Young designers down to business!

Time to Design!

We have decided that painting the ground around the drains in a way that both juniors (visual) and seniors (a written message) will understand is the best solution.

So down to the designing!

We sketched straight onto a black and white print out of the actual drain that we will TAKE ACTION on then we used pastels to show the colours that we would prefer to use. It was great fun and some incredible designs and slogans have come out of the big ideas session. One that really stood out to us was Cassidy's 'Think before you throw, this leads to the sea you know!'


We will vote tomorrow on the best design and the best slogan and then write a proposal letter which will include the projected costs to Whaea Barb and the Board of Trustees.

Keep you posted...

Drain, Drain problem go away...

A Pearler of a Problem

We understand now that we don't want to swim in the basin because of the pollution that makes it to the basin through storm water drains. It is sad but true and even at school we can see people have slipped chip packets down the grate of the storm water drains!
Last week we learned how storm water drains work and we even made our own with plastic containers as collection points and straws as the drains. This week it is our Job to research and brainstorm all the possible solutions that we can come up with to solve this problem.

We created a pearltree to help us to organise our solutions and research. At the moment the leading solutions are painting a message on the concrete around the drains to remind people and creating posters for each class to make people aware. We will keep you posted about how our solutions are taking shape and what we decide to do and why!

Looking more closely at OUR part in the water cycle

Collaborating with Room 7 has been a treat!

We have joined forces with Room 7 to do our mini inquiry into a specific problem with water. When we were on our school trip to Panmure Basin Juanpablo asked if he could go for a swim and then he looked into the water and said NO THANKS!! This helped to shape our mini inquiry. 

Why don't we want to swim in the Basin? How did the pollution happen? What have the storm water drain outlets at the Basin go to do with all this? What can WE do about it?

We poured water and watched how the placement of storm water drains allow them the work

 Firstly we need to figure out how a storm water drain works.

We saw rubbish down the drain and wondered where it would end up

We enjoyed thinking and talking about what happens when water goes down a storm water drain

Next we planned, constructed and tested out our own storm water drain models. Check out the photos.

Awesome collaboration between these two classes of budding engineers and environmentalists. What a beautiful future we have before us with these inspiring children!

Smile!

Class Photo day at S.P.S.

Nikki getting measured!

 Today was class photo day at Sylvia Park school and it was so much fun. At 9.30am we lined up in height order with our polo shirts straight and neat, socks pulled up and hair brushed. First we were measured to see how tall we are and were given a sticker for our arm that said our name and height.
Next we lined up beside the camera lady and waited for our turn. When it was our turn we had to pose standing up, to the side, and sitting down. We felt like models!
We can't wait until it is time for us to get our photos and see how beautiful we look.

Waiting patiently with our stickers on.

The lady who measured how tall we are put a sticker on us!

Jam toast on a cold morning!

The butter

Making jam toast together

The bread

You will need
1. Toaster
2. Jam
3. Butter
4. Knife
5. Bread

The bread is in the toaster

Putting butter on the toast

How you make it

1. Wash your hands

2. Put the bread in the toaster

3. When the toast pops up you spread butter on it with a knife

4. Spread jam on the top with a knife

5. Take it to the table and eat it.

Ernesto is putting jam on his knife

by Tale, Gizelle, Ali, Te Anahera, Jaunpablo, Gaby, Larkin, Rylee, Imran, Reuben, Wils, Nikki, Jaeda, Emma and Boston.

Reuben and Wils eating the jam toast

Tale is eating the jam toast.

Netball proves popular in Room 2!

Netball stars in the making

This term we are learning the skills and rules of netball with our specialist coach Shinear. She is awesome and helps us through bit by bit, so far she has taught us to chest and bounce pass and we have also learned some great games to enhance our fitness and skills.

Watch out he's coming to get you Masiu!

We love playing our skill games

Playing beat the ball

Te Anahera ready to catch Gaby's great chest pass!

We have been writing procedural text this term and so we wrote a 'How to do a chest pass' piece - below is Larkin's.

How to do a chest pass

You will need

1. a netball

2. a person

3. a concrete surface

What to do

1. You pick up the ball

2. You put your hand like a W

3. Push the ball to your person's chest

by Larkin 

Scary masks, making marks and a mid-week mufti day!

Term 1 Week 8

Inquiry Update

We moved forward this week exploring our second possible solution; Hiding behind the tree and jumping out to scare people who use the wrong entrance. What do you need to scare people? A scary mask of course!

We added scary features to our masks!

Beginning stages of our scary mask designs

We tried our scary masks out on Room 5.
Were they scary enough?

We tried out our scary masks on Whaea Barb.

Whaea Barb was so scared!

Having a go at jumping out from behind the tree!

Our latest A.F.L. Skills

Chest mark and high mark

Practising a digger action for making a chest mark

Emma getting her hands ready to receive
the ball for a high mark

Marcel making a chest mark

Masiu practising his chest mark

Gizelle and Emma making a chest mark

Buddy Reading with Room 11

Nikki listening closely

Tale commanding an audience

Building skyscrapers with the right amount
of floors for the number we have.

It was HAT DAY on Tuesday and we wore mufti
and hats and donated a gold coin so we can buy sunscreen
to stay super sunsafe.

As always stay safe and enjoy your weekend

Whaea Emma and the Room 2 crew