Hero Certificates

Congratulations to Kahu, Treyvon, Kobe, Liam and Adhithi who received Hero Certificates at Celebration Assembly yesterday.
Lots of great reasons - choosing the right attitude, using Learning Powers and People Powers, and outstanding progress in learning.
We are so proud of you all.

Battle War

This morning in Te Māuru-e-taki-nei a group of boys decided to get creative with the rods and blocks and make a battle ground.  It was great to see the collaboration and co-operation as they worked together without any problems.

The battle ground

The sling shots

The defence towers

A sling shot tank

The fortress

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.

Congratulations

Congratulations to all these wonderful students who were presented with a Sam Smiler badge at Celebration Assembly yesterday.  Consistently using their People Powers and Learning Powers - you guys are awesome!

Fire

In Te Māuru-e-taki-nei we are talking about being Firewise.
This week we talked about how fire can be helpful for cooking, lighting, heating, celebrating and burning rubbish.
Here are a couple of stories.

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: