Moonshot Thinking

This afternoon we explored this idea of "moonshot thinking." It is challenging us to think big, take risks and think about the impossible. Here is the clip that has begun us all on this thinking journey.

Tupulanga and Te Whanau 21st Birthday

Today was Tupulanga and Te Whanau's 21st birthday. Here is a YouTube clip showing all the festivities from this morning. See if you can spot yourself.

St Johns

On Thursday we had St Johns come into our school and take use for some first aid training. We learnt a lot of interesting and helpful skills that we would need in an emergency.

St Johns run a great youth programme. If you are wanting to find out some more about this and join up the website is: http://youth.stjohn.org.nz/

Have a great weekend! Make it awesome.

Adaptation YouTube Clips

The Zoo

Some pictures from our lastest trip to the zoo! We had such a great time seeing all the animals.

Pourquoi Tales

We have been busy creating our own pourquoi tales during our writing time. Pourquoi is french for how or why, a pourquoi tale explains how or why something came to be the way it is. Here are a few of our published ones that we shared at assembly on Friday.

Speeches

Yesterday we had our speech competition. Two children from each class shared a speech they had written in front of the middle team. Jacky and Ashleigh presented their speeches from our class. Congratulations to the Jacky who came second in our competition, we are so proud of you!

Explanation Writing

We recieved on email from a year 3/4 school in Pukekohe asking us, "how do bees make honey?" We knew that to answer this question we were going to have to research and complete a piece of explanation writing. We have been working hard on this piece of writing and have begun publishing these using Google Docs. Check out some of the writing we have created:

How do bees make honey?

Bees are insects. Bees are the only animals that make honey. They collect the nectar from flowers.

Nectar is like sweet water. When they collect the nectar from flowers the take it back to the hive.

Bees have wings. They have wings so they can make the honey thick. Average bees live in a hive. They live in the hive for six weeks. Bees work for the queen. They also follow her because she is big.

Drone bees do hard work. Drone bees are male bees.

All bees are vegetarian. Bees know there is nectar in flowers. They know because they can smell with their feet. New Zealand is lucky to have bees. We are lucky because bees can make honey for humans.

By Ashleigh

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How do bees make honey?

Have you ever wondered how a bee makes honey?

The first thing bees do, is go and search for flowers to suck nectar out. Nectar is the centre of a flower. Nectar is sweet water.

Bees are insects. Bees are the only creatures that make honey. Bees smell with their feet.

The second things bees do, is they put the nectar in the honeycomb cells.Bees use their wings to make honey thicker. They put wax over it.

Bees live for six weeks that is the average life of a bee.

Bees make  honey because they're are attracted to the nectar. They eat honey because they are vegetarian. Honey is a sweet liquid it can be a solid as well.

Drone bees are male bees they do hard work.

All bees are vegetarian.They always follow the Queen bee. Bees smell with their feet.

By Elizabeth

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 How do bees make honey?

Honey is sticky and sweet food made by bees. Bees fly around and look for flowers to get nectar. Bees are the only one that makes honey. Bees don’t eat meat.

Bees go and find flowers to get nectar out of the flowers. They go to a flower and collect the nectar and bring it back to the bee hive.

Bees go and find flowers to get the nectar. The bees suck the nectar out of the flowers. Bees are the only ones that make honey. Bees take nectar back to the hive.

Bees can fly. They smell with their feet. They eat the honey and they like honey. Bees have stingers.

By Sione

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How do bees make honey?

Honey is a sweet food made by bees because nectar comes from flowers. There is a queen and she is the boss too.

Bees suck the nectar that was in the flowers to make honey and to eat it.

Next the bees go to their hives and the bees give it to the worker bees.

Finally bees flap there there wings to soften the nectar to make it into honey. Bees suck nectar from flowers to make honey.

Bees make honey in their hive and bees are clever insects.

By Dayna

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How do bees make honey?

Honey is a sweet food made by bees. Bees do not eat meat. They are vegetarians. Nectar is sweet water.

First they suck the nectar from the flower and put it onto their body.

Next Bees take the honey to the beehive and they give the nectar to the worker bees.

Finally they take the honey to the worker bees. This is where the bees turn the nectar into honey.

Honey is a sweet food made by bees. Bees go to the hive and and take the nectar to the worker bees.

By Sana

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How do bees make honey?            

Bees are vegetarian. There are all different kinds of bees. Bees are the only insects that make honey.  

Bees go to a flower and collect nectar from a flower. They smell with their feet to get nectar.

They beat their wings to make honey. They use their legs to take the nectar to their hive so they can make honey.  

You can eat honey from the bees. Nectar is a sweet water. Bees are the ones that make honey.  

Bees a vegetarian. They smell with their feet to find nectar.

By Luci

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A Pep Talk

This afternoon we watched this neat YouTube clip. It is a pep talk to us from a 9 year old. It is a great clip. Take a look with your family this weekend and think about what it means to you and your family and how it can be applied into our classroom.

Post in the comments below any thoughts you had about this clip.

Octopus Adaptation

Check out this amazing YouTube video about an octopus, and how it adapts to its surroundings! Great for our inquiry this term. What do you think about this octopus? Post your thoughts and noticings in the comments.

Mr Stick of the week

This weeks Mr Sticks of the week are...Dayna and Ashleigh. Congratulations girls for going above and beyond with your writing this week.

MovenMprove

We have begun MovenMprove with Sport Waitakere this term. This is a gymnastics based programme which we will be taking part in for the next 4 weeks. 

Mr Stick of the week

We have begun having "Mr Stick of the week." This week Tiare-Anne went above and beyond and produced this in her writer's notebook.

Term 3

Welcome back to term 3! I trust you all had an enjoyable break.

This morning during writing we were looking at sentences with adjectives (describing words) and were then challenged to create our own about our holidays. Here are just a few of some of the fantastic sentences that were created.

Fresh Movement

On Thursday last week we had Fresh Movement come and perform in our school hall. We had so much watching them perform. They are very good. They are currently fundraising to go to America so they can compete in a competition.

Skyping with Sylvie

Our friend Sylvie is currently living in Malaysia with her family while her parents work over there. We were lucky enough to be able to Skype her this afternoon and find out how she is doing and what Malaysia is like. We spoke to her at 2pm our time and it was only 10am there, she still had the rest of her day ahead while we were about to finish school.

Science in a Van

Today we had Science in a Van come to school and do some science experiments. Emily and Alan were really interesting and they taught us a lot about mixtures, especially bubble mixtures. They created some really big bubbles!