Discovery and Options

This term the children chose from options Kapa Haka, cooking, recycled art and discovery.

Here are some of the creations from recycled art

Isabella's creation

Bella's creation

Henrietta's creation

Ruby's creation

Teague sniffing to guess
what the herb is

Teague helping Thomas to open a can

 The Kidd-li-winks in the cooking group help and support the younger children.

Ruby and Layla peeling the garlic

Adding the herbs and stirring the sauce

Eating spaghetti...yum!

Delicimo!

Creaming the butter and sugar

Sifting the cocoa

Mmmm...afghans

Acrostic Poems

T igers are a very endangered species of cats!
I n some circuses just one mistake THWACK!!!
G rinding the tigers bones is so cruel! 
E xtinct is the end of tigers if we don't stop.
R are.
S ave the tigers!
!


Jerome wrote this poem about tigers and it inspired us all to write our own poems. It is a special kind of poem where each letter of the word begins each sentence.
It is called an acrostic poem.

We had to change our sentences around to make the beginning letters fit our poem.

Written by Faith

Written by George

Written by Bowen

Written by Zane

Written by Ruby

Written by Emma

Written by Thomas

Preparing for a party

We worked together with Room 14 to practise our learning about capacity. We had many different stations we needed to complete to get ready for a party.

Toby working with Keagan to find out
how many blocks the fruit weighs

Zane thinking...thinking...thinking
We measured in blocks and grams

Each person at the party will use 10mLs of sauce.
How much sauce will you need?

Isabella measuring 10mLs into
each container

Henrietta working out how much
sauce she will need for a party
15x10=150 mLs

Faith measuring sand for her
sand and water cake

Caitlyn counting in 1/2 litres
1/2, 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2, 3

Adding 2L of sand to the sand and water cake

Reading the ingredients for the fruit punch

Bowen and Lealou checking their punch will
fit in the jug

George calculating his ingredients to make icing

Bailey and Cloe adding 1/2 teaspoon of each ingredient.
1 teaspoon =5mLs so 1/2 teaspoon =2 1/2 mLs

Thomas and Gwen making a basket to hold
between 60 and 80 lollies

Our human scale
Even though the icing sugar is smaller than the cornflakes it weighs more

Feeling what about 25 kgs feels like

Lots of mess, fun and learning. 

Some reflections from Room 8

I learnt how to count in 1/2s.

I learnt that weight is measured in grams and that 1,000 grams makes a kilogram.

I learnt that a teaspoon has 5 mLs and how to cut 5 in half.

I learnt 1 litre has 1,000mLs and I counted in thousands.

I learnt to count in 30s because I can count in 3s.

I got better at estimating how many mLs will fit in containers

Capacity learning

We are learning about capacity

Our challenge was to work out how many milliliters were in each container

We knew 

1 cup = 250mLs 

1/2 cup = 125 mLs

15 mLs = tablespoon

5 mLs = teaspoon

 We used the measuring equipment to add up amounts until the container was full. 

Jerome and Toby problem solved and made a funnel out of paper
to get the beans in a sauce bottle to measure it. 

The Ovals were scientists with some blood. They had blood and had to subtract mLs of blood. They used eye droppers to measure the mLs. 

Henrietta solved 32 divided by 4 by
finding half of 32 and then half of 16
=8. 

Caitlyn has 32mLs to divide into
4 containers. She tried 6+6+6+6 and
then added 2 more to each container
32 divided by 4=8

The Pentagons and Crescents had some alien slime that they needed to divide into different containers. They had to count the mLs carefully to make sure the same amount of slime was in each container. 

Faith calculating 27 mLs shared
into 3 containers

Mya and Sharie measuring in mLs

Emma showing determination
to solve 24mLs shared into
4 containers. She tried 5 in each
container and then added 1 more.

The Kidd-li-winks made up their own potions

The potions would explode if
-Any one of the ingredients was 100 mLs
-If the whole potion was not exactly 600 mLs
-If there were not 6 ingredients
-If the ingredients were not measured accurately

Elephant Potion created by Ruby

Lion Potion created by Bella

Frog Potion created by Henrietta

Super Rugby Potion Created by Logan

Tiger Potion created by Faith

Superpower Potion created by Emma

Werewolf Potion created by Teague