Camp 2020

 Was great to see so many smiling faces when I went back through the photos.  This is just a few of what has been taken so will put them up on the learning site tomorrow.  A big thank you to all the parents who baked, came and helped out over the two days and supported all the students.  

Day One Done

Day one is done!  We might not have got everything done we had planned but we have had lots of smile and heaps of fun!  Here’s hoping we get some sleep!

Shantytown Morning

It has a been a very busy morning even if has been pouring with rain at times.  Everyone has big smiles and a

Art Part Two

 Here was the next step in our art.  This time we had to dye the whole page with different dyes.  We really enjoyed watching the dye as we painted over the wax crayon.  The dye wouldn't cover the crayon and it looked like it was moving all around the page.We made a time lapse movie of the process.  We hope you enjoy.

Scribble Art

Today we started our next art project.  The students were so amazed that all I said was that they could scribble on the paper!  I have never seen so much scribbling!  Some of the students commented that they hadn't scribbled since they were one year old.  Check out our scribble technique and keep a watch on what happens next to our art.

Egg Bounce Number Two

We had a very interesting experience yesterday to add to our egg experiments.  Mrs Locky came into visit us as she is going to be working in our class later on this term and brought one of the eggs from her fridge.  She had been reading our blog and saw that we had been making bouncing eggs.  She wanted to test to see what would happen to her egg from the fridge.  Check out what happened.

Class Challenge - Egg Bounce

We did an egg experiment in our class as part of the school challenge. We used 3 eggs in vinegar. We used Malt vinegar and white vinegar for the eggs. One of the vinegars had dye in it. We left our eggs in the vinegar mixture for 2 days for the malt vinegar and 3 days for the white and dyed vinegar. Our fist egg we tried to bounce was the malt vinegar. We dropped it from 10cm, 50cm, 60cm and then 70cm. They all broke at 70cm when we dropped them.

Our egg bounced 15cm when we slowed the video down and checked it against the ruler.  It was the Malt Vinegar egg that bounced the best.

This our blue egg as we had dye in the jar with the white vinegar.

New Zealand Book Awards Library Visit

Crystal from the Westland Library come into school today.

Crystal read us the story about Abigail and the Birth of the Sun.  This is one of the books in the New Zealand Book Awards.  After she had read to us we had to make a sun.

First we had to cut triangles in the paper plate and then we had to weave different coloured wool across the paper plate.  Then we had to put a tail onto the plates.

Sun's we made

We really enjoyed doing them.  If you want to see them they will be in the Westland District Library.

Thanks Crystal  for coming out to school and working with us.

Assembly Singing

I thought that we would try to do our singing in class and video it as usually when we get to assembly they always seems to get stage fright and don't sing as loud.  I thought that they did very well.  What do you think?

Hope you enjoy their singing.

Lockdown Videos from Ruma Tui

Check out all our videos we made about when we were in lockdown. Please leave us a comment.

Class Challenge - Reading

We had a class challenge to complete around reading.  We love reading the book about Doggie Doo and since we have had some puppies at school lately we thought it was a great book to read.  Hope you enjoy listening to our reading of it.

Thunk Question - Week 4

What do you think the answer to this question is.  Think about what you like as a friend.  Make sure you put your capital letters in and full stops.

Rata Reading Hangout

Rata Reading Group

I had a great time hanging out with these guys today for reading.  They are all going to go for a big hunt in the jungle (their garden) to see what they can find.

Thunk Question Term 2 - Week 3

This weeks thunk question is all about you!  You will need to think about what is special about you.  I look forward to reading your answers.

Thunk Question Term 2 Week 2

Here is a thunk question there is no right or wrong answer.  I would love to see how you would answer this question especially if you are in Tui at Kaniere School.  Write you answer in the comments and lets see what everyone thinks.

Class Google Hangout Term 2 2020

Was so great to see just about the whole class today on our morning Google Hangout.  It was just like being in the class with all those smiley faces looking back at me.

Great work everyone, can't wait to read some of your writing.