NIGHT NOISES

This week we read this piece of writing by Joy Watson. We talked about the verbs the author used to make the writing descriptive. We then wrote about the noises that are made while we're asleep. We tried to use descriptive verbs.
We published our writing on the ipads.

Night Noises

In the night

Cats fight...

Spitting, scratching, hissing, howling

Chasing, racing, hunting, prowling...

Every night.

In the dark

Dogs bark...

One will start, the rest reply,

Shouting dog news to the sky...

When it's dark.

While we sleep

Hedgehogs creep...

Snuffling, snorting as they pass,

Making pathways through the grass...

While we're asleep.

FLOWER SHOW & PET DAY

We had a very busy and creative morning. We made colourful sand saucers, vaseline saucers and amazing models using fruit and vegetables. Mrs Davies thought our vaseline saucer petal designs were great. Some of us used our learning about symmetry in maths in our patterns.

Breeze has written this story about her day.

On Friday it was our Flower Show and Pet Day. We made vaseline and sand saucers. I made a pattern with petals for my vaseline saucer. I made a pattern with flowers for my sand saucer.
We made fruit and vegetable models. We made ladybugs, frogs, pigs and racing cars. We used apples, grapes, carrots, potatoes and cucumbers.
We made gingerbread men and we got to eat them at home. They were yummy. They tasted delicious.
I liked the lamb and the goldfish. I liked feeding the lamb because it was fun.
The lamb jumped, the goldfish swam and the dogs barked. The guinea pigs squeaked. Two rabbits ran away and everybody chased them.

                                          Breeze

ACTION WORLD

We had a fantastic time at Action World. In our writing we have used verbs and adjectives to describe one activity we did.

I zoomed down the water slide and it was fast. The water splashed on my face. It felt weird.
              Zara

I climbed the steep stairs to the top and zoomed down the bouncy slide. It was very fast.  It made me scared when I went up in the air.
               Kaitlin

I zoomed down the water slide and bounced into the water at the end. The water was freezing. It splashed over me.
              AJ

I climbed up the hill to the water slide. I slid down. It was fun. I was covered in water,    
           Vaughan

The water slide was slippery. When I slid down I could see the cars, slide and trapeze. I zoomed down very, very fast. At the bottom it was cold so I got out.
                Franky

All Black Blackout Day

We wanted to give our support to the All Blacks and enjoyed dressing in black. We were so proud of them when they won the World Cup!

More Awards

Congratulations to our latest Room 2 award winners.

Franky and Zara

Kaitlin and AJ

Stream Investigation

On Friday we joined Room 3 to walk up the School Road bush track to look at the stream. We looked carefully to see what creatures were living in the stream. We measured the temperature of the water and it was 16 degrees. We didn't see any rubbish in the stream which was good because when we looked at the stream by school there was a lot of rubbish in it.
After we had looked at the stream Gareth showed us rat, possum and stoat traps.

AWARDS

Congratulations to our successful Cross Country runners -Angela, Jahrell, Calais and Franky!

Congratulations also to our latest  Merit certificate winners!

 

Vaughan and Breeze

Nikara and Mark

    

A BUSY FIRST WEEK OF TERM

                                                       
On Thursday 15th October we took part in the New Zealand Shake-out. 
We practised  'Drop, Cover, Hold.'

 

After morning tea we received a surprise visit from Mark the manager at Countdown, We were very lucky because Countdown gave us a huge container of dominoes. There were so many, we sorted them and gave some to Rooms 0, 1 and 3.  They also gave us bottles of water, some delicious cakes and a crate of yummy apples.

    

THANK YOU COUNTDOWN!

October is 'Save Kiwi Month'

 

We decided to be part of the Great Kiwi Morning Tea and  raise some money for this worthy cause.

Thank you to all those parents who made batches of biscuit dough for us to make our Kiwi shaped biscuits. Rooms 2 & 3 raised $150 from the biscuits that we made and sold.

Kiwi really need our help. In unmanaged areas, we’re losing kiwi at a rate of up to 2% per year. That’s about 27 birds being killed every week by pests and predators. If we didn’t do anything,  we could lose kiwi in the wild within a couple of generations. There is lots of great work going on around the country to make sure this doesn’t happen, which is why our participation in the Great Kiwi Morning Tea was  important. –  The money raised will help with programmes like predator trapping, Operation Nest Egg, monitoring kiwi health and advocacy and education. All of which are keeping kiwi alive and well. 
By all coming together and doing what we can, we know that the future of kiwi will be secure.

JUMP ROPE

We had a great time doing Jump Rope on the last day of Term Three. We showed the parents the skills we had learned. The school raised $558.10. This money goes to the NZ Heart Foundation.

           

READING RESPONSES

We are becoming more skilled at doing our reading responses on "Explain Everything' on the ipads.

SPRING

We walked around the school and looked for signs of spring. We are lucky to have kowhai trees in our grounds and the tui love them.
We have been learning to use verbs to make our writing more descriptive.

We are also learning to search for an image and  add it to

our writing on 'Explain Everything.' 

                          

                                      

MORE SCIENCE...

This week we have carried out some more light experiments.

We pulled the curtains in the whare kai to make it dark.
Next we  aimed our torches at the blank side of a CD.
We found that a rainbow reflected onto the white wall.

The white light from the  torch is made up of seven colours. The CD separates the white light into the seven colours. They then reflect onto the wall. 

A CD is made of aluminium and is covered with a clear coat of plastic. There are ridges in the metal which the light reflects off.

We also put a mirror in a shallow tray of water and saw again the colours of the rainbow reflected on our ceiling.

Measurement

This term we have been learning to order and compare objects by length, mass and capacity.

This week we measured and compared objects by capacity.

 We estimated how many cups each container would hold, then measured carefully.

Our group is measuring how many cubes would fit in each container.

Mere is counting how many teddy bears fir in the container.