We had a great day at the Village - such great education and loads of fun!

Little Gardens growing flowers for the Bees at school.

Wild Things create a rumpus in our classroom!

The furniture was turned upside down and all manner of mess was made!

There were wild footprints all over the floor! We decided to make paper masks to scare those wild things away and during DEAR (drop everything and read) we put them on just in case!

Patterns in culture

Hello Terrific 20's whanau and friends
We are beginning our Inquiry into Many Cultures - One land.

I know the children have been researching their families with the Interview Questions they brought home Monday Last Week! They are due by this Friday so that we can begin to use this research in our Inquiry into our own culture. Thank you for helping us in our research.

For Maths this week we will be exploring the patterns that are distinct to different cultures. If you have any examples of these in your home can you please lend them to us for a day? As an example they could be a tablecloth, bowl, scarf, gameboard, picture, tile, tapa cloth, sarong. Please talk about the pattern and write a little description so that your child can read or talk about it with us all. Or if you prefer we would love it if you came into school and described it to us!

We will be learning about patterning, direction, geometry, scale, area, perimeter, rotation, symbolism, making templates and drawing, 

Kia Ora 

Mrs T

Beautiful umbrellas to brighten up those rainy days - who is hiding under there?

May the Fourth be with you!

Earlier this month Mrs Trembath surprised our class with a Star Wars themed day! We we learned how to use Hour of code and there is a great Star Wars coding activity to use (there's a LOT of Maths and Logical applications in Coding)! We also invented our own star wars characters and their unique features. We also watched the Google Cardboard Virtual Reality app of a space shuttle taking off into the atmosphere and then trying to land the shuttle pod back in the sea.

You can also work out the cost of The Millenium Falcon if it was built today out of real construction materials: follow this link

http://infographics.buildmillenniumfalcon.com/how-much-does-it-cost/how-much-mf.jpg

The biggest challenge was the Growth Mindset Challenge of having to work your way over 'laser trips' strung across the classroom and tables!

Food for the turtles, dolphins and penguins....ENVIRO WEEK AT SCHOOL!

As part of our Inquiry into How Our Behaviour Impacts on the Sea, we posed the open question of 'Why do sea creatures eat rubbish'? 

Here we have some ordinary plastic bags from the supermarket shaped like jelly fish floating in the sea. We have looked at photos taken by marine biologists all over the world of such sights. So how does that affect the eating habits of the creatures that eat the jelly fish?

Mrs Venville worked with us to brainstorm our ideas and we recorded them to refer to as we go through our Inquiry. 

 Next Room 20 made our own Scientific investigations using our own ideas and observation skills:
What do I notice about the photographs? Compare the 2
What do I think about them? 
What do I wonder? What could I use instead of a plastic bag?

Here is a starting point for our own individual Inquiry study which can be found in our own Google Drive under Inquiry headed Question. We all have our own opinions about this problem - take a look and discuss the issue with your child.

Using plastic bottles and plastic bags again (- goodness we have a lot of those around!) we made a jellyfish in a bottle. When the sun shines through the blue coloured water it looks like a jellyfish floating in the sea. So if you were a turtle/ penguin /dolphin looking for food like a jellyfish you might eat this plastic bag by mistake. The plastic collects in the stomach and never fully breaks down. That made us feel a bit unhappy and sad for the sea creatures as they don't have any control over the plastic that is found in the sea.

So our conclusions are that there are plenty of alternatives to plastic bags and there is no excuse for saying no to a plastic bag!

Our class environment is filling up fast lots of action and doing in Room 20

The CEO of the day sits here - Mrs T's right hand person!

The Round Seat is for the PA who is invaluable to Mrs T and the CEO. The wobbly seats are for those chosen by the CEO who can wobble and wibble as much as they like!

Congratulations to all our Triathletes who competed in the WeetBix Triathlon on the Weekend - you are great ambassadors for our school!

Alex and Lockie are caring for our Tiger Worms at the moment! The Staff room worm bin and Middle Syndicate Worm Bin are emptied into here along with water and shredded card. 

It's a dirty job and you have to be brave with those tiger worms roaring at you! Such brave Eco Warriors!

Here is our Korowai all complete with feathers describing what a member of Whanau 20 needs to be. Underneath are our Whare with Kowhaiwhai patterns chosen to surround photos of our Whanau pictures. 

We all have a role to play in our class and these are important roles for everyone to take responsibility for. Use your initiative and be self managing.

Art Finished!