Super students in Room 20 this week!

Congratulations to all our children Chloe and Rosie for great learning in class! Hamish for winning a voucher for his family's huffnpuff donation to school and... 

Joshua and Carter who are part of our Year 3 gymnastics team who were placed very highly, 3rd, at the Howick Pakuranga Gym Competition and then took part in the Auckland Regional Gym Competition at Tristar Gymnastics!! We are so proud of our classmates! 

You just never know what you are going to achieve until you try! 

Thank you to our families who support us by driving us to events, take time out of their day to help us raise funds, help us with our home learning and getting us to school early for practices! 

Hockey Small Sticks Wednesday

Cam from Auckland Hockey has been teaching and coaching us through hockey this term and we love it! It's a great team sport for girls and boys to play. Cam has supplied all our specially sized hockey sticks and balls so we can learn at our own level. 

As you can see we are enjoying the game so much it's hard for Mrs Trembath to take a still photo!

Pac Man part 3

Wow an end result to 2 days of Maths thinking! If you would like to know what our challenges were take a look at our window and see if you can solve them too!

Now we are going to use our pictures to revise how to estimate, count using arrays, count in 2s, 5s, and measure perimeter and area. 

We are going to draw our own versions on grid paper and make our own mazes. Then we will write instructions using Rotation and Direction words. Watch this space!

Day 2 of Pac Man

This group are reading their challenge before deciding if they need to go out into the school to explore or ask another teacher for clues, or work out the problem themselves.

Measuring time, length, and using clocks and themselves!!

Ali wants to count how many stick it notes it has taken to make Pac Man! Will he count in arrays, groups of 2 or 5 or 1-1? 

Tim has a try too, he estimated first and them started to count. How would you count them up? 

Pac Man Challenge

Focus: to revise Maths Knowledge and Skills from during the year in the context of our School Conmunity! 

Room 20 invited R21 and R16 to participate in our challenge too - check out their windows this week as well!

Children were put into groups of 3 and given a bag of 10 challenges to complete in any order. 

Each challenge was awarded 2 stick it notes when Mrs Trembath had listened to  how the group had solved each challenge, before they were given the go ahead to choose another challenge from their bag.

Olympic Finale for the Middle Syndicate

Lining up in our countries dressed in the colours of their flag! Our teams were made up of children from across the Syndicate. We made new friends today! Mrs Trembath was so proud of everyone and how they participated upholding the Olympic Values of Friendship, Excellence and Respect. 

It was a beautiful day and we had lots of games and sports to try around the playground and in the hall. We used hurdles, balloons, potatoes, horses, rockets, balls, frisbees which just goes to show you can make a game out of just about anything! 

I challenge you to make up some games at home and have a Family Olympics!!

Science Club

Experimenting with Cornflour and Shaving foam! What kinds of changes do you notice happening?

How does it feel? What has the texture become like? Has the temperature changed? 

What do you see?

Instant snow! It feels like cold bread crumbs! 

How did we make it? 

Using 1/2 or 1/4 or 1/3 cups we measured 3/4 cornflour and 1 cup of shaving foam 

Then we mixed the ingredients together with our hands!!