Summer Learning Journey: Amazon river

Summer learning journey: Digital Footprint

🎓Science day🎓

Last week four Auckland university students🎓 came to Paihia School to show us some science experiments. They showed us elephant toothpaste, rainbow liquids and the list goes on. After that we had a science rotation, our first science thing was testing the water with Caitlyn. Next we went to Te Ngahere to make the lense of our chromebooks that takes photos with Taiyo. Then we went to Juan to make rainbow lights in a box finally we went to Nina to make rockets. It was a blast.

Pet day

This term Paihia School had a pet day. Pet day is when children with permission bring their pets to school. There were dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and this year crayfish. We made decorated cookies, vaseline saucers and arranged a novelty container to get judged. We also made A&P posters. My favourites were the vaseline saucers.

Swim safety

A couple of weeks ago in Te Maunga we went to a water safety lesson in our whare.
We learnt five important rules: never swim alone, always tell someone you’re going swimming,
bring a boogie board, check the weather and tell someone what time you will be back from swimming.
Never ever rely on a teenager to supervise you because they might get distracted with electronics and
not watch you properly.

Geometry

This term in Te Maunga we have being doing Geometry. We learnt angles like 360, 180 and 90 percent angles. What I found tricky was drawing the shapes. Our learning intention was to make nets for containers. We also made a google drawing about geometry.

Flubber

In Te Maunga this term we have been making lots of experiments inspired by  fractions in maths.
All we needed was warm water, PVA glue and borax .

4 ¼ of Water  (1 Cup)

4 Cups of PVA Glue

and 4 teaspoons of borax.

We added it all together but it DID NOT work and it didn’t work because we we added too much water. Some kids also made another smaller  batch. But I think it didn’t work because we added to much glue and water and also the borax did not dissolve.

In The Beginning

This Term we have been doing activities based around Rangi and Papa. One of the activities was a slide presentation with questions we answer .Some people put the writing on their slide.Some people also made a comic strip about Rangi and Papa I didn’t because mine got lost.The whole class made a collage of something related to the story. I enjoyed answering the questions. What I found tricky was not getting frustrated about the collage taking so long.

Te Reo Maori - Kai

In Te Maunga we have been learning about Te Reo Maori. We also learnt the Maori words for food e.g. Banana would be panana. We had to make a slide and insert pictures of food like fruit/ Seafood and vegetabl.es  Underneath the pictures we had to write the English name then the te reo name. I enjoyed learning the Maori words. What I found tricky was trying to pronounce and spell the words correctly. Mrs Pou also gave us some food and we had to say He tino reka/kawa It is very sweet/sour. Mrs Pou also gave us pepper. Eww yuck

Kaitlin's Term 3 Math Goals

In Te Maunga we created a google drawing. On the google drawing we did our math goals.
Our learning intention was W.A.L.T monitor our own learning.We have done our
Term 1 and 2 goals this time we did our term 3 goals.If we had finished writing it
we marked it red on the hand in sheet then the teacher would mark it orange if we
had to fix something up or she would mark it green if we had finished.

Term 3 Writing Goals

In Te Maunga  we created our Term 3 writing goals and our learning intention was to self choose our goals. We had to choose goals that we wanted to learn and goals from last term we did not get to evidence. We evidence our goals in our writing.

Hiwi The Kiwi Comes To Paihia School

On 21st of June Paihia School went to the whare to see Hiwi The Kiwi to learn about seafood(kaimoana) and seabirds(manu moana). Hiwi the Kiwi sang songs about the kaimoana to help save them and to give messages about them. He also talked about boat safety  like wear your life jacket or sitting down when the boat is moving.

He tino reka/kawa It is sweet/sour

In Te Maunga we have been doing a slideshow  with all the things we
have been doing about Kai/food. We  tasted some food and the
teacher would say “titiro ki te __ nei”. We would reply back
“ he tino reka/kawa” meaning sweet or sour. I enjoyed tasting
the food and saying if it was sweet or sour but not when the
teacher gave us some pepper (pepa).

Paihia School Fitness

At Paihia School we have been doing some fitness in the morning. We have a rotation and they all get our hearts beating. We have awesome seniors running the fitness rotation along with Mrs Williams. I enjoy the Jump Jam and what I find challenging is the Hurdles.

Rocky Shore

On week 3 term 2 everybody made a google drawing about the rocky shore. We had to compare a looked after rocky shore compared to Paihia rocky shore. To save the rocky shore I will ask tourists nicely not to step on our rocky shore. I will also look after different species each week.

Term 2 Maths Goals

At the beginning of term 2 we had to write our math goals for the term. We had to get the goals from term 1 that we didn’t achieve or from the doc thet Mrs Pou made.The W.A.L.T. was to choose our own goals. I had to get 4 more goals.

Term 2 Writing Goals

At the beginning of term 2 we had to write our writing goals for the term. We had to get the goals from term 1 that we didn’t achieve or from the spelling results.The W.A.L.T. was to choose our own goals.