First Flight: 2015

Monday, 21 September 2015

Penny is reading to her toy.

Toy Day

Playing with our special toys during toy day.

Toy Day

Savanna has brought her ponies to school, to play with for toy day.

Sunday, 20 September 2015

Giant Bubble recipe

Here is the recipe for the giant bubbles, I doubled it so it would go in the water trough.

Giant bubble recipe

6 cups water

1/2 cup dish detergent

1/2 cup corn flour

1 tbsp baking powder (not baking soda)

1 tbsp Glycerine

Dissolve the cornflour in the water, stirring really well. Then gently stir in the remaining ingredients. Avoid creating a lot of froth. Allow your mixture to sit for at least an hour, stirring occasionally if you see the corn flour settling to the bottom. Some of ours continued to settle even while we played with it, but it was fine.

Here is a picture of the wands that I found on google images.

We only had bendy straws which we annoying, straight ones like these would have been better. Plus ours were skinny, so the technique was - thread the wool into a straw then suck the other end of the straw to pull it through. If you are unlucky and sucked too hard you end up with a mouth (or throat) full of wool. Lots of giggling!

Giant Bubble Fun at Tuakana Teina Time

Giant Bubble Fun

On Thursday Room Kaponga and our buddy class made special bubble wands using 2 straws and some wool to make giant bubbles. Some people used paper trumpets to blow their bubbles. Here are some of our more successful ones.

Here is our big trough of bubble mix and our big wands.

When our hands got super soapy we could even blow them with our hands!

Super Hero

We had a special super hero guest come to visit our classes today. When he is not being a super hero, his name is HT and he lives with Mrs Daniels. He is a 10 year old Boxer dog (70 years old in dog years). HT is amazingly gentle and patient and he loved us patting his soft fur. We had a big discussion about what his super powers were and what his super hero name might be. These were some of our ideas for our writing.

Here is HT Super dog with Mrs Daniels.

He loved seeing all the kids. He has super manners (AND so do we!)

Here is Troy's story:

Super Dog

Super Dog saves a person. Super Dog took the person and Super Dog got the person into bed to sleep. Good job for Super Dog.

Here is Kay's Story

Super Dog

A Super Dog! came to our school. He had a super cape and he could look through walls and people. He eats weetbix so that he gets strong, so he can lift things with one hand. The Super Dog walked with it's Super Owner.

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Whale Bone And A Tooth

Whaea Mem brought a whale bone and a whale tooth for us to look at. The whale bone was from a white whale beached on ninety mike beach in the 1950s. The tooth has been passed down through Whaea Mems family.

Te Reo

Whaea Mem is teaching us a new song today.

Monday, 17 August 2015

First Flight Assembly

On Friday, it was our hub's turn to do assembly. We had learnt two songs. One, we created a slide show for using our children. This song came from the wonderful website waiatamai.co.nz/freedownloads/, which has lots of songs about different topics in Te Reo Maori. Here is a copy of the slide show.

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Jump Jam

Loving the Witch Doctor.

Jump Jam With Brett Fairweather

We are so lucky to Brett Fairweather here to lead some Jump Jam.

Thursday, 6 August 2015

Book Character Day

Today it is Book Character Day at our school. We had a special assembly where we got to see all the children's and teachers costumes. Some children got prizes. Bob got to choose a book for his amazing costume. He is an alien from the book "Aliens love underpants!"

Monday, 3 August 2015

Constable Emma Came To Read To Hub 1.

We acted out the story.

Dinosaur Eggs

Last week in Kauri I brought some frozen dinosaur eggs to class! The children had the job of breaking open the eggs to reach the dinosaurs, which they loved!

We used this as their writing experience. The children first shared some amazing oral language about the experience, then they went away to write their stories. This is a selection of the fantastic stories they wrote and published.......

Finding 100 classroom objects

In Maths, we made 100 by finding 10 groups of 10 classroom objects with a buddy.

Sunday, 2 August 2015

Displays about 100

In Rooms Kaponga, Harakeke and Kopukapuka we celebrated 100 days at school. The children with the help of their whanau brought in many creative displays showing 100.

100 day collections by Year One. by Slidely Slideshow

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Room Toetoe's Post on Wednesday, 29 July 2015

Constable Emma came today to read us a story.

Monday, 27 July 2015

100 Days Of School

On Friday the 24th July we had our 100th day at school for 2015. Many children had a lot of fun collecting 100 objects and displaying them in many creative ways. Please enjoy looking at these photos of the results.