Welcome Lita!

A big welcome to Lita who has recently started in our class.

Super Transport Machines

Tua finishes painting his car

Caleb painting his car

 
Our POGI (Programme of Guided Inquiry) this term has focused on Transport.
The children in Room 7 have created their own 'Super Transport Machines'.

Here is Salem's car

Jasmine spent a lot of time
 creating her transport machine

David made a helicopter

Our visit to the Early Learning Centre Kindergarten

On Tuesday 25th of June we visited the Aranui Early Learning Centre across the road from our school. Salem and Caleb met some of their old teachers and friends. We all had fun. On Wednesday we each wrote a sentence about some of the things we did during our visit.

 I climbed on the frame and jumped down.
Toreka

 I was picking up boxes. I needed them for the side of the house.
Jasmine

 I went on the computer with Keira.
Salem

 Salem's on the slide. He is sliding on the slide.
Tua

 I climbed on the bridge. I was running.
Caleb

I played in the sandpit.
David

Mr Achimedes Bath by Pamela Allen

After lunch today we read Mr Achimedes bath by Pamela Allen.

We enjoyed this book because it was funny. It was about Mr Achimedes, a kangaroo, a wombat and a goat having a bath. Everytime they all hop in the water overflows and they try to figure out who it is making all of the water overflow. They find out it is all of them making the water rise when they hop into the bath and make it go lower when they get out.

We wanted to see how this worked so we did our own experiment using a plastic container, water and rocks from our nature table.

We discovered that when an object is placed into water it disperses the volume of water equal to its own volume.

Our School Project - earn money for our school

Fancy having a bit of fun and help earn our school some money by answering 20 questions everyday? Then please go to www.ourschoolproject.org and select 'Aranui Primary' and answer 20 fun questions. This can be done by anyone in the world, so share away to help our school!

Three Bear Maths

Toreka lined her yellow bears up.

Caleb had green to line up.

Today during maths we sorted our 3 bear family counters into different groups.

First we sorted them into colour groups, then lined them up according to size. Then we all chose a different group and counted them up. 

We recorded a statement for each of our groups which you can read below.

Tua lined up his red bears.

Jasmine lined her blue bears around the circle.

Here is some of our discovering.

Sorting into colour groups.

Welcome to Room 7 Caleb and Jasmine

We have had 2 new students start in Room 7 in the last week. 

Welcome to Caleb and Jasmine!