Faraday Centre Visit

At the Faraday Centre we had a talk about Matariki. We looked at light and gravity with Jenny, the teacher from the MTG. 

Trying out what it would feel like to walk in a place with lots of gravity.

Convex and concave mirrors.

Room 6 assembly

Inquiry Term 1 Keeping ourselves safe

Mrs Monteith's group discussed the difference between open and closed questions. They gave us some examples then asked the class if they could tell the difference.

Ms Holyoake's class showed us a video they had made about keeping ourselves safe on the crossing.

Mr McLeans group also showed us a video about road safety. This group discussed about how road rules keep us all safe.

Ms Trubshaw's group shared their research about pedestrian crossing safety.

They talked about the learning process they followed during their study.

We have been so lucky to have the student teachers from EIT to help us with these interesting activities.

In science we are learning about the water cycle.

Term 1 Inquiry

This term we have been very fortunate to have our Student teachers from the EIT working with us as part of our Inquiry unit about safety. 

Each group is studying a different aspect of how we keep ourselves safe in our community.

Here are some of the activities we have been doing.

Word studies

Word studies

Our expert spellers presented their word studies.

Our first 'expert' presented his word really effectively using children from the class to hold rubbish items to write his synonyms on. His word was 'garbage'.  

Our second expert presented his word on a brainstorm chart.

Talking about pesticides (how to keep ourselves safe).

Today Kate and Jean from Massey University came to talk to us today about what pesticides are, what they do and how to keep ourselves safe from the harmful effects of pesticides.

Kate and Jean asked us to help them by filling out a survey that they are doing. The survey is help them with their research into the effects of pesticides.  A notice about this will be sent home soon.