Cheerleading and hip hop

Today we were the practise audience for our schools cheerleading and hiphop teams! Some of us even spotted our siblings! They will be competing in Friday. We all thought they had practised very well!!

What does the sun do?

Yesterday we talked about another thing the sun does - it helps plants makes food! This week we will be seeing the effect the sun has in a plant. We have out one plant in the sun and one in the cupboard. Every day we will still water the plant but will be monitoring any differences we notice! 

Stationary

Don't forget to bring in your stationary money!

On Friday we had a notice sent home about needing some new stationary as we are filling our books up with so much learning .. and we are doing it fast!!

WELL DONE to the 3 children who brought in their money today!  

POD opening

Today we opened the Pohutakawa POD! We had some wonderful speeches, a performance, and the cutting of the ribbon! We were all very proud of our school and the people involved in organising the whole event! Thank you to those who came and celebrated with us! If you haven't already, pop in and see the pohutakawa POD and see the modern learning environment with its whiteboard tables, different learning areas and much more! 

Don't forget ...

Tomorrow we celebrate the opening of the POD at 1pm! We will having very special guests including the mayor, the minister of education and maybe even  some TV cameras! We have been asked to dress in nice clothes and to wear big smiles! 

Word chips

Today we came up with some different words that mean the same as ones we already know, like said, big, tiny. We used these words lots in our writing and to make our writing more interesting we now have our own dictionary chips! All we have to do is go the the word we want to use: said and pick out a chip that means the same: replied.

Fractions

Today group 4 worked with beans to split numbers into fractions. We started off with 10 and halved it to make two piles of 5. Then we made a pile of 12. We broke this pile equally into 3 different fractions; 1/3 1/4 and 1/2. We noticed that the bottoms number tells us how many piles to make! 

1/4

1/2

1/3