more engineering magic!!

 Thomas and Archie accepted the challenge of building a bridge that was not straight across.

Here is their design-great work boys, we love your curved bridge!

Three Billy Goats Gruff

 

Great work Tuatahi, we are super proud of the way you worked together to problem solve while building your bridges. The goats will be so happy because now they can cross the river to get to the nice green grass!

Holiday reading logs

 At the end of every term, we send home holiday reading logs. 

We encourage you and your child to continue to read together everyday, and each time you read a book, you record it on your holiday reading log.

You then bring it back to school on the first day of term 3, and Fairy Judy will visit with a surprise for those who have brought them back.

There is also a competition between the classes to see which class receives the most holiday reading logs.

Holiday reading logs were sent home today, please check your child's book bag.

HAPPY READING EVERYONE!

More volcano fun!

 We have had so much fun making our class volcano.

First, we used papier mache to create our volcano.

It was messy, but fun!

Our next step was to paint our volcano.

Emily suggested we paint the base green to look like grass, and Sami suggested we turn it into a dinosaur kingdom. These were great ideas, so we made trees and dinosaurs and created our kingdom.

Finally, all that was left was to make our volcano active!

Mrs Waddington is showing us the ingredients we need to make our lava.

Can you see the lava flowing down the side of our volcano?

It was great to see people having fun with the dinosaur kingdom today.

Some learners decided to carry on with the volcano/dinosaur theme by completing a puzzle together.

                  Great team work everyone!

Green Week

This week we celebrated Green Week.  We have been learning about compost.

Did you know we have compost bins at our school?

Here are some photos of how we make our compost at school.

First, we make sure we put our rubbish in the correct bin:

yellow is for landfill

green is for food waste

black is for paper recycling

Then we empty our small bins into the big bins!

This is where we empty our food scraps ready for composting.

The next step is for the green bin to be emptied into the big compost bins-Taytum does this job for us.

Here are our lovely new compost bins which can be found on the field.

 

Leaves are also added to the compost bin.

Worms help to turn our food waste into compost.

Once we have our new compost, it is used as healthy soil to put on the garden.

We have enjoyed learning about compost this week.

Volcanoes.......

 We enjoyed a visit from Tom and Ari, from Auckland Museum, who came to talk to us about volcanoes.

We learnt a lot of interesting information.

Did you know there are 53 volcanoes in Auckland and volcanoes can be either extinct, sleeping or active. This map shows the volcanoes in Auckland.

Our local Maunga, is extinct.

Here are some photos of some of the learning we did with Tom and Ari.

              They showed us a picture of Earth.

We looked at the different layers of Earth-crust, mantle and core,

          We labelled parts of a volcano.

We also got to hold different types of Volcanic rock and ash(in a jar!)

Finally we got to watch a volcano erupt!

We really enjoyed our session with Tom and Ari, and if you want to learn more about volcanoes you might like to visit Auckland Museum in the holidays.

We are making our own volcano-watch this space!