Discovery

On Friday we had Discovery. We got to go on the balance boards and sandpit. We went on the obstacle course and we did construction.

My favourite bit was the balance board. Ir was hard because of the tube at the bottom. I think I managed to stay on for 20 seconds but it was tricky.

Oliva's Learning - W.a.l.t create a repeating pattern and know our colours.

This is a photo of Olivia and her collaged Sun. This artwork was created by Olivia as a response to the text ‘How Maui slowed the Sun’. Olivia worked very hard all week and tore, glued, or tore and glued, every square of paper used to make this collage. Even elements such as the eyes that are made of three different shapes and the mouth full of teeth were all her work. The sun’s rays were made by tracing around her hands. Initially we were going to have other room 10 students help with the process but Olivia took such ownership and pride in the project that it was all left up to her so that it would remain all her’s. The Room 10 children were incredibly proud of Olivia’s commitment to the project and perseverance over the course of the week. It seemed a huge task at the start of the week but by Friday, Olivia had truly produced something to be proud of and she was. At gathering yesterday Olivia received a certificate for demonstrating our value of perseverance. She also demonstrated commitment by committing to the task and seeing it through to completion. We now have a beautiful piece of artwork in our classroom and it complements the crayon and dye illustrations that were completed last week.

Cooking with Patti

We made battered broccolini with Pauline's mum. First we had to chop the broccolini up and then we put it in the flour. Next we dipped it into the batter and fried it. 

We ate it with a home made tomato sauce. It was good. It was crunchy and really yummy.

I would eat broccolini again.

By Zac

Fish Art

As part of our St James Day, we created some fish art to represent St James, who was a fisherman who became the fisher of people.

We used wavy lines of blue paints to create the waves. We ripped colour paper into squares and used them to create a collage of a fish. We outlined our fish in glitter to make our fish stand out.

We hope you enjoy our artwork. Come into class to see the real thing.

Maui inpired Art

We have been reading, 'How Maui slowed the sun.' We were inspired to create our own illustrations using crayon and dye to show the sun and Maui holding the magic jaw bone.

Inquiry - Our Body Systems

In Inquiry, we have been learning about the different body systems - nervous system, skeletal system, circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system and muscular system. We shared some interesting facts during our assembly this week.

Here is a flip book with more of our favourite facts about each system.

Our Assembly

Our Assembly

As part of hosting the assembly this week, we shared some of our learning.

During our study of the trinity we learnt a Snowman poem. The three parts of the snowman’s body represent the three parts of the Holy trinity. The base represents God – our strong rock and foundation. The middle represents Jesus with his arms opened wide. The head of the snowman represents the Holy Spirit which fills our hearts and minds with our strong faith and love.

We have been enjoying a great selection of books about Maui. One of our favourite books is ‘How Maui Slowed the Sun’. As a response to text we have created some dye and crayon illustrations depicting the sun and Maui holding the magic jawbone.

During our inquiry learning about ‘The Body’ we have been learning about the different Body Systems – The skeletal system, circulatory system, muscular system and digestive system.  We have created some A3 sized posters to share our favourite facts. Mrs Edwards particularly enjoyed hearing Sebastien’s fact about the cartilage in our ears and nose.

Charlotte brought one of her favourite CDs to school to share with us. She taught us the moves to her favourite song, ‘God’s love is bigger than a burger’. We have been working hard with Charlotte to learn the movements and this has quickly become a class favourite.

Our Gathering

Matthew 16:13-20 One day Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" "Some people say that you are John the Baptist; others say that you are Elijah or Jeremiah or one of the other wise prophets from the past." Then Jesus said, "But who do you say that I am?" The disciples were silent until Peter said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus smiled at Peter and said, "My heavenly Father has helped you to understand this. You are Peter (Petros), and on this rock (Petra) I will build my Church. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven; whatever you enforce here on earth will be enforced in heaven, whatever you dismiss her on earth will be dismissed in heaven." Then Jesus ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ, the Messiah that God had promised.

In the Gospel that we shared we talked about Peter's strong faith. He was like a strong rock - standing strong in his faith and speaking up for Jesus even when what he had to say sounded almost unbelievable. He became a strong rock upon which to build God's holy church.

We showed a picture that we made to illustrate that the Church is not a building - 'We are the Church!'

Great writers!

In Team 10 we have been working hard to achieve our writing goals.  Today two of our children wrote amazing stories that achieved their goals of writing clearly and adding details.  Well done!!

Blog Commenting

Responding to a blog post is called a comment. We talked about what a great blog comment would have. We decided that when we comment we always have to: Say hello, bula, kia ora etc Then we say something about the learning we have seen. Next we can leave a question if we want to find out more. Finally we can say something nice again. Can you follow this way of commenting when you see something on our blog that you want to comment about?

Baptism

We have been learning about the sacrament of Baptism.



This is a 'Y' chart we created as a class.  It shows us what being welcomed by God looks like, sounds like and feels like.

Here are some of Team 10's baptism photos.  We were so cute...

Bones Bones Bones

In Team 10, we have been learning about our skeletons.


This is Mr Skelebones, he shows  the bones in the skeleton we have been learning about.

Murphy has completed the Home Learning challenge!!Here is the detailed poster he created.  It teaches us about some of the bones in the body. He created it using toothpicks.

Here is a catchy song that helps us learn the names of our bones.

Team 10's dance.

Have a look at Room 10's amazing dancers.  We have been learning about cannons and choreography.  Dean McKerras helped us to develop our dance.

Discovery Time in the stunning Junior School!

Have a look at the pictures we took at Discovery Time last week.  We are discovering all sorts of wonderful learning opportunities.  The key competencies we are focussing on are: Relating to others, participating and contributing and thinking.