Monday Mashup- Coding

For the last two weeks, Urmi's Monday Mashup group has been using Beebots. Their challenge has been to design a Beebot Adventure.

 

Have you ever tried to code?

Parachutes Away!

Parachute Challenge
Tawhirimatea students took on the challenge of making a parachute and basket to help safely transport an egg from the top of the fireman’s pole safely to the ground. In teams of three, the children worked together to design and build their parachute and basket.  Next, they took the parachute out to test and make any changes necessary, Then came the real challenge! Each team was given a raw egg to put in their basket. Down came their parachutes from the fireman’s pole.  Five eggs survived the drop and two unfortunately cracked. The biggest surprise was the egg that fell out of it’s basket and survived! We used organic eggs and we wondered if shells were stronger than non-organic eggs. The teams enjoyed working together and we had lots of laughs as we waited in anticipation to see if our eggs would survive.

Year 5 Camp- Day 1

Lots of excitement at camp today. We started by a walk to the campsite via many river crossings, this was unexpected but we had great fun. We have also completed two of our 6 activities today and will finish the rotations tomorrow. The highlight seems to have been chocolate cake, and ice cream for dessert!

Pool Party!

What a great afternoon for some fun at the Tāwhirimātea Pool Party! It was lovely to see so many families there. Thank you for joining us.

 
 

 

 

 

         Please, can you write a comment about why you enjoyed the afternoon?

Writing Poetry

Writing

On Friday, we began some new writing with our school writing kits. We are using kits sponsored by Warehouse Stationary to "Get New Zealand Writing" The first kit is to teach children how to write poetry and when we have completed our poems we will exchange them with another school.

We started with the children writing a single line about a particular colour,  we scrutinised and grouped the sentences until we were happy with the construction of our poem.

We listened to the poem  In Other Words by Glenn Colquhoun, exploring the descriptive language and the rhythm, and watched videos other children had made to add graphics to the poem. Then the students rewrote their sentences and we reconstructed our poem to make it better, stronger, deeper
Finally, we voted on a name for our poem. Keep watching for the next instalment...