Friday, 23 May 2014

WALT: Identify the differences between solids, liquids and gasses

Sandi showed Tohora, the Bright Bugs and us this fantastic song to help us remember the differences between solids, liquids and gasses:


WAL: To increase our fitness/stamina

We have are practising for our cross-country race next week. We know the more we practice things, the better we get!

Each time we run the course, we are increasing our fitness. We get a little less puffed and we can move a little bit faster each time. In a few weeks we have already noticed a big difference.

Here we are in action


Friday, 16 May 2014

WAL: Ball Skills

This term we are focusing on ball skills for catch me if you can. Here we are discovering lots of different types of throws and catches.

Which ones do you like the best? 




Thursday, 15 May 2014

WAL: Road Safety

WAL: Road Safety

The Busy Bees are super excited to tell you about the special visitor we had at school today.

“Ronald McDonald came to Russell Street School today” – Awhina

“He taught us about road safety with his humongous book” – Benjamin

“He taught us about crossing the road the right way” – Keira
“He told us to look for cars when walking past driveways” – Eshaan

“He was hilarious” – Matty

“I liked it when he took the road patrol sign our of his pocket” – Jamie


So glad you had such a great time learning about road safety Busy Bees!





















































Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Hot Science: Solids, Liquids and Gasses




WAL: States of matter


Hot Science

We have been learning all about the way stuff is made out of stuff called molecules. We have been exploring what happens when heat energy is used to heat up these molecules.


Here is a video of us using our scientist skills of predicting, and observing (using our eyes, ears and touch from a safe distance) as we explored heat energy in a hairdryer, toaster and electric frypan.  





Sunday, 11 May 2014

Maths



Our whetū maths group are learning to order numbers from 1-20. Here they are working really hard on a problem from our modelling book. Vanessa can tell when we use our independent learning time well in maths because it shows in the way we improve.



Our tapatoru maths group are practicing their skip counting in 2’s and 5’s using this fun game on our blog.