Mau Rakau

Yesterday we started our Mau Rakau learning at Hurunui-o-rangi Marae. We had a great time learning self-discipline and self-worth through combat training.

Hurunui-o-rangi Marae

Working out which foot to step forward with. How beautiful is this setting though!

Discipline

Striking

Learning about shapes

This morning we have been learning more about plane shapes. Because we like to move around we did this with lengths of string and bodies. Check out our time lapse and then see our individual blogs for more information:

Science Fair Fun

We've been loving all the different Science Inquiries that are happening in Room 3 at the moment. There are plants and seeds and bird feeders and crystals and eggs and all sorts being experimented on.

Today we all got excited about the catapult that Angus and his Dad made, for Angus and Hamish's experiment:

Can you hear Hamish talking about what their hyporthesis was? Do you think they proved or disproved their hypothesis?

Maths Problems

So much has been happening in Room 3. Here are some little tasters from the students own blogs:

Today Room 3 joined up with Room 6 again to try and solve a maths puzzle. This one mixed finding sums with equilateral triangles and if the students wanted to get really tricksy, they could use reflective and rotational symmetry to help solve them. Asha has given some examples on her blog here and Anika has described her process here.

We've also been exploring time with Ms Julius when she was in our classroom. We got to create a piece of art based on time. Summer has a good example of it here on her blog.

We have a class focus on spelling this term and last week Billy worked hard on knowing his 3-letter blends. He's made a blog post about it here.

Some of the students have been learning how to create QR Codes to share information. We've been using them to summarise articles and stories we've been using in reading. Here's one that Sophie made. If you don't have a QR code reader they're easy to download for free from the app store.

Forms and paperwork

This is a reminder to all the parents/whānau of Room 3 to make sure that you've signed and returned forms for the following:
* Football Tournament
* Camp
* Mau Rakau

Please have these in to me tomorrow (Friday) if possible. Monday at the latest. Thanks for your help.

Football Tournament - Important message

Kia ora whānau,

An important message regarding the South Wairarapa Football Tournament. There is an amendment in dates from the first form that was sent out. The Tournament will be held on Friday 14th August only. This is due to the Kuranui College open day taking place on the Wednesday and Year 8 students (from all South Wairarapa Schools) having the opportunity to attend that. If it does not go ahead on that Friday there is no postponement date.

If you have sent your form in indicating that you are able to help out on the Friday then YES we do need you.

Thanks again