More Home Learning From Whakarua

Look who has been busy with her home learning. Ka pai Alyan! Keep up the great work :) 

 

Lucas' Home Learning (writing)

Fantastic work, Lucas. 

I wonder if anyone else knows about Cookie Cutter Sharks. 

They sound very interesting ........

This is what they look like. A wee bit scary.......

Aiden has completed a maths task at home !

HOME LEARNING

Head over to our learning site for everything you need! 

Whakarua Learning Site

If you complete the daily activities and share them with us you will earn thank you tickets! Here are our email addresses

Miss Goslin      goslinl@southhornby.school.nz 

Mrs McIntyre   mcintyrek@southhornby.school.nz

Miss Bannan     bannane@southhornby.school.nz

Miss Vermaak   vermaaka@southhornby.school.nz

Which mini-hub will win the thank you ticket competition? 

 Competition results so far 

Starry Night Artwork

On Monday we learned about a painting called 'Starry Night' by the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. We created our own version by following step-by-step instructions. We could use either pastel or coloured pencil for the colours. What do you think of our artwork?

Check out the posters we have been making ! You will see these around the school to remind people to wash their hands.

Time for Some Gardening !

We had fun out in the sun doing some gardening on Wednesday.The Whakarua children love being  'eco-warriors' - taking care of our awesome school environment. A big thank you to Kayla for coming to help us. We can't wait until next week !

If you go down to the woods today.............

Even though it was cold, the teddy bears had a great day being read to, meeting other teddy bears and having lunch with their owners. 

Swimming

This term we have been enjoying using our school pool - especially on these really hot days!
During one of our sessions, we learnt about throwing objects that float into the pool to pull in people who need help.

Learning about the Computer and Ipad's

During Cybersmart this week, Frank didn't have his iPad. Instead he learnt about the binary code. Frank learnt to record his name using the symbols in binary code. Didn't he do well

Author's Visit

Today we were lucky enough to have a visit from an author (Karyn Wilson) and an illustrator (Jessica Waters). They read us their two books which were called Kereru's BBQ and Peka and Koro: Friends of the Forest. We learnt some things about the animals in the stories. We learned:

• There are two types of bats in New Zealand that are endangered. 
• They live in a roost and 1,000 bats can live in one tree.
• New Zealand has a giant snail that is carnivorous (it eats worms and other snails).

After they read us the books, they talked us through the writing and illustrating process, and told us that it took 9 months to write each book from first thought to publishing.