Man on the Moon

We are using this ad as motivation for our writing this week.  We came up with a list of things we would like to send to the Man on the Moon.

• Globe - so he could see the earth more close up
• Book - something that he could read again and again.
• Soft toy to love
• An animal so he is not lonely.
• Inflatable pool so he could swim.
• Chicken - so it could lay eggs and be his pet
• Plant so he can look after it and water it
• Pizza - an ever lasting one that remakes in different flavours each time.
• iPhone/iPad so you could message him and he could have contact with people on earth and also used for entertainment.
• Soil and seeds so he could grow things
• Canvas and Paint so he could paint his house or room etc.

What would you send?

Pet day!

We had a fabulous morning for pet day. We had chickens, Guinea pigs and cats in Room 8. We moved around different activities with our buddies and had lots of fun. We will be sharing our larger pets next Friday. 

Kapa Haka exchange

Yesterday Stoke School came for our annual Kapa Haka exchange. It was our turn to host them this year. We shared our Kapa Haka performance and then enjoyed a shared lunch together. 

Inter school athletics.

Today we had our interschool athletics day at Saxton Field. It was an awesome day and everyone participated with positive attitudes and tried their best. We represented Ranzau with pride today!

PaknSave visit

This morning we visited Richmond Pak'nSave to participate in an inquiry session, putting into practice what we had learned about label reading. We had a range of food that we had to look at and we had to use our food detective skills to find foods that were ok to eat everyday and occasional foods. We really struggled to find a healthy muesli bar!  

Scott gave us a voucher from PaknSave and we will put this towards a healthy shared lunch. 

Thank you to all our parent helpers for making this trip and learning opportunity possible. 

Kindy Visits.

Today we had 4 different kindergartens visit our school. We did a performance for them and then they sang some songs for us. We then read books to the kindy kids. 

Food for Thought

Today Reta who is a nutritionist with the heart foundation came to do 2 sessions with us. We looked at what type of nutrients that our bodies get from different foods and how those nutrients help our bodies to function. We also looked at how to read the label on the back of cereal packets and also how much sugar there is in some drinks. 

 

Dragons' Den

This week we finished off sharing our inventions. We had to present our invention to the dragons and an audience. We had to share who our target market was, the purpose of our invention and also how we used the design process to help us. 

The New Zealand flag - to change or not to change?

This week for writing we will be looking at the New Zealand flag change and forming an argument based on our findings. Today we had to try and draw the flag from memory and we looked at the history of our flag. We researched what the symbols of our flag mean and we also looked at the flags we have had before our current one. 

Maths Week - Challenge 3

Today Dave had to complete a circuit and we had to estimate the time it would take him to do it. We guessed 1.49. We had 3 people do the circuit and took the average from their result. Dave completed it in 1.10. Room 5 was the closest with a guess of 1 minute.  

Kapa Haka

We have learnt 2 new waiata over the last 2 terms and we are working hard on our actions to go with it. We have some senior girls who are going to be our leaders and help us to learn it.

Maths week challenge 1

Today our challenge was to see how many Balloons we could fit into Trudy's car. We tried to measure it out by looking at square metres and we got 290! The correct number was 206! How cool does Trudy's car look. 

Sculptured hands.

As part of sculpture for art this term, we are making hands with Nardia. We started yesterday making the base for our hands out of chicken wire. They are going to look amazing when they are finished!

Speeches

This term we are writing and presenting a speech. Lynda from PowerTalk international came to talk with us about what makes an effective speech and she gave us some things to work towards. Lynda said it was important to focus on Pitch, Pace, Pause and Projection.

Maui and matau!

Catriana taught us a new game and it invloves a huge amount of concerntration and team work. You have to hold onto a rakau with two hands and when you are given a direction you have to move to the left or right and take your partners stick without it dropping. It is an awesome game.

Invention and design.

This term we are focusing on invention and design. Today we had to look at a range of inventions between 1280-1891 and try to place the inventions on the timeline. It was actually quite challenging and we got a few surprises!

Teamwork!

This term during our sessions with Jane, we will be working on teamwork. We were awesome at this today and we worked well together to do lots of challenges with the parachute.

Gesture drawing

This term for visual art we are looking at sculpture and construction. We are going to be creating tin foil sculptures based on our gesture drawings. We have started to look at gesture drawing this week.

Science Fair

A huge amount of time and effort has gone into our science fair projects this week. They all look fantastic and there has been some excellent learning and reflecting happening.