Our Journey for Term 1

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EOTC WEEK
What an incredible 2 days! From activities from Robots, designing raincoats, scooters and making paper planes. More photos to come but here are a few ...

Kawau Team (Year 3) E.O.T.C                                  29.03.17 Thank you for helping us to change plans due to the weather today.  We had a great day inside collaborating, communicating and creating.  We also had loads of FUN! Day Two -  Changes to Thursday 30th March PLEASE BRING SCOOTERS AND HELMETS TO SCHOOL - SORRY NO BIKES As the weather is supposed to be clearing, we are going to try to do our scooter activities on Thursday.  Unfortunately the field will be too wet to do the bike activity.   Day Three -Waiake Beach Walk - Friday 31st March    10.30am, returning around 2.30pm. Children will need... morning tea and lunch (no lunch orders) a bottle of water Uniform - for safety reasons please send children to school in uniform school hat and sun block polar fleece (optional) Togs and towel Sensible shoes for walking to the beach and exploring rock pools   (NO JANDALS or BAREFEET) ANY FURTHER CHANGES WILL BE ON CLASSROOM BLOGS AND Skoolbag

Mandarin Lessons
This term we are learning Mandarin - look at what we learned this week!

Our thoughts:

Nash sharing information about a stingray

Haiku Poems

We have been learning about Haiku poems

What do you notice about this type of poetry?

Come and find out about Sea Stars? We were working collaboratively to present information in an interesting way

Swimming At School
Students have been working hard during our swimming rotation. It's great to see so many students showing resilience and showing me how clever they are. Well done everyone!

Great job Abby!

Remember to blow bubbles and kick!

Great technique!

Look at us go!

Who can make a starfish, pencil and mushroom?

Working so hard, deserves a play!

Our Collaborative Sea Week Poems:

The Sea

The sea is crashing on the rocks making loud noises.

The sea tastes extremely salty.

The sea is full of dolphins in the water.

The sea is full of salty water.

The sea is full of fish sparkling in the ocean.

The sea is full of fish sparkling in the ocean.

The sea smells like salt sinking to the bottom of the sea.

The sea sounds like dolphins splashing in the water.

Kimiora, Kale, Abby and Cameron

The Sea is Graceful

The sea is yellow and purple.

The sea is blue and sparkles like the sun.

The sea is full of dolphins splashing in the sun.

The sea is full of volcanic rocks.

The sea sparkles in the boiling sun as bright as the yellow book bag.

Paige, Sarah, Amber, Dimi, Tessa

In The Deep Blue Sea

The sea is full of lots of living creatures and anemones.

The sea is full of sand and shells.

The sea looks like salt sparkling.

The sea salt tastes like salt.

The sea is good for swimming and playing with rubber ducks.

The sea tastes like disgusting salt that sparkles in the moonlight.

The sea has stupendous sharks that can swim miles and miles.

The sea feels cold while swimming in the sparkling water.

The sea is full of ducks that enjoy the salty water.

Caitlin, Max, Zachary, Jayden and Janessa

The Sea

The sea is a place full of animals

The sea is beautiful in the sun as it goes down.

The sea is made of salty water if you drink it, you will die.

The sea is full of salt when the sand mixes together.

The sea sounds like crashing waves at night.

The sea is like twinkling stars in the sunlight.

The sea is like twilight at dawn.

Nikita, Chloe, Ethan, Nick

The Sea

The sea looks like it’s swirling in the harbour.

The sea sounds like it’s constantly crashing against the rocks at night.

The sea looks like sparkling diamonds when the sun hits it.

The sea sounds like rocks crashing .

The sea is very salty.

The sea is sparkling like diamonds.

Teagan, Kohl, Madison, Nathan

The Sea

The sea is full of sparkling dolphins.

The sea is full of whales splashing in the sea.

The sea is dark blue.

The sea is salty.

The sea is crystal clear and I just love the sun’s reflection.

Harrison, Erin, Eden, Nash, Hiro

Word of the Week:

What does this mean? What what this look like? Here are a few of us working collaboratively.

This week is Sea Week. Today we watched a Live Cam from the Royal Albatross Colony at Taiaroa Head - near Dunedin - click here 




Word of the Week: 

Great fun at swimming this week. What incredible RESILIENCE we showed! So many children learned something new and it was great to see everyone having a go!  Here we are having our first floating competition!

What does resilience mean to you? How did you show resilience this week? Write a comment below....

Some of our Resilient stories:

We watched a video about a baby piper.He lived near a beach who showed resilient. His mother walked to the beach to find some food. Lts baby thought his mother would not return but she didn’t come back.

Cameron

I watched a video about resilience and felt happy for Piper and felt sad for him when he got washed up by the waves. I remember when I caught my first fish. A few hours before that I couldn’t catch a fish. I kept on trying and trying. First the movie the little bird kept on moving under its mum and next the mum went on the beach to find oysters. Then the little bird opened its beak but nothing happened. The the mum called him to the beach to get an oyster to eat. After that he somersaulted down the hill and ran onto the beach to find an oyster to eat. A second later a humongous wave collapsed onto him. He raced up the hill, his mother flew to the top of the hill and dried him off.  Then flew back down. His tummy grumbled then he crawled like a ninja and hid behind things. Next he saw another wave and his sprinted behind some seaweed. After that he somehow moved on top of the sand.  Some crabs crawled out and one pinched him on the beck. He followed them. He saw another wave, the crabs buried themselves in the sand the little bird buried himself too. Then he opened his eyes and saw lots of oysters and helped the group.

Nathan

We watched a clip about a fluffy little chick who learnt something brand new. Can you guess what the fluffy chick showed? I felt sad for the poor little thing when it was washed away. I remember when I once tried to ride my big bike. The wind blew me off my bike. The fluffy chick zoomed back to the warm nest. It’s mother tried to make her cute child to try again. After a long time the chick was starving and it bolted back to the crystal clear water.

Eden

We watched an epic movie about a little bird who showed resilience and tried and tried again.I felt sad for the little bird that he got washed away. I have some resilience when I started writing four sentences in my writing book.

Harrison

We watched a video about a little bird showing resilience i felt sorry for him because he’s only a baby. Then after he ran as fast as he could to the sea and  learned his lesson. I remember when I showed resilience when I tried to bike but it turned out I could do it.

Tessa

We watched a bird named Piper showing resilience.I felt sad when Piper got washed up at the beach. After that he was standing on two crabs that walked up to him. A wave was coming and Piper saw the crabs digging in the ground and he tried it and he saw oysters!.

Nikita

Swimming starts this week - Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Lovely to meet all the parents at Meet the Teacher picnic.

This week we had a M & M challenge. A great team building activity.

Kelly Sports 
Here we tried a variety of sports. It was lots of fun. In the comments below - what was your favourite today?

Football

Relays

Rugby

Our 'Best Part' stories. 
A sneaky peek of some of our stories. Come in and check them out!

The best part of me is my big beautiful blue eyes because if I didn’t have them I wouldn’t be able to see my food and my mum and dad and family. It is very good to have eyes because you can see everything.

Erin

The best part of me is my mouth because I can eat with it. I like my mouth because I can talk with it. Without it I would be silent. I like my mouth because I can make silly and funny noises. I like my mouth because I sing with it too. Kimiora-Dior

The best part of me is my stupendous legs, they can make my run super fast and I can also ride my bike. I can jump higher than the net! My legs can make me do really awesome flips like knee flips and I can scratch my head with my feet! Max

The best part of me is my feet. I like them so I can walk or run all over the place. If my brain wanted my feet to walk me to the chippie shop and my feet didn’t want to go there they might walk me to the ipad, xbox or the neighbours or I can stay still. Nick

The best part of me is my spine. If I didn’t have one I would not be able to walk. I also like my tongue. If I didn’t have a tongue I would not be able to talk. The strongest bone is my tongue. I love my tongue because it is my favourite colour. Paige

The best part of me is my is my hands because I can hold my baby sister and that I can push the pram. I also can hold my mum’s hand. Teagan

Week 1
What an excellent start!. We have made new friends and are learning to work collaboratively. This term we will learning how to show creativity, make mistakes, show dedication, have successes, take risks, demonstrate courage, always show effort and persistence!


Here are a few clips we have watched this week:

Always take steps forward!

Our song we are learning - Oh oh oh oh Try Everything

Just remember to Keep Swimming!