The day Levi came to school

Today Levi, the strongman from Mitre 10 MEGA came to visit. He spoke to the school about having dreams and working hard to achieve them. Here are some of the things Room 20 dream to be...I can't wait to see it all happen!

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Safety Expo and Padlet

Today we experimented with a new tool called Padlet. This is a website that allows us to share and collaborate our ideas all in the one place. Each group uses a tablet to share their thinking all on the one page. We loved it! Here is a copy of what we did with some of our reflections on the Safety Expo.  Scroll around to see our ideas, you can even add your own...just double click on the grey background and away you go!

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Mystery Reader is Back!

Today we had our first mystery reader in yonks come to visit us! Waahoo! Fiona came in and read us the book 'Stuck' by Oliver Jefferies. This was a funny book about a boy who gets his kite stuck in a tree and throws everything up to try and get it to come down.

Post a comment below sharing a time when you have been stuck... We would LOVE another mystery reader next Friday (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)

Seb's Writing

We have been learning how to persuade in writing.  We wrote letters to Fonterra telling them what we thought of their new 'Milk in Schools' - check out Seb's excellent letter.  You can hear him read it out loud below.  What makes this a great piece of writing?

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Zoey and Luke share Maths

We LOVE our new tablets in Room 20! There are so many things we can do with them. The hexagons are using the tablets in their maths to record and explain their maths thinking. Here is Zoey's first go at using this app...

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And here is Luke...

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Kindness Boomerang

Last week was kindness week at Waipahihi School.  The whole school spent the week celebrating our motto 'It's Kool to be Kind!".  We watched an amazing video about passing kindness on and we were completely inspired to make our own version.  First we brainstormed lots of random acts of kindness and then put them all together like a jigsaw puzzle to create a storyboard.  The tricky part of filming was everyone remembering their part as the video never stops.  We think we did a pretty good job.  Keep being kind to one another as 'kindness keeps the world afloat'


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Wacky Wigs and Mad Hatters!

Today Waipahihi School had a fundraiser for Kidscan...we all wore our best hats and hair dos! Room 20 decided to take on the challenge of creating hats using only newspaper... Crazy Hat Day on PhotoPeach

How Stuff Works

Today we began our Inquiry - 'How Stuff Works'.

We spent the morning doing a science experiment.

WHAT YOU NEED:

• White  vinegar
• Baking  soda
• A balloon
• Two  funnels
• One  bottle

First we had to put baking soda in the balloon through the funnel. Through the other funnel you put vinegar in the bottle and then put the balloon on the top of the bottle.  Tip the baking soda into the vinegar.  What happened was the gas blew up the balloon.  The gas name was carbon dioxide.  It bubbled up because of a reaction between the acid (vinegar) and the alkaline (baking soda).

By Kushal and Thinuka

And here you can listen to Zoey explain what we did...

 

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Kiwiana Day

We had an amazing day yesterday celebrating the end of our Native to New Zealand inquiry.  We spent the day redesigning 'The Kiwiburger'.  We created our own burger boxes and then had a BBQ.  We thought our burgers were delicious!  And of course no party is complete without a dress up day!

 

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Kiwiana Shape Poems

We created these shape poems using Comic Life on the computers.  We had to brainstorm kiwiana language and then use the words to create a picture of a New Zealand icon.  Here are some of the finished poems.  We think they are CHOICE!

KIWI By Bella

 

 

NEW ZEALAND By Izaak

GUMBOOT By Jayla

KIWI By Lexus

RUGBY By Luke

 

 

NEW ZEALAND By Thinuka

 

NEW ZEALAND By Wilson

KIWI By Zoey

 

 

 

Watch this space for the rest of them!

Room 20 Goes Swimming!

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Hexagons and Squares Maths

WALT: add more than 3 numbers together by first making pairs to 10 Here are Luke and Thinuka demonstrating the strategy they have been learning in class this week. Can you practice this at home? Post a comment with a new equation that you practiced at home and expalain how you solved it... e.g. 16 + 14 + 2 = I took the 4 off the 14 and made 16 into 20. So now I have 20 + 10 + 2 = 12

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Learning the Ukulele

Room 20 and 17 have begun learning the Ukulele this term. So far we have learnt 2 chords - C and C7. Here we are rocking out a number called Lime in da Coconut! Half of us are doing actions while the rest jam on the ukuleles. This is our first song and we are pretty stoked!

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Here are the boys...

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Writing

In Writing we are learning to RETELL. We have begun by reading familiar stories and retellng them. Here is Caitlyn's introduction to Maui and the Sun. What do you think she has done well?
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Writing

In Writing we are learning to RETELL.  We have begun by reading familiar stories and retellng them.  Here is Bella's introduction to Maui and the Sun.  What do you think she has done well?

MOV01832 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

On Friday Caitlyn's Mum was our Mystery Reader. She bought in Caitlyn's favourite book 'Giraffes Can't Dance' by Giles Andrede and Guy Parker Rees. We loved listening to the story and the illustrations made us laugh! We loved the pictures so much we decided to paint our own. Chack out how amazing they look... Giraffes Can't Dance by Room 20 on PhotoPeach