Monday 7 November 2016

MERC 2016

MERC 2016

We had such an AWESOME time at camp.  

Here are some photos of rooms 16, 21 & 22 in action, courtesy of photographer extraordinaire, Tasha, at the Year 5/6 MERC Camp. 









Select the animation you want to see and double-click to take it to full screen.  Check them out - they're VERY cool!!  (courtesy of Miss Gover)

Thanks to all of the wonderful parents who helped to make our camp possible.  We really appreciate all you do for us!

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to all of the kids in rooms 16, 21 & 22 for making this time at MERC enjoyable and memorable!




Friday 21 October 2016

What's the Matter? Let's make a change...




Our new unit of Inquiry is 
'What's the Matter?  Let's Make a Change'.  

**We will be inquiring into changes that occur when materials are mixed, heated or cooled.  
**We will be exploring the scientific process and will learn about predicting, observing, reporting and evaluating.
**Through this inquiry we will also be reading, writing and experimenting to find out more about matter and the material world.

Miss Gover has put together a 'blendspace' learning link for rooms 16, 21 & 22 to use during our collaborative inquiry unit.
Check them out!!

Monday 17 October 2016

Monday PE Fun!

Here are some of our STAR players from this morning's session.





Monday 10 October 2016

Catchy Cricket

Catching the ball was awesome.  When we were in teams I caught a high shot 4 times for the girls.  I also liked how we split the teams into boys and girls, because it didn't make the girls feel all weak. The girls won 2 out of the 3 challenges.  Go girls!
Lucy

It was really fun because you got to practice all your skills, and you still get to play fun games.  You get to show everyone your skills, that they might not have known about.  It was boys vs girls in every game.  You got to  practice your sportsmanship.
Jared

Cricket was fun because we started with working on our catching and then we started doing more fun games boys vs girls.  The girls won twice and the boys won once.  
Kera







Monday 12 September 2016

Hauora

Social Skills...  Hauora Well Being

Problem Solving with Amanda.

Today we worked on some of our Well Being tasks with Amanda.  In small groups we role played by setting a problem and then discussing using strategies we have discussed in class how we could solve these problems...

Stealing someones money...

Running away from friends...

Calling someone names...

Stealing someones Pokomon Cards...

Calling someone a names and not wanting to listen...

Hitting someone then hitting back...

Stole someones car...



Solutions:
Tell them it is not nice to steal.
If you saw it happen, ask them to return.
Ask a friend for help.
Tell your friends how it hurt you.
Ask someone else for help.
Tell your friend name calling is not nice.
Realise stealing is not a good thing to do, returned them.
Ask for them back if you know who took them.
Tell an adult.
Tell a teacher about the problem.
Use calm down strategies.
Apologise to each other.
Stealing large property items are tricky to deal with, best to phone police.



Classroom Resources:
In class the students have set up a book of 'problems' and solutions they can use to help solve them, taking ownership for their problem.  We have a list of strategies that we have all come up with to use and to help us work on a solution to our problem.   Three steps to solving our problems.  There is also an emotional thermometer that we can resort to in order to help us realise where we are with our emotions.

Wednesday 31 August 2016

ART ATTACK

We have been using our skills to create masterpieces based on New Zealand scenes.  We are proud of our efforts!
Please enjoy viewing our ART GALLERY.














Tuesday 16 August 2016

Sportsmanship

As part of our inquiry this term we have been learning about SPORTSMANSHIP.

These are our thoughts around sportsmanship:

We are consolidating all our learning and are taking action. 
This is our mission:
(keep posted ... later this week you will be able to see some of the ways we taught others about sportsmanship).






Mini Measurement Olympics



As part of our start to our MEASUREMENT learning in maths this week, Room 16, 21 and 22 are holding a mini measurement Olympic Games.

We are using our knowledge of measurement: distance, mass and capacity when competing.

On Monday we held an opening ceremony, complete with our Olympic torch bearer, Mr Du Plooy.  We stated our Olympic oath, and listened to our Olympic song, 'We are the Champions.'   

Let the Games Begin!




In teams of 3 or 4 we are competing.  We are showing what we have learnt about SPORTSMANSHIP throughout the games.
Each athlete has 3 attempts and with their team measures either the distance, mass or capacity of their try depending on the event.  Teams are also challenged to find the average of their groups measurements.

Here are the events:





Here are some of the teams competing in the Javelin Straw Throw

















We can't wait for the Olympic Award Ceremony on Thursday!

Friday 8 July 2016

Life Education

Life Education:

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This term we were very lucky to have Chris and Harold the Giraffe come in and talk to us about our amazing body systems.




We were able to learn a lot about different body systems and how they function to help us all out.




You have brains in your head. 
You have feet in your shoes. 
You can steer yourself any direction you choose! 
--Dr. Seuss--






Friday 24 June 2016

Matariki





During Week 8 of this term we went on a trip to the Kumeu Library to participate in an interactive show about Matariki around New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

We had a great time and found out so many new things about Matariki and the Islands that make up the Pacific.

We were also able to present our knowledge about Matariki in an assembly for our Te Henga team.






Friday 13 May 2016

Science and Technology Roadshow






Our visit to the Science Roadshow was a fun, exciting and interactive learning experience of science. 

It included live shows and hands-on exhibits that broadened the students of rooms 16-21-22's knowledge of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It strongly supports the Nature of Science strand and the Five Foundational Science Capabilities.
Each year the shows, themes and exhibits change, so there's always something new for students to learn and engage with.  This year the roadshow was all about:
Mighty Materials — The physical and chemical properties of substances like metals and fabrics and how these are put to use in everyday applications
Sounding Out Waves — The characteristics of sound such as pitch, volume, how fast it travels, what substances it travels through, how it travels and the many effects these have on things we can or cannot hear.
The following link is from the Science Roadshow when they were at MOTAT, it provides a little insight into what the roadshow is all about, such a great learning experience!!!   science roadshow

ROOM 21 STUDENT WRITING ABOUT THE SCIENCE ROAD SHOW....   ENJOY


I went to the science roadshow last friday. I did lots of things. Here they are.

First I did sound waves. It was very loud! We had to put our hand up so the sound could get louder and we  did it on a TV. It really did get louder. Then that’s how it got boisterous.

the one that I liked was seeing the other experiments. I saw this very complex one It was colors that you had to say but you had to say the colors. There was red that was blue. Yellow that was red. Blue that was yellow. It was so confusing but enjoyable.

WAIT it is not the end yet. Next I did this one that had a balloon that got bigger. I put a needle under the balloon.                                       was very strong to not pop.

I saw this volume box that you had to set on fire it was so amazing because everyone was loud and it got higher the more loud it was.

I had to go back to school and go on the bus again then  I got back to school.

The Roadshow was great and it could never get better.



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Science  roadshow                
On the 6th of may room 22 and room 16 and  my class went to the amazing  science roadshow.  When we got there A very nice man came and welcomed us to the school .we got to look around there  school hall .then we sat down and they talk to us about …


THE SCIENCE SOUND SHOW!!! 
And they talked about how how sound works.Like when a balloon  pops in a jar its quiter . Fire for some reason makes a noise. 
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cool !!! and ya . They also showed us different liquids, it was pretty fun. one day they might come to our school we hope.                                                                              


After that we got to do some of the activities .Like there was a what's in the box they put crazy stuff like pinecones, coins, driftwood, stuff like that. we did a whole bunch of stuff. There was a human body you could take out lungs, stomach, heart , liver, bladder and you can take those apart and when you take them out you can put them back in .

I hope you like my science roadshow with all the activities like human body, whats in the box stuff like that hope you enjoyed reading about it.


Boom! Welcome to the science roadshow at Helensville primary. On friday three huapai classes rooms 22, 16 & 21 that’s my class. We wandered around looking at lots of different experiments. But there was one that was very interesting to me, so there’s a target also speedmonator. If you don’t hit the target it dosen’t count. But if you do it say how much kilometers your throw is going.The highest was 51 I got 48. As you can see there is me, and my friends Ivo, Sam and Jack doing a game it’s a food puzzle. Best trip ever!

On friday our class room 21 and two more classes 22 & 16 went     on a trip to Helensville school, because there was a science show.      To get there we had to go in buses it was so loud  & annoying the  howl time they all sang wheels on the bus jared & me just ignored it. When we got to the school and in the hall all the experiments looked so awesome there was heaps of them to look at but, my favourite was the target. Because it was amazing but I like all the other science projects to. I was a little tired and hungry too, I had lots of fun.!!!

On Friday room 21 22 and 16 went on a Science Roadshow. There was lots of Amazing science like how fast you throw a baseball.  The way they know how fast it went because of a speed monitor. I through it 32 km an hour.  Then I went to see if i might win something.  I didn’t but did try which is a good thing.  I tried every single one they were all quite amazing.    Then they got us down to the floor to show us some experiments that were quite cool.  They showed how to disintegrate polystyrene with toxic  lipid that could kill a person if they had too much of it.  But they still had more.  The still had one more to talk about.  It was about water evaporation.  It was cool but now we had to go it was an awesome day.
POP! Last week room 21, 22, 16 went. There were lots of different amazing science experiments. We wandered around looking at all the different pieces of science. My favourite one was you had to throw the ball as hard as you can. My second favourite one was the mystery box the mystery box had a pine cone in it. The funniest one was the toilet one we had to push the trigger to pump the water and then flush.
Yay everyone shouted as we walked onto the bus. We were all so excited.
On Friday rooms 22, 21 and Rm 16 all went to the science roadshow at helensville school.
When we got there all the kids outside were just standing around and talking it didn’t seem very exciting but, as soon as we got into the hall you could see all the interesting science project. We all sat down in lines and waited and chatted for a little bit. Then by the time  they came out we were so excited to learn about some science things and stuff. There were four science projects with a fluro yellow flag next to it and you would get a card and if you figured out what the meaning of the project is you get a clip in the card and you have to get  2 clips and then you write your name on it and put it in the box and they draw 2 people from the box and I won it and my prize was a 3d printed dragon and when you put it in natural sunlight it turns purple. And the other person got a red one and when you make it warm it turns pink.
BY EMALIE


Friday 22 April 2016

HUAPAI Extreme Exercise Extravaganza...

HUAPAI Extreme Exercise Extravaganza...

On Thursday and Friday of Week 10 the students and staff took art in an amazing fund raising event called the "HUAPAI Extreme Exercise Extravaganza..."  This was to help raise money for the best adventure playground in West Auckland!  We are still awaiting sponsorship money to be returned, it is never too late!



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Plan
See:
Hear:
Feel:
  • Trying to get a really good grip.
  • Sweat dripping down their face.
  • “Heave pull”
  • House chants
  • Screaming and shouting
  • Sore
  • Tired
  • Exhausted
  • Felt like jelly




Write to describe that moment in time. “Tug o war”
Just imagine pulling the long light brown rope that is as long as a train. The rope slipping out of your hands and the adrenaline rushing through your veins you  feel the excitement as you creep further away from the the other team but the rope is still sitting firmly in your hand your eye and your face scrunched up with sweat dripping down your forehead. You feel the excitement really hitting you know as the crimson rag tied onto the middle of the rope creeps closer and closer and closer. The excitement is keeping you determined.

Just listen to everyone yelling and screeching as they cheer you on, house chants fill the air and all you can hear is the deafening sound of everyone screeching. “ Go Akaroa,”. That is all you could hear take up all the time to actually believe it.

Your legs feel like jelly, you’re exhausted and extremely sleepy your hands are aching and your head is really hot from the sun shining on you the whole day. Your body is like spaghetti, and your is roasting like chicken. Your face is all red and is like a big cherry all you want now is to give up, but you can’t you should be determined to finish this match with the other side.

This is what it would be like to be in the shoes of an exhausted person doing the extremely hard tug o war.

By Emalie

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Grunt, grunt the children hesitate, gripping the rope with both hands while the sun beats down on them. They felt their sunblocked hands gently slipping away from the rope, they try to yank the twisty rope back to their side, but it was no use they needed more force. Everyone didn’t want to let their team down but someone obviesly wanted to win more than anybody else because they put up enough force for the rest of the kids to join in. The tight knot passed the cone they had won the tug of war!


They felt tired and sweaty and the worst thing was they had to do it  all over again on friday.




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On Thursday we had an extreme exercise extravaganza event. I’m going to tell you about one event biking around the whole school three times.

Yeah, as the teachers cheering with excitement. Crash, as the kids skid across the ground. Zoom, as kids firing past the seniors. Exhausted, as mr hutchings says “keep going only two laps to go”.

The sounds of the kids screaming get out the way. The bells on the bike is as loud, as lion roaring for pride. Honking of the cars speeding past right next to me. Adults screeching for their kids attention.

This was the extreme exercise bike race!!!

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They can see the kids lining up nervously to the start line, ready set go, the flag drops They race off with their feet working hard to pedal and keep balance.  After a while everyone decided to stroll and everybody got puffed (lucky it wasn’t a race.)

They really enjoyed this moment on there bikes and just strolling. There Mum’s could be there cheering them on saying keep peddling keep peddling. Their second lap was very fast  they could feel their helmet rattling and They could hear the wind pushing hard against their face. They  loved the feeling of this entertaining bit of the day.

Everyone’s third lap was very short. All we had to do is go down to the grippy astro turf and did some enjoyable stuff. We played who can go the slowest. Some people did incredible.  After that we played elimination where People were on the bikes and Kevin was telling us to to go around in circles turn around and not let us put our feet on the ground.


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Write to describe that moment in time.

A few weeks ago it was the Extreme Exercise Extravaganza at Huapai District school. Us students did activities and a big walk. It was so cool and amazing.

Leafs are falling off on the footpath and bushes have a bunch of leafs.




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Write to describe that moment in time.
This is huapai  school they are doing the extreme fitness and  they are doing tug or war! 
they are pulling a massive rope and it's a big HARD ROPE and they are doing this in teams of 2.
They are trying to win they will win nothing if they dont pull.  
The teams names are blue house. green house purple house and red house.  
The last team to go was green vs adults and it was unfair!! And the adults won.  
then we did more on thursday! Then we all went home, very tired.

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People pulling.
Everyone using their muslles.
Some people falling.
Hands are tiering

Write to describe that moment in time.

Everyone was getting ready to play tug-of-war.They got in their houses and the teachers in their  houses gave the people in their houses gave them tips to win.

One teacher called the groups for the teams to vs with another team.If the year the teacher called at team he must some thing for eg: akaroa 5 and 6s vs muananiu 5 and 6s.

The two teams got in their places and pasitions.They both held the rope.Mr Huchings got everyone ready.He counted people if they are even and if they are not he sends him back to thier place.
Mr Huchings said “ready!Steady!Pull!”Everyone used thier mighty strength to pull the rope.Their cheer leaders shouted their chant.Most of the teachers shouted to their teams and said “Heave!Heave!”

The children pulled hard as they.their mussles were getting bigger and bigger.some children were starting fall down because the other the other team was to strong.


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Write to describe that moment in time.
  • Rotate furiously.
  • Whoosh
  • AAAAAAHHHHHH
  • Yelp
  • Scrape
  • Screams
MY MOMENT IN TIME WRITING
Te Hunga team are on the bikes. The year seven and eights go first. They go down the steep narrow path. In single file they are off. They are no longer in sight. Now it is time for the year six and fives to go the year sixes go first. They all go down makes sure they have there hands on their brakes. Finally it is my go I am the last year six to go down. I feel nervous. I feel like the whole world is on my shoulders.

I go down the path. The the air greets my face. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I scream so loud that I bet the whole earth and universe could hear me. We all turn down the path and head beyond the school. There is now a windy narrow path ahead. It goes down and it was incredibly narrow.

This is where is goes all WRONG for me. I turn to go down it and I looked at. I also looked at all of the others going down and think I can do this. I went down. I felt like my tummy was a storage unit for butterflies. I put on my back brakes but my foot slipped and the petal was behind my ankle and I had to put my feet on the ground so I did. That really hurt. Some skin came off. I skidded to a halt. I pulled over. The others kept on going. I got off my bike and walked the rest of the way. When I got back they were all there even the year ones. I was the last one to finish. I felt sort of ashamed but at least I tried.

I felt good and bad because I did it but I was the last one to arrive and I AM A YEAR SIX!
The soar still felt like three bees stinging me at the same time.




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Write to describe that moment in time.
Tug of  War Pull!
See the other group pulling
Hear groans
Felt like it was hard

House Colour Tug of War

Last week we had a Big tug of war.

My house Lost the first game but we won the next game.

In the Tug of war game it was my house colour turn soon we hold the rope and we pull! I see the  other group pulling and I heard the other group groans and    l Felt like it was hard.




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                                       see
There are kids polling the rope.   There are kids falling and slipping on the hard cold ground  from poling the rope.

                                                                  Hear
There are  people screaming and cheering all over the plays.

                                        Feel
There hands feel sore and tired from polling the rope. It was  extremely hot.


The Extreme Exercise Extravaganza…

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I was in the enormous crowd of bikes I could hear kids shouting and birds whistling. I can also hear lots of teachers  telling us all the rules the safety rules. I hear all the trees screaming . I see enormous trees the size of skyscrapers I I      also could see a stampede of bikes and a lot of helmets !!!. :)


The Extreme Exercise Extravaganza…
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After Lunch We Did Tug OF War 
First Up There Was Year 5-6 Red (Sorry Cant Spell It In Maori) Vs Blue I'm A Red House Captain So I Could Do Nothing Just Like The Rest. It Was Hard I Haft To Say But Red Won 
Then It Was Year 5-6 Green Team Vs Purple And I Think Green Won. 
Then Year 7-8 Purple Vs Year 7-8 Red Then Red Bet Them Again When Red Came Back From Pulling The Were Sweaty And They Smelt Bad To. 
Then It Was 7-8 Green Vs Blue, Blue Won 
Then Year 5-6 Purple Vs Blue Purple Won 
The Thing That Sucked The Most Is That It Was Green Vs Blue Then Blue Vs Purple Because Red Didn’t Have A Turn For Like 40 Mins 
All The Year 7-8 Had Lots Of Turns But Year 5-6 Had Only 2 Turns Everyone Else Had Like 5. 
The Funny Thing At The End Of Tug OF War The Teachers and Parents Vs All The Year 7-8s But Not 5-6 =(


The Extreme Exercise Extravaganza…

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Ben points at people as they ride out of school. We went round the school. We only had to stop once. It was immensely fun. The second time round there was my brothers friend. He had crash and badly hurt his arm. There was looking at him. Then a teacher came and looked after him we kept going. Close to the end there was a big hill we had to get up there was a lot of people were panting i felt tired but an extrodinery sense of achievement.



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THE TUG OF WAR.
HE HE HEEE They feel that burning rope as it pulls closer and closer.Using all our strength the sound get’s bigger and enormous,The crowd is yelling in everyone’s ear come on repeating come on!

They all feel a twitch and then they all fall back they all hear the crowd as they scream out like thunder.They see the other’s struggling to pull the rope.They feel all the excitement it’s going crazy.
We really enjoyed the TUG OF WAR.



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Bikes are not doing any thing

I see bikes and grass.  Children are sitting on their bikes.

i hear wind.  teacher and children chatting.

i feel rubber skin in my shoe a bike seat my hands on the handles on the bike




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Write to describe that moment in time.





See:
Hear:
Feel:
  • People heaving the rope.
  • Heapes of people slipping and tripping.
  • People spring in the air.
  • House people screeching.
    • Tough rope in my hands.
    • Tired.
    • Excited.
    • Happy.
    • Hard ground.




    START:
    The sunlight slowly moving down as people tugged the rope.

    There are 1,000s of people heaving the rope.  There are people screaming and cheering.  There are house people springing in the air.  Heaps of people slipping and tripping.  There is people with Puffing red faces.


    There are birds tweeting.  House people sereming and cheering.  There was stomping feet hitting the grass.  There were people breathing deeply.  People were trying as hard as they can shouting heave.



    The tough rope  in my hand make me happy.  We were all tired and poofed.  When we first touched the rope we were excited.  When we won the first round we were happy.  There was very hard ground.