Our New Playground

This week our new playground opened.  We had some very excited children!  A competition was held and winners were drawn to have a little go on the playground first!  Mila and Natalie from the Pukeko Room were two of the lucky winners.
Below are some photos of the playground opening and our children enjoying their new equipment.

Maori Whanau day

On Wednesday we had our Whanau afternoon.

We got to spend time with all the children in the school.

We were learning some really good skills from this special afternoon

we were working on our hand-eye co-ordination,

developing our relationships with other children in the school, and learning about Maori culture.

We all made different things including: Ti rakau, poi's, head bands and book marks. We had so much fun!

 

Science by Hannah!

This morning Hannah brought in an orange to show us a floating and sinking experiment! How exciting! This is what we did:

Hannah explained to us that we were going to see what would happen if we put an orange into water, first with the skin on and then we would peel it and see what would happen!

First we put the orange with the peel on into the water... it floated!

Then we peeled the orange and tested it with no skin on, would it sink? Would it float?

It sunk!

Why does this happen??

The unpeeled orange floats because the rind is very porous and filled with tiny pockets of air which help it to float. When you peel the orange you take away all the air pockets that help it to float, so it sinks!

Thank you Hannah for bringing this in to share with us! Do you have an experiment you would like to show us?

Gingerbread men - clothing

As part of our maths measurement we created clothing for our gingerbread men.

1. We discussed what their gingerbread man would like to wear.
   How big will his clothes need to be?
   How can we make sure the clothes we make will fit him?
2. We then made some clothes for the gingerbread man, and worked out that we could trace around the man to make sure the clothes are big enough.

We ended up with some pretty groovy outfits: