Nelson Museum

This afternoon we visited the Nelson museum to look into World War 1 and our history and involvement in it. We looked at morse code, the use of animals in the war, the Tapawera military camp set up and different artefacts to do with the war.

Survival swimming.

This week while we have been at the aquatic centre we have focused on a different survival swimming skill each day. The life jackets were our favourite! We had to jump into the water while we held onto our life jackets and then when we got into the water we had to turn onto our backs and scull back to shore (the end of the pool) We were all fantastic at turning onto our backs quickly so we could scull and kick to safety. 

Swimming at the Aquatic Centre.

I This week we have started our swimming sessions at the Aquatic Centre. We are all placed into groups so that instructors can work closely with us to improve our swimming skills. We are all gaining more confidence in deeper water and working on some survival swimming skills each day.

Lego Mini-figures

We are working on creating Lego mini figures that represent ourselves. Our figures have to be Lego shaped but we can add things to make them like us. Here is some of our progress. 

Rights and Responsibilities

Here is a link to help you find out a bit more information about Rights and Responsibilities

We are back!

We have had a great start to the year in Room 8! We are busy setting up our class routines and getting used to our new learning environment. It is going to be a fantastic year at Ranzau school

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.