Stu Duval teaches us cartooning

Stu is a great storyteller. He showed us how to make cartoons frm letters and numbers.

The Kowhai team went to the hall to listen to Stu tell us stories and show us how to cartoon.

Stu taught us 'An S, two dots, a prickle and a line.' This makes a funny face.

Here is Stu making a face fropm a Z.

We had a go.

This is a dinosaur made form the number 5. Can you see the 5?

We showed Stu our sketches.

Museum trip

Room 13 went to the Museum. We all agreed we wold like to go there more often. 

SUCH an interesting place!

So much to see!

We had an I Spy activity. As we found each thing on the paper we had to put a sticker on it.

Ms Jones really liked the outfit in the glass case in the background.She thought it would make a good school uniform.

 

We went there and back on the bus. That was a lot of fun.

Here is Te Winika, the mighty waka. It is currently under wraps while it is being renovated. If you look hard enough you might see Hamilton East School through the window on the other side of the river.

Rockets!

As part of our  We can make it  focus, as well as our study of the planets, we have been making rockets.

First we collected toilet roll  kitchen paper tubes. 

We had so many we had a competition to see who could guess the number.
Our estimates ranged from 20 to 1010.
We counted fifty of them and then made another estimate.

There were 104 tubes altogether!!!

Thea had the closest estimate of 103.
Poukupenga was second with 102.
Lydia and Cassia were third equal with 101.

Step one - paint the tubes .......

 

As you can see - lots of tubes!

 Step two - assemble our rockets.

 Here are some of the finished ones.

 

Now watch this space ....

Next week we will make some rockets in plastic bottles and use vinegar and baking soda to blast off to the planets!

We have two new adults working in Room 13 this term. Anne is our Masters student from the Univeristy of Waikato. She will be with us full time from Week 4. Anne is Canadian.



Our other new person is Katerine. She comes from Colombia and she is a learning assistant.

Reading

We are learning about Daily Fivethis term.   Here are some photos of us practicing 

Reading to Someone

 

Back at school in Term 3

Welcome back to school everyone. And welcome back to Ms Jones.

Ms Jones is no longer in a moon boot or needing crutches, though she has a knee scooter to zip around the school.

Speaking of moon boots, we are going to learn about the planets this term. We have been watching Youtube clips about the New Horizons spacecraft trip  to Pluto and the Rover on Mars.

Today the sun shone and we enjoyed spending some time sketching bare trees on the courts.

 

 

 These children are writing all the words they know that have 'sh' in them.