Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Scumbling...


We are learning how to scumble using pastels.  More pictures to come.

More pictures to come.....

Monday, 5 September 2016

Hong Kong STEM Challenge #2


Our buddy class in Hong Kong challenged us to a STEM activity. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.



We were given 3 challenges and they were:

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base.
Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size.
Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it.




Here are the materials we had access to:
We were allowed to choose what we thought would best help us achieve our goal:

6 x long sticks
1 x wooden 100s square
2 x pipe cleaners
2 x straws
1 x 1m ruler
11 x plastic cubes
1 x bunch of popsicle sticks
4 x wooden small flat pieces



                         To read about our student's experiences click on individual student blogs

Challenge #1 - Build a structure with a cube as the base.


Challenge #2 - Build the tallest structure that you can and your base can be any size.


Challenge #3 -  Build a structure with something that balances off the side of it.



In Room 10 we are problem solvers.


To read about our student's experiences click on individual student blogs

Thursday, 25 August 2016

Tessellating Regular Polygons...


In Room 10 we are learning to tessellate.  

You can see how to tessellate by viewing individual student blogs.








Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Farewell David...

Farewell David, we are going to miss you and your family xx

Ben and his mates.


Pohutukawa Syndicate gave David a strong farewell.....



Friday, 19 August 2016

How To Embed A Google Slide Into A Blog...


Follow these instructions to embed a Google Slide into a blog post.

Written by Daisy, Patrick, Havana, Kaleb, Kapree, Samia, Sonia, Izzy and Kyara.


Monday, 15 August 2016

Practice Makes Us Better...

We are continuing to focus on developing our basketball skill so we will be able to play an awesome game of basketball by then end of the term.

Mrs Breuss-McBride came and shared some awesome ideas for skill building:





Sharing what we are getting better at with each other
at the end of the session.

Thursday, 11 August 2016

Room 10 Swimming Stars!

We had a great time on Thursday down at Cannons Creek Pool for our syndicate swimming sports.

All the kids who participated were amazing and gave it all they had.  

Here are the kids who were placed in the top 3.....






Monday, 8 August 2016

Technology Challenge.... Group 1 & 2

Our Hong Kong Buddy Class challenged us to complete this technology challenge.  Read on to see what we needed and watch our videos to show if we were successful.

The goal was to make a structure that could launch a marble towards 3 containers and hit the middle one for the maximum score.

We needed per group:
4 sheets of A4 paper
2 pieces of A4 card
1m of sellotape
1 pair of scissors
1 marble
3 containers

Time:
Planning 5 mins.  Building 20 mins.





Group One!










Group Two!



Unfortunately the first attempt wasn't videoed for Group 2.

Friday, 5 August 2016

Cook Island Language Week...


Cook Island Language Week:

The theme for this year is:
"Kia ariki au i toku tupuranga, ka ora uatu rai toku reo"
"To embrace my heritage, my language lives on" 

We ended our week with a wonderful assembly where students and parents came together to share their beautiful culture.  

Below are some photos and videos 
from the assembly.  









If you are on our school Facebook Page you can watch the teachers attempt to dance Cook Island style.... it was a blast!






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Facebook click this link.