Production is underway!

We have started working in our production groups! It is so exciting and we have lots of different dances and items to learn! We can't wait for our parents and whanau to see it all! 

Exploration

Today for exploration we had all sorts of creative things happening. Ella and Alice are doing up 2 of our class chairs. They were busy sanding today and it was hard work! We will keep you updated with their progress.

Final maths challenge.

We won today's maths challenge. We had 3 of our star mini ballers go outside and see how many goals they could shoot in 2 minutes. The average was 8. We decided because Paul would be double skill full that we would double 8 to come up with our guess of 16. Paul shot 17 goals so we were the closest!! Thanks Paul for helping us out with our last challenge for maths week!

Maths challenge day 4

Here is our maths challenge for today. We are going to create a big graph on the court so we can see visually which eye colour is the most common at Ranzau School. What do you think is the most common?

Making the World a Happier place!

Today for our brain break we brainstormed ideas for making the world a happier place.  Here are some of our ideas.  Have you got any different ones?

Everyone gets to eat so no one goes hungry (Ella)

No selfishness (Alex)

Be free to be yourself (Zeke)

Make everyone equal (Reuben)

Stop the wars going on (Linnia)

Give poor people homes and medicine (Bella)

Stop poverty (Alice)

Give toys to children who don't have them (Katie)

Recycle more (Isabella)

Go to bed later (Shontelle)

Have any animal be your pet (Amy)

Don't litter (Karie)

No suffering (Jared)

Become a cat (Callum)

No whaling (Craig)

Maths Challenge - Day 2!

Today's challenge was: If all the children in our school lined up (shoulder to shoulder) how long would our line be in metres? All of the classes worked hard to try and estimate the distance. There were lots of different strategies being used!  Room 5 got the exact measurement - 43.5m! They were spot on!  Well done Room 5.  Room 1 and Room 6 were really close too! They were within 10cm of Room 5.  Tomorrow's one is a good one too!

Maths week.

This week at Ranzau school we are having a maths week. Each day we have a different maths challenge for our whole school. Today's questions is: how many dry weetbix can Dave eat in 1 minute? We had 4 people give this a go this morning. It is actually really hard to swallow dry weetbix! We will let you know how many Dave manages to eat!

Bridge Problem

Can you solve this problem?  You have to touch each part of these connecting islands and you can only cross each bridge once.

Farewell to Sarah!

Today is Sarah's last day. She has been in room 8 for 5 weeks and we have loved having her. We hope she has a great end to her study and we wish her all the best for the start of her teaching career. Thanks for all your hard work in Room 8 Sarah! Make sure you come back to visit us :)

Egg Carton Creations

Our finished creations!

Room 8 keyboard stars!

Skipping skills

We have been focusing on developing our skipping skills during fitness in the mornings. On Friday we had a demonstration.  Heaps of persevering has been going on to master some of our tricks.

Egg Carton Creations

This week with Sarah we started our egg carton construction for art. We had to plan what we wanted to do last week so we had our ideas sorted in our minds. Her are some of our creations.

Co-operative work

This afternoon we did a co-operative problem solving task. This is part of our inquiry topic this term. We are focusing on competition and co-operation. We had to create a bridge using only newspaper, Sellotape, string and card. We had to make the bridge as long and as strong as possible so that it could hold a 500g weight.

Stepping Out Dance

This afternoon Dean and Ezra from Stepping Out Dance came to take us for a dance session.  We learnt some hip hop moves and we put some short sequences together.  It was heaps of fun.

If you had to go to work today...what job would YOU do?

Rohan would like to be an astronaut so he could travel to the moon and mars.

Alex would be an engineer or architect so he could design his dream house! 

Alice would like to be a doctor because you get paid lots of money! 

Reuben would be a policeman because you get to keep people safe. 

Zeus would like to work at a pet shop because of all of the cute pets. 

Ella would like to be the ride tester at Rainbows End because you get to test all of the rides. 

Zeke would like to work at the Weta Workahop because I love art and it would be cool to create some of the things they make there. 

Matthew would like to join the navy so he could fly jets onto boats! 

What job would you do if you had to go to work today ? 

CD weaving

Yesterday room 5 & 8 started a weaving project using CDs and wool. It is quite fiddly and you have to make sure you are keeping track of weaving over and under. We will show you some more progress as we go. 

Commonwealth Games.

Today we have found out a bit about the Commonwealth Games. First we did some research on what the Commonwealth actually is! It is made up of 53 independent countries who volunteer to be part of the Commonwealth and support each other and work together towards international goals.
This year the Games are being held in Glasgow which is in Scotland. There are 22 events at the Games.
Australia is the country with the most Commonwealth medals with over 2000 Commonwealth medals and 803 Gold Medals.

Welcome Sarah

This term we have a student teacher in room 8 for 5 weeks. Her name is Sarah Oates and this is her last teaching placement. She will have a great time with us in Room 8!  You can find out about her and follow her time in Room 8 on her blog. www.missoatesontheboil.blogspot.com

Ranzau News Term 2

Term 2 2014 from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.

Market Day

Yesterday we held our Ranzau School market day.  After weeks of hard work and organising it was time to sell our products and services.  We were all really nervous about it and if people would buy our stuff.  It was heaps of fun and all of the groups sold out of their food.  Room 8 made $299.99 profit just from our class.  We learnt heaps and this morning we reflected on what we had done well and what we could do to improve our business if we did it again.  Thanks to our school community for all your support.

60 second drawing!

This morning for our early morning wake up we had 60 seconds to draw a picture without taking out pen off the page. 

Here are some of our creations. 

Opposites

This morning for oral language we had to come up with a list of opposites. Here are some of our ideas.

Fat:Thin
Hard:Soft
Polite:Rude
Sweet:Sour
Up:Down
Left:Right
Ground:Sky
Boy:Girl
Happy:Mad
Fish:Bird
East:West
Black:White
Run:Walk
Forward:Backward
Sea:Land
Lazy:Active
Alive:Dead
Stop:Go
Water:Lava
Entry:Exit
Summer:Winter
Caught:Free
Quiet:Loud
Broken:Fixed
On:Off
Hot:Cold
Heavy:Light
Accelerate:Reverse
Pretty:Ugly
Adult:Child
Pen:Pencil
Big:Little
Something:Nothing
Day:Night
Light:Dark
Sun:Rain
Slow:Fast
Good:Bad
Sharp:Blunt
Sun:Moon
Wet:Dry
Sit:Stand
Healthy:Unhealthy
Rich:Poor
Batman:Spiderman
Still:Move
Plus:Minus
Diesel:Petrol
Easy:Hard
Smooth:Rough
Fake:Reality
Shady:Sunny
Stable:Unstable
Smile:Frown
Comfy:Uncomfy

Can you think of anymore?

Collage progress.

Our collages are coming along slowly. They are heaps of work but they will look awesome when they are finished! 

Green

The answer is Green.....what is the question?

This morning for oral language our challenge was to come up with a questions where the answer has to be green.  Here are some of our examples.

What colour is a crocodile? (Craig)

What do you get when you mix blue and yellow? (Bailey)

What colour means Go? (Isabella)

What colour are most trees? (Ella)

What colour is fresh seaweed? (Bella)

What is the colour after yellow in the rainbow? (Amy)

What is the colour of Broccoli? (Molly)

What is the colour of fresh grass? (Linnia)

Can you think of one and share it with us?

Collage.

Today we have started creating self portraits using collage. It is going to be a long process because the pieces of paper need to be really small! We will keep sharing our progress with you. 

What makes you HAPPY?

This morning for oral language we all had to share 10 things that make us happy. Here are some of our ideas.
 
Bella R:
Cats, Mum, Dad, Grandma & Granddad, Running, Gymnastics, Sport, Family, Friends, Beaches.

Jared:
Cats, puffles, playing, happy faces, food, games, friends, family.

Linnia:
Jokes, family, swimming, friends, animals, food, when I get excited.

Shontelle:
Friends, playing on my tablet, my kitten, food, lollies, sleeping in, going to dads, seeing my Brother Josh, play fighting with my family, having a great class.

Bailey:
Lego, Mum, Dad, Wii, football, my cat, reading, being tickled, basketball, being silly, Tom & Jerry, friends.

Callum:
Good days, friendly people, buying things, animals, sleeping, listening to music, jokes, games, eating, my cat.

What makes you HAPPY?

Get Wise

Today Michelle from Get Wise came to talk to us about money. We learnt about different ways of earning money and what happens when our money sits in the bank earning interest. 

Exploration

Reuben and Rohan have been creating a Lego animation during exploration. They have taken hundreds of photos and next week they will start putting it together in iMovie. 

Creating the Ultimate learning environment.

This week we have been thinking about the types of learning spaces and furniture that helps us to learn the best. We will all be designing a model of our ideas so we can share these with you when we have finished. Some of us will be heading into Richmond and Nelson to go and have a look at some furniture and see if it will fit in with our ideas. 

Ranzau News Term 1

Ranzau News - Term 1, 2014 from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.

Bailey's Star Challenge

Today Bailey shared some photos from one of his Star Challenges.  He cooked 2 meals for his family and it all looks so yummy!  Room 8 are free to come to the O'Malley's any time for a meal cooked by Bailey :)

Great job, Bailey!