Friday 30 May 2014

Brain teaser

Can you figure out how many legs this elephant has?

 
What do you see in this picture?
We could see two different people, can you?
Goodluck :)

Maths work today

 Finn, Hunter and James created a whole playground out of shapes!
 Kate and Cassie were putting together maths puzzles.
They know that maths is full of patterns and that helped them to solve their puzzles!

Wednesday 28 May 2014

Playdough beach

Cassie, Max, Hunter and James were very creative today during reading. They created a beach scene out of play dough. If you look very closely you will spot a person reading the paper and even a birds nest. Super teamwork guys!

Tuesday 27 May 2014

Sophie star of the day

Sophie read us The Fidgety Itch. We liked how she read with expression and the book she choose. We all felt a little itchy afterwards!

Monday 26 May 2014

Snow at school!!

Today we arrived to lots of snow at school, it was very exciting!

Friday 23 May 2014

Insect mobiles continued...


 Sophie and Daniel found out lots about wasps. 
We have had a lot of experiences with wasps; Sophie, Sam I and Mrs Carmichael have all been stung by one in the classroom!
Cassie's Dad stood on a wasp nest and got stung twice, OUCH!

Kate, Mac and Emily found out that stick insects can grow up to 55 cm long!
Nga and Sam O learnt that ladybugs are a type of beetle.

Maths work

Jessie and Kate worked hard during maths today and wrote the numbers from 1 to 200. Impressive maths work girls!

Thursday 22 May 2014

Under 20's FIFA world cup

Today we went into the rec center to see the under 20's soccer cup which was touring the country. We got to have our photo with the cup and do lots of fun activities.








Tuesday 20 May 2014

Insect mobiles


 
 We all researched our favourite insects and came up with 5 fast facts about them.
 

 

 Cassie, Max and Joss learnt a lot about butterflies.
Nicole and Mykaelah learnt that ants work really hard to build their nests.

Cooper, Hunter and Jack were surprised to learn that dragonflies can eat tadpoles!

 
James and Finn found out that flies beat their wings 120 each second!
 Jessie and Sam I found that bumblebees are actually hairy.


Friday 16 May 2014

Mrs Preddy's van skid!

Today after school Mrs Preddy got stuck in the van on the grass. We all had to push the van to help get her out. It was REALLY funny. This is a photo of her skid!

Mykaelah's reading

Mykaelah read to the class today. We like how she read using the punctuation and expression. We also liked the book she choose because it was funny!

The next insect hunt with the seniors!

We went hunting with the seniors to see if we could find some new bugs and then identify them using the computers to help us.


 German Wasp
 Long horn beetle




Cabbage tree caterpillar

Thursday 15 May 2014

Sophie's Poem

Sophie and Mac have just got a new baby brother. Sophie wrote a lovely acrostic poem about him...

Beauty of the house
An awesome little cute brother
Beauden is my little brother
Yay shouts Mac

Brothers are the best
Excellent Mum had my best baby brother
Amazing
Unbelievable
Dunedin hospital was where he was born
Excellent at cuddles
Next comes another one!

By Sophie

Rippa

Today we had rippa with Olivia. We had heaps of fun and learnt some new rippa skills. We practiced our try scoring and got lots of fantastic photos but unfortunately Miss Cowie accidentally deleted them :(. But next time we will get some up!

Monday 12 May 2014

Highlanders writing

I heard the helicopter it went chop, chop, chop. I got a goodie bag, the chippies were yum! I like the flag too.

By Nga

Vvvvvvvvv went the helicopter. “Yahoo” said Romahapa kids. Everyone got lollies and a flag. Their names are Aaron Smith, Jo Wheeler and Malakai Fekitoa.
By James

I love watching the highlanders. They are great at playing rugby and they gave us goodie bags.
By Mykaelah

The highlanders came to school. They signed my hand.
By Sam I

Today's activities

 
Wow! We love your teamwork boys!






 
 
Fantastic maths work.

Friday 9 May 2014

Welcome Nga

Today we were lucky because we had  new students arrive at our school. Welcome Nga to our classroom and Toku to the senior room.

Highlanders visit

Wow we have had a very exciting morning! Aaron Smith, Jo Wheeler and Malakai Fekitoa came to visit us and arrived in a.....HELICOPTER!





 They even signed our school! :)


 We thought we better show the highlanders our Otago tank!