POPPY VISITS SCHOOL

Today Mrs McCulley's dog Poppy visited school.  She is a 5 year old Miniature Schnauzer.  Poppy loved hanging out with all of the children in Room 11.  She especially enjoyed visiting the new library in Te Puna Ako.

POOR SAMARA!

Poor Samara broke her arm when she was playing on the flying fox.  Check out the x-rays below.  The first one shows Samara's arm just after it was broken and the second one shows it after it was realigned by the doctors. Today we made cards for Samara and we hope her arm feels better soon!

SCHOOL DISCO

The PTA are organising a School Disco this Friday night.  Olivia, Lilly and Tim came and told us about it.  It costs $3 to get in and you are able to buy food (chips & mini chocolate bars) and glow toys at the event.  There will be two discos - the junior disco from 6.00-7.00pm and the senior disco from 7.15-8.15pm.  Children from the Middle Team can attend either disco.

TARRAH'S TRIP TO THE COOKIE TIME FACTORY

Today Tarrah told us all about her Easter trip to the Cookie Time Factory.  She was very kind and shared mini cookies with us.  Thanks Tarrah!

OUR LEARNING DETECTIVES

Each year, each class is given two 'Learning Detectives'.  These children are responsible, senior students who help our class and keep us up-to-date with school events.  This year we are lucky to have Ashleigh and Keziah as our Learning Detectives.  They came to visit us and talked to us about new games that will be available in Te Puna Ako to play during wet lunchtimes.

HAPPY EASTER!

Happy Easter everyone!  Enjoy the break and see you all on Wednesday!

SPONGEBOB'S DILEMMA

Poor Spongebob, our classroom fish had a problem this week - his fish bowl was leaking!

Tara from Room 12 was extra kind and brought along her fish bowl for him to use.  Thank you so much Tara!

GOODBYE SAM

Today we had a special farewell morning tea for Sam.  We had lots of yummy treats and told Sam all our favourite things about him.  We will miss you Sam!

INCREDIBLE HOOP GLIDERS - PART 2

We experimented with our 'Incredible Hoop Gliders' again today.  We were inspired by Marley who made his own Hoop Glider at home using a large straw.  This made the glider fly even better!

Mrs McCulley brought some large milkshake straws and we used these to make new gliders.  We had lots of fun flying them outside.

We had a boys race and a girls race to see who's glider flew the furtherest.

Tarrah and Sam were our champions!

We compared our old gliders from last week (with the small straws) to our new gliders (with the big straws).  The gliders with the big straws flew much better, just as Marley had told us.

Meg posed a very good question... "What would happen if we had three hoops on the glider?"  We tested this out.  The glider worked well and moved in a spiral direction.

Leo also posed a very good question... "What would happen if we only used two hoops?"  We tested this out too and found that the glider did not fly well at all.  It just went a short distance before it dropped to the ground.

Just for fun we flew our new and improved 'Incredible Hoop Gliders' off the deck.  Watch them fly...

What a fantastic science session!

SNUGGLES VISITS ROOM 11

Today Samara's dog, Snuggles came to visit us.  He is an adorable and very friendly Pug.  We enjoyed meeting you Snuggles!

PAT TESTING

Every morning this week, all of the Year 4 students have been very busy completing their PAT tests.  These tests were for mathematics, reading comprehension, reading vocabulary and listening.  The Year 3 children also completed a listening test.  If you would like to find out more about these tests, please see the link below:

http://www.nzcer.org.nz/tests/understanding-pats-parents-and-community

FAREWELL MORNING TEA FOR SAM

Friday will be Sam’s last day at George Street Normal School.  He is moving overseas with his family and we will miss him very much.  To wish him well, we will be having a shared morning tea on Friday.  Please bring along a small plate of food to share.  Thank you!

FIGURE ME OUT!

During maths time this week, we have been making awesome 'Figure Me Out!' posters.  The posters have lots of information about us but you have to work out the answers of the maths equations first!  They are now hanging in our classroom.  Please come in and check them out!

SCIENCE - The Incredible Hoop Glider

This week in Science we created a 'Incredible Hoop Glider' with a buddy.  These flew really well and it was lots of fun.  Next week we are going to experiment by making some changes - different sized straws and extra hoops.  We will see if we can make the 'Incredible Hoop Glider' even more incredible!

If you would like to try this out for yourself, please click on the following link:

https://sciencebob.com/the-incredible-hoop-glider/

LEARNING COMMITMENT INTERVIEWS

Next week we will be having Learning Commitment interviews. They will be held on Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th March.  Each interview is 10 minutes long.  During these interviews we will be discussing your child's strengths and setting both a strength-based and challenge goal. 

Please click on the link to book your time online. https://www.schoolinterviews.co.nz

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SWIMMING

Tomorrow is our last day of swimming for the year.  Wow!  What amazing swimmers we now have in Room 11!

FAREWELL TO THE RANDHAWA FAMILY

Friends of the Randhawa family are invited to their farewell on Sunday the 13th of March.  We will miss Sam very much!

MEETING SWEET PEA

Today, Hannah from Room 10 introduced us to her super cute kitten, Sweet Pea.  Sweet Pea is just four months all.  We thought she was lovely!

SWIMMING FUN!

The children have been swimming each day and have been making fantastic progress.

SWIMMING HAS STARTED!

Yesterday we had our first day of swimming.  We enjoyed walking in the sunshine down to the DNI Pool.  Swimming will continue until Friday next week.