MOTAT Trip

MOTAT TRIP

In Term 2 to tie into our learning about inventors and inventions, we visited the Museum of Transport and Technology (or MOTAT).  For many of us, this was our first time going there and it was a lot of fun!

As well as a classroom visit, where we learnt about how technology has changed over time, we also got to explore the exhibitions.  Some of our favourites were Sunlight, Welcome to the Machine and the Historical Village.  Our whole class got to have a ride on the tram down to MOTAT 2.  When we got there, the driver let us off so we could have our photo taken and ask him questions about the trams.

Thank you to all the parents and helpers who came to support our learning.

My Own Picasso...completed artworks

My Own Picasso!

We had the opportunity to visit Corban Estate Art Centre during Week 7.  We worked with Ruth and Paris, two Art Educators.  They taught us about Pablo Picasso and his portrait artworks.  With the help of parents, we created our own self-portraits in the style of Picasso.  Paint, collage and pastels were used to create our original art works.  Thank you to all the parents who came along to help us!

The next post shows you our wonderful finished artworks...

Surf to School comes to Green Bay

We had a great time in Week 7 when lifeguards from North Piha, Raglan and Bethells Beach came to our school.  They taught us what lifeguards do, how to stay safe at the beach and how to "Slip, Slop, Slap, Wrap and Slide".  We also had a chance to get into the pool with them and use the tubes to take turns saving each other.

Thinking about Numbers

When we learn in Room 23, our teacher Natalie tells us it is okay to make mistakes - that's how we learn!  She also encourages us to use lots of different strategies and share them with others.

We have been learning about numbers and what they mean...here is an example of how different people in Room 23 worked out what number was in the tens frames:

This shows us how there are many ways to work out an answer in Maths.  Our job is to find the quickest way.

Which way do you think is the fastest?
Which way would you use?

This is a great activity to practise at home!

Room 23: Assembly leaders

In the last two weeks we have been very busy organising, practising and then running both our Whanau assembly and the Junior School Assembly.
Last week on Wednesday we led our Whanau Totara Assembly.  We all took turns announcing what would happen and leading the songs.  We shared the song we have learnt in class: Le Aute.  This is a beautiful Samoan song about the flowers people from Samoa like to wear behind their ear.  Here is a link to the music so you can learn it at home:
Le Aute - music and lyrics

Then on Monday this week we ran the Junior School Assembly.  This is for all classes from Year 0-3.  Some of our families took time off work and came to watch us.  Jakob opened the assembly by sharing his mihi with everyone.

Natalie was so proud of how confident everyone was - even some people who were a bit nervous enjoyed having a turn speaking on the microphone!  The other teachers and classes were very impressed at what a great job we did.

Ice, Ice, Baby!

Our teacher, Natalie had fun at the weekend with her children filling balloons with water and freezing them.  It was such a hot day, that she brought two to school for us to experiment with.

We had a lot of fun, predicting what would happen when we poured on food colouring or salt.  We also looked at whether we thought the ice would float or sink in a container of water.  When we put a piece of paper on the water, it floated for a while, then sank to the bottom.

 "We had salt to sprinkle on the ice.  It went POP!  When we put blue food colouring on it, it melted off.  When I touched it, it was cold.  When we pulled the balloon off the ice, it was a circle. We put the ice in the water and it floated.  The ice ball was shaped like a crystal bag."

By Gabrielle

The ice made a crack then went back again when we put salt on it.  The ice floated on the water.  I thought it would drown.  The paper floated like a boat, then sunk.

By Malachi