Foyer Display Weeks 3 and 4

Guess what? Room 8 are lucky enough to display some of their outstanding mahi (work) in our school foyer! A handful of students have their animal adaptations art up for our community to read. They look great and Mrs Reid is super excited to have such a wonderful view for two weeks!

Feel free to come in and check it out!

How do people influence places and places influence people?

Today we picked coloured beans out of a cup which organised us into our Social Sciences groups. We then picked another colour, which organised us into roles within our group.

Our roles are: CEO, 2IC, Reporter and Recorder.

Today we had our first group meetings and started brainstorming pātai (questions) in our group books. We are learning to be good researchers by learning new research skills. We are also learning how to work together as a team.

Te Rōpū Tapatoru

Today Miss Osborn was so impressed with the Tapatoru group. They were learning to solve multiplication problems using repeated addition. We also looked at reversing problems.

For example:

4 x 3 is the same as 3 x 4

so

4 + 4 + 4 is the same as 3 + 3 + 3 + 3

They were super clever and did a great job! Check out some photos of us working hard today.

Walking Water

6/5/16

This morning, Room 8 took part in an experiment called Walking Water. Before starting, we had to discuss what we thought might happen after completing the experiment. We had to write predictions.

Here are some of our predictions:

"I think the liquid will soak up through the paper towels into the cup. I think that because paper towels are like toilet paper and they soak up water."
- Deacon

I think the blue water will rise up one of the paper towels and the yellow water will be soaked up by the other one. I think this because paper towels are like towels and soak up moisture.
- Taejin

When Mrs Johnstone came in to help us, she had a great wondering: she asked what would happen if we used tissues (she thought they would be too thin and break). Guess what? The tissues were much more absorbent than the cheap paper towels. Miss Osborn wonders if thick paper towels would soak up the water quicker, what do you think?