Life Caravan

Today we went to see Harold at the Life Education caravan. We found out we need kai, water, be safe, aroha, moe, shelter and exercise to be happy.
To be safe we need to wear our seat belts, wear our life jackets and have an adult watching us when we swim. When we cross the road we need to use the crossing and wait for the cars to stop before we go and we need a adult to help us.
We love Harold and he shook our hand with his mouth. We are looking forward to visiting Harold again tomorrow.

oil and water

We conducted an experiment with oil and water today. We found out that the oil kept rising to the top of the water.  We expected it to fizz over when we put the fizzing tablets in but the bubbles just got caught up in the oil and even when we took the lid off it did not overflow.
When we watched a clip about animals being affected by oil spills we felt really sad. We think we need to be really careful with how we treat our environment and do our best to look after it.

library opening

Today we opened our school library. It was celebrated with a ribbon cutting ceremony, blessing and parade of the children dressed as book characters. Room 6 children came and read with us and we really enjoyed their stories. We hope they come back another day to read with us.

Waka stories

We have been using the i pads to publish our stories.

by Haylin

By Waekamania

By Noah

Floating and sinking

We have been learning about floating and sinking. It was exciting predicting and exploring which things would float or sink. We shared our ideas why this happened and came up with some fascinating ideas. We made some boats from tinfoil and had a competition to see which boat could hold the lost marbles. It was a lot of fun. Click onto the floating and sinking link to watch our clip.

Last week we were lucky to have a visit from the "Share the Road" forestry people. We found out that trucks have lots of blind spots and if we don't see the driver in his/her mirror she/he can't see us. It was lots of fun climbing up in the big trucks and looking at what the driver could see. We noticed it was really hard to see in the front because the front of the truck was so big. The men told us about when the trucks turned the corners we needed to be careful because sometimes the truck can use more road than a car when it turns. It was a very exciting day. Thank you to the men and the lady truck driver who came to visit our school. We hope you enjoyed your day too!

Our class has been learning how to write reports. At first it was quite hard but  once we learned what the structure of a report it became easier. We had lots of fun finding information and then screen castifying our reports. We hope you enjoy them. Click onto the report and it will open.



Here we are looking for creatures to write reports about. We found a lady bug, a spider and some other interesting bugs.