Congratulations Zac

We get to put our name in the box if we have earned Kia cards for the three different values - Kia Kaha, Kia Maia, Kia Manawanui. Zac's name was pulled out of the box. He got to choose something from the prize table. He chose a wonderful new book. I'm sure you will enjoy reading your new book. Congratulations Zac!

Fireworks

We learnt about why we celebrate Guy Fawkes.

We created some scraffito art work and wrote some Acrostic Poems. Click to view our art work and poems

Art Exhibition

Space 14 created 3D letters using scrunched up newspaper. We then used material for our paper mache. After it was dry we painted our letters and decorated them.

We also made penguins from empty soft drink bottles.

On Thursday night our parents came to see our art week. We were also able to share our blog with our parents.

Space 14 are proud of what we have created.

Roses

Tyler brought me some beautiful roses from his Mum's garden. What a range of colours these roses have. They also have an amazing scent.
Thank you Tyler.

Solar Eclipse

Manaia has just taken photos of the Solar Eclipse and used Pic Collage (a new app she is learning about) to share what she saw.

iPad Apps

Our task was to explore the apps in the Photo Editing folder and find out what we could do with them.
We had a go with BeFunky and Diptic.

Check out some of our work.

Swimming

On the last day of swimming the Daily Post photographer was at the pool while Space 13 and 14 were in the pool. Check out who made the paper.

Garden Party

We have been reading stories written by Margaret Mahy. One of her stories is "The Garden Party."
Today we had a garden party but it had to be in the classroom because it rained. We made hats and decorated them. We also had fairy bread and other goodies.

Swimming

This week we have been going to the Aquatic Centre every day to have swimming lessons. We are improving every day.

Gifted Kids Sharing Evening

On Thursday 20 September there was a GKP sharing night. We all had made a game and we shared it with the guests. My game is a bit like snakes and ladders but has challenging questions.

Zac also shared his amazing art work with us as well.

 Thank you for inviting me to see what you have been doing at GKP. I thoroughly enjoyed having a go at your game. Gosh, some of those questions were tricky. Mrs C

Skitch and Fotopedia

Space 14 learnt about 2 new apps on the ipads. We explored fotopedia to find a photo that we liked. We print screened the photo and then opened the photo in Skitch. Using the tools in Skitch we added describing words to our photo.
Check out our work by clicking on the book below.

Rainbow Fish to the Rescue

After listening to the story, we had to retell the story in our own words. We then assessed our story against a SOLO rubric.

Winter Stories

Leaf stories

More Little Bird Tales

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Little Bird Tales

Paula taught us how to use Little Bird Tales. I had the letter "E". I had to find things in the library that started with "e." I had to take a photo of the things that started with "e" and then record what they were.

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Rocket

Miss Williams taught us a new game called Rocket. We had lots of fun playing Rocket.


Click on the photo to see pictures of us playing Rocket.

Our Taiwan visitors

Alex and Jasmine are from Taiwan. They are spending some time in Space 14.
We hope you enjoy your time with us.

Our Hangi Experience

Book Week

During Book Week we had DEAR day - drop everything and read, soft toy day, swap a teacher, buddy  reading, movies in the library, pavement art and a parade.


Can you guess who we dressed up as?

Sulphur Bay

We stood quietly for 1 minute. 

What could we see? 

What could we hear? 

What could we smell? 

Our Museum Trip

Change Experiments

Butter

We did an experiment where we turned cream into butter. We poured cream into a container and took turns at shaking the container. First the cream turned into whipped cream and then into butter.

At first the fat was spread throughout the cream and we couldn’t see it. When we shook the container the fat particles all came together. We got to try the butter on bread with some different spreads. It was yummy.

Lemon Juice

We wrote messages with lemon juice. We could not see our messages until we ironed our paper.

The Lemon juice had acid in it. It made the paper weak. When we ironed the paper the heat made the acid left on the paper turn brown. We could then see our message.

Eggs

We put eggs into water, orange juice, coke and vinegar.

After a week nothing had happened to the egg in water.

The shell of the egg in the orange juice went bumpy.

The shell of the egg in coke went dark brown.

The egg in vinegar had the most changes.

The acid in the vinegar dissolved the shell. It separated the calcium and the carbonate that make up an egg shell.

The egg also got a lot bigger.

Percy the Pig

Balloon Adventures

We put some eggs in some different liquids to see what would happen.
We put the eggs in vinegar, water, juice and coke.

We looked at the eggs each day to see what changes had happened.

Nothing happened to the egg in water.

The egg in the orange juice had lumps on it. We were able to rub off some of the shell.

The egg in the coke looked as though the coke was soaking into the shell. The shell was turning brown. The shell looked as though it had a big crack in it.

The egg in the vinegar was floating. There was scum on the top of the liquid. There were lots of bubbles on the shell.
We were able to rub the skin off. The egg was a lot bigger than when we put it in the liquid.The egg felt very rubbery.

Happy Birthday Zac

Zac bought a yummy birthday cake to share with us. Thanks Zac.

Welcome

Welcome to Whaea Tayla. She has come to see what happens in Space 14.

Heat can cause change

The heat of the hot water caused the jelly crystals to dissolve.
The heat caused the corn kernels to swell up.
The lemon juice made the paper weak. The heat make the lemon juice turn brown. 

Hinemoa and Tutanekai

After we had listened to the legend of Hinemoa and Tutanekai we used our visualising strategy to create a picture of part of the legend.
Manaia's mum sent us some photos of Hinemoa's rock at Owhata Marae at Hinemoa Point and also Hinemoa's pool on Mokoia Island. She was lucky enough to stay there last week. Thank you for the photos.

Our first experiment for "Change"

Go 4 It

Candice came to teach us some ball skills.

What is change?

Making Anzac Biscuits

Today we made Anzac Biscuits. They were yummy.

Visualising Strategy

For reading we are learning about a new strategy called visualising. We are learning to use the text to form pictures in our mind to help us understand what we are reading.

Mrs Crockett read a description of a nogard to us. As she read it we had to draw what was in our mind.

The nogard is an animal. It has an oval-shaped body. It has a long neck and tail. The top of the neck, back and tail are covered with a row of triangular-shaped plates. The nogard’s head is shaped like a long triangle. It has big eyes and eyebrows that stick out. It also has big nostrils. Its body is covered with scales. The nogard has four short legs. At the end of each leg is a foot with five toes. Each toe has a sharp claw at the end. The nogard has two wings attached to its body. These are located behind the front legs towards the top of its back. Nogards are usually green but change to a deep purple during the winter months.

This is what we thought a nogard looks like.

What did we do in the holidays?

Manaaki is a winner

If we had 3 or less days absence from school during Term One, we got to put our name in the draw for the new bike. Manaaki was lucky enough to have his name drawn out. Congratulation Manaaki.

Check out his new bike.

Check out our new books

A big thank you to the Board of Trustees.

Books in Home Assembly

 


Our class was lucky enough to have our new books presented to us by the Board of Trustees Chairperson.

Manaia dressing up

Manaia was dressed up in traditional Japanese costume.

Visitors from Sendai

Our Sendai Visitors on PhotoPeach

Earlier this term we had a group of visitors from Sendai in Japan. The girls talked to us about Japanese clothing. They then spent some time with us, reading, playing games and teaching us how to write out names in Japanese.

Battle of the Mountains

Whaea Rose read us the story of the Battle of the Mountains. We retold the story and then created a piece of art work using crayon and dye.