Wacky Hair Day 2013

Wacky Hair Day was a great success. The class councillors choose this as a way of raising money. We were raising money for the Children's Ward at the hospital to get the children TVs and toys. Room 6 raised the most money! Lots of people had wacky hair do's! Check out Lily's winning hair do below.

 

 

Wacky Hair Day

On Tuesday Room 6 looked very different. Check us out and our Wacky Hair. We each brought along a food item to donate to the Food Bank! 

 

 

Marae Visit

On Friday the 2nd of November we went to the Marae. Once we were welcomed on some people did the hongi with the speakers from the marae. We did greetings.  We listened to singing and saw people dancing.  We played some games. We had a competition to make the best koru out of the cut grass. There were two winners from the competition, one from Room 6 and one from Room7. We all crowded around the hangi pit to see them dig it up. When the hangi was dug up it smelt quite bad from the wet sacks and the leaves. Some of the hangi food got a little burnt because it got too hot by the stones.  Most people had the hangi for lunch. The hangi tasted great!   

 

Kapa Haka welcoming us.

Room 6 & 7 Koru Competition

 

Lifting the hangi

Enjoying the hangi lunch

 

Shake Out

On the 26th of September 2012 we did a BIG shake out.  We had to drop, cover and hold to keep safe.  1.3 million people registered to take part in this event.  We did this so that we are prepared and know what to do when an earthquake happens.

 

 

 

 

Weta

Today some people from the Department of Conservation came.  When weta hatch they need to run away as fast they can or else their brothers and sisters will eat them!  The female weta lays the eggs in the soil.  Once an adult has laid the eggs it will die.  They can lay hundreds of eggs.  They only live for about two years.  Weta hide in gorse so that rats can't get them.  They do not have teeth like ours, they have little ones.  They can grow up to 7.5cms - that is just the body!  The female has ovipositers.

Scootering Skills

On Tuesday the 21th of August we did some scooter training. We learnt how to cross sneaky driveways. We learnt how to use our brakes. We played some games on our scooters. All the scooter games were fun. We also learnt how to cross the road safely. We learnt how to go past people safely. We had a fun scootering session.

Fractions!

Today we are learning about fractions.  We found out that they can turn into almost anything. We cut up oranges and gave them to people. We learnt that halves can turn into wholes and that four eighths turn into a half.  We found out the two thirds is more than a half.  Two quarters make a half and eight eighths turn into a whole.  Then we ate our fractions!