Yummy Honey in my Tummy!

We finally tried the delicious honey that we were kindly given by McGregor's Honey last term. There were four different flavours - one jar had honey collected from the Whangara area, another collected from the Otoko area, another collected from the Ormond area and the last one was from around Awapuni. It was interesting to see the different colours of the honey. We wondered what different plants might be growing in these areas to alter the colour? The lighter coloured Whangara honey turned out to be a clear favourite!

 

Duckling Update....

 

Our little ducklings had a taste of the big wide world on Friday afternoon. Not enough shelter out there for these little water fowl yet so they are happily splashing in a paddling pool on our back lawn in a pen for the time being. 

We Have Ducklings!

 On Wednesday night two of our eggs hatched and then on Thursday we eagerly watched a third little duckling trying hard to break out of his shell. Their shells must be very hard because it took him all day!

It was pretty exciting when the ducklings arrived! We had lots of visitors and enjoyed sharing our ducklings with the rest of the school.....

Look at them now......They are doing so well and they LOVE playing in their water!

Baby Ducks?

On Friday we took turns hiding in Mrs Allan's cupboard to 'candle' our duck eggs to see if we have any babies developing in the incubator.....In nine of the eggs we were clearly able to see the air sac at the bottom of the eggs and the rest of the egg was dark, which is an indication that there could be a baby duck growing inside! We have our fingers crossed and have been counting down the days on the calendar until the eggs hatch (hopefully!)

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Cool Creations in Rm Tangaroa

I just love working with such a creative bunch of learners! There are new discoveries and creations every day .... and people learning from each other all the time!

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Drop, Cover, Hold!

 Today we practiced our earthquake drill as part of the New Zealand ShakeOut! Do you know what to do in an earthquake? Ask anyone in Room Tangaroa and they will be able to tell you - Drop, Cover and hold on!

Athletics Day - Year 2s

 What a fantastic day for athletics today! Everyone was super kia kaha and gave everything a go! The running races were exciting, with all runners giving 100% effort to get to the finish line as fast as they could - kia maia! The tabloid events afterwards were loads of fun too. Check out our photos here

Life Education - 2021

Last week we visited the Life Education truck. We learnt about the different types of food we eat and why it is so important to eat food throughout the day.  As always it was lots of fun and Harold the Giraffe was especially entertaining! He had some great jokes to share with us. I wonder if anyone can remember them...... For more photos click here 

Another Busy Maths Session.....

 Weighing, comparing, estimating, creating, discovering, sharing....learning.

Our Mahi in the Mara Kai

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In the last week of term 3 we spent some time preparing our mara kai for the spring. We had some serious weeding to do and some of us did some sampling along the way - you'll be able to tell from the facial expressions who likes the taste of rocket and who doesn't! 

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'Thirtysix'

 

We've been playing the maths game 'Thirtysix' to practice our addition and subtraction skills. The winner is the player who gets the closest to 36 (for addition) or the closest to 1 (for subtraction) without going past that number! It is great to see the other partners helping by checking our adding and subtracting with materials or a 100s card.

Friday Fun...

On Friday we had Joey from PBRU visit us. He introduced us to some fun games to help us practice our large and small ball skills. We had heaps of fun, while practising our catching and throwing skills. 

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Ball Skills With Joey

 

In our Happy Place!

It was great to see the great team work that went into completing out multiplication flowers on Friday! 

We worked together to make groups of number to help solve times table equations and add the answers to our outer petals. We could use all sorts of equipment to help us - teddies, counters, beans, jovi......

Axel's Awesome Multiplication Flower

 Wow Axel this is the first multiplication flower I have seen so far and you have done a fantastic job! I wonder if it helped you to learn your 3 x tables while you were creating in? I hope so :)

Harper's Bee Poem

 I have really enjoyed reading your Honey Bee poem Harper! Bees do so many important jobs for us and for our natural environment don't they! I agree that they are 'eco savers' because without them the natural world that we love would not exist. 

Fletcher the Brave!

 Is it really that warm at your place Fletcher? I think you are super kia kaha bouncing in your togs on the trampoline while you are being sprayed by the hose! Hopefully the sun is heating you up or maybe the exercise you are getting from bouncing on the trampoline is keeping your body warm....You are a lot braver than me! 

Theo's Busy Counting Owls

 Well done Theo! You've done a great job of arranging these owls in numerical order. This is a fantastic way to learn your numbers and practice counting. What number did you get up to?

Ashley Takes Up the Challenge!

 Ashley has been busy at home, working on his 'Lego Challenge' creations. Take a look at this cool boat - the challenge was to build a boat out of square and long bricks only. I think you've done an amazing job Ashley. I enjoyed hearing you explain all the details on our Google Meet this morning!

Isaac's 3 x Tables

 It is cool to see you are busy practicing your three times tables Isaac! What a great idea to use colourful teddies to create an array. Do you know what 3 x 6 equals now?

Axel's Busy Bee!

 Axel this is an awesome picture of a bee busily pollinating flowers on a fruit tree. Your bee is drawn so accurately Axel - it has three body parts and six legs and I can see its sting pointing out the back. It's tongue looks like it is sticking out, ready to suck the nectar out of those flowers!

Lucy's Latest Learning!

 What a fantastic idea to make yourself a heart words poster for your bedroom wall Lucy! I wonder how long it will take you to remember your heart words 'off by heart'.... Heart words are so useful because they are those tricky words that have letters in them that are not making their usual sounds. It's also great to see that you have had a go at the reading activities in our learning for the week. Love your work Lucy!

Axel and Isaac's Building Project

 What a cool creation Axel and Isaac have been working on here. It looks like there has been a lot of collaboration on these projects, which is great to see! I wonder where you got your ideas from and what else you can build from these parts?

Look at Cade's Creative Kai Challenge...

Look at all the foods Cade found for his Kai Challenge in the photo above! Have a look at the list below for what he found for some of those trickier letters - 

I = Immunity tea.
Q = Quince paste.
U = Uncle Bens rice.
W = Wattie's baked beans.
X = Xtra hot sauce 
Y = Yellow food colouring.
Z = Zinc vitamin drops.

Have a read of Cade's Bacon and Egg Pie poem - I think it's fair to say Cade is a big pie fan! Love your Easter Egg delivery too!

Jono's Lego Creations

 It looks like Jono has been super busy at home working on these lego creations. One of the best things about lego is that you can design and build things however you choose to! Jono has made a military base and other cool things. I wonder where you get all your ideas from Jono?

Isaac's Yummy Creations....

 

Isaac did a lot of baking at home yesterday. He has been learning about metrics and fractions in the kitchen - what a great place to be learning maths Isaac. You will have to add that to your learning map when we get back to school! Caramel surprise muffins and orange jelly made from oranges Isaac picked off the tree at home. Aren't you lucky to have fresh fruit growing in your back garden Isaac - YUM!

Ryka's Maths

 I think I might come and do maths at your place Ryka! M m Ms are one of my favourite lollies and it looks like you've got plenty. What a great idea idea to use them to make arrays to show 3 x 3 and 

3 x 10! I wonder how many are left in the array now......

Olive's Kai Challenge

 Well done Olive - you managed to find a food for EVERY letter of the alphabet! I wonder how many of these foods you have tasted before - hopefully not the cat and dog food!😁

Jerry and Dory's New Friends

Jerry and Dory are sharing their tank with some new friends! The fish from Rongomatane were having some trouble with their tank so they have come to play with Jerry and Dory, who seem happy to have some company! I hope Jerry and Dory are being kia manawanui and looking after their new friends.

 

An Update From Ryka!

 

Ryka your SAUSAGE poem is so good it is making me hungry! I agree - they are 'super yummy' and 'good in my tummy'! You've done a great job with your kai challenge as well. What about your underground city? I think I could live there! I'm glad you've enjoyed the lego challenge so far....

Lego Monday at Jack's Place

Jack has been super busy designing and making this under ground base today. It sounds like he has had heaps of fun creating his base. Great imagination shown here Jack - I wonder where you get your ideas from and how you know what an underground base looks like.....

 

Mr Allan to the Rescue!

 We were out shifting some sheep in the weekend and found this poor little lamb stuck in a hole. He had dug himself in very deep by kicking with his back legs, trying to jump out. It was quite hard for Mr Allan to dig him out again but finally he was free! Luckily his mother was not too far away and when we went back to check on him, she was giving him a drink and his tail was wriggling happily🤍

Jack's Green Fingers

This is the makeshift seed raising house Jack's family have set up at home - what a great idea! It looks like heaps of them are starting to pop up through the soil, which means they can then get transplanted into the vege patch. It sounds like Jack's been doing a great job of planting out and watering the little seedlings. 

Lucy's 3 x Tables

Lucy is hard at it again - working on her maths like a pro! What an awesome collection of buttons Lucy, and they are perfect to use to help you with your maths problems. I really like the way you have shown the four groups of three to show 4 x 3 = 12. Keep up the great work!

 

Jono's Dancing Bees

This is a great acrostic poem Jono! I especially like the way you have used several letters of the title to write your ideas - very clever! It is really interesting how the bees sing and dance to each other to tell their friends where to go and find the honey source. Sounds like you know lots about bees too Jono - thanks for sharing!

Jack's Lego Challenge

 Wow Jack has been busy already taking on one of the lego challenges from the Inquiry page on our website. I especially like the cargo you are carrying on your trailer Jack - Whittaker's chocolate is my favourite! It's also great to see Jack has been working hard on his times tables and heart words, in between lego challenges. Tino pai Jack!

Cade and Brooklyn's Chalk Creativity.....

 

I bet the people on your street had a great time playing your chalk obstacle course Cade!  To get to the treasure (& ice cream) you have to avoid the cobra’s,  spiky slugs, creepy crabs, jelly fish & sharks!. Sounds pretty challenging.....

Theo and his 'Fruity' Maths

 Here is Theo busy working on some maths. What a great idea to use the fruit to help you work out your maths problems! Did you get to eat them at the end? 😋 Isn't it great that we can all keep learning even though we aren't in the classroom. 

Jack's Amazzzzzzing Bee Work

 Jack has shown us how much he knows about bees in this great acrostic poem. I've been so impressed by the variety of ideas people have had to use in their poems - they are all super different and interesting. I really like your diagram of the bees travel throughout the day Jack. It shows that they really are 'busy bees'!