Saturday, 4 June 2016

On you marks, get set, GO!

The Papakowhai School Cross Country was a lovely event. All the children put as much effort in as they could and ran right to the end. Well done Rimu Rima!







Mr Robinson giving the girls a chat about the race.

And they're off!



Go girls!

Almost there.

You can do it!

Running buddies.


And the boys are off!

Fabulous peer coaching along the way.


So much effort!

Look at how fast they are.


Go Charlie go!

Almost there Jesse :-)



Thanks to everyone who came and cheered us on.


Look at all that careful listening.

You did it!

Swimming Sports!

The photos are finally here! Have a look at us having a blast at the Year 2 & 3 Swimming Sports...

Ready to walk down to the bus.

See you there Rimu 3 & 4.

Rearing to go!

Some nice company along the way.









Great job everyone, you had fun!


Sunday, 8 May 2016

Gold Medal!

We won our first medal of the year at this morning's mini Assembly.
We get together every Monday before morning tea for a brief chat about the week ahead and our social skills. Today Rimu Rima won GOLD! We sat so well listening carefully to Mr Smith and Mr Robinson. Well done class, I'm very proud.

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

This week in Maths....

We've been focussing on subtraction this week.

- taking away a single-digit number from any number between 5 and 20
- taking away a single-digit number from any number between 20 and 100

We've been using a number line, our fingers and some are even starting to partition (64-6, 64-4=60, 60-2=58)!

Tuesday, 5 April 2016

Matter Splatter

Today we started our new Inquiry unit. We're onto Science now with a unit called 'Matter Splatter'. Inquiry is the title for the old 'theme' or 'topic'. We started with a scavenger hunt to find the pictures below and then place them below the titles, solid, liquid or gas. Check out the photos as we progressed through the stages of the first, second and final decision.
Our first idea of where the items belong.

I then gave the children an opportunity to mention anything that they think could be moved. We discussed it as a class, letting the children do all the talking and then moved anything if necessary. 

Finally, just before we thought we were all in agreement, Ethan brought up the idea that some things were liquids before they became solid. We spoke about lego and the wrench. Ryan asked if we could change something...ice. It was a liquid as water however is now a solid.

We're looking forward to finding out more about how matter changes by doing some awesome experiments over the following couple of months!

Sunday, 3 April 2016

Sienna's Praying Mantis

Sienna thought she'd share a praying mantis found in her garden for her Buzz Time last week.

Can you find it?


We returned it to it's natural habitat.

We hope it has a nice time amongst the bush behind Rata.

Can you spot the Praying Mantis?
This looks well worth it. I'll be grabbing tickets, he's a brilliant speaker!