Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Measurement.

We have been exploring measurement in and around our classroom.  We used paper clips to measure how long certain things are, including our feet.  For our home learning we used our finger!  Measurement is all around us, Zane told us"my dad uses a measuring tape to help him build". We use measuring for cooking/baking, see how tall we grow, how heavy we are and lots more.









Visitors to Room 12 for writing inspiration

We have been learning to write facts about the mini beasts around us.  It was cool to see the snails slime their way around the tables as the tamariki observed and wrote the facts.




Thursday, April 14, 2016

Have you read this chapter book? Room 12 has!

We read this book everyday till we finished, we read a chapter a day, sometimes we were so engrossed in the story that Room 12 begged to read a little bit more, so we did sneak another chapter here and there.
Next term we are going to do another book by our favorite author Roald Dahl because we love to learn!

Learning is explosive FUN


Sand Volcano

We have been learning that verbs are doing words, also how to write instructions.  We made sand volcanoes by mixing baking soda and vinegar together with red food colouring - were we successful in following our instructions?
From the look on Room 12's faces I think we were:)








Puririhua Garden Visit

We decided to visit the butterfly garden once more before the end of the term 1.  We saw lots of butterflies in all the different stages of their life cycle.




Making Anzac Cookies

To tie into our learning about verbs and writing instructions we followed instructions to make some Anzac cookies.  Were we successful?  I think Room 12 will agree that we did pretty good!



Our Museum Visit

Room 12 caught the bus to the  museum, it was really neat to go out into our community to do some learning.  We did some art at the museum with Arron, we also got told a maori legend about how carvings came from the domain of Tangaroa into our everyday marae.  We learnt how rubbish can travel from anywhere into the sea, and how fish consume it, then how we consume the fish.EEEEk scary thought!
Thank you to our lovely parent helpers:)









YUUUUMMMMM FEIJOAS

A big THANK YOU to Whare for bringing 
a big bag of feijoa in to share with us,
you are so kind to others:)
We used this opportunity to write up
instructions on how to eat feijoa!!









Thursday, April 7, 2016

Our School Community - Who is your favorite and why?

Look at Zach! This is his favourite person in our Awapuni School community.

Kaea chose Doug because he is kind, and helps looks after Koby in Room 11 everyday.



Kruz chose our Awapuni School caretaker Mr Rodgers because he helps keep our school tidy and he is cool!

Monday, March 21, 2016

OUR VISITING EASTER CHICKS - Thank you Vinzent.

 Here we are being nice and quiet around the baby chickens.  They have straw and water.
Vinzent is very proud of his little chicks, he shared all his knowledge about the different breeds he has and how he looks after them.

 Nice job Daniel, you are using nice kind hands to hold it gently.


Aylah has a little yellow chick.

Our superstar today was Alex!

Here is Alex running our morning routine - sharing news. Well done Alex.

Our Community Whare.

Look at our community house statistics! We used different coloured squares to represent our different  whanau.  Come in and have a look.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Our Butterfly Garden - Thank you to Amy-Lee our photographer



Zane is very careful.

Sophie has 2!


Kaea has one on a leaf.

Nice job Olivia.


Vinzent has a handful.