Monday, 25 July 2016

100 days smarter!

Today Kiwi and Tui syndicates celebrated 100 days of school.
All year we have been counting the days, using this as valuable maths learning.
Today children bought in their collections of 100 'things' to share with the class. What imaginative ideas!
 Everyday at school we add a link to a paper chain, today we spent time measuring our 100 days chain.
After morning tea the children were split across the syndicate getting stuck-in to some exciting 100 days activities.
Check out the photos below.


Our chain is shorter than the rocket ship

It is longer than the pole

It is almost twice as long as the orange slide

It is longer than the monkey bars

Would you believe it? It is the same length as the steps!

We had to work together to carry it very carefully around the school            

Jayden with his collection of 100 paper planes

100 toy cars

100 giant jelly beans

10 towers of 10 Lego bricks - 100 pieces

100 pieces of pasta

100 stickers on a 100 days hat

100 thumb and toe prints

Ladybird with 100 spots

100 pieces of pasta

100 beads

Maya with 100 stones from her garden

Early morning tea, with 100's and 1000's of course!
If children were in Room 7 they had to imagine what they would look like when they were 100 years old...


What a great day!

Monday, 27 June 2016

Sausage sizzle

Thank you all for supporting our fundraising efforts.  
Our sausage sizzle was very successful.  
A special thanks to all our helpers on the day.  
The children enjoyed delivering the sausages across the school.

We sold around 350 sausages and raised $564.00. 
Our helpful builder will now spend some time investigating what is the best option for getting our friendship bench.  Watch this space!
Thank you so much helpers!

That is a lot of bread!

Every class enjoyed a sausage.

A yummy lunch on a cold day

Sausages!

Sunday, 29 May 2016

Wibble Wobble, Albatross!

Today Jayden and Millie read the story Wibble wobble, Albatross.  A short story about the life at sea of an Albatross and what happens when it comes back to land.


The last page is a diagram showing the 3 metre wingspan of the Royal Albatross.  
Jayden and Millie were set a challenge - to find out what 3 metres looked like.  
Jayden had used the metre rulers before, they worked together to solve the problem.  
Check out their diagram - great work!


Thursday, 19 May 2016

Cross country

Yesterday the whole school went to Redwood Park to run our cross country.
We had been practicing running so it was great to finally get to race day!
Everyone did a great job. 
 It was hard work but all the children cheered and encouraged each other. 
The children all showed great RED values!

Year One girls at the start line




Year One boys at the start line







Thursday, 12 May 2016

It's all about maths!

Here is the problem:

The children drew pictures and used teddies to solve the problem for themselves.
This is how some of us solved the problem
Jayden wrote - 11+1+0+0=12




We discovered that there were a lot of ways to solve the problem.  
Some children shared the teddies evenly between the tables, some children left some tables empty, some children wrote the number sentence to represent their solution.

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

Let's get creative!

During our inquiry we have been striving to answer the question What changes, why and how do we respond to it?  At the moment we are focusing on thinking creatively to come up with a lot of ideas to make a change in our school.

We brainstormed all that we knew about being creative.


We had a chance to be creative with lots of different equipment.  
Check out our creativity! 

A fishing rod

Glasses



Hannah's freezer


Tanner made a camera
















Josiah's cross-bow



Millie and Jayden worked together


Deepika made Captain America