Wacky hair day

We have been having great fun with our "Imagine" topic. So far, we have danced at lunchtime, made creative paper hats, dressed as amazing book characters and had a "Wacky Hair Day" This is a photo of us with our hair creations!

Roisin's taonga

Roisin brought her taonga to school, but she tried to escape. (Poor Salem!)

Museum Visit

We went to the museum last week and had a fabulous day! We learnt how museums came into existence. We were shown what a curator and an archivist does. We had the chance to catalogue an ancient bottle ourselves. We saw all of the taonga in the museum and the living taonga in the kiwi house. We were lucky enough to see both the kiwi and the ruru (moreporks). We also saw geckoes.

We visited the old Clarke homestead and saw the taonga from long ago. We were also given the chance to try making our own display of toys from the olden days (some that Mrs D remembers playing with!!)We hope you enjoy our slideshow. Thanks Mrs Stainton, for being chief photographer!

Our clay taonga

These are the taonga we made from our designs.

Out taonga movie

We managed to make a movie of the photos we took when we were sharing our taonga. Have a look at our special treasures, especially Heeni's beautiful whanau tapa cloth!

Cross country champ!

We had a great day for our cross country races, last Friday.

We all tried really hard to do our best.

Sharon came first in the 8 year old race. Well done, Sharon. We are proud of you!

Making meringues

We learnt that egg whites (albumin) contain chains. Whisking whips air bubbles into them.

This makes the egg white foamy. When you bake them they go hard and DELICIOUS!!

Matthew's gran helped us to learn about the change that takes place when you do this!

Matthew's Foaming Monster

Today I brought vinegar, baking soda and a card with instructions so that my class could see me make a foaming monster. We mixed the vinegar with some dishwashing liquid and then added the baking soda. Our monster started to foam!

Matthew.

Making butter

Today we went to Room 11 and Mrs Balks helped us to make butter from cream.

First, we poured cream into a container and shook hard.

Next, the cream thickened and coated the sides. The cream separated into butterfat and buttermilk. We had crackers with some of our butter on top.

By Klayton

Hokey pokey fun

We had such fun with Mrs Webber making hokey pokey, as part of our learning about CHANGE!

We saw golden syrup being mixed with sugar and baking soda. It went all frothy. When it cooled down it went hard! It tasted delicious!

Abbie.

Lava lamp experiment

We were having fun doing a density experiment with oil, food colouring, water and maple syrup. We found out that the oil is the lightest. The syrup is the heaviest (most dense) and the water was in the middle.

Matthew, Felix and Temarewe.

Messages for Christchurch

Felix had a fabulous idea for our class to send messages from More FM radio station to Christchurch, to cheer them up. We wrote our ideas, practised our lines and went down on Thursday, 19th May to have our words recorded. We hope you enjoy our movie of this event, kindly put together by Whaea Rose, who is helping Mrs Douglas for five weeks.

Red and Black Mufti Day

We had a special mufti day to raise money for the people of Christchurch. There was an awesome sketch of Christchurch Cathedral on the front courts and we put our money onto the heading "We love you, Christchurch."

"Healthy Me"

We are well into Term One and enjoying our "Healthy Me" activities. We have been bike riding, learning about healthy food and looking after ourselves and our teeth.

Senior Constable Marnie taught us about becoming confident and alert. It was very helpful.

At the moment we are enjoying a daily "Jump jam" session to help to keep us healthy.