Swimming!

Yesterday the junior and middle school went to Massey Park Pools. We had an amazing time swimming in the sun! 

Kakapo Posters

Bird Masks

We made bird masks this week. We were careful of the colours we chose to help represent our favourite birds.  Can you figure out which birds we have tried to recreate?

 

Learning how to use Powtoon

Today during our digital facilitation Maria showed us how to use Powtoon. We had a go at creating a Powtoon about our inquiry. Here is Miss Spies's Powtoon. Click on our individual blogs to see our ones.

Can you find the New Zealand Birds?

Room 9 went bird watching yesterday. Can you spot any birds in the pictures? 

Using Google Sheets

Room 9 have been learning about  New Zealand birds as part of our environmental and sustainability inquiry. This week we learnt about statistical inquiries and did one about New Zealand Birds.  We collected data about Room 9s favourite birds and we then used google sheets to put the data in. We had a go at creating a graph or chart. Keep an eye out tomorrow for our graphs. 

WAL- How to do a statistical inquiry 

WALT- Use google sheets to create graphs. 

Rangatahi Festival at Park Estate School

Yesterday Park Estate School held the 2017 Rangatahi festival. We had an amazing day and didn't let the rain stop us performing. 

Learning about Pakistan

This week we held the annual Rangatahi festival. We were extremely fortunate to have Ayla's mum come in and teach us about Pakistan. We were all fascinated hearing about where Alyas family come from. We created a padlet of facts to share our learning with others. 

Room 9's Waka

Room 9 created their own Waka. We all have to work together and help each other! We talked about how we all have different roles and responsibilities in our classroom and when everyone contributes, our classroom moves like a strong waka. 

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Week 1 Term 4! Hope everyone enjoyed their holidays. This term we are doing the Kia Kaha programme. We started by talking about how we are all unique. We created our own shields explaining why we thought we were unique and why our class in special. 

Rangitoto Artwork

3D Printer

Today we had some amazing guys from the Auckland Libraries come into our class as part of the Maker-y team. They taught us how to use a 3D printer and how to create designs using a website called Tinkercad. Here are some picture of us working out how to use the website and the 3D printer. 

 

Our recycling drawings

We used google drawing to create informative posters about the importance of recycling

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Recycling

This week we have been learning about recycling. Our inquiry this term is how our actions impact the environment

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Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu

Room 9 are taking part in 'Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu' this term. We created this slideshow to introduce ourselves to others around the world. Check it out!! 

Matariki Evening

On Tuesday we had a Matariki evening. We all had an amazing time! Check out these pictures and videos. 

Matariki Kites

Room 9 worked in small groups to create our very own Matariki Kites. 

We all did a great job of working together and discussing our ideas.
Come and see them next week at the Matariki Evening. 

Tuesday 27th at 5.30pm.

Matariki

We have been learning about Matariki. Room 9 created google drawings to share their learning. 

Come and celebrate Matariki with us on Tuesday 27th June 5.30-7pm at Park Estate School.

We will be performing Kapa Haka, songs and sharing learning and food. 

Trying our first fresh coconut.....

 Talofa Lava! This week was Samoan Langauge week, we learned about Samoa, Tonga, and the Pacific Islands. We were extremely lucky to have Mark's family come in and talked to us about Tonga and explain how they drink, eat and use coconuts. We learned how coconuts play an important role in life in Tonga. Maile brought in a bowl and bag made out of coconuts.  We have been reading texts about the Pacific islands and learning traditional dances, creating pieces of art and writing our own myths!!

Our Inquiry....

This week we are doing an inquiry around global warming. 

We started by looking at pictures and asking questions. We got into groups of four, every person in the group had a role to play. 

We used question dice to help us start our questions... 

Once we had asked our questions we got to choose what picture we wanted to learn about. Miss Spies then gave us information about our chosen picture so that we could start answering some of our questions.  We spent yesterday afternoon taking notes and learning about our chosen area of global warming. 

Sefa used pictures to help him organise his ideas and understand the concept of air pollution. 

Our whanau afternoon last week...

What a great afternoon sharing our learning with our whanau. Thank you to all those who attended.

Kawa of Care Comic Strips

The water cycle

The sun warms up the water, that makes invisible gas called water vapour.

Water vapour rises up to the sky changing into little raindrops. The droplets turn into bigger droplets. When the droplets get heavy then they start to fall out of the cloud because of gravity .They even grow when they bump into each other, that makes them bigger and bigger. Rain drops, and it happens again and again.

By Panera

Our questions about Sea turtles

Kapa Haka

On Saturday students from Park Estate School performed at the Papakura street festival. They did such an amazing job and blew the crowd away! 

Thanks to all the children and parents for giving up their Saturday! 

Sea Turtles

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Positive Communication

We have been learning about positive communication in our kiwi can sessions. This picture shows one of the challenges we did. We had to communicate with our team mates in order to complete the challenge. We all did a great job!!! 

Fonterra Milk in Schools

We had Tracey come in this morning and teach us all about Fonterra Milk in schools. We showed her how amazing we are at folding our milk cartoons. 

Keep an eye out for an exciting Fonterra Video that will be uploaded soon. 

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