Clip and Climb Trip - LCs: 9 & 10 - Week 2

We had the most amazing trip to Clip and Climb with Learning Community 10. We faced all sorts of Challenges in our Health Inquiry Learning Unit. We challenged ourselves to be 'our own best person' with our behaviour on the trip. We also had a running race and even Ms O'B and the parent helpers ran. (Ms O'B got last!!!! ... but she tried!!) Then we were off to the climbing rock and had so many personal challenges to do our best and climb all sorts of climbing rocks. Here are some clips of what we did.

Athletics Day - Week 4 Term 4

We had the most amazing day on Athletics Day. The whole school competed in different events and we all enjoyed ourselves and had lots of fun. We ran races, threw the bean bags, jumped like kangaroos over the high jump and you should have seen us leap like lizards down the long jump!! Over all we just had an amazing day. Here are some photos of things we have done. Were you there? Did you have an amazing day too?

Ms O'B is still learning......

Ms O'B is having trouble with her learning with blogs at the moment. She knows how we feel when we are having trouble with our learning too. Unfortunately she still can't edit her posts and add the photos in after. She has had perseverence too and has asked some other people to help her. However it is not working for her and so she has decided to begin again. Here is a wee not from her.

Very sorry folks about the inspiration, photos and work that I have promised to add to our class blog with earlier entries. I was trying to use my time well, and at least get the written information up and thought I could get help to add the photos later. Apparently I needed to put the photos in first. Feel free to pop into class and veiw any/all of these things mentioned. As I say to the children the wonderful thing about teaching and learning at school is 'Every day is a new beginning' ... we are so lucky not like that poor farmer who once he has ploughed his paddock he is stuck with it. Thank you for your patience with my learning. Cheers Maree O'Boyle

Health Road Show - Term 3, Week 9

Learning Community 9 and the Kiwi Team were lucky enough to have the opportunity to have this awesome Health Road visit us. We learnt so much about many things: - Dr Phil talked to us about Germs and Bugs - Safety and Washing Hands -Road safety - bikes and train crossings - Safety with Dogs - Foods with fats and sugar -Civil Defence - Fire Safety. We washed our hands and then put them under a special machine which lights up and shows us which parts were really clean. Gee did we get a surprise to see the parts that were not washed properly. We have been learning how to wash our hands properly in class so this was awesome. We know now to cough into your elbow, that way all the germs don't get spread around the room. If you cough into your hand you could touch something and Oops!! ... the germs have been spread more. We kinow that having a bike helmet on that fits properly is very important. Brice taught us how to keep ourselves safe with dogs, it was great. We were shocked to find out how much fat and sugar are in some foods. Kathy had a stand with all the things a family might need in their survival kit if there was an emergency, for example an earthquake. We want to learn more about this, it was really interesting. Some of us want to help our families to make a survival kit. Ms O'B said we could learn lots more about Civil Defence next term. We had a fantastic time being firemen helping Tim. Did you know there are three colours of fire engines. Red ones are used for Fire Service (buildings), Yellow are for Rural - (vegetation fires) and Lime Green are Airport (aircraft fires). They have different equipment for different types of fires.

'Change and Challenge' - T3/4 Inquiry Health Topic

Week 7: This week we have created a brainstorm on 'Healthy Living - Ways to stay Healthy'. We put on our 'White Thinking Hats' and in pairs we searched books from our library shelves 'for Information' to add to the brainstorm. We came up with all these ideas...and have presented them on Inspiration as a whole class.
Week 8: Using our 'White Thinking Hat' again, we created a brainstorm in pairs for the sub-topics that we want to look at in our Inquiry Learning. Some of these were, play, exercise, healthy food. feeling unwell, and people who help us. We have come up with some wonderful ideas and are publishing them on Inspiration. Ms O'B is typing the information and each child is typing their own name.

Ella and Kaitiaki visit West Melton School Term 3 Week 7

We were very lucky to see a great show about how we need to look after our world. This story was about Ella and her imaginary friend Kaitiaki. Ella's Dad had told her to dump the rubbish up by the big tree, he did not know about recycling. Thank goodness Kaitiaki and her brother knew that the trees would die if they kept putting rubbish around. So they taught Ella how to recycle all the rubbish so that there would be lots of worms for the Kiwis to eat and a chance for the trees to grow. It was very special to us because we have been learning lots of Maori words and we are understanding more every day. Our whole Kiwi Team went, and we were very safe Kiwis crossing the road.

Team 9 Present their Mihis

We have all created our own Mihi from the 'Whanau Tree' that our families helped us to fill in. We have practised as a class, in pairs, on our own and even at home. Then we presented them to our class. We needed to present them with - respect - correct pronunciation - and good pace. Ms O'B was shocked and so got the 'goose bumps' when we presented them. She said 'tino pai rawa atu' - excellent!! She is just so proud of us, because we have perseverance in our learning and we are Winners! She also says that she knows just how proud our families are of us all for the amazing effort we keep putting into our learning. 'Each of us is working at being our own best person!!'