Fitness

This week our fitness rotation has been strength and agility. We go to the various playgrounds around the school and practice our skills.

Salute!

Our class enjoys playing a fun game called Salute. Two players receive a card which they put on their foreheads without looking at. A third player decides if the round will be addition, subtraction, multiplication or division and says the answer to what the two cards total. The player who guesses what their card is first wins.

End of term

Out of this world, our new unit. We researched what the planets looked like and sketched and coloured our own solar systems. 

Reading our PPP letters. Thank you for the lovely letters you wrote to your children about their recent PPPs. The children thoroughly enjoyed reading them. 

End of term boys' picnic. Today the boys had their classroom picnic complete with animated videos and computer games. 

Happy birthday to Tobey!!

Extra reason for Tobey to celebrate today. He was awarded the CBS celebration award for our class for consistently demonstrating the CBS core values. Well done Tobey!

PPPs

Today we practised what we will share for our PPPs on Wednesday.   We look forward to sharing our learning with our families.

Google drawings

Today we learnt more about how to use Google Drawings. We looked at the work of Roy Lichtenstein and how he used colour and words to create powerful visual images. We brainstormed a large list of onomatopoeia words that we could use for our art.  After we created our picture we posted it to our blog, so be sure to check our out blogs to see our cool artwork!

Here is a link to the Google Drawing lesson.  HERE

Measurement

This week we have been working with measurement.  On Friday we had fun playing a game using measurement.  In groups of 4 we took turns choosing a card and naming a member of our group who we would measure.  We had to each estimate what the answer would be.  Then we measured the length and whoever was the closest won the card.













  

  

Anzac Day

This week we are learning a lot about Anzac Day as we look ahead to celebrating the 100th anniversary on Saturday. Everyone is bringing something to share that they have seen or heard about Anzac Day.

Jordan brought in a huge book full of photos and facts. He also brought some Anzac biscuits for us to share. Parinaz found some interesting information in the newspaper. James shared some fascinating facts that he discovered. Josh brought in some photos of his dad's trip to Gallipoli.

Buddy Science

Milky way experiment.  We filled a small tray with milk.  Then we added a few drops of food colouring into the milk in separate places.  After we added a drop of dishwashing liquid, we used a toothpick to swirl the colours in the milk.  It made beautiful patterns.

Our next experiment was to make paperclip helicopters.  We had to follow directions to fold and cut the paper and add a paper clip to make our helicopters work.  We had fun letting them go from as high as we could reach and watching them spin to the ground.

Our Art This Term

In Term One we have completed two pieces of artwork. The first one was to sketch our team bird, the kakapo. We also had to sketch a background of New Zealand native plants and then colour it with pastels. Once we were finished, and had cut and mounted it for presentation, we had to self assess it against our success criteria. We are very proud of our finished work. 

Our second piece of art was a tiki or marae for our new theme, Mana Te Ao. First we had to find a picture on the internet that we wanted to draw. Next we saved the image to a Google doc so that we would be able to find the same image again. We then sketched our image making sure to add detail. We coloured using pastels, colouring pencils or jovies, depending on which would work best for our drawing. We printed off our original image to mount alongside our finished artwork. Our next step will be to self assess our work against the success criteria that we came up with for our project. 

James, MacKenzie and Andy are very proud to have their work on display in the school entrance. 

More congratulations!!

Congratulations for great work, super attitudes and amazing basic facts results!!  Congrats on achieving 100% on basic facts James and Michelle!! Our first of the year. 

We may have had some photo bombers. 😄