The Making of The Rat

We have mice and rats in our environment so we decided to make a rat as part of the Te Oro expo.  First we made a frame out of chicken wire.  Then we covered it with newspaper and glue and left it to dry.  We did this for a few weeks.  We then used hot glue guns to glue strips of fur like fabric.  Lastly we added the nose, the ears, the mouth, the teeth and the paws.

We think we are very lucky not to have a rat of this size in the world!!

Measurement in Maths

We had a challenging tasks of measuring different things with our partner.  It was hard to measure the doorway because our hands moved when we tried to compare with the desks. We decided it would be much easier to measure if we all had the same thing to measure with, like a ruler!!

Remembering the ANZACs

For the last 2 weeks we have been learning about the ANZAC's.  We have learned about the symbols, why we should remember them and some events that had happened during the wars.

Our poppy flowers and ANZAC display wall.

The ANZAC assembly- ANZAC alphabet poem read by DJ and Ocean

ANZAC Poem

A is for the ANZAC soldiers who went to the war.

B is for the bravery that they showed the world.

C is for the courage that they had.

D is for the danger they faced.

E is for the enemies they fought.

F is for the families that they left behind.

G is for the guards who looked out for the dangers.

H is for the heros that they were.

I is for the intelligence that they showed.

J is for the joining of the forces.

K is for keeping us safe.

L is for the landing at ANZAC cove.

M is for the marching at the dawn parade.

N is for the New Zealand soldiers.

O is for the oceans they crossed.

P is for the poppy that we wear.

Q is for the quiet at ANZAC service.

R is for remembering them.

S is for saving our country.

T is for the trenches that they built.

U is for the underground hidings.

V is for the villains they met.

W is for the wars they were in.

X is for X-mas they didn’t celebrate.

Y is for the young soldiers we lost.

Z is for zooming from one hide spot to next.

THE ANZAC’s

The Fly Spray

We were given a challenging task of making a big fly spray can for the our show  at Te Oro!!

Pests Silhouette

Our silhouette art- keeping in the theme of pests in our community.

Can you guess which pests these are?

Te Oro Expo- Pests: Who needs them?

We had a great day at Te Oro expo on Wednesday.  The senior students were ready to answer all the questions and the 'x-ray' machine was set up to detect any pests.  

Our school was so proud of all our students- the presenters, the performers, the audience and all the students who were part of this expo.

Acrostic Poems

Our focus has been pests and as part of that we have been writing about pests too.  We wrote some acrostic poems about flies and mosquitoes.  Acrostic poems are poems where a word in used to write the poem, here we had chosen 'Flies' and 'Mosquitoes'.

The wasp art work was by Ariel and had bubble wrap on top, like the nest.

Display for Te Oro

As part of our Te Oro display, we did research on pests that can be found in our community such as cockroaches, snails, slugs, rats, wasps.  We collected the information on their diet, their description, habitats, how to get rid of them and how to prevent them. We then displayed our findings in inform of reports and drew pictures of these pests to go with our displays.

Our findings on snails.

Cockroaches by Tulialo and DJ

Mosquito findings by Sione, Ocean, Amere

We made spider webs using wool.

Pests Focus Assembly

Finally it was our turn to take the assembly this week and we decided to focus on 'Pests' as this has been our inquiry learning topic.  We wrote 2 acrostic poems on flies and mosquitoes which was shared by DJ and Sione and we all sang "Snap Went the Praying Mantis" song.

We really enjoyed our assembly this week!

A Visit from Robert Rakete

We are so lucky at our school, not only do we get free reading books, we also get visits from famous people.

This week our famous visitor was Robert Rakete.  He was our Duffy role model and he told us about the importance of reading and how much he enjoyed reading when he was little. His favourite book was Asterix and Obelix which he still likes to read!!

 Shelan was so lucky to receive her Duffy book from him.