Holidays!!!

Have a fantastic holiday children and parents.

School starts back on Monday 16th July.

Matariki

We have been learning about Matariki 

with Mrs Powell. 

Matariki is the Maori New Year.

In June the star formation known as Matariki 

(the Pleiades) officially appears in the sky.

There are seven stars that can be seen in the early dawn.

We decorated wine biscuits. We made dark chocolate icing and then put seven little silver balls (cachous)

on top for the stars. 

We are going to eat them at our party on Thursday.

Pancakes, Pancakes

Ms McNeill read us a book about pancakes, so we made pancakes and tried to flip them. (We didn't eat the two that we worked with, because they ended up on the floor a lot of times! 

End of Term Assembly

Reminder that Friday is the last day of Term and there will be a whole school assembly in the Event Centre at 1.00pm in the afternoon. Students will be dismissed from their classrooms after the assembly.

Jump Jam!

The Year 6 students are teaching us  

Jump Jam.

Our favourite song is

"Who let the dogs out?"

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We are in the Event Centre.

We are trying to copy the Year 6 students.

Touch those boots!

Go! Go! Go, Max and Jack!

 

"I love Jump Jam,"
said Luke.

"You have to get down low,"
said Joshua.

"Like this?"
said Ariana,

Let's dance!

 

 

 

 

Jump Jam is cool!!!

Here are the words for "The Witch Doctor."

The Farms

"We built this farm,"
said the girls.

"These are our farms,"
said the boys.

Daffodils

Our bulbs are growing.

Colour Wheel

We have been learning about mixing paints. 
We painted the colour wheel with Mrs Powell.

The colour wheel has the three primary colours in it.
They are red, blue and yellow.

We then mixed red and blue to make purple.

We mixed red and yellow to make orange.

        We mixed yellow and blue to make green.

White Tiger

Love the hat, Jasper!

Pie warmer

It has been very cold outside lately and we have been eating lunch in the classrooms.
Last Friday, the temperature was minus 11 degrees in the morning.  Brrrr!

Thank goodness for the Pie Warmer to warm up food for us at lunchtime.

Great food ideas children have brought are 

Chops

Baked Potatoes

Macaroni Cheese

Corn on the Cob

Wraps with Baked Beans
Sausages
Toasted sandwiches


and of course, PIES!

Gymnastic Club

Reminder that Gymnastic Club is in the Event Centre after school on Friday.

Three Way Conferences

We have been updating our Portfolios to show our parents when they come along 
for our three way conference meeting.

We looked at them and shared them with our friends.

We love to talk about what we have been doing.

Three way conferences are on Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st
 afternoon and evening, from 3.30pm until 7.00pm.

Thank you to every parent in Room 7 for being fast at making an appointment.

More Patterns

 

Wow Kittie. 

This is a very complicated pattern. 

Well done!

Three patterns.

Great work,
Danielle

This pattern looks like
a lot of exclamation marks.

Two repeating designs.

This could be tricky to copy!

Some nice symmetry happening here.

Luke's First Day

Today Luke began school.

Happy Birthday, Luke.

Algebra

 In Maths we have been creating and continuing simple sequential patterns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To gain an understanding of algebra, students must be introduced to the concepts of patterns, relationships, variables, expressions, unknowns, equations and graphs in a wide variety of contexts. 

MacKenzie Basin a Dark Sky Reserve

MacKenzie Basin is now a Gold Status Dark Sky Reserve
Find out what this means check out the following link.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/mckenzie-country-commended-star-gazing-video-4922258

The head of Canterbury Tourism is congratulating those who have campaigned to make the Mackenzie Basin a worldwide attraction spot for stargazers.

Visitor numbers are expected to double after the announcement the area's been named one of four International Dark Sky Reserves.

Canterbury Tourism CEO Tim Hunter says it can only be a positive thing for the region.

"It's already brought a lot of extra visitors into the Mackenzie region, both for stargazing at Tekapo and also Mt Cook and that's just likely to increase quite significantly."

Mr Hunter says bringing more stargazers to the area will mean more visitor nights spent here, bringing benefits to 
local accommodation providers.


Check out our April Blog on Star Gazing.

Snow 6 June 2012

Look at all of our snow photos.

Check out the snow poems, photo's and video on Room 4's page.

Self Portraits

Nexis and Jo are drawing self portraits for their mihi.

Mandarin Maths

First we got a piece of paper and put our name on it.
Then we all got a mandarin and peeled it.
We separated each segment.
Then we counted how many segments there were.
Sarah and Ms Douglas got a mandarin too.

The least number of segments was eight. (8)
The most number of segments was twelve. (12)
We think this is how many mandarin segments we got but maybe some got eaten before we could count them all!

One person got 8 segment.

One person got 9 segments

Seven people got 10 segments.

One person got 11 segments.

Six people got 12 segments.

After we counted them, we were allowed to eat them.  Hmm-mmm.


We are learning that we can divide one whole object into smaller parts. We like apple and mandarin maths.