Lexia Heroes

Today at Celebration Assembly Oliver, Nathaniel, Darin, Chase and Jacob got certificates for completing levels in their Lexia programme.  They are working so hard on Lexia.  Great work boys!

River Rapids Ride

Today we read a book Called River Rapids Ride. The water slide looked so cool so we decided to recreate the slide. It's no wonder Luke was scared, look at all those bends and twirls!

Facts About Tornadoes

Riding the Skateboard Ramps

This week one of the Reading groups in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei read a book called "Riding the Skateboard Ramps."
They created their own skateboard parks using play dough.

Reading for Information

The Kakapo Reading Group in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei have been learning to how we can read to find information and facts. This week they have been learning about the Sun.

Buddy Reading

We are very lucky in Te Ope Ruaraki. Each morning some wonderful seniors come down and read with us, they are helping us to get better at reading. We love it when they come and read with us. 

First Flight

Today The Very Hungry Caterpillar read a story called First Flight. Before we opened the book we had a think about the words we might find in the story. It was fun finding the words as we read. The story was about a boy called Kel who was going on a plane all by himself. After we read the story, we decided to draw a plane and write down some feelings we thought we might feel if we were to go on a plane by ourselves. 

Let us know what you think of our work.

Akeilah, Sophia, Gracie, Liam and Raquel.

Seat Belts

Cody, Raquel and Akeilah have been reading about Seat Belts.  They made these fabulous posters today after they had read the text to show all the things that they know about seat belts and their importance.  They have been learning how to make notes of important information as they read.

Investigating Insulation in Reading

Some of our Reading groups in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei are learning how they can use their reading skills to investigate science concepts.  This week the Kakapo group have been reading and learning about insulation.

Kakapo Reading Group.

We read a text with a science experiment.  It involved wrapping bottles with different things to see what kept the water inside the warmest (what was the best at insulating the bottle).
On Tuesday we all made a hypothesis about what type of insulating material would be the best.
Today with Mrs Hansen's help we carried out the experiment.

Each jar was filled with hot tap water and then wrapped in a type of insulating.
We took the temperature of the water at the start before we wrapped the jar, and then we came back an hour later to take the temperature again.

Writing down the temperatures.

Measuring the temperature of the water.

This is what we found out:

Treasure Maps

On Monday we read a book called Treasure Island. We decided to make treasure maps. We drew them on paper first. After that we stained them with tea and coffee to make them look old. Last of all we burnt the edges with the help of our teacher. We think they look awesome, what do you think?

By Kobe and Kaisa

Using Explain Everything in Reading

We have been learning how to use Explain Everything in our Reading programme.
This week Mrs Jones groups in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei created these.

Zara's group read 2 texts about life jackets this week:


Jordan's group were learning about compound words:

Jed's group read 2 texts about fingerprints this week: