Magician's visit

Today we had a magician visiting the school to do a promo for his show. He did some cool tricks - even made a live bird appear out of a picture frame.
I managed to catch some of the kids reactions.

Weather Reports

We have been learning how to read weather maps - what a High pressure area is, a cold and warm front, what it means when isobars are close together.
We used google drawings to create our own weather maps using the correct fronts and colours. Next we will write a weather report to match our picture.
Here are a few examples

Jake


Makaea

Badminton

For the next few weeks we are learning how to play badminton. The first part of session one was spent learning how to hold the racket correctly and get used to balancing the shuttlecock.

Light and Water

We have been exploring light. We had fun discovering why we could see the laser light when we shone a fine mist of water around the beam.

Don't Give Up

Water Experiments

We learnt about surface tension today and had great fun trying to blow a drop of water down some greaseproof paper. The challenge was to keep it as a whole drop until it finished the race. The drop stys in formation because the surface tension of the water is intact.

Japanese Visitors

We were fortunate to have the Japanese students visiting us for an afternoon. We decided to teach them some of the playground games we have been learning. This was a great way for us to revise the rules and show that we are good sports people.