Term 4 Week 3 - 5

 Measurement
Te Kakano are learning about measurement. It is very much about understanding the language of measurement and comparison. The students measured a variety of objects using non-standard measuring tools such as unifix cubes, blocks, string, hands and feet. It has been a lot of fun as the following photos demonstrate.

Whaea Jac, a 3rd Year student teacher has the students engaged and thinking about height.

Here we are in groups sorting ourselves from shortest to tallest.


How tall is a moa?

How long?



Sharing and discussing

How long? How wide?

We learn, create and share!

Term 4 Week 1

Welcome to our seven new students, Te Reinga, Sophia Everest, Miya Zaw-Kooss, Cameron Ellis, Thomas and Grayson Neho and Jayden Pivac and their families. Thank you for choosing to come to Paparore School.

. . . and here's the whole class!

A highlight of the week was our play dough making. After investigating the ingredients we worked in pairs to create our favourite colours of 'sparkle dough.' It felt warm and squishy as we kneaded the dough into smooth balls. We kept some for classroom learning and got to take some home to keep at the end of the day. We also wrote about this fun experience.

Bostin's Perfect Puppies

Bostin brought five beautiful puppies into our classroom.

Our brainstorm before writing. The yellow words are 'WOW' words that describe the puppies.

Wonderful puppy writing!

Bostin's puppies are cute and there are five puppies.    Carter

Bostin's puppies are fluffy and the puppies licked my hand. They are beautiful!    Ava

The puppy got out. Connor got it.    Arlen

I like Bostin's puppies because they lick people. The puppies are cute too.    Tyson

Bostin's puppies are cute. I cuddled two puppies.    Levi

The puppies licked my face and one ran away. I patted one.    Lloyd

I love the puppies and I cuddle them and one licked me.    Jo-Jo

Bostin's puppies came to school. I held one and it nipped my hand. Five puppies licked the boys and girls and one got away!    Preet

I like the puppies because they are cute.    Tauhe 

Bostin's puppies are cute and they licked my hand.    Riley

I held the puppies and they licked me on the face. They are seven weeks old.    Connor

I liked the puppies because they licked my hand. They ran away!    Dwayne

Bostin's puppies are cute and they drink their mother's milk.    Toby

I love the puppies!    Bostin

Term 3 Week 5

Amazing African Animal Art

We have had learned lots about African animals from making observations and gathering information from pictures, books and youtube videos. Te Kakano students are becoming more observant and notice detail. They have also asked some great questions which have led to further investigation. 

We have been learning to notice and describe patterns in our environment. Some curious students noticed that many African animals have patterns on their skin and birds have feather patterns. We are also learning about symmetry which has helped us when creating art works of animals.

We applied symmetry and patterning with colour to make these lions and ostriches.

Term 3 Week 4

Kylan's Lamb

Last week Kylan bought his two week old lamb to school. Kylan is in Te Pihi class but they kindly shared this fun learning time with us. Lunar the lamb followed Kylan everywhere. Kylan bleated and Lunar came. Kylan ran and and Lunar ran behind. We have been learning about caring for animals and we noticed how well Kylan cared for Lunar.

Thank you Mrs Bainbrige and Kylan for bringing Lunar to visit. 

Term 3 Week 3

Balloon Fun.

This week we were very lucky to get about 80 balloons given to us. We looked at photos of the balloons in my little car. We used our eyes and our brains to think about:

• why the balloons were in the car?
• why all the balloons were pink?
• where could Mrs Dane have got them from?

After going for a walk and noticing that the balloons were no longer in the car we continued walking around the school to discover just where they could be. Of course we had to do some serious thinking about where so many balloons could be without people noticing them, and also the places that Mrs Dane would NOT have put them. After finding them in our school Whare this is what happened!

                
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Until next time . . .

Term 3 Week 2

     Can you use our clues to guess the animal? 

How did you do? Could you guess the different animals from our clues?