Baby Hedgehog

Lots of students came inside all excited saying that they had found a baby hedgehog by the big mural at the end of the basketball court. The little hedgehog was fascinating to watch, to see it move, snuffle and curl up into a ball. We weren't sure why it would be awake during the day as hedgehogs are nocturnal, maybe it was sick. It got moved to the other side of the metal fence but later in the day it had moved itself back into a nice hole in the wood to have a sleep.

Our class had lots of discussions about what it looked like as well as lots of quick looks outside to check no one was touching it.

Look how cute the baby hedgehog looks curled up in the leaves.

We also did some writing about it using the chrome books.

The Day the Crayons Quit

Today the story for you to listen to is:

The Day the Crayons Quit

Here are some tasks to do:

Write a new letter from one of the other crayons to Duncan. Illustrate the letter with drawings only using that coloured crayon.

Yellow and Orange crayons have an argument about the colour of the sun. What colour is the sun? How can you prove your answer?

Write Duncan's replies to the crayons' letters.

Find out about colour. What is it? Why do we see things in different colours?

Write a story about a magic, multi-coloured crayon. What might happen to the person that uses it?

Design a box or packet or pencil case to keep your crayons in. Use lots of colour.

Find the synonyms for different colours (eg red = crimson, rose, cherry etc). Make a colour thesaurus that you can refer to in your own writing.

Build something out of crayons. Take a photo of it.

Create a poster that teaches children about primary, secondary and tertiary colours.

Use paint to create many different shades of the same colour.

Design a new wrapper for the peach crayon.

Have fun! Send me photos of your creations to put on the blog.

Wiki Rima

 Kia ora koutou, 

This week is a little different. You will do online learning Monday, Tuesday and Friday, which you can find on here and in your google drive. Check daily for new tasks.

If your last name starts with an A-L you will come to school on Wednesday.

If your last name starts with M-Z you will come to school on Thursday.

You will need to wear a mask in the classroom.                                  

Today is Pānui - a reading task.

The Bomb - author Sacha Cotter

Listen and watch the video.

I love this story, who doesn't love swimming, rope swings into the river and for some of you bombs at Wellington Street beach or off the bridge at Raglan.

Here are some tasks to do:

Write a moment in time when you went swimming, or did a manu, or went down a waterslide. Use all your senses to describe your experience.

Design and plan the perfect bomb. Maybe you could test it using a lego person?

Write a list of instructions for the perfect bomb or manu.

Build a prototype of a platform or structure that could be used to jump off into the water. Use whatever materials you have or draw it on google drawing.

Make something that you could use in the water, either for the river, a pool or the sea. Be creative.

Have fun! Send me photos of your creations to put on the blog.

Jessie and Miss Ally make Slime

Jessie and Miss Ally have been busy in their bubble making slime. Do you know how to make it?

Do you know a different way to make slime? Write a comment on the blog. Remember to put your name and room number too.

Mahi Term 4 Week 4

Kia ora koutou, 

Wow, the term is flying by and we are already in week four of the term. Thank you to all the students working hard on their Education Perfect tasks and the George's Marvellous Medicine activities. Please keep sending me the work you have done so I can share it on our blog. 

Here is a selection of activities for this week in the slideshow.

Make sure you are getting outside, running around, going for a bike ride, a scooter or a skate on your skateboard. 

Also if anyone is keen to have a zoom call, email me to tell me what you would like to talk about.

Bubble Toru

Kia ora koutou, 

This is a little snapshot of Bubble Toru at school. We are in room 18 and the hub next to room 17. The teachers in our bubble are Whaea Kat, Whaea Robyn and Mrs Tyler. Mrs McKenzie comes to help us out too.

We played on Tōtara whenua, in the sandpit, with the basketball and used the sports equipment.

We found a wriggly stick insect.

We went for a walk to Putikitiki along te ara o ngahere to the new outdoor learning area.

What have you all being doing at home? Send me a photo of you via your goggle drive or send me a text.

George's Marvellous Medicine Part 3

Kia ora koutou, 

This is that last 5 chapters of the book. I hope you have enjoyed listening to it and had fun trying out some of the tasks. 

Mahi from George's Marvellous Medicine

Here is a selection of mahi from George's Marvellous Medicine. Ka pai. Keep sharing your mahi with me via your drive, email or text.

Big pot bubbling on the stove  & a shopping list- Leni

Would large animals be good or bad? What are the good points and the bad points for this? - Jake

Bigger pieces of meats and other foods.	They might step on you.
Don’t need many animals.	They will have big poops.
Good to try new things.	Where would they sleep?
They could be friendly	How would we get the food
What if some animals couldn’t grow	What would they eat?

Mahi - Vienna-Lee

Mahi wiki rua

Kia ora koutou, kei te pēhea koutou? 

I hope you've all had a relaxing long weekend with your whānau. I have set tasks on Education Perfect for you to continue with.

The big focus for this week is to listen to George's Marvellous Medicine and share as many activities with me as you can. 

Look at last weeks activities and do some of those too.

I will be in touch with your whānau via text later today.

Have a fabulous day.

George's Marvellous Medicine

Kia ora, here is our shared book for the next 3 weeks. 

This slideshow covers the first four chapters. Do some of the activities and share them with me.

Term 4

 Kia ora koutou, kei te pēhea koutou?

What has everyone been doing in lockdown? I have been reading, walking, hanging out with my family and the fur babies. I have also been planting some vegetables. I'm interested to see what the purple capsicum looks and tastes like when it grows.

Well it's an interesting start to term 4 for us. I have put a slideshow together with some activities that you can work on.

If you have something else that you are interested in learning email me or share your work through your drive and we can work on it together.

Foam Dough at kura

During lockdown, the recipe for foam dough was on the blog. The students in the level 3 bubble at kura had fun experiencing it, so akomanga 17 tamariki had a turn making it and playing with it too.

We had lots of questions like: 

What happens if we add more cornflour? 

Can we mix colours together? 

What should we do if it's more crumbly? 

It's really sticky how can we make it more like dough?

We had a lot of fun and made quite a big mess!

Week 7

Kia ora koutou, 

Here is this weeks slideshow with many activities on it. 

Thanks to Catherine for some ideas this week.

Have a fabulous day. Ka kite. Whaea Kat

Hauora Challenge

Kia ora koutou, 

In a previous slideshow there were some slides about hauora or well-being showing some ideas how to maintain your well-being during lockdown. 

Emily designed a slideshow that has challenges for you and your family to work on over the week. Check it out below.

E Pro 8 Lockdown Challenge

Some of you will remember watching the students that represented Hamilton East School building fantastic structures for the EP Pro 8 school challenge. 

Well, you can do this with your family this time. 

Check out the EPro8 Lockdown Challenge.

You will need 1 ream of A4 paper and 1 roll of sellotape.

Have fun!

Bubble #2 Science

On the blog today I put up a post showing how to make Foam Dough using shaving cream, cornflour and food colouring.

We had so much fun. We had so many wonderings about what was happening as we were making it. We were trying to think like scientists.

Here are some photos of what we were doing.

What did you yours turn out like? 

What would you do differently next time?

Term 3 Week 6 2021

Rāhina te 30 o Here-turi-kōkā

Kia ora koutou,  kei te pēhea koutou? I hope everyone is doing well at home. Please keep sending your work and photos so I can post it under the Lockdown 2.0 tab at the top of the page.

Here is this weeks slideshow with different activities. 

Tuhituhi Tasks

Check out the different writing activities in the slideshow. 

There is a copy of it in your Google Drive.

Fizzy Fun

WATCH. Vinegar + Baking Soda + Balloons = FIZZY Fun

TALK. What happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar? Why? What is a chemical reaction? What is it that filled up the balloon? How did it happen? What would happen if you changed the amounts of vinegar and baking soda?

DO. Complete your own vinegar + baking soda experiment. 

Remember, the video we watched was a demonstration but we want to create our own scientific experiment so we need to change some of the variables (the parts of the experiment we can control and change).

You need to come up with your hypothesis - what you think will happen when you make certain changes (I predict that adding ... will make the balloon ...).

Complete your experiment and record your results. Was your hypothesis correct?

Kinetic Sand

I saw this video about making kinetic sand and it looks fun. Maybe you have the ingredients to make your own too.