Trip to Expressions with Room 3

On Thursday morning we travelled to Expressions with Room 3 to check out the Evolving universe exhibit. We got to do two activities while we there. Creating galaxy jars with Tina and completing the What am I quiz in the exhibit. We also had time at the end to quickly check out the Lynley Dodd exhibit.

Daily contest - learning to justify

Each morning in Room 1 the students get to discuss a daily contest before we start the day. The students have to choose the challenger that they think would win the contest and justify why they think they would win. This helps them to be creative improve their oral language. It is lots of fun and it is great to see the students debating with each other over who they think would do better.

Making Smog in a Jar

We started our new inquiry this week in the Patu team. We are focusing on different systems through science. This week we were focusing on the Respiratory system and Air Pollution. 

We did an experiment that involved creating smog in a Jar. All the groups managed to succeed with the experiment. Here is a video of the group that created the most smog. 

Sharing our Passion Projects

At the end of Week 8 we shared some of our completed passion projects at the end of our session. Students have spent varying periods of time working on these across Terms 1 & 2.

Some have explored sculpture techniques, created comic strips, researched and created a slideshow.

Creating games

We are having another go at creating games. This time we are adapting an existing game, some are improving Rob the nest, others are creating a game based on a story. Mr Searle's team are adapting a game based on the 3 Billy Goats Gruff. Mr Searle made up his own game based on the story and the students tried it out. Now they are making changes to make the game better and reflecting on how their changes have worked.

Puppy Fun

We have had end of week visits from these little guys. We are enjoying watching them grow and change, although they are sleeping almost all of the time.

Pukeko Hub's Amazing Race

Students in the Pukeko Hub have spent the past two weeks in Tinana designing activities for our Amazing Race. In small teams the students had to design a small physical challenge to be completed in the race. Teams were given a map and elected a leader that stayed at their activity to run it.

Today the students got to complete the race. The teams were running all around the school to complete the 15 challenges.

When they finished each challenge they were given a fractions question which they had to complete at the end of the race together. So we were integrating Maths and PE together.