Noho

What a wonderful wonderful experience spending the night with whanau at our kura. As I lay in bed last night I felt so comfortable being exactly where I was, sleeping beside the tamariki I teach. I am so proud of the amazing behaviour of our tamariki and the positive response from parents. A very special thank you to Matua Rawiri for his informative presentation. His talk has given us all a better appreciation of the knowledge our tupuna used to travel the Pacific with such accuracy. 

The Magic Egg Experiment

On Friday our class did a science experiment.
What we needed was a hard boiled egg, matches and a glass bottle.
The egg has to slip in the bottle without breaking.
We all tried to predict how the egg would get into the bottle, and what to do with the matches.
But we had no good ideas. We followed the proceedure:
1. Peel the shell off the egg. 2 Light a match and put the lit match inside the bottle. 4. Place the egg on top of the bottle. Then the egg will slowly slip through.
We talked about how it happened and why it happened. Fire needs oxygen and fuel and the reason the egg fell into the bottle is because fire used all the oxygen in the bottle causing a vacuum and the egg to be sucked into the bottle. In the afternoon we showed our experiment to rm 3 while some of the year 5 and 6's explained how it worked.

By Ngahiraka and Sofia

Term 2 - Back to School

Tena koutou katoa

Welcome back to a very busy term. It was so good to see all of our children back to school on day one, on time and rearing to go. We are all looking forward to a very productive term, it feels like the beginning of a new school year.

This week we have been working with akomanga toru discussing our school values and working on a variety of activities to gain a better understanding of them.

This term year 3/4 join with the mainstream sports programme each Tuesday afternoon. We will be practicing ball skills to help us learn to play soccer, hockey, basketball, netball, playground games and Mrs Hunter will take a group for dancing.

Tanesha came in to visit us earlier this week, before she heads back to Wellington again.

This Friday is Tawhais last day. He and his whanau are heading off to join his Dad in Australia. We wish them well.