Term 4 Week 7

We painted our clay!

A big CONGRATULATIONS to Cooper for his positive attitude and courage to try new things! 

Term 4 Week 6

We have been learning how to sculpt clay. Here are some of our creations below.

Congratulations to Kaiwhaiki for creating an excellent clay sculpture and for his improved work ethic across all curriculum areas.

Term 4 Week 5

We had a sand sculpture competition as part of our Art unit. Check out our creations!

We have been learning all about fractions in Maths, we had to share wafer biscuits between each other. We found it tricky when we had to break our wafer into thirds.
 

Term 4 Week 5

Check out our beans growing in a CD case. We found it interesting that they are all at different stages of growing even though we planted them at the same time. We discussed the reasons why this might have happened and came up with some great ideas!

We gave our caterpillars a haircut!!!

Term 4 Week 4

Check out our Hand Art Sculptures! 

We had to pick a design to paint onto our hand but I already had a design in my mind. We had lots of fun making them, it was really messy though. 

By James 

We had to try and make a mold of our hands, I couldn't feel my hand when it was in the plaster. I decided to paint it like a sky and the grass with some birds. By Zara

I decided to paint mine like the tessellation pattern I created for Maths. I had to mix the paint colours to create the purple and green. By Anastasia

Term 4 Week 3

We have been learning all about co-ordinates so we played a whole class game of battleships. We all worked together in our team and made sure we used effective communication.

Check out how our grass caterpillars are growing!!!

Term 4 Week 2

Olympic Visitor!

Emma Dyke who represented New Zealand in the women’s eight (Rowing) at the Rio Olympics came and spoke to our class today. Room 9 were extremely excited to hear about what it was like to be a part of the Olympics and what it takes to compete at an international level. Emma showed the students some pictures of her time in Rio as well as her uniform and medals she had won. Emma is aiming for the next Olympics in Tokyo,  we will definitely be keeping an eye out for her in the future! 

Term 4 Week 1

We started our unit "Let it Grow" this week. We planted a variety of vegetables for our classroom little garden, a potato in a bucket and Marigolds. On Friday we created our grass or Rye seed caterpillar, we can't wait to watch them grow.