End of Term Update

Week 10 is upon us!

Over the past few weeks we have been finishing our designs for  Owairaka t-shirts. Here are some of the results.

We inherited one of the sofas from the school office so we worked in groups to create a new layout plan for our class. We can choose where we want to work each day and can show manawanuitanga: persistence, resilience and a love of learning. Most of the class are very good at self-managing when working in our new layout. Feel free to pop in and see us at work this week. Here are some of the draft plans:

Our calendar art is now done. You can view it in our classroom until the end of this week. I will take photos during the week and upload the photos over the holidays. Your child will have brought home a notice about ordering calendars or diaries. Please hold onto this notice until we know the school code for ordering. Here are a couple of photos of our work in progress:

Blended warm and cool colours for our backgrounds.

Sketches showing the cityscapes for our printing blocks.

Have you checked out our maths website page? 

We have our black and white themed disco on Friday morning. Please encourage your child to come dressed to celebrate the end of term.

School finishes at 2pm on Friday.

MAKING SLIME TOGETHER

Captions written by Palak, Carlos and Levi have been added to our photos. 

This group are sorting out their jobs. 

The boys are making  slime under the table tennis table.

Palak poured the cornflour into the bowl.

There is cornflour everywhere!

Dekovyn used a BIG spoon to stir his group's slime.

The slime is sticking to our hands

Too much water makes the slime runny.

The finished product.

Slime Friday

This Friday we are going to make slime. Here is the recipe we will be using to make our slime.

Equipment:

Measuring cups   a plastic bowl  a spoon     container

Ingredients:
1 cup shampoo       1/2 cup cornflour      6 drops food colouring
12 tablespoons water

Here's how to make it:

1. Put shampoo and cornflour in a bowl.
2. Mix well.
3. Add food coloring (optional).
4. Add 2 tablespoons of water and stir. Slowly add more tablespoons of water, stirring well after each one.
5. Knead the slime for around 5 minutes.

GREEN WEEK

Wow! What a busy week we have had!
The week started with a free show about caring for bees.                                                                                                   

Taekwon do finishes after our next session. We have enjoyed learning about a different sport to the usual ones we do. In this photo we were all lined up ready to finish our session. You could have heard a pin drop.

In Maths we have been learning about capacity and volume. It was great to go outside now the sun is shining.

Friday was Green Day and we celebrated by dressing on green or by wearing an animal costume as part of this week's them "M.A.D. About Endangered Animals".

Congratulations to Gina for your wonderful research about polar bears!

COOK ISLAND LANGUAGE WEEK

Last week we celebrated the Cook Island language and culture. We learned how to greet each other in Cook Island Maori, which is very similar to our New Zealand Maori. Did you know that different parts of the Cook Islands speak different dialects of the language?
We were very privileged to have Rua and Pauline visit us on Thursday afternoon to tell us about their beautiful country, show us some dance moves and share some of the famous Cook Island mainus (potato salad) and chop suey with us.

Theatre Group Performance

On Monday we were able to watch Mr Greenfield's Theatre Group perform their version of "The Billy Goats Gruff". The group were amazing and so were we. Look at the manaakitanga we showed during the performance. Kia kaha Room 21 😀

Taekwon Do

We have taekwon do every Tuesday for 6 weeks. This week we worked with the pads. We learned how to slap down, punch and kick down using the pads. We also had to throw the pad to our buddies with one arm like a pizza. That was hard!