New Bikes

Today we had a very special delivery to our school.  We are now the proud owners of 15 new bikes.  Our class was lucky enough to be chosen to be the first ones to use the bikes.  Here is a picture of us all with the bikes.

Communication over time

This term we have been busy looking at the history of communication.  We researched different types of communication and discussed why communication has changed over time.  We put a timeline presentation together to share our findings.

Click on the above image to view our presentation!

Geometry

For the last two weeks we have been exploring Geometry.  We have looked at 2D and 3D shapes, symmetry, reflection, rotation, translation and tessellation.  We have been using shapes to create pictures.  Here are a couple of pictures that the children have created.

A robot by Arlo

A rocket by Royston

A table with food by Jorja

A person by Georgia.

Everyone has poster their tessellation patterns and their 2D shape pattern to their blog. We are looking forward to seeing if we get any comments.

Term Two

Welcome to Term Two.
We all had a very exciting morning with a visit from the U20's New Zealand Football team.  They bought along the World Cup Trophy that they will be playing for next year.  We all got to have our photo taken with it.  We also got to player little games and learn lots of skills and tricks from the team.

Adam has met Beckham.

Nikora was a star!

Georgia and Charlee with the Trophy.

The team arriving at school.

Watching the tricks!

Buzzy Bees

We have made our own buzzy bees from egg cartons.  

 Our buzzy bee before we added the wings and antennae.

Honey Place

We had an amazing class trip today to The Honey Place in Kerikeri.  We got to experience what it is like in a beehive, in the biggest beehive in New Zealand and Australia.  We got to see the Queen bee laying eggs, the worker bees looking after and feeding the babies and even the worker bees doing the waggle dance.  It was truly amazing to watch the bees in action and see everything that we have learnt in action.
We even got to taste some different types of honey.  When we returned to school we made our own wax candles.

 The biggest hive in New Zealand.

Bees at work inside the hive. 

 Can you spot the Queen bee?  All the worker bees form a circle and turn to face the Queen.

Back at school making our wax candles.

Last week Elgregoe the magician visited our school to preform his you've got the power show.  His show teaches key values that relate to our school values.  This year his show talked about cyber bullying which related nicely with our focus this term.  We all enjoyed his magic tricks.  Callum got to be one of his assistants.