Kids in Space!

 

This week in Tāwhrimātea, we were so lucky to have Anne-Marie from the Antarctic Centre come and run workshops for our tamariki. The programme is called "Kids in Space." Who knew the Antarctic Centre also taught lessons about space?? We had such a blast dressing up in space suits, making paper rockets, and learning about the lives of real astronauts. A trip to Mars might have been on our to-do lists, but after hearing that it takes several months of travelling to get there, we might be thinking twice about that!

Planets in Space - Shared Writing Week 6

  On Wednesday at the beginning of our literacy meeting we wrote another shared story about the fictional planet Tāwhirimatea. We hope you enjoy our story!

Pies in Space

 Today at the beginning of our literacy meeting we had a short writing activity where we had to each say three words to create a shared story. We hope you enjoy our story!

A Day in the Life of India

Kia ora team!

This blog is brought to you from the not-so-sunny West Coast. I am borrowing ideas from Gabby, and decided to share ‘A Day in the Life Of’ post with you all today.

So, here is how I spent Wednesday 25th August.

I started my morning off with breakfast, before heading out for my daily walk.

Luckily I took my umbrella, because being the West Coast, it rained!

On my walk I went to visit to the local livestock. I was hoping today they might want to be my friends. 

They did not.

(I’m only slightly offended)

Social Distance hang-outs with the sheep

I was able to get better photos of the lambs yesterday.

After that I sat down to do some school work, including leaving some comments on your blogs.

By the time I had finished that, it was close to lunchtime and I was a bit hungry, so I decided to bake some cookies (I love to bake). 

First I had to feed the Queen (my cat Peppa)

I had seen on the home learning page there was a suggestion to make some space themed cookies, so I had a go at my own! 

After they were cooked I swirled food colouring through white icing and dipped them in.

After I’d finished baking and tidying up, I did some more work and then cuddled my other cat Cocoa.

This is Cocoa!

I then sorted dinner for my family, watched TV with my family and then I read my book for a while before bed!

Let me know what your day looks like in your bubble!

- India

A Day In The Life Of Gabby

 

Book Character Dress Up Day in Lockdown

 

Ka Pai to those of you who dressed up as a book Character.

To the Moon and Beyond!

We have had another busy week in Tāwhirimātea looking at The Earth and beyond as part of our Science inquiry. We have been exploring the history of spacecraft and how we are travelling to space in the present day. 

Here is Lily's slideshow she created about her favourite spacecraft - the Space Shuttle, and the spacecraft her group made to take them to Mars.

   

 Here are some other spacecraft the students have created: