the Arts Celebration

Jump Jam- We have been enjoying dancing during our break times

Jump Jam from Matariki on Vimeo.

An afternoon at the beach

On Wednesday afternoon the weather was perfect, so the children from Tautoru went down to the beach to build sculptures and sandcastles.

The Sleepover

More photos from the year 3 and 4 Sleepover. The children were awesome. Let's do it again next year!

Garden Boxes

Planting has begun in our garden beds. We have planted a lemon tree, feijoas, sunflowers, and peas.

Year 3 and 4 Sleepover

The Year 3 and 4 Sleepover was a chance for the children to grow some independence and reconnect with classmates from the past who will be mingling and mixing again in 2015.

Year 3 and 4 Sleepover from Matariki on Vimeo.

Thursday Fun Day

Dress up as your favourite character on Thursday because it is our

 last week of term. Let's have some fun! Ally, Wilbur and Asha

Pikelets

Today Danny's Literacy groups made pikelets. We are learning about explanation writing and we ate pikelets and thought about what they taste like and their texture. Then we did this shared writing to try and explain what a pikelet is:

Pikelets

Do you like pancakes? Well if you do then you are going to like pikelets as well.
A pikelet is a bit like a pancake. The are soft and a bit squishy. They have milk, flour, an egg and sugar in them. While they are cooking in the frying pan you get a delicious buttery smell. When they are cooked you can put butter and jam on them. The butter melts into the pikelet and they almost dissolve in your mouth as you are eating them.
Pikelets! If you haven't tried them, you should!

By Danny's Literacy Group

We are sharing our reflections about the Arts Celebration!

Watch My Latest Lesson!

Click here to view my lesson about Evie's Place Value.

Create and share amazing video tutorials with the free Educreations iPad app:
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Hokey Pokey

Last week we made some Hokey Pokey. We put in 5 tablespoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of golden syrup. Then we brought it to the boil and boiled it for 2 minutes. We added 2 teaspoons of baking soda. The mixture changed colour and bubbled and frothed up. We left it for 2 hours to harden. It was yummy, crunchy and had a rough texture. 
By Danny's Base Group

Fizz Inflators

We had great fun on Thursday blowing up balloons using vinegar and baking soda.  The acid vinegar reacts with the alkaline baking soda to produce carbon dioxide bubbles.  Because gases require a lot more space than liquid so the carbon dioxide fills the bottle then moves into the balloon and inflates it.  You might like to try this at home and see how varying the amounts of baking soda and vinegar affects the amount the balloons inflate (a word of warning - we had a couple explode!)

Imagine A World- The Photos!

Arts Celebration- Imagine a World from Matariki on Vimeo.

Making the most of the spring sunshine.

This Ruth and Danny took their literacy groups outside and did our Art Celebration reflections in the sun.  

Imagine A World Trailer

Imagine A world from Matariki on Vimeo.

Notice about the arts celebration:
Dear parents and caregivers,
The whole school will be at Scots from 9.30am - 2.30pm on Monday 1st September to practise for the arts celebration. If you need to pick up your child early please come to Scots and check in with their base group teacher (we will be in the hall).
Please drop your children off as normal at Worser bay school before 8.55am on Monday 1st September and we will travel by bus to Scots.
If you have not returned your child's permission slip with the payment of $5 to the office please do so by Monday morning.
thanks again,
Chrissy

Arts Celebration poster

The Arts celebration is here…get your tickets from the office now…

Rehearsal

We are preparing for the Arts Celebration. We had a run-through this afternoon!

Message from the office: We are very happy for you to order your tickets for the Arts Celebration by email and pay for themon line.  You will still need to collect your tickets from us at the office but it will save you waiting in a queue!!

If you decide to use this option, please email:

cbrett@worserbay.school.nz

Don't forget the ticket payments go into the general school account:

ASB 123478 0039493 00