Today we met a real New Zealand Explorer!

Our topic is New Zealand explorers. Today we got a chance to skype with Dr Lars Brabyn, an Antarctic researcher who lives in Hamilton. He makes regular trips to remote parts of Antartica so we prepared a list of questions. We took turns asking Dr Brabyn our questions and he had some very funny stories to tell.

Measurement in Friday maths.

Today in Friday maths we were problem solving using measurement.

Can we create a bridge that will span the river? Yes we can!

We can make playdough worms which are longer and shorter than the picture.

This worm became super long!

Who can make the tallest tower? We have a problem-they keep falling over.

Yazaan has a solution. Make the base of the tower stronger by joining the blocks together in an alternating pattern.

Success!

A trip to the Zoo

We travelled to the zoo in a very long bendy bus. 

Getting ready to explore.

Wow! This is big

Pridelands has several giraffe. We know a poem about a giraffe.

Allan and Labronz investigate the tortoises.

Meerkat on duty.

Look the tortoises have babies!

We loved the flamingos. We wondered what they were doing. Is this how they eat their food?

The hippo is in the mud wallow. Did you know this is how they keep clean? It helps to get rid of lice and fleas.

Tane Mahuta guards the forest. We have been learning about Tane in Room 2.

Kristy our zoo educator shows us how we can be kereru and lay eggs. 

Many of us thought the alligator was the most terrifying! We had a great day.

Milo and Nutmeg come to visit Room 2 for a day

"Look at the guinea pigs!" say Nissi, Harmony and Esho.

After fitness the students went to the school vegetable gardens to find food for Milo and Nutmeg. We learned how to feed and look after guinea pig,s and how to carefully hold them. 

Labronz loves Milo's soft fur

Manmeet gives Milo a cuddle

We discovered they like to eat citrus leaves. Yazaan and Esho have fed Milo a lemon leaf.

The Room 2 children were very good at taking turns. This is Kaleb and Rahilah

Xxavier

Zoe

Celebrating Culture

We got dressed up in our traditional costumes to celebrate Race Relations day. Don't we look wonderful!

Vote for a new flag

In Room 2 we looked at the 5 flag options and voted on our favourite flag. We collected the results and created a graph which shows the data.

We then took a second vote comparing our most popular option against the old NZ flag and we graphed the results. Guess which flag won? The new one!

What are the differences between the shapes?

4 March 2016

We have been investigating shapes. In groups we had to make shapes using pieces of elastic. We discovered it was very difficult to make a circle – we needed the hands of the whole class to help make the many points of the circle.

We then played a game where we had to guess the shape in the feely bag before we took it out to look at it. We had to feel the edges and consider the number of sides and corners.