Book Character Day in T14

Today we had a super fun day in Ti Kouka.  We dressed up as a character from a book, read lots of super cool stories and even had a visit from our wonderful librarian Mr McCallum who read us some of his favourite books.

Have a look at the photos of us all dressed up.

The Super Rugby Trophy

We got to see the Super Rugby Trophy that the Crusaders won. 

It was very heavy. It weighed 20kg. Mrs O'Neill still managed to lift it!

ACTIVE play this week

Our new toy dinosaurs have inspired children during ACTIVE play.

Lots of children have been enjoying the new dress up donated by Lexie and her family.

 We love our hill

Learning how to play checkers.

 Monkeying around on the monkey bars.

 Making up stories using the iPad.

 High Finance.

 Learning how to hand stitch.

 Mariel sharing her craft skills to teach others how to make wings.

Measuring length

 T14 read about how Flat Stanley was squashed by his enormous bulletin board. He had to go to the Doctor and the nurses took his measurements.

 We took our measurements like Flat Stanley.

Even with a broken arm!

 Before we measured our bodies we decided on some rules we need to think about when we are measuring so we can be accurate.

Use the same thing to measure with. If you are using rods make sure you are using the same size rod.

Make the rods straight and make sure they are joined together
-NO GAPS

Start measuring right at the top and go all the way to the bottom.

We had to use smaller blocks to measure the last wee bit. We tried to work out the fraction for this.

We learned how to write a half

The next day we used string to see if around head was longer than the length of our foot.

 If our wrist was smaller than our ankle.

We measured our bodies in lots of different ways.

Curriculum Area:

• Mathematics and statistics

Key Competencies:

• Interactor (staying with my buddy, taking turns, listening to my buddy, looking at my buddy when they speak, saying nice words, sharing the work)

Finding Bears in Ice

Ti Kouka children enjoyed digging bears out of the ice. They used salt to try and make the ice melt faster. 

When finished the water was tipped out on the asphalt. They next day every one noticed white glistening areas.