Science Fair

This term the whole school has studied flight as their inquiry unit. The way we shared our work was to hold an open night throughout the whole school for parents and friends to come through and see what the children have been working on. Room 5 had some great individual projects to display as well as lots of art and writing they had done around the theme of flight.

Lesson on the court

A reading group in Room 5 found a good way of combining a reading book about birds with our maths strand which is measurement. With some support they used metre rulers to show the wing span and height of the Great Flamingo and the Lesser Flamingo. Then they shared facts about these birds with rest of the class. We found out that only a couple of the children were taller than the Greater Flamingo.

The Fun Bus

It was Room 5's turn to share an item in the Junior Team's assembly this week. We chose to act out the big book we have been reading in class called "The Fun Bus". We have had a lot of fun acting it out in class this week. The children who performed in the assembly did a great job.

Discovery Day on Wheels

Everyone looks forward to Discovery on Friday morning. This week we focused on the resilience SURFER Value and added wheels to our choice of activities. You can see from the photos everyone had a great time zooming around our courts.

Cricket lesson

Thank you Canterbury Cricket for the lesson today. There are some very talented cricketers in Room 5.

Photos from our day at the beach flying kites

Flying Our Kites

What a perfect day to go down to the beach and fly the kites we made at school. The sun was shining and there was just the right amount of wind.
It was tricky for some of the children to get them up in the air at first but everyone managed eventually. The kites looked magnificent with the bold, colourful designs as they twisted and turned high up against a backdrop of a vivid blue sky. It was a great day and we were very grateful to the parents who came down with us as there were a few running repairs we had to do.

Location:Smugglers Cove,Sumner,New Zealand

Science lesson with Julie

We were lucky this week to have a science lesson with Julie about air. We did experiments and learned about air. What happens to the air particles when air is heated and cooled.