Buddy Reading Time

We have been spending heaps of time lately with our new buddies. We have been looking at what makes us a 'Warepa Learner', completed an art activity together and today we read to each other.

The teachers loved seeing this in action so wanted to share the awesome learning going on between the buddies.

Here is some photos of us at work today

Listening intently to each other

Reading in the playground

Lying down reading

Reading in the bean bags

Beach Education @ Kaka Point

On Monday we went to Kaka Point for Beach Education. We learnt how to swim in the sea safely and how to recognise a rip. We played some games in the sand, made sand sculptures and had swim in the sea with the adults.
We learnt how to be sun smart with the tongue twister - see if you can beat Mrs Hyslop at it - it takes her only 5 secs.
Sun smart Sam says, slip, slop, slap, wrap, slurp, slide in the summertime.

We did a role play on how to recognise rips and what to do if you get caught in one.

We learnt the ten rules on how to stay safe at the beach, they are:

• Never swim alone  
• Learn to recognise rip
• Listen to the lifeguards  
• Respect other surf users
• Use the right equipment
• Know your limits
• Be prepared
• Swim between the flags
• Never swim without an adult
• Be sunsmart

It was an awesome day at the beach, we learnt heaps and can't wait to go next time!

Athletics with Mitch & Rory

Yesterday Mitch and Rory (the new sports activator) came to our school to take an athletics session.

We practiced our sprinting techniques, things we had to remember where to look straight ahead, have relaxed arms but pump them hard and have cheetah feet. We had to lie on the grass with our chins on our hands, when Mitch clapped his hands we had to jump up as fast as we could and sprint to the finish line.

The next activity was high jump, we had to practice scissor kicks using our arms to help lift us off the ground.

Arms high to help us jump!

When throwing the discus we need to remember to hold it with only the tips of our fingers, it should glide flat through the air and the last finger it rolls off is your pointing finger.

The last activity we did was the time trial through the weaving poles, hurdles, fast feet and sprinting. Our best class time was 33 seconds.

It was helpful to practice our athletic skills for Small Schools Athletics in three weeks.

Running fast - only a few of us forgot to look where we are going!

Our Picket Fence Finished!

It's been a while since our last post but we have been very busy with our Production 'Lost in Dreamland' and finishing off our Taking Action projects.

Today is the last day of school and thanks to the fantastic Mr Stephens we have completed our picket fence. We think it looks fabulous finished and think you will agree! It will be here for a long time to come so we can visit it with our own children.

Our Art Project

Our Art Project

Today in the senior class we have been busy with our 'Taking Action' art project. Our art project is mounting our Oamaru stone carvings (that we made a year ago) on painted boards. We split into groups and chose our paint colour and an empty wall on a building that board will be mounted too. 

Since then we have painted our boards with undercoat and many top coats. They have been finished off with a lacquer which has made them look shiny and will hopefully make the colour look brighter for longer.

Our task today was to place the various carvings onto our boards and then carefully measure around each carving to make sure they are evenly spaced. 

Mrs Hastie kindly came to help us drill the holes in the boards to we can screw our stones on. Our next step is to drill our Oamaru stone onto the boards, then mount the finished boards around our school.

We think they are beginning to look great and are looking forward to finishing off another project around the school.

Here is a sneak peek of what it will look like

Reading Research Presentations

TToday was the hand in day for our reading research projects, in our reading groups at the start of the term we were given a book or a choice of books and we had to complete a presentation using information from the book and some extra information. 

The books are as follows:

Dancing Dogs: After the spill, Rena Oil Spill

Fantastic Flying Foxes: New Zealand Fossils

Princess Pigs: Vulture Culture or Sharks

Happy Hobbits: Monarch Butterfly

Each group watched all their group members videos and peer assessed one, then the groups voted on the best, these were shown at assembly.

Dancing Dogs: Holly

Fantastic Flying Foxes: Lachlan

Princess Pigs: Tom

Happy Hobbits: Isla

Sling Shot Fun

On Monday the 3rd of November the senior class made catapults. W made them out of a maximum of 15 ice block sticks, one paper clip, four rubber bands, four forks, one spoon and as much masking tape as we wanted.

We got measured on height, distance and short distance.  We had people measuring the distance and the height was measured by eye.

Brendan won the height (his hit the roof) and the length (his was 5.52m). 

Isla won the shortest distant (she got 1cm). 

        Cameron, Tim and Harrison getting ready for shooting.

      

    

           Tiana, Cameron and Macleod getting ready for firing.  

       

Callum getting ready.

    

 

           Brendan and Blake measure.

Written by Cameron and Tiana