Athletics Practice!

Athletics Practice!

Small Schools Athletics is coming up in week 4 and we are ready for the day!

We have practiced high jump, long jump, shot put, discus and sprints.

We will also be doing the flying squad which is a relay with teams from your school.

Greer, the new sports activator came on Monday to do some athletics in preparation for the big day. For a start we played a game of rob the nest to warm up. Then we did a mixture of things like shot put, high jump on both legs and also some obstacle courses. We have all enjoyed having her and hope she will stay for a long time!

By Evie and Leah

Volcano Writing

Today we talk about the Christchurch earthquake and how the residents would be feeling after the most recent one. Then we looked at the picture below and imagined ourselves to be observing the volcano.  Our story needed to be descriptive and we used lots of verbs to show how things were moving.

The beast had awoken bellowing red hot lava out of  it. Smoke smothered the Earth's landscape,  lightning striking like a snake attacking its’ prey. I look over at Mum and just burst into tears, our house was gone, everything we had worked towards was gone. It was all gone!

By Aidan and Morgan

Newspaper Challenge

3.2.16

On Wednesday Mrs Hyslop gave each the four Reading groups a challenge, the challenge was to make clothes out of newspaper in only 15 minutes.

We were only allowed:

• 3 metres of masking tape

• 6 sheets of newspaper

• 1 pair of scissors

We each had one model from each group that we had to design the clothes on.

Some people had crowns others helmets, dresses, skirts, shoes and accessories. 

At the end the models had to walk down a cat walk and be judged by Mrs Hyslop on 

Style, Durability and Teamwork. At the end Evie's team won.
It was a good team work challenge.

Written by Keeley

Science Roadshow

On Friday 6th November a group of 7 year seven and eight students went to South Otago High School to see the Science Roadshow Expedition, when we arrived they were doing a show about water, and they showed many different experiments including some about surface tension and the amount of water on Earth. After that we were able to look at many many different experiments and models located all around the room, all exploring different science concepts. Some of these had flags and if we explained these to somebody we were able to get a mark on our cards, if we got 2 or more marks we could go into the draw to win a bookmark from their 3D printer which had special light/heat reactant properties. After that they did another show, this one called “Arcs, Sparks, and Gherkins,” which was all about electricity, they also showed us a Tesla coil, which made some really cool lightning.

What is a Warepa Learner?

One of our writing tasks this week was to write a paragraph about what it means to be a Warepa Learner, we could refer to anything we have been focusing on this term and include that in our paragraphs. Our new 're-vamped' Warepa Learner Quality graphics are colourful and eye catching and form the basis of our learning.

Once we had scripted our paragraph we placed the text onto a website and it formatted it into a cool pattern. Here are some photos of us displaying our Warepa Learner Qualities working on the task and some of our explanations.

                             

Pet Day

We had a fantastic day last Friday at out Pet Day, this week we have been following up with writing and maths. These are copies of our newsletters we created in groups. Hope you enjoy reading them!

Newsletter #1

 

 


                      Newsletter #2

 

Newsletter #3

 
 
 







                  Newsletter #4

 

    

Tennis with Rory

Yesterday Rory came to teach us some tennis skills. We started off with a relay in the relay we did blanching the ball on the racket, bouncing the in the air and onto the racket, bouncing the ball off the racket and onto the ground and bouncing the ball up twisting the racket and then bouncing it again the purpose of this was to help us focus on the ball. Next we got into pairs and hit the ball to each other while counting how many you could do, then Rory got us to go between a net and then hit to each other. Then Rory and Mrs Hyslop would do hits to us and we had to do backhand or forearm depending on what line you were in. We all enjoyed learning more about tennis skills.