TE REO MAORI - WE HAVE BEEN LEARNING OUR MAORI VERBS!

A CLOWDER OF CATS IN THE CLOAK-BAY!

Keep an eye out in MovieWorld (the cloak-bay) as there are going to be some pretty cool artwork going up!

On Friday in Artist Hour, Mrs Lunn taught us how to draw cats like a famous American artist called Laurel Burch.

We had a great time and although we didn't think we could be able to draw as well as Laurel, we listened to Mrs Lunn's instructions and concentrated hard of following her directions.  After a few attempts some kids would be tempted to give up ... but not us!  We have a growth mindset!  We persisted with our learning and we can't wait to show you what we achieved.

Mrs Lunn will hang our cats up in MovieWorld for us all to see.

Did you know a group of cats is called a clowder?  

Neither did we - see, we are all still learning xxx

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Blake is the World's best illustrator!  Look at his amazing picture he drew to illustrate his 100 Days poem.  What a talented kid!

WHO'S A 100 DAYS SMARTER - WE ARE!

Happy 100 Days of School!

Today we celebrated being 100 days smarter.  The teachers decorated the classrooms with balloons and streamers and we spent all day having fun with the number 100.  It was a great day fulled with fun, self-management, creativity and teamwork.  Here are a few photos of our day...

Here's Ethan practising his skip counting in 10s to 100

Here's Quinn making a 100 monster and Kale getting set to make a paper chain with 100 links!  Lucky for Kale some friends came to help him and they made the chain together.  Otherwise poor Kale would've been making his paper chain all night!

We made fairy bread with 100s and 1000s (we loved this activity)

We each had to bring a collection of 100 things to school.  We have some very creative parents who helped us think of cool ideas of what to bring!

Yum!  Fairy bread!

Quinn and Katie making their 100 monsters

Zena and Lucy busy making a paper chain with 100 links!  Great teamwork girls!

Blake, Lahquan, Zak and Riley with their fantastic cup tower with, you guessed it, 100 cups!

Alex's collection of 100 Maltesers.

Briahna and her paper chain.  She had 22 links at this point and realised she needed another 8 to get to 30 and then another 70 to get to 100.  Clever cookie!

Oliver, Will and Dylan working on 100 board puzzles

Ta-da!  We did it!  Great teamwork boys.

Quinn and Adam with another cup tower creation.

Quinn, Emily and Nicole trying to write 100 word!  That's a lot of words!

We'd like to thank our Mums and Dads for bringing us to school each day and for helping us at home to become so smart.  Our teachers are really proud of us and we hope you are too.

Love form Piako Rua

OUR GREAT INVENTORS

Check out Blake, Issac, Aaron and Riley's amazing Army plane they made at Tech-Tuesday today...

Here's Emily, Mikayla and Mia proudly demonstrating the toy mouse that they made...

Check out Aidan and Sean's Dreamblower.  What a whizzpopper of an idea boys!

And here's Sophie B and Naomi explaining their Globe...

TECH-TUESDAY

Today we had our first Tech-Tuesday.  Mrs Lunn and Miss Crowther issued us with a challenge!

We had to make a toy.

The success criteria was as follows:

1.  Your toy must move our make a noise
2.  Your toy must be fun to play with
3.  Your toy must be CREATIVE

We brainstormed in groups what we could make and then we drew a plan.  Next we spend ages making our marvelous creations!

We also learnt how to make a flow chart to show other people the steps to making our toy.

We had great fun!

NEW PRESS PASS WINNERS

Check out these delighted members of Piako Rua!

Congratulations to Monty and Will for earning a Platinum Press Pass...

AND

To Molly, well done on earning a Candyland Press Pass!  You have worked soooooo hard for this!

TERM TWO RIGHT CHOICE DAY

On the last day of term we had Right Choice Day.  The teachers all swapped classrooms! In the afternoon we watched a movie and then we had a special assembly.  Aaron received a prize for always making Smart Choices at School.  Here are a couple of photos of our day.

Rio make this cool dragon at lunchtime! 

Another wet lunchtime creation

Aaron after receiving his Right Choice Award