Flick the Fire Engine

WALT:  work together to perform a sound scape of the story Flick the Fire Engine.

Room 8 have been working this term with Ms Buchanan in Drama and learning to tell the story of Flick the Fire engine through various drama techniques.  We were so proud to share this with all the Junior school today.

W.a.l.t: divide shapes in half.

Powhiri

Our class, along with our families were welcomed into the St James whanau through a powhiri, which is a Maori welcoming ceremony. Maia's mum called us into the hall and Mr Durston spoke for us. The kapa haka group sang a waiata for us and we sang one too. We did a hongi with the teachers.

Here is a photosnack with some photos Mrs Edwards took at the Powhiri.

Learning with Harold

What we learnt with Harold on PhotoPeach
 

WALA: how to keep a beat using our bodies and instruments

Rhythm and Finding the Beat with Mrs Cawood


On Friday mornings Mrs Cawood will be coming in to teach us about music.  We have been using our bodies to make a beat.  We have used the maracas to do this as well!  Lots of us got up to sing so she could listen to our voices.

Discovery

As part of our inquiry, we have been learning about how our body makes energy. So we decided to use our energy this discovery with lots of active learning. We did dancing, climbing, digging, hitting, catching, building, twirling, running, jumping and lots more moving and groovying. Hope you enjoy looking at some of our photos.

Going Further in our Inquiry about the Body

To help us go further in our inquiry about our body we got to meet Harold. He shared with us more information about the Respiratory system and ways to look after our bodies.

Here are some facts.

Food + Oxygen = Energy

We breathe in Oxygen

We breathe out Carbon Dioxide.

Plants take in Carbon Dioxide and release Oxygen.

Our body needs lots of things including shelter, exercise, water, sleep (moe), love (aroha), protection, to be kept clean, food (kai) and oxygen.

We are learning about the skeletal system.

JONTY helps us to identify where the bones would be in our body.

This song helped us learn some of the proper names for our bones.

WALT: share our talents in discovery time.

 During this weeks Discovery we had lots of fun outside. We got to dig in the sand pit, create obstacle courses which we tried to make it through without falling over, bean bag toss, balancing boards (very tricky without holding onto something). We got to take photos of each other using the macro button, which lets us take 'EXTREME' close up pictures.  We also did some building in Room 10.

Cooking broccolini with Patti

Latai, Corban and some lucky friends from Room 9 and 10 got to make a yummy mexican dish using broccolini with the help of Paulina's mother, Patti. The broccolini came from our school garden which we have been helping Mrs Edwards take care of during Discovery Time

 Thank you Patti for sharing your culture and cooking talent with us. It was very yummy! 

A Visit from Bishop Charles

Last week on Friday morning we had a special visitor to our classes.  Bishop Charles came to talk with the junior classes about his special role in the church and find out about what we have been learning as well.
There were some great questions asked by all the children and the one that he had to really think about was "What is your favourite colour?

Room 8 children showed great respect by listening attentively and enjoyed the experience of a special person visit from the church.  In class we have been learning about groups we belong to such as family, class, school and parish.  We are all part of Gods family.