Ooblek

On the 14th June, Mr Walker surpised us by making Ooblek! At first I didn't know what it meant and then when he showed us...... I was super excited! When Mr Walker called Aisha (my partner) and me up, we choose the colour green. After we chose, Mr Walker instructed us what to do. It was pretty hard when I mixed the cornflour, water and food colouring together. Then, Aisha and me sat down on the slippery, slidey mat, we started playing with it. It was kind of disgusting at first but we got used to it. Aisha started putting it on my wrist so I put some on her wrist. After when we had finished the Ooblek, we had to tidy up.

It was such a wicked time! I wish we can do it again! 

From Sara

My Eye-test by Sara

Today, kids were called up to do their eye-test, we had to go to Room8 to get it done. There were three stations to go to.  We had to sit down and then they tell us what to do like: "Please look at the chart and call out the letters". It was really hard because the letters were getting smaller at the end and they were hard to say them. When I got to the third station, my eyes were sore from all that light flashing in my eyes. When I finished, I got my light meter, a light meter is when you have to wear the light meter on your top and it records how much light you have been watching in a day.  You have to wear the badge all the time when you are awake, you have to take it off when you go to bed.

My eyes were sore but it was fun.

By Sara      

Students with their light metres on their chests.
This is part of a research project at the University of Auckland.

21st Century Art

The children have been working on a piece of art using pastels, they section their paper into different shapes and then fill the shapes with images that represent the 21st century to them.

This is the first of the artworks to be completed.

By Carys

By Ammy

      

by Brinal

 

By Aisea

By Sara 

By Mr Walker - nothing like doing the work
to show your class.

By Caleb

By Jin

My kiwiana story

WHAT MAKES A KIWI KID?

Being a kiwi kid is representing the All Blacks.

Being a kiwi kid is eating sticky, hokey pokey ice-cream while listening to Titanium.

A kiwi kid is going to beaches and walking on the hot sand.

A kiwi kid is about saving our environment.

A kiwi kid is going to parks and squishing your toes in the nice green grass.

Being a kiwi kid is being in the nice fresh air.

A kiwi kid is going in mud and squishing your toes right in the brown, sticky mud.

Being a kiwi kid is eating kiwifruit while walking in their sandals.

Being a kiwi kid is listening to The Rock’s music.

Being a kiwi kid is AWESOME!

By Sara

Our first #kidsedchatNZ session

"Our chat session was awesome!" Aisea
Jordan and Peter both thought it was epic.

Jorja is looking forward to next time but Carys was disappointed that she missed out because she was at Chess.

Free Swimming Lessons

Room 1 has just finished our free swimming lessons from the Water Hole Swim Centre. Rooms 2 - 7 as well as 17 and 18 all went for two weeks of swimming lessons, with 30 minutes every day.

We got our swimming lessons to help us be safer in the water, because too many children are drowning in New Zealand. All swimmers learnt how to improve their freestyle and backstroke swimming. Bridget, the instructor, taught her group how to use the flutter board to help with kicking. Another thing we practiced was switching from freestyle to backstroke to help with our breathing.

Most of the class enjoyed doing freestyle and it made us feel lucky to have a swimming pool at school. It was really awesome that they were free, some of our class never have had lessons outside of school and they were really enjoyable, especially as the summer has been really hot. Khayl also liked that it meant we weren't in class!

We hope that we get these again next year so that we can get better at swimming before we go to camp.

By Jordan, Sara, Mehaka and Khayl