Talking About The Solar System

Here we are putting a model of the solar system together.

We talked about our favourite planets.

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up  Naming Planets

Mercury  Venus  Earth  Mars  Jupiter  Saturn  Neptune  Pluto

Discovery Time 29 May

Today Mrs Cribb came to be our teacher again while Mrs Eden was writing our mid year reports. Last week Mrs Eden talked to her about Discovery Time and Mrs Cribb thought she would like to see how we work and develop our Key Competencies. Here are some photos of our activities today. Look at the constellations we made with marshmallows and toothpicks. 

Discovery Time 29 May

Searching For Planets

We had fun today using the Night Sky app to search

 for planets, constellations and satellites.

Thank you For The Biscuits

Our Space Unit is going so well some people are thinking about it all week and all weekend! Thank you to Poppie and her wonderful Mum Vanessa who made us these rocket and planet shaped biscuits they were soooooo... yummy!

Discovery Time Thursday 22 May

Today we had Discovery Time. Our Key Competency Focus this Term is Participating And Contributing.
We are learning to include everyone in our activities, value the opinions and ideas of others, take responsibility for our environment and help with cleaning up at the end of the session.
Today some of our activities included: Making rocket shape sandwiches, letter writing, dough sculptures, sewing on hessian, puppet shows, marbles, klikko, duplo, space colouring pictures and computer skills.
Thank you Angela for coming to parent help. We appreciated your support at the sewing table.

Discovery Time 22 May

William's Space Art

William made this painting about the planets on the weekend.

Space Questions

Some Questions About Space.

Thursday 15 May

 Kahn is really enjoying the Space Inquiry unit. He learns all day at school and then he goes home and learns some more. Look at this amazing space shuttle he made last night. 

Ruby and Grace keep learning at home as well. They go on to the Mathletics site and today they got their first certificates. Well done  girls. You are champions.

Look at this model of the planets orbiting the sun. We enjoyed observing this in our room today.
We could listen to facts about each planet.

Cross Country Training

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings our Syndicate have fitness together to get fit for the cross country at Rabbit Island on June 11. We challenge ourselves to do one more lap each day.

Our Ideas On Space Are Developing

Space Popplet

At reading time today Cody, Kahn and Sean researched some space facts and made a popplet.

Waka ama

On Friday afternoon Graeme came to talk to our Syndicate about Waka ama. He has been to many competitions and he showed us medals he has won. He showed us a movie about waka ama racing. It looks hard, but lots of fun. We learned some new words about the waka. Kiato is the stem that holds the ama on to the waka. The pae manu is the seat. The hoe is the paddle. Thank you Graeme.

Milk In Schools

Yesterday we had our first session of Milk In Schools. We really enjoyed it. We know how to fold the boxes correctly for recycling.

Space Picture With Felt Board

Sean and Ruby worked together to make this Space picture with the Felt board app on the iPad.

Ruby Counts On

William's Fotobabble

Kahn Shares His Ideas About Space

Kahn Tells Us About Space from Room 14 on Vimeo.

Starting Our Space Unit

Meet Neil our class Astronaut. We are also 

making a rocket to use in our learning activities.

This is Kahn pretending to be an astronaut. 

We made these photos with an app  on the ipad.

Learning About Space

Click on the play button to hear the message.

Click on the image to go to a wonderful collection of sites with information about Space.

Thank you to Mrs Heath in Room 10 for sharing her Space Blog with us.

These sites are also in the Space Inquiry page above.