Mar 18, 2019 | Wētā - Year 4 blog
DAD’S DAY
What a great day Dad’s Day was last Friday. After the school shared some singing – and we sadistically enjoyed listening to the Dads try and get their mouths around some tongue twisters – we went back to our classes for special activities.
In our class, the Dads joined us for some “Minute-to-Win-It” challenges (cracker face, cup stacker, and chopstick challenge). The Dads helped train up the students in their group and provided encouragement when it was time for the competitive challenge. Following that, the best part: getting the Dads to give the challenges a try! Thanks for coming along Dads (and Dad equivalents!), and for giving us some laughs!
Speak up Dads!
Sophie’s dad may have sprained a facial muscle.
Doing her best Walking Dead impression
Dad and daughter trying to use the bridge of the nose as…well, a bridge.
Employing every facial muscle to full effect but facing the obstacle of cracker dust in your eye.
Demonstrating to the class his pyramid scheme and how you can start earning money from home.
Great chopstick skills, terrible meal
Good luck telling your chiropractor why you’ve made an appointment!
Barely suppressed competitiveness.
Smell the testosterone!
SCIENCE
We’ve continued our focus on solids, liquids and gases.
We’ve been learning to make predictions, test those predictions, and discuss our results.
Mar 15, 2019 | Kiwi – Year 1 Blog
Beautiful singing welcomed our Dad’s and families into school this morning.
We then showed our Dad’s some of the fun we have in a day.
We played with feathers, fly swats, ping pong balls and our parachute.
Mar 14, 2019 | Kiwi – Year 1 Blog
In Art we have been investigating facial proportions and experimenting with pencil sketches, crayon drawing and iPad art.
Have a look at us creating our self-portraits on the iPads!
Mar 13, 2019 | Kiwi – Year 1 Blog
We all had a fantastic day at the Beach last week!
We have started to paint some beach landscapes to display our writing. We will let you know when they are finished so that you can come in and check them out!
Feb 28, 2019 | Katipo - Year 3 blog
In PE the children have been learning to work as a team with various team challenges. This week the challenge was get the hula hoops around the circle one clockwise the other anticlockwise without letting go of hands. Some of the learning was how to communicate positively and not to get frustrated with people. We did a great job.
Feb 28, 2019 | Katipo - Year 3 blog
We have been learning all the spelling patterns for the long o sound. Check out our rhymes we made up to help us learn the different spelling patterns.
Feb 28, 2019 | Tui - Year 2 blog
Our Science topic this term is Light and Dark and we have been looking at what causes Shadows.
We have already learned that a shadow is made when something blocks the light.
We had fun drawing around toy animals…
…and seeing the best way to make them stand so we got interesting shadows.
We found them pretty hard to draw around.
And it was really hard to keep our bodies out of the light as we drew.
It was such a nice way to spend a Science lesson!
Feb 27, 2019 | Wētā - Year 4 blog
HI PARENTS,
Let me help you get a visual on class Kotare, 2019!
MATHS
Surely there’s no better way to learn about measurement than to actually measure things!
SCIENCE
We’ve been learning about states of matter (solids, liquids and gases). Here we are testing predictions we made about which solids would melt quickest in the sun.
LIFE EDUCATION
Always popular, we had our annual visit from the Life Education van. Led by Chris, with the help of Harold the Giraffe, the students had some rich discussions around friendship.
Feb 25, 2019 | Moa - Year 6 blog
We learned to program facial expressions on the EV3 robots!
Feb 25, 2019 | Moa - Year 6 blog
No, not bring a reptile to school day – but mathematical problem-solving in the Parera Class!
Objective: Make the frogs and toads swap places.
Move all the green frogs so they swap places with all the brown toads.
Use the fewest number of moves possible.
Rules:
• Only one frog or toad may sit on a lilypad at any time
• Only one frog or toad may move at a time
• A frog or toad can only move in one direction, towards the end it is going to. No backwards moves!
• A frog or toad may move in only two ways;
o Slide onto an empty lilypad next to the one it is currently sitting on
o Jump onto an empty lilypad over one different kind of creature;
A frog can jump over one toad, a toad can jump over one frog.
We have some smart thinkers in Parera Class – we managed to solve this problem with 5 frogs and 5 toads!
Feb 25, 2019 | Moa - Year 6 blog
Year 6 have been learning how to begin programming the Lego EV3 . Before we could begin, however, we had to follow instructions to construct a robot.
Completed EV3 robots
Feb 25, 2019 | Kiwi – Year 1 Blog
We have been so lucky to have Harold, the Giraffe, and his friend Chris visit us from Life Education Trust.
Harold has been helping us to recognise and acknowledge feelings such as sadness, happiness and anger. Harold reminded us of the important qualities of friendship and he showed us what it looks like to be a good friend.
We love it when Harold visits and we are already looking forward to seeing him next year!
