Year 5 & 6 Camp

Today the Ruahine Teaching Team went to visit the Makahika Camp site.  We wanted to make sure that all of our students will be comfortable there.  The staff there are fabulous.  I can really see that they all love their jobs very much; and who wouldn't? It's absolutely beautiful there and YES you will love it, too!

Here is a link to their website if you would like to have a look for yourself.  http://www.makahika.co.nz/schools/

I took some photos of my own so you can have a look before you go.

These first ones are of the lodge.

 

Here are the high ropes, Sam the dog (you will learn more about him) and the grounds.



There is a very well established bush camp with fire places and a river!!

More of the bush camp and the flying fox.  I can't wait to see your faces when we get there!!

Duffy Books & School raffle

Here we are with our Duffy Books!

We sure are a lucky bunch.  Another big thank you this time to the PTA and Duffy Books.

While Whaea Regina was visiting us to talk about Duffy books and herself, we asked her to draw the Camp Grocery Raffle.  We were thrilled that one of our families won the raffle. And even better was it was someone from Fantastic4!

Thank you Kids Can!!

How cool do we look in our new Kids Can Jackets?

Thank you Kids Can!!! 

Manawatu Digi Awards

The Digi Awards season has come around again and we've been out and about in the school grounds learning how we can take some interesting and 'artistic' photos.

There are 7 categories that students can enter this year:

• Photos
• Photo Essay (5 photos)
• Short film
• Animation
• Documentary
• Graphic design
• Other

Don't forget to check out the Manawatu Digi Awards Facebook page to get some inspiration for your own work and to check out the standard of the past winners work.  

Here's some useful suggestions to help us take some interesting photos at school.  

Don't forget it you want to do some digital work at home, you can share it with the class email address where we can add it to your file.  The work must be your own.  If you didn't make it or create it, you can't use it. 

Mrs Mullinger Teaches Geometry

Mrs Mullinger challenged Room 4 were to make some 3D shapes using paper nets.  However, a few very clever children found that they could model some 3D shapes using pipe cleaners.  I was working in the office but Mrs Mullinger was so impressed that she sent Caitlyn over to show me.  

Ruahine Speech Competition

Before we know it Speeches will be upon us.  Speeches will be about a country of your choice and more information will be handed out in class.  The posters below show when these are due and out line what will make for a successful speech.   Please let me know if you have any questions. 

Investigating in Science

We have been working on some science experiments that help us to be able to extend our experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions and discussing simple models.

Here's what we did. 

We had 7 different 'bus stop' activities set up to build and create sounds and musical instruments out of everyday materials.  Some of the materials we had to work with were, glass bottles, water, sticks, buckets, pots, wooden spoons, rice, plastic bottles, paper clips, dice, rubber bands, cardboard boxes, cardboard tubes, balloons, straws - JUST TO NAME A FEW THINGS!

While students were experimenting with different materials, they were to predict, plan, what they would have to do to make sounds change or to produce different sounds.  Then after they made their 'instrument' they were to observe and infer the reasons for the different sounds.   


WALT: Explore every day experiences of physical phenomena in sound
Success Criteria:

• we can work in small groups to experience different ideas.

• we can seek and describe simple patterns in sound. 

• we can build and create simple instruments that make sounds or a range of sounds. 

• we can explain how the sounds change when we alter the instruments. 

It sure did get noisy!