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:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/educreations-interactive-whiteboard/id478617061?ls=1&mt=8

Sent from my iPad

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

Art Celebration

Trying on costumes for the art celebration that's coming up. And face painting.

We had a great time at swimming today!

Compatible numbers to 100 using an abacus from Gillian Menaker on Vimeo.
The Tuis show how to solve problems using compatible numbers and an abacus

Character descriptions Part 2

Tautoru's character cupboards part 2 on PhotoPeach

Character descriptions

Tautoru's character cupboards part 1 on PhotoPeach

Swimming

Swimming on PhotoPeach

Term 3 has started and we're excited to be back!

A week of Fun

Week O' Fun from Matariki on Vimeo.

Three Bunnies

Fashion Wednesday

Visit from Island Bay School

Last week Island Bay School came to visit Worser Bay School. We performed the haka to them and they performed for us. Then they taught us a waiata.

Fashion Wednesday

Gillian's pandas perform the three little pigs

Pandas do the three little pigs from Gillian Menaker on Vimeo.

Practising our Performance Skills

My Project 19 from Danny Johanson on Vimeo.

Whanau Group Art

Whanau Art from Matariki on Vimeo.

A week of fun!

Next week we are having a week of fun! the fundraising group/fun day group are running it. Monday is Mythical Monday where you can dress up as any creature!!! Tuesday is sausage sizzle day + celebrity day: dress up as your Favourite celebrity and get a sausage!!! Wednesday is Fashion Wednesday: Dress to impress! Thursday is Neon/Disco day: Fluro colors and lots of disco! Friday is P-J day: pj's all around!!!

New Books

New Books

"THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL FUNDRAISING THROUGH THE TUESDAY SAUSAGE SIZZLE.
THIS WEEK THE TEACHERS GOT TO SPEND SOME OF THE MONEY RAISED, AT THE KILBIRNIE BOOK SHOP. THEY HAVE BOUGHT A LOT OF NEW BOOKS FOR OUR LIBRARY AND CLASSROOMS." STUDENT COUNCIL

Check out the student council blog at http://worserbaystudentcouncil.blogspot.co.nz/

Imaginary Worlds

My Imaginary World

by Lizzie

In my imaginary world there lives monkeys  who are small and they can go to the next branch by swinging and holding on with their hands.

There are also fairies who are big and colourful. They can  turn ants into frogs and turn numbers into letters.

Practising Our Dance Skills

We were  dancing to the rhythm of the music. The music was slow so we had to place ourselves in different positions.

We were learning to move in different ways. You don’t have to move your whole body at once.

Maths in the Sun

We did our maths outside because it was a sunny day. 
We drew a robot in our books and then we put a number into the robot and added another number to it and then we found out what came out.

Cody and max use counting back

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/cody-and-max/22672502/?ref=app

Lucie explains her maths strategy

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/lucie-s-maths-problem/22631256/?s=zJDvIX&ref=app

Making 10

My Project 19 from Danny Johanson on Vimeo.

Whanau Group Art

Whanau Group Shape Art from Matariki on Vimeo.

Whanau Group Art

Whanau Group Art from Matariki on Vimeo.

Gemma uses splitting numbers to takeaway

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/gemma-s-maths-123/20166599/?s=deyQdP&ref=app

Maths story problem explanation

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/myacaitlynlucas/22466360/?s=SDQLEp&ref=app

Click on the link to hear how Mya, Lucas and Caitlin worked out their story problem.

Planting

Planting on the beach from Matariki on Vimeo.

Imagination Tuning In from Danny Johanson on Vimeo.

Imagination tuning in

http://vimeo.com/97189333

The monkeys goldilocks and the 3 bears

The monkeys goldilocks and the three bears from Gillian Menaker on Vimeo.

We'll done for running at Eastern Zones

My Project 3 from Christiane Turnbull on Vimeo.

Whanau Group Art

Whanau Group Art from Nic on Vimeo.

The ICT Crew helping Year 3 to log into their Google Apps...

The ICT Crew Helping Year 3 With Google Apps from Matariki on Vimeo.