Fitness Circuits

We have been busy designing Fitness courses as part of our Inquiry unit on Challenges. Read through the brief then have a look at some of the completed designs.

Skewer Through Balloon - Cool Science Experiment

How about trying this challenge!

How to Swim a Length Under Water by Greg O'Connell

Greg O'Connell let us know about a new poem of his that has been published in the School Journal, Level 2, October 2011. The title is "How to Swim a Length Under Water" with a subheading "Recite in a single breath"!
What a challenge- Thanks Greg!

 

Have a look at our attempts- it was hilarious! Then have a go yourself! You really do feel like you are swimming a length of the pool under water!

Oreo Challenge

Our quadblogging friends at Richards School in Whitefish Bay, WI USA have been part of an Orio Challenge. It looked like fun, so we found out what it was all about and had a go ourselves. It was awesome!

Oreo Challenge! on PhotoPeach





Results....
Mean= 15.75
Median= 16
Mode= 17
Range=9

Celebrating New Zealand - Powerpoints

New Zealand’s National Parks

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Celebrating New Zealand - Powerpoints

Kiwi fruit

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Celebrating New Zealand - Powerpoints

Te Reo Maori by Natasha and Piyumi

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Celebrating New Zealand - Powerpoints

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Manaia and Jahde's Powhiri

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Celebrating New Zealand - Powerpoints

NZ Facts by Madi, Tracy and Khanh

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The Haka

Ka Mate

HHS Rippa Rugby meets the Springboks!

Hampton Hill School are representing South Africa at the Porirua City Nations Rippa Rugby Tournament. They have been training hard and were rewarded today by being able to go into Te Papa and meet the Springbok Rugby Team. Spot the new uniforms we will be playing in- All very exciting! A special thanks to Mr Barnao and Mrs Mac. Also to Sean's mum and Jasmine's dad for helping out today.
On to Sunday night when we were able to see the Springboks live in action against Wales thanks to the generous South African team for giving us the tickets. What an experience! What a game!!

WOW Guest Speaker

Wellington has been Wowed lately with the World of Wearable Arts. We were fortunate today to have Fifi Colston come and speak to us at school. Fifi is a freelancer with many fingers in the creative pie! Also an illustrator, writer, TV presenter, MC and public speaker, Wearable Arts designer and workshop facilitator. She has had 16 designs in the World of Wearable Arts!
Wow with Fifi on PhotoPeach

A Zoo Braai!

Wellington is the proud host of the South African Rugby team, and we are celebrating at the Zoo with a traditional South African BBQ – known as a Braai.

Get into the spirit and come along for some great South African food and music and learn more about our awesome African animals, including cheetahs, giraffes, lions and baboons!

There will be fun activities for kids and a cash bar for the grown ups.

What: Zoo Braai
Where: The African Village at Wellington Zoo
When: Thursday 15 September
Time: 4-6pm
Cost: Normal Zoo entry applies.Gold coin donation for Braai – all proceeds will go towards the Wellington Zoo conservation fund

Looking at electric circuits

We've been having an awesome time making Electric Maps- Learning about circuits, bulbs and batteries. A special thanks to Mr Geismar who has been helping us out.
Electric Maps! on PhotoPeach

Justin Lester

Today we had a visitor at assembly and his name is Justin Lester. He is from Wellington City Council. He told us about his job as a Wellington City Councilor and we asked him lots of questions.

We can contact him if we have any suggestions to make Tawa a better place.
We might contact him about getting a path on the reserve going down from Victory Cres to the Main Road.
He seems like a real nice guy.
Reporter: Luke Havill

Liquefaction

Many thanks to Andrew Gee  for his fantastic visual explanation of liquefaction

Class Treaty

We have been talking about the qualities of a successful classroom. From this we have made at set of guidelines we wish to follow for the rest of the year.
We have all agreed to follow these to ensure every can be the best they can be!!

Dialogue Covenant

We have been brainstorming what our Dialogue Covenant means in Room 5...

SOLO Taxonomy

We will be using 'SOLO' to help us with our learning. Here is a quick video that Room 5 put together at the end of last year. It helps explain what 'SOLO' is all about.

What is "Learning"?

A lot of learning is going to happen this year. Here is a brainstorm of all the different things we think that have to do with LEARNING.