Exploring Magnetism

This week we were exploring magnetism. We did some learning around the earth's magnetic field and explored the different materials that are attracted to magnets. The students made predictions and recorded their observations from a range of tasks.

Science

We are learning about systems this term and each week we are doing a scientific experiment to match the system we are studying.  In Week 1 we learned about our respiratory system and we did an experiment to show how burning fossil fuels creates smog. In Week 2 we investigated light and how light can show colours. We also went to Expressions in Upper Hutt to see an exhibition about Space. There were amazing photos from huge telescopes in Space, that showed  stars and planets forming.

Taniwha Art - Rm 1

This afternoon we started some new Art. We are going to create Taniwha faces from pencil and dye. Today we designed the different parts with pencil and outlined them with vivid. We are going to be doing Art every two weeks when we don't have whanau time on Friday afternoons.

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.