Monday, November 9, 2015

Tennis Fun




Wow!! Guess what we did today?
Tennis time, trying to teach us to learn tennis!!




Looking and listening to instructions.

Looking and watching.


Controlling the ball.

Relays






Tennis racket race track.



More relays.





Tennis racket hamburger.






Bucket catching.


Thursday, October 29, 2015

Planet Warriors



Planet Warrior Exhibition at the Museum.

Creating energy to light up a light-bulb.

How much electricity do you use in a day?

Vampire Slayer, a game to help us save electricity.


Where does all the water go?













                                                           


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Hot and Cold House.
 

The 3 R's, Reduce  Re-use Recycle




Growing  things organically






Bio-degradable garden pots made from BLOOD!! 
(Bloody Plastics)


We had a wonderful time completing the Planet Warrior challenges and exploring the  activities,







Excite at the Museum




How can we use this machine to
 draw pictures?

Last Friday we explored all the exciting activities at Excite.  We had a great time trying out all the hands-on activities and thinking about the science concepts involved.



                   

Why did this marble drops first?




Working together!!



Throwing darts through a hoop to land in a bucket,






























Room 11 Writing Using Language Features

This week we have been practicing using similes, alliteration, powerful verbs and interesting adjectives in our writing. 

This is our writing about the wind.

The wind is freezing like ice and is rushing and blowing.
Abigail


Oh wind, oh wind, blowing against me!
The wind is like a soft pillow.
Analise


The wind is like a wild tornado.
The wind is battling with the trees.
Nathan

The wind looks like hands doing a hula dance.
The wind whoops, whips and whacks the door.
The wind whoops like galloping horses.
Maryam

Monday, October 26, 2015

Museum Science

During our Museum visit last Friday, the Museum Staff helped us explore some interesting science experiments.  We had to think, make a hypothesis and then test our ideas like a scientist.  We were amazed at some of the things that happened and why!!


 Ask your child if they can explain the following experiments to you.










Can you try this experiment at home?













Have fun discovering more science activities to do and remember to THINK, why does it happen? What is the science?








Saturday, October 17, 2015

Run Jump Throw

Renee and Gareth from Sports Waikato did a workshop for u on Friday showing us the correct techniques for developing our athletic's skills.

Listening to instructions.

Thinking about how we start a race.

Sprinting but always looking ahead
to the front.

We all know exactly what to do!

Fast take-off from sitting.

Add caption

Practicing our scissor jumps.


High jump  over an elastic.