Fun Activities have Begun

Monday - Water Fight

 

Room 7 and 8 Assembly

                                                           

Dinosaur and Yellow  Bird characters from our assembly.

Dinosaur Environments - Lots of fun making and sharing these

Rotation in the Spring Sunshine

Great persistence with cartwheels.

Duffy Books

Regina Scheck came to our Duffy assembly and talked to us. She gave us our Duffy books and then we got to enjoy them.

Right Choice Draw - Mr Whippy Ice Creams

Yuuuuum!

Kids Can Jackets

A great day for our jackets to arrive! 50 km per hour winds and 11 degrees with light showers.

A big thank you to Kids Can!

The Paraolympics start this Friday. Check out this awesome link to the "Yes I Can" song.

Talk to your child about the hurdles that these athletes have had to overcome and how you can achieve anything you set your mind to with the right attitude.

Yes I Can

STEM Challenge Week 4

Our STEM challenges this week are the maths week challenges.

Week 3 Stem Challenge

Make a device to light the Olympic Flame. (without the flames)

Week 2 Stem Challenge

Write down your number plate. How many equations can you write using some or all of the numbers?
e.g. ABC 648               6+4+8 = 18                8-6=2

Term 3 Week 1

Stem Challenge

Make a life preserver for an action figure or doll that is on a sinking ship.
Think about and experiment with things that will float.

Week 9 Stem Challenge

Make a parachute.

Fly off next Monday.

Stem Challenge Week 8

The answer is 7, what is the question?How many questions can you ask? They don't all have to be maths equations.

Harvest Feast

We had a great soup lunch in Room 7 and 8 as part of our Matariki celebration.

Week 7 Stem Challenge

Make a musical instrument using recycled materials


    

Week 6 STEM Challenge

Our Pilots ready for the big fly off

Use an  A4  sized piece of paper to make a paper plane. Who can fly their plane the furtherest?

Well done to Natasha who followed the brief and made a Lego car propelled by a balloon.

Week 5 STEM Challenge

Well done to Natasha who followed the brief and made a Lego car propelled by a balloon.

Use a balloon to power a Lego vehicle.
You may use: Lego (or the like)
                       1 balloon
                       String or cellotape

Bring it to school next Tuesday to have a 'race-off".

Thanks Cassidy for emailing me a photo of your tower. It looks awesome. I hope you enjoyed the challenge.

Week 4 Challenge

Build the highest construction that you can using only cards.

Take a photo of you with it and email it to us. Our email addresses are on the school website. Due next Monday.

You could try this with plastic cups and see how tall your tower can be using only 20 cups.

STEM

From next week there will be a weekly STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths) Challenge. Find it here on our blog, work on it together. Have fun and bring it to school on the following Monday for sharing.
Watch this space.