And the switch went on and - hey presto! - the light bulbs lit up - woo hoo!

Baking Bread the traditional way! Technology we can always use.

 Mixing the yeast/ sugar/ warm water concoction with the first lot of flour and salt and leaving to rise.

Alex and Karlia ready the trays.

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Lauren and Rose start to mix in the flour.

Time to get kneading!

Another group's batch is ready to rise on top of the warm stove.

Erin and Franca have started the next bowl of yeast and sugar. Now Athena, Tiffany, Leena and Felicia are ready to mix flour into a bowl with salt.

 Golden, brown, hot bread rolls ready to eat!

Making maths strategy decisions as a group

Sometimes I can solve a problem in my head by moving numbers around by imagining what they look like. Sometimes I need a strategy to solve a complex problem.

Which strategy do you use to solve a problem? Is it the most efficient? Let's compare to others. The Hexagons Group had a variety of word problems to solve using different operations. They used their own strategies and then worked with others to compare what they had done. They decided on the best strategy between them and recorded it here.

Lucas demonstrates soccer skills at Teach the Teacher!

Lucas, along with Assistant Coaches Max and Quinn, taught us some great moves ad we had a really good go! Unfortunately the field was far too wet to walk, let along run on, so we had to make do with the play surface around the adventure playground. But it was a great running game and we all had fun!

Always moving at Sunnyhills School - keeping fit and having fun in Spring weather!

First up we have Max M's Teach the teacher - where he shared some very complicated but fun soccer moves and we all had a really good growth mindset and had a go! None of us sprained an ankle!

We have continued our running training and are thinking of the Huff n puff early next term! Most of us can now easily do 3 laps and pushing towards 4 laps now. Remember to bring your PE uniform and running shoes to protect those little growing bones every Tue and Thur.

Badminton Auckland sent Dhanny to teach us how to play this fun indoor sport. We learned lots of fun warm ups followed by the different grips and ways to hit the shuttle across the net. Once again a really great mindset from everyone and we are keen to have another go next term. Mrs Fowler has bought some more badminton equipment for our PE shed so we can continue playing.

Friday Fun Times

Rehearsing our Maori Legends with R6 as our audience. They were a great group and gave us lots of positive feedback and then some feed forward to help us improve for next time.

R6 has 2 international students in their class from China. They accompanied and sang a song to the tune of You Are My Sunshine which they had taught R6 to sing in Chinese, it was a beautiful song boys!

Dylan's Teach the Teacher up next! A clever boy who can make things out of balloons! Dylan and his Mum, Mrs Fowler, provided the balloons, pumps and some colourful string and sticks to make a leash and collar for our fantastic dogs. 

This was so much fun and we only popped a few! 

Makey Makey creativity and innovation in R20 for Tinker Time this week!

Today we began to learn how to create an electrical circuit using crocodile clips and materials such as tinfoil and playdoh - as well as ourselves!

We connected our circuit using a Makey Makey board (sort of a digital circuit board) to a laptop. We opened up Scratch to write some lines of simple code including sounds. When the wires were connected to different parts of the board like up arrow or down arrow and the Earth part of the circuit the sound programmed to activate at that command was played by the computer.

Robert taught the group his Scratch skills and Karol, Quinn and Lucas were able to create the beginnings of their Scratch programme.

Mrs T explained the idea of the circuit and then taught Valentina and Rose how to create a circuit to play on her laptop.

We felt like it has been raining Cats and Dogs so we wrote some great verb adverb lines!

Collecting verbs and matching adverbs...

Fantastic Longbeach School has sent us a wonderful parcel!

Everyone had a card from the parcel and took turns at placing it in the puzzle. There are imaginative metaphors on the back written by the Year 4 and 5s from Longbeach School. Ms McFarlane's class have done an amazing job! Come and have a look next time you are in R20.

There are lots of comparisons to make to our class - our class is larger, their Iwi is different, their leaf is huge - what kind of tree does it come from?... We certainly see the world differently - for example we learned some facts about cows that we didn't know, and they live near a mountain known for its snow and skiing! What a cool place to live!

Fantastic map - what an interesting room to learn in! Great furniture scale drawings!