Dioramas

We have been working so hard finishing our dioramas of our habitats.  We have written reports about our habitats. Make sure you check out our individual blogs to see all of our wok.

Mustelids!

Incase you haven't heard already, our poor chicks that we incubated were put outside because they were stinking up the classroom,  were killed. :(

Our chicks hatching from the incubator

Jonah the first chick hatching.

We have endeavoured on a journey to find out what killed our pets. We have done some research and think that it is probably something from the mustelid family. Our research can be found in the post below. We also discovered that these pests are wreaking havoc to our native bird population and have been doing a lot of reading about pests and our wildlife in class.


Yesterday, Nathan bought in some ink tracks from Gotcha Traps Ltd. We put them out with different baits.

Peanut butter lure

banana and honey lure

ink tunnel

tinfoil attracts stoats

chicken lure

When we checked the tracks this morning we were a bit disappointed with only finding one print. Hopefully we lure more in tonight. Here is the track:

See if you can figure out what left this track with the guide below:

What made these tracks?

Pests in New Zealand - a shared reading document produced by Manatu and Tawhai

We are learning how to make graphs

Netball is the most popular sport for girls.

Rugby is the most popular sport for boys.

Netball is played by most students.

No one plays rippa or soccer.

Rabbits

Problem Solving

Chickens Hatching

Time lapse video of our chicks hatching. Check out the kids blogs for a full recount, photos, and some facts about the chicks hatching.

Colour Poems

Tawhai  have been looking at poetry in writing. We have tried to use metaphors in our colour poems. Check them out and leave us a comment.

Giraffes Can't Dance Masks

Last term for art we learnt how to create a paper mache mask. We were inspired by the book "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae.

We learnt that you need to make at least four or five layers of paper mache with a lot of glue, if you don't work fast and get enough layers on, your balloon might sink and you have to start again.

We then had to choose a character from Giraffes Can't Dance, and make our mask like that animal. Some of the things were hard to design and we had to think very creatively, check out the horns, trunks and noses we made.

Once we were finished with our masterpieces, we reenacted Giraffe Can't Dance as a drama. We had to go and learn the dances from the book and perform for the class and camera.

Finally the editing process is done and here is our version of Giraffes Can't Dance. We hope you enjoy!

Miss Lamb

We have welcomed our new student teacher Miss Lamb. She will be with us for seven weeks. We are very excited to have her in our class. 

Let Loose!

We are getting excited! Let loose is on Thursday! We had our dress rehearsal today and the Tawhai mums and dads looked FANTASTIC!  Take a look into the future...

Our Storybird Story

Today we are learning how to use Storybird to create and share our writing. Make sure you check out our blogs today to see our cool picture books we have shared.

This is the shared book we created as a class. We hope you enjoy!

Hufflepuff Writing

The Hufflepuff writing group is learning to take out overused words like 'then', 'so', 'and', 'but' and 'now'. We have researched some more interesting words we can use and have tried to make our writing more interesting to read with interesting sentence starters. What do you think?

A google a Day

"An 11-foot bird lives less than two miles from 30.891383,-102.885032. What's his name?"

Show not Tell

Slytherin and Ravenclaw writing groups are learning how to show not tell in our writing. These are our practice sentences. See if you can guess what we are feeling....

Name	Show not tell….
Penny	My mouth is moving like I want to say something but I can't. I  can't wait till we land my Dad will be happy to see me ! I look through the window to see if we are there yet but we have still
savana	My tummy feels like I'm going to puke. I look around to see if I can see mum but I can't.
ollie	I hope we land soon because I am getting butterflies in tummy I can feel them fluttering around. I need a vomiting bag NOW!!! Finally the
Sam	My heart is pounding. No one was around me that I know . I was by myself I am FREAKING OUT!!!
Harry	My eyes are watery and my head is down. I am crossing my arms and I am looking around for

Name	Show not tell….
Cate	I smiled as I was biking on the footpath. My hands were shaking as I peddled away. My cheeks went red.
Gemma	My face lit up, my cheeks were red. Some tears come through my eyes as I peddled away.
Jake	My face with beginning to turn into a big grin. As I was walking I didn't feel to good.
Cam	I was smiling because I found a bigger hamlet. I didn't have a big enough helmet and I didn't like it.
Ben	As my legs were pushing the pedals my legs were pushing the pedals slowerer. My face was going red

Cross Country Form

Fill in your time and name for cross country training.
If you can't see the form (maybe you're on an ipad) click here: http://goo.gl/forms/b1uHzwFmxV 

If you want to see the progress you are making, click here.

HP Rural Women's Technology Competition

Happy Holidays Tawhai Team! Some very exciting news!

Our video for the Rural Women's Technology Competition has made it to the top 25!! Go us!
Hopefully we make it through to the finish line as winners!

The One and Only Ivan

We have just finished the class novel: The One and Only Ivan. 

It is an abosoliutly amazing book, and we would recommend it to anyone! 

If you want to find out more about Ivan, visit http://theoneandonlyivan.com/

Read about the real Ivan that the book is based on. 

Museum Visit

On Monday the 15th Tawhai, Manatu, Kowhai and Kanuka went to the Otago Museum. We learnt about forces and got to make predictions and have discussions about force and the catapult.

We loved playing in discovery world! Getting hands on and finding stuff out is a fantastic way for us to learn. We loved the marble run. It gave us some fantastic ideas to create our own.

The giant Moa:

A tarantula!

We found a giant turtle shell. We have been writing explanations about the turtle life cycle. 

 And we found a gorilla! Our class novel is "The One and Only Ivan" a story about a gorilla in a circus. This is not like the Silverback Gorilla that is in our book though.

We finally went around the museum on a scavenger hunt to find clues. This was so much fun! We went right through the museum and had to really figure out the clues and find the answers inside exhibitions.


The final question was we had to answer with all of our clues was:
How did the Moai from Easter Island get to where they stand?

Only some of us figured it out....

Do you know?

Museum

Museum trip tomorrow! Don't forget your uniform, vest, and a packed lunch. 

How exiting! We are going to learn about forces. 

See you all tomorrow. 

Rural Women's Competiton

We have been very busy writing persuasions for the HP Rural Women's Technology Grant. We wrote them into a google doc, and could read and comment on each others work for peer editing. We have been working on giving constructive, specific criticism to help our classmates. 

You can read our draft here, and leave us a comment too. 

It is good for us to have comments so that we can see where we need to fix up our work. 

We recorded our persuasions and videoed dramas to send through to the Rural Women. Hopefully we win! The first prize is $10,000 to spend on technology. 

Wish us luck. 

The Life Cycle of a sea turtle - Explanation

Use this to research:

What did you find out in your experiment today?

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Mufti day

Don't forget that it is mufti day tomorrow, and your gold coin donation. 

Mrs Souness 

Survey

Please click on the link below and fill out the survey.

Survey

Welcome Back to Term 2. ANZAC - what does it mean to you?

Welcome back! We have had a busy couple of days back, getting back into school routines and starting up new programmes such as KOS with Constable Gordon. We have also been looking at ANZAC day. Today we reflected on what ANZAC day means to us, read a picture book called "Jim's Letters" based on real letters sent between two brothers from Ranfurly during WW1.

 We wrote some poems collaboratively on our Google Classroom. We hope to share them on Friday, and Saturday at the memorial.

Don't forget to check out our brand new learning journey blogs.



What does ANZAC Day mean to you?

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Soccer Tournament

What a fantastic day! A massive special thanks to all of the parents who helped out!! We couldn't have gone without you, and we really appreciate you :)