Trip to Nga Hau e Wha September 2019

He Tangata

Today our school celebrated earning enough "Thank - you ticket" by going on a trip to He Tangata Marae.

We caught the bus early this morning and traveled over to Nga Hau E Wha. We were welcomed on to the Marae with a Powhiri and then watched some amazing stories of Maui.
We learnt about Poi, Haka and the History of the He Aoraki Whare.

While we enjoyed out morning tea, their Kapa Haka group performed for us. It was an amazing experience for us and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

Sell It

For writing for the last couple of weeks of term, Miss McLeod's and Miss Bannan's writing groups have been working on a 'Sell It'. Sell it, is where we had to choose an item that nobody would necessarily want to buy, and write a script to persuade viewers to buy the item then film an advertisement. When we were filming we learned that we had to keep persevering through this as it takes more than one filming session to get it right!

Here are some of the completed advertisements.

te reo Māori - Classroom Conversations

This term we have been learning about classroom objects in te reo Māori. After brainstorming some different classroom objects (e.g. clock, pencil, book), we learned the Māori names for these. Then we learned some phrases that we could use in the classroom (e.g. "Kei hea taku pene rākau?" = Where is my pencil?). To show what we have learned, we created slides showing people having classroom conversations in te reo Māori. Here are some of our slides:

Heroes of the Week

Well done to our Heroes of the Week! Last Friday Cody, Mia and Brooklyn were pulled out of our Hero nomination box. They were nominated by their classmates for showing the People Powers of Play and Make Their Day. Cody, Mia and Brooklyn got to get a prize and a treat from our reward boxes, and their photos will stay up on the wall until the end of this week.

South Hornby School Walk-a-thon

On Thursday afternoon, at South Hornby School, we had a walkathon to raise money for our PTA.

We were allowed to dress up in bright colours and after lunch we met together and begun the walkathon. We all walked for about 45 minutes and tried to do as many laps as we could. Our teachers walked with us and some of them had silly string which they sprayed on us- it was really funny.

Throughout the walkathon there were obstacles for us to go through as well like hoops to crawl through, hurdles, tyres, cones and a net to crawl under.

We all had lots of fun and were really lucky it was a nice and warm day. What do you do at your school to raise money for your PTA?

Science- Oobleck

This term for inquiry we have had a focus on science and have been doing rotations working through The Water Cycle, Chemical Reactions and an ART component.

This group today made oobleck. We found out that when water is mixed with cornflour it reacts and makes a change. It looked like a liquid...until we touched it and tried to pick it up or mix it- it went solid.

The Water Cycle

This term science has been our inquiry focus. As part of our inquiry, we have been learning about the water cycle. We have learned that the water on Earth is reused again and again. First, the sun heats up the water on Earth and it turns into water vapour and rises up into the sky (this is called evaporation). Next, the water vapour turns back into water drops when it is high in the sky, and mixes with gases and dust to make clouds (this is called condensation). Then, the clouds get too heavy and rain, snow or sleet falls down back to the ground (this is called precipitation).

We made water cycle bags to see the water cycle working close up. We drew pictures on a plastic bag, then we put some water in the bag (and added a bit of blue food colouring). We taped them to the window where they would get the heat of the sun. The water evaporated and created water droplets on the side of the bag, like clouds. Then the water at the top of the bag got too heavy and started sliding down the bag, like rain.

Our Favourite Time of Day

This week in writing we have been recounting our favourite time of day.
We could choose between the morning, the middle of the day, evening or night time. We were challenged to use describing words to create a picture in our readers head, and include senses like see, hear and smell.

Here are a few examples of our writing.

Whats you favourite time of the day?