This is a busy time of year with the teachers completing end of year testing for reports. This week we are completing Running Records on all the children. Your child will not have formal reading this week but can still being home a Book Box book to share with you. Thanks for your support.
The teachers have moved a few things in the Rainbow Room around. Our favourite improvement is the Writing Tent. We are allowed in here to do our work but there's one condition ... it's a quiet zone so we need to work quietly in here. We love it!
Today we received a letter from the Three Billy Goats Gruff. Their bridge got washed away in a flood last week and they need our help to build a new one. They certainly asked the right people ... we were hooked!
First we watched the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, just to refresh our memories ...
Here's the Criteria we had to meet:
·Your bridge need to be able
to hold us (we weigh about the same as three maths teddies)
·It must be able to stand
up by itself
·It must be creative (we
love creative things)
·It must be able to
stretch over our river which is 30cm wide (you might need your teacher to show
you how wide that it)
Next we WONDERED what we could do to help the Billy Goats Gruff. So we decided to complete a brainstorm sheet...
After that we decided we needed to EXPLORE how bridges are built so we watched You Tube clips on which bridges are the strongest.
We wrote notes on our EXPLORE sheet.
We used these ideas when we came up with our plan...
Now it was time to ACT.
We worked together to make some amazing bridges for the Billy Goats...
We had to test that our bridge was strong enough to hold 3 Maths Teddies
(that how much the Goats weigh)
Sean and Alex's group, tested their bridge. It was hold enough to hole Sean!
Once or bridges were finished we had to complete a REFLECT sheet....
And we got to share our bridges with our friends.
We were able to REFLECT on whose bridge met the Billy Goats Gruff Success Criteria...
We had great fun today and we are super pleased we were able to help the Three BIlly Goats Gruff.
Today we received a letter from our teachers. They have asked us to organise, prepare and present our Piako Rua Assembly. We are so excited!
In our homerooms we brainstormed all our ideas about Assembly. Our teachers recorded our thinking. They were blown away with the ideas we had:
Lucy suggested we could have workshops for children wanting to present different items or help get different things ready (great idea Lucy)
Molly suggested that the children who speak would need to be good readers to read the script
Luca suggested we practise in Inquiry time
Ethan said the people that speak would need to be able to speak clearly
Sophie B suggested we bring one dress up item from home like we do each week at Piako 2 Whanau
We are so pleased that we get to share OUR learning with you at Assembly. We've got until week 4 to be organised! We've got a lot to do so we better start straight away!
For Term Three's Right Choice Day, we dressed up in our PJs!
We held auditions for Riverdale's Got Talent and the finalists when through to the big show in the Hall after morning tea. Here are a few photos of us displaying our talents.