The coin experiment

Ten cent coin experiment - written by Antonia

Goal: see how many drops of water you can fit on a ten-cent coin.

Equipment: eyedropper, 10 cent coin, container lid, and water.

1. Get a 10 cent coin and put it on a container lid.
2. Fill the eyedropper with water.
3. Drop by drop put the water on the ten-cent coin and record how many drops of water you got and write it down.

I wonder how much water would fit on a 20 or 50 cent coin.

I noticed that when we pushed the eyedropper the water built up, not to the sides, it formed like a bubble of water on top of it.  

Pātai/Questions

What did you notice? 

What do you think happened? 

What do you wonder?

Self Portraits

We have used Cassie Stephens blog as a motivation to design and make our own portraits.
We followed the youtube clip on how to draw the face. We had to bring in lots of tables in our class so we could all work on our art at the same time.

We could choose whether we wanted to draw with a pencil or felts. We learnt about different shapes like the football shape for the eye and colours.
Did you know that there are

• primary colours - red, blue, yellow
• secondary colours - green, orange, purple

You need to mix the primary colours to make secondary colours.
Once we had drawn the face we covered the lines with a mixture of black paint and pva glue. Then we used the chalk pastels to blend and smoosh the colours together. It was such a fun process and we have displayed them all in the class.

Hand Hygiene

Today the Public Health nurses came to talk to us about hand hygiene.

When to wash your hands
- After coughing and sneezing
- After playing or working outside
- Before preparing or eating food
- After using the bathroom
- After playing with animals

They explained how to wash our hands
1. Wet your hands
2. Put soap on your hands
3. Wash your hands - rub your hands for 30 secs which is like singing happy birthday twice.
4. Rub your hands together, between your fingers, the backs of your hands, your thumbs and your wrists

5. Rinse the soap off
6. Dry your hands

They showed us how easy it is to spread germs by putting glitter and hand sanitizer on our hands. Then we had to shake hands. You could see the glitter on people's hands, faces, the floor, in their hair. It was crazy how far that it spread.

Whānau Picnic

Family Picnic 

When: Thursday 20 February 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Families are invited to come to the hall area, buy dinner (or BYO), play games, have a swim (children), browse at the Book Fair and meet the teachers and other families.

There will be 10-minute meetings in the hall for parents to meet with the teaching teams.

Kauri - 6:00pm

Students will be able to introduce their whānau to their kaiako.

I look forward to seeing you there.

It's 2020! Welcome.

Ka tangi te tītī

Ka tangi te kākā

Ka tangi hoki ahau

Tihei mauriora! 

Ngā mihinui ki a koutou

Tēnā koutou  

Ko Taranaki te maunga

Ko Waitara te awa

Ko Tokomaru te waka

Ko Te Ātiawa te iwi

Ko Ngāti Rāhiri te hapu

Ko John toku matua

Ko Jill toku whaea

Ko Simon toku tāne

Ko Jamie raua ko Grace taku tamāhine

Ko Kat taku ingoa

Nō reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa

Kia ora,

Welcome to akomanga waru (room 8). My name is Kat Richmond and I teach year 5 & 6 students of Kea hub which is in Kauri Team.

I am looking forward to getting to know everyone and having a fantastic year of learning with the tamariki.

    

Our Old, New Blog

Kia ora whānau, 
This blog has been inactive for akomanga waru (room 8) since 2017 as for the last 2 years rooms 8 & 9 have been working as a hub. In 2020, we returned to an individual class blog. Enjoy being reading our new (old) blog.

Project Energize - Home Play Challenge

Have a look at the Project Energize website and became active doing the Home Play Challenges with ProJoe and Spoke.
When you have completed a task, take a photo, video or write about it on your own blog.