Christina's epic catch!

Fun fishing ...early morning

Mainland Football

We had a great time on Friday afternoon with the team from Mainland Football. We all got amongst the action and had fun with the round robin games. 

Fun times at the A&P Show!!

We had such a great day...and the rain stayed away! Thank you so much to the parents who came along. 

Go the mighty All Blacks!!!!

Today we created sketches of he mighty All Blacks to show support for their game on Sunday morning. Tomorrow we are going to dress in black for Black Out Day. We are all pretty pumped about it. We are going to send photos of the drawings to the All Blacks support team- hopefully the players get a chance to see them. 😄

Dance, dance, dance

We are really getting involved in the process of how a wearable arts performance develops. We have spent the last two weeks learning some skills around dance, drama and music. We have really enjoyed it and now have some ideas for our performance. Our inspiration was the story of 'the three little pigs' we put actions and ideas to a variety of music. 

Maths - problem solving and using what we know...

Maths lately has been a learning curve for us all in Room 18 these past few weeks! We have really needed to have an open mindset and apply the learning disposition 'keep going when the going gets tough' as we approach some rich learning tasks. We have been looking at using our knowledge of numbers and basic facts and applying this information to worded problems that can be solved in a number of ways.

These photos show a group working out an aspect of their maths map. 

The maths group Newtons have been solving tasks about a neighbourhood walk. They were given a number of senarios about things they might see on a walk. Here they are creating a fence so they can figure out how many fence posts or palings the fence might need. They then needed to explain their thinking to others, which can sometimes be quite tricky.