How Maui Found the Secret of Fire

Room 8 performed How Maui Found the Secret of Fire.

The children should be really proud of themselves. They all took risks. 

Awesome effort Kidd-li-winks

The wonderful narrators

The fires burning in the pa

The villagers are angry with Maui

The bird is Maui's friend on his adventure

Mahuika in her volcano

All her fire is burning

Caitlyn the dancing queen

Henrietta singing

The stream sizzling from the flame

The chorus

The kaikomako tree..ouch!

Maui finding the secret of fire!

Our amazing drummer boy

How Maui Found The Secret Of Fire from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Assembly Item

The Kidd-li-winks are performing their assembly item tomorrow. Please come and watch them at 9am, they have worked really hard to create a wonderful performance for you (the audience).

A couple of preview shots to get you excited.

Mahuika

Fire 

Drummer

The creation of props.

Fraction of a chance

The Pentagons have been learning how to find chance of something happening. 

We had a box of skittles and had to work out what the chance was of choosing our best flavour.

Question: What skittles could be in the box if there is 1/3 of a chance you choose your favourite colour?

There was lots of problem solving. 

Question: There is 1/4 of a chance to choose your favouite.

Here are some combinations of skittles.

Question

Here are some of the solutions.

We had a tricky problem. There were 32 skittles 1/4 of the bag is your favourite colour and there are 5 different coloured skittles.

Jeevanjot's bag of skittles

We ended up by closing our eyes and choosing 2 skittles from the box.

Who got their favourite colour?

Thank you to Miss Hill and Mr G for supporting us with our learning.

Commonwealth Games

The Kowhai Teachers dressed and ready for a great day

Nag Rakau Iti had their Commonwealth Games relay day on Friday. 

We had lots of athletes arrive at Parkvale Friday morning for the event.

Let the games begin...

Hockey

Hurdles

Hurdles

Hockey

Waiting for the tag

Gymnastics

Sprinting

Javelin

Weightlifting

Passing the baton in the relay

Zane...on your marks get set....

Congratulations to all the Parkvale athletes, giving your personal best and working so well with your team members. You upheld the Commonwealth Spirit just like our athletes in Glasgow.

Our Silver medalist Faith