How many squares can you see?

Miss Mills found 40...how many can you find? Comment with your name the number you found. You may have to justify your findings!

Wow Week - Science

In Week 6 of Term 2 we had our first ever Wow Week! It was really exciting. The focus for the week was water related as we had just finished the Wai Water Wai unit. We learnt about the different things water can do. Over the week, we did lots of experiments. We had to make predictions about what we thought would happen, then we carried out the experiment and finally we evaluated it to reflect on the learning. Here is a video which shows what we did throughout Wow Week.

Marae Visit

As an introduction to our Matariki Unit, we visited Waikare Marae. We had an awesome day where we learnt more about the haka. We also learnt how to use rakau sticks and poi. We got to play some fun games too.  We were in the second group that went to the marae so the first group got to welcome us on. It was pretty cool to see them being a part of the marae. We also know that we now belong to Waikare Marae.

Here is a video of the group that Miss Mills was with for the day which shows us demonstrating what we learnt.

Hands on Homework Week 3-4

Make a maths board game that you can teach to 2-4 children at school, and even me. Be creative with what you make.
The best board game will win $500 class money!

Take some photos of you making the board game and either email them to me or bring them in printed or on a memory stick.

I can't wait to play some of the games you make!

Sugary Drinks

We were really surprised this morning when Jen came in and did a 'Sugary Drinks' session with our class. We didn't know how much sugar was contained in some of the drinks that we sometimes drink. Some of the drinks also contained caffeine which can cause your heart to speed up.

Some of the things we found out were:

In an 800ml bottle of e2 there are 20 tsp of sugar.




In a 600ml bottle of coke there are 16 tsp of sugar.

In a 750ml bottle of Powerade there are 14 tsp sugar.

In a can of Mother there are 13 tsp of sugar.

In a can of fizzy drink there are 10 tsp of sugar.

In a 250ml can of V there are 7 tsp of sugar.

In a 750ml flavoured water there are 5 tsp of sugar.

In juice sachets there are 4 tsp of sugar per glass.

In trim milk there are 2 tsp of natural sugar but it is still a good drink because it contains calcium.

In water there are ZERO tsp of sugar.

Therefore our best options to drink are water or milk!

Hands on Homework Term 2 Week 1-2

ANZAC Day is a day of remembrance in both New Zealand and Australia that is celebrated on the 25th of April each year to honour the soldiers who fought at Galipolli in the war.

 Make something symbolic to ANZAC Day. You could bake some Anzac Biscuits, make a poppy or anything else of your choice as long as it symbolises ANZAC Day.

Remember to take some photos of you baking or making and bring them in to school. Also, you make like to bring in the end product of something you make to display in the classroom.

Hands on Homework - Week 8

Plan and prepare a meal for your family. Bring your plan to school along with some photos of the end product when you are finished. You can choose whether you just do a main course or whether you make a yummy pudding too! I bet your mums will feel relieved for the night ;) Enjoy!!