Maths Week

This week has been maths week. The Star Boys, Room 1 and 2 have been on a maths trail and making pictures from shapes. It has been great finding maths all around the school.

Sports Coaches Slow Mo

Recycle

Today Lesley came and shared lots of interesting facts about food waste. Wow we certainly do waste a lot of food as a country. Lesley gave us lots of tips on how to recycle our food and all our plastic rubbish.


Did you know bread is the number 1 food that people throw away? Lesley told us about the website we can visit called love food hate waste.  Here is the link - https://lovefoodhatewaste.co.nz/

Celebrating the letter Rr

We made some rockets using fizzing tablets put into film canisters filled with water. When discussing the science behind the launch we were very impressed with how the children could make connections between previous science experiments and this one. 

Here is the video of our rocket launch. We sang the alphabet song while we waited patiently for the chemical reaction to do its thing and launch the rocket.

Yum! Rice Bubbles went down a treat on an icy Winter's day.

Under the Umbrella

We couldn't resist using the rain as inspiration for our writing today. We went outside and listened carefully to the sounds we could hear and wrote this wonderful poem.

Celebrating the Letter Bb

On Friday afternoon we made butterfly masks, bracelets, built with blocks, blew big beautiful bubbles, read books to buddies and had a brilliant time.

Our Science this week was based on bubbles. Thank you so much to Bec Ansley for supplying the bubble sticks and mixture so that we could create beautiful big bubbles. The squeals of delight were wonderful. Ask your children to explain about surface tension and evaporation. You will be surprised what they know.

We ate Baked Beans to celebrate the letter of the week. Some people had never tried them and really liked them. Don't be surprised if the tamariki ask for beans for breakfast tomorrow.

Ii is for ice

We froze a lot of rubber insects inside an enormous block of ice. It was interesting investigating how we would get them out. The children decided that they could ask Mr Lamb if we could borrow hammers and everyone (including Mrs Lill and Mrs Keats) had fun cracking it.

Roman brought a slushy maker along to school. It was so much fun watching the ice come out looking like snow. It was "cool" eating it too.