Waka waka e! e!

Room 16 has been problem solving together to create waka. We first had a discussion around what would help our waka to float and then talked about what resources could be effective. Whaea Narelle then gave us some resources and we had to plan how we could use them. We then had a trip into history and looked at past waka and from there were able to create our own! We found out that some of our flags made our waka tip over and started to wonder how we could add an awesome, big flag to our waka.

Let's make a river!

Room 16 has been looking at how rivers are made so we decided to make our own. We had to work as a team to think of how we could make a river that would have a flow of water. Some of us were successful and the water held!

The history of Kawakawa

Room 16 has been learning about Kawakawa and important facts about our home town. Please watch and see what we have learned so far:

Student led conferences

Room 16 has been preparing for our student led conferences. We have been looking at what we are good at (our stars) and what we are working on (our stairs). We have talked about this with our buddies to practice and have chosen what we thought in reading, writing and maths. We also discussed how our whanau could help and why learning is important to us.
These are some precious pictures of when our whanau came into listen to our awesome learning journey so far.

Learning through play

We have been experimenting with a new way of learning called "Learning through play". These are a few snapshots of what we have been playing with. Some of us have been learning about new countries and planets with the spaceship. Others have been sorting through different shapes and colours. We have learned that when we play we use lots of our knowledge and learn loads more too. Come in and have a look at our new set up!

Ice Ice Baby!

Room 16 has been having experiences to make our writing more interesting. We decided to be archaeologists and had to chizzle our way through the freezing cold ice to save the animals!

Changes!

Room 16's caterpillars have been well looked after. We made some rules to help keep the environment warm and safe for our little babies. We decided that because our babies were so close to hatching and it was going to be the long weekend, that Whaea Narelle should take them home incase they hatched and couldn't escape. When Whaea Narelle went out for dinner she came home to a lovely surprise...