Science Fair 2017

On Wednesday we had our school Science Fair. The children have worked very hard over the last 3 weeks to learn about Science Investigations and the Scientific Method. They chose their own investigation questions and planned a fair test to complete on their chosen topic. They learnt about the importance of having constants and a variable when carrying out a fair test. Check out our individual blogs for reflections on our learning.

Here are our finished Science Investigation boards.

Here are some photos of us sharing our learning at Science Fair.

Dr Seuss Day

Everyone had a great day at Dr Seuss Day. The day began with a walk to the daycare and play centre to show off our costumes. We had Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, Fox in Socks, Cindy-Loo-Who, Duck from the Lorax, characters from Whoville, and Truffula Trees.

Then we split into mixed groups and completed different tasks related to Dr Seuss and his books. Some children from Team Awa also did a Breakout about Dr Seuss.

Crazy Critters Cooking Convention

For reading we read a big book called The Crazy Critters Cooking Convention. This book had lots of great examples of alliteration. We have created digital books using alliteration. Each student chose a letter of the alphabet to write a sentence using alliteration. We used the same theme of critters or animals too. Here are the digital books we created.

Pepetuna Artwork

We read the beautiful story Pepetuna by Denise Whitmore and used it to inspire our artwork about the special puriri moth. We were learning to blend paint and pastel. 

Our first layer was the night sky. The second layer was black shadow trees and the third layer was our pastel pepetuna flying into the moonlight for just one night. 

Bugs, bugs, bugs

We collected leaves and created awesome bugs to go with our writing. We glued them onto branches with some of our leaf writing. 

Leaves, wonderful leaves.

We used leaves to inspire our writing last week. Here is some of our wonderful writing/poetry.

Leaf Poem

Orange

and red you

are awesome. Slish

you look nice. Bright like

the sun and white like the moon.

You fluttered down into my hand. Crunch!

You're crumply. At night you fly and day

you sing. Every day you curve up, please don’t die.

Moist and damp you get soggy. When you're red you’re

like lava slowly dropping into the sea. Dotty and

big and small it doesn’t matter as long as

you’re alive. Soft and silky you fluttered down

to me. Glossy green and maroon you’re still

my friend. Green veins in you.

Ferociously the breeze blows

you while the wind is singing Please don’t

go without me.

By Ronan

            Wooooooosh!

Went a lava leaf as it flew down like a magic carpet. Smooge!! Went the leaf as it hit the ground like an aeroplane cruising in. A gust of wind hit the old oak tree and leaves fell like lightning as they charged at the ground. They formed a gooey lava mixture and glooped towards me. The spines reminded me of the soldiers in WW1 and WW2. Where do they go? Probably around the world and back again before moulding into the soil so new plants can sprout and a new environment can form. It keeps on going around and around and can’t be stopped. Leaves are a hope of the environment and nature can survive and life can move on.

By Frank

Easter Bunny Art

Last week we made Easter Bunnies for Art. We used marbling to create our background. Then we made patterns using sharpie on our rabbits. We added some whiskers and glasses. Here are our Easter Bunnies.