Team 1's Cupcake Day for the S.P.C.A.

As part of our Inquiry Unit on Pets and the S.P.C.A. Team 1 had a Cupcake Day for the S.P.C.A. The teachers in Team 1 made cupcakes and the children paid $1 to buy a cupcake. The teachers also made cupcakes for the staff to buy. We will take the money to the S.P.C.A. when we go later in the week.

Joy Watson - Visiting Author.

Last term we did an author study on three authors. One of these authors was Joy Watson. She lives in Havelock North. When we were doing our author study we talked to Joy Watson using a polycom conference. On August the 27th Joy Watson came to visit our school.

She told us about her family. She has nine children altogether - seven daughters, two sons and twenty eight grandchildren.

Joy Watson has had fifteen books published - five of these are about Grandpa. All of these books are still available to buy. Some of her other books that she had with her were,"Just in Case," "Zita the Zebra'" and "Pets." She told us that she writes stories because she likes reading stories. She also talked about having an idea and how it can be true or made up. She read us a Camel story. Matua gave her some flowers and Joshua said thank you and gave her one of Mrs. E's famous cakes. We really enjoyed her visit and wish she could have read a whole story but she had to go onto Team 2.

Our Maths Discovery Day

On Friday the 17th of August Team 1 had a Maths Discovery Day to coincide with New Zealand Maths Week. All of the activities involved Maths in some way. In Room 2 the activities were Guess the number of Beans (the answer was 112 so well done Matua!), triangular puzzles, time activities, tangrams, calculators, cooking, dominoes and maths games. Some of the activities the other three classes had were weighing, estimating, target throwing, Interactive Whiteboard activities, geometrical patterns and symmetry activities. We had to complete an activity in three different classrooms. A big thank you has to go to Mr. Dunn and the Room 15 students who helped us with the activities. It was great to see the big children helping the little children.

Each day of the week we did the daily challenges off the website and on Friday afternoon we went to the Computer Suite to play some of the maths games.

Everyone enjoyed Maths Week and had lots of fun.

Maths Week

From August the 13th -17th is Maths Week in New Zealand. The aim of Maths Week is to keep students interested in Maths. Maths Week resources are available to parents and students through the www.mathsweek.org.nz website. All the children in Room 2 are registered for this site and have been given their user name and password in their learning and thinking diary. This means if you have a computer that they can go on at home if you choose to. I suggest doing the ordering, jigsaw and square brick games first. Start at Level 1.To celebrate Maths Week Team One will be having a maths discovery day.

Have fun!

Bob Bickerton came to South School on Wednesday the 8th of August. He is a musician who can play lots of different instruments. He made us laugh a lot. Here are some of Room 2's stories.

I am watching a man playing instruments and he is good and I like his tune. We all liked the music and I laughed because the man was being silly. Me and Matua laughed the most in Team One. by Luca

I saw Bob Bickerton. He had a guitar. It was loud and he was funny. He was crying. Then he stopped. Then he had to do some music with Team 3. by Kayan

My favourite instrument was the harp at the show. It was cool at the show. Isobel's favourite is the harp too. I like the sound because big things sound low and small things sound high. by Grace

We went to Bob Bickerton and I saw the instruments. I had fun because he showed us the instruments. by Charlotte

I liked the violin because it was a beautiful sound. It was a beautiful instrument. by Zion

Team 1's Visit to the Aquarium

On Friday the 3rd of August Team 1 went to the Aquarium in Napier.
We went into the classroom first and Jacque told us the rules. Then we went on a tour with Jake. After that we went into the classrom. We learnt about mammals and fish. Jacque showed us the inside of a fish and then we played a game, "Is it a fish?" Next we went into the new Enviro room with Karlee. She showed us the new piece of artwork and talked about recycling. Then we played Fish Bingo. We had a great day and had some tired people on the bus on the way home.


Here are some of our stories:

I was standing in a shark and I saw a fish and an eel. It was cool because it was electric. by Zion

The shark is big. Mrs. Heald is in the water. The shark is in the water. by Tyrell

Mrs. Heald she swam with the sharks and the fish. We went in the bus. by James

We played, "Is it a fish?" and a crab is not a fish. We packed it up. by Bryan

I saw Mrs. Heald. She was swimming in the water. She was nearly by the shark. by Mahesha

Symmetry

In week 2 of term 3 we studied Symmetry. We made symmetrical patterns using geoboards and pegboards. These are some of our patterns.