It was great to see so many families at the Home & School 'Big Breakfast' this morning.
I did manage to say 'Hi' to quite a few families before I was roped in to cook the bacon.

Happy 8th Birthday today Vianne. We know you will have a great day. :)

Congratulations Neirin, 'Player of the Year' for his rugby team.

I wonder how long the linking cubes are??
How can we find out.....

The cubes were from the wall to the door ....

Patterns

Jo brought in the biggest recorder in the South Island to show us.
It is worth about $12,000.00!

We wondered how she could reach up to play it. But it has a pipe that reaches down.

Jo played a tune, and Lily guessed correctly that it was 'The Teddy Bears Picnic.'
We played 'Hot Cross Buns' together.

Thanks for bringing it in, Jo!

The children worked together to problem solve the answer to this question.
Well done to everyone!

Happy 8th Birthday for today, Taylor. We hope you had a good day.

On Friday we were so busy at Discovery time no one took any photos!
The children worked on their dioramas, weeded the garden, played volleyball, and looked in the box at the 'glow in the dark' things.
The dioramas are looking spectacular! Some children still have some bits and pieces to complete but that won't take long.

This week we got some new multi link cubes for our maths.
We wondered how many .....
We were thinking of efficient ways to work it out.

Sorting them into colours ....

Keeping a tally of how many ...

Grouping into 5's and 10's ....

Joining the groups together .... and we had 50 of each colour!


We found out we had 499 cubes altogether because there were only 49 orange ones.

Today we wrote some 3,4,3,4 Poems about 'Jack & the Beanstalk'.
We hope you enjoy them.

Cruel, evil giant

Lived in a castle

Killed Jack’s father

Took all his stuff.

             Cesar

One hungry giant

One beanstalk growing up

Up went Jack

To the tippy top.

             Eve

Stinky bad breath

Tired fearless rude giant

Brown rotten teeth

Fee fi fo fum!

             Lincoln

Rude evil giant

Stole Jack’s father’s stuff

Small rotten teeth

Jack’s mother was worried.

             Kiana

Dragon like breath

Slow like a sloth

Rude grumpy strong

Fee fi fo fum!

             Caezar

Suspicious mean giant

Knew about Jack’s father

In a castle

With his wife – lonely.

             Dennis

Big noisy giant

Took Jack’s father’s money

Greedy fat rude

Fee fi fo fum!

             Ella

In a castle

The giant is mean

Big hairy legs

Fat, hungry for food.

             Neirin

Cruel rude giant

Lived in a castle

Ate Jack’s Dad

Got all his stuff!

             Leo

Rude mean giant

Fe fi fo fum

Look out Jack

Coming to get you!

             Zoē

Big fearless giant

Lived in a castle

Chomps on food

Big sharp rotten teeth.

             Kadin

Rude mean giant

Stole Jack’s father’s money

Jack climbed up

Took back his stuff.

             Zade

 Suspicious cruel giant

Breath like a dragon

Didn’t notice Jack

Slow like a sloth.

             Ashveer

In a castle

The mean giant lived

Counting his money

Fee fi fo fum!

             Frank

Big rotten teeth

Slow, steady after Jack

Climbing down, down

He fell down dead!

             Vianne

Slow mean giant

Fee fi fo fum

Look out Jack

I will eat you!

             Lily

Rude mean giant

Fee fi fo fum

Looking for Jack

Climbing down the beanstalk.

             Tolson

Suspicious fearless giant

Lived in a castle

Jack climbed up

Fee fi fo fum.

             Taylor

Mean rude giant

Big long rotten teeth

Jack climbed up

Jack chopped the beanstalk.

             Zade

On Friday during Discovery time we had a visit from Evan, our librarian, Karen's son. He is an expert at making models so he had some great suggestions for our dioramas - he had even been to 'Creative Junk' and he brought some resources to share with us. Thanks Evan!

We had a space snack - as suggested by astronaut, Chris Hadfield - a tortilla with peanut butter and honey. Your child will be able to tell you why we didn't have bread!

We were also invited to watch the dress rehearsal for the Senior Kapahaka's performance. They will be performing at the Horncastle Arena on Tuesday night. Tino pai!

Wow, a cool model of the space shuttle, Discovery.

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We all enjoyed our visit from Science Alive today.
Special thanks to Lily's Mum, Rosa for her help. We were lucky to have Karen and two senior students to help us out too. Ka pai.

The sun

The children named the planets and 'hung' them in the correct order

We looked at constellations

Having a 'go' with craters

The moon  orbits the earth

Which planet is?

Or this?

We found out some interesting facts

Why is Venus the hottest planet?

Everyone is interested in Jupiter's red spot

Some stars are hotter than others!

We could easily see hoe the moon orbits Earth and Earth orbits the sun

Having a 'go' with craters

Everyone made their own Milky Way.

What do we need in space?
On Friday we are going to have a space snack....

The Moon Box was very interesting.
Check out the moon each night ...