Smarties Science: Earthquakes

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We are learning about, Force. A force is a push or a pull. We created different types of earthquakes in the sandpit to help learn about the different forces they create.

Rebecca and Sophie

Smarties

Room 6,4 and 1 had a Smarties Day on Wednesday the 17th of November. Our topic for Smarties was force. Force is push and pull. We did lots of activities about push and pull. We went around in groups. My favourite activity was eathquakes in the sandpit. The steps to make an eathquake were...
Make a flat surface.
Put two boards beside each other.
Then put some sand on top.
Next build a town on it.
Choose an earthquak you want to make.

There where 7 activities throughout the day. Now we know what force is and how to use it. It was really,really fun! But we were very tired after that! Is that a good thing or a bad thing parents?

Venka

Kapa Haka - Here it is!

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Sophie and Rebecca

Tennis

Today we played tennis with Vanessa. There were lots of different coloured racquets. We played Bobsled where you have take turns hitting the ball. We also played Terminator where Whaea Aroha and Vanessa got to throw balls at us.

What we have been doing

Today we have been preparing for our Remember Me Day. This is a special day to remember people you love and to celebrate them.

Marco and Georgina rang the newspapers and the radio to try and advertise this day.
We went on garageband to record an ad for the radio. (Fergus)
We decided what lights we needed and how we can get help to set it up. (Sophie)
We planned the signs for the night. (Brooke)
The music group listened to CDs to create a playlist for the night. (Sasha)
We made an invitation on Printshop to send to all the schools. (Jamie)
We asked for help by writing in the school newsletter and gathered some glass jars. (Ethan)

We feel...
awesome
fantastic
proud
famous
amazed
great
pro
magnificent
unbelievable...


We can't believe we are actually doing it by oursleves. (Hamish)

Remember Me Day

First Day of the Last Term for 2010

We had a great holiday and are ready to rip into this term. We have lots on....

Art Rotation on Mondays
Grasshopper Tennis on Wednesdays
Touch Rugby at Motueka on Tuesdays (after school)
Cricket on Saturdays
Red Square 20th October: Ukulele, Kapahaka, Choir, Band
The Minstrel performs October 21
Smarties starting Thursdays on 28 October (Can you help with this? Let us know:)
World Teachers Day 29 October
Kapahaka Fun Day November 3
Athletics at Upper Moutere Saturday 13 November
Disco 18 November
Remember Me Day 22 November (TBC)
Pet Day 24 November (The children voted and Pet Day was the winner. This will alternate with the Talent Quest) (TBC)
Parent Helpers Breakfast 25 November
Jump Rope for Heart 26 November
Aquatics Trip December 2
Last Day of Term December 14

There are also end of year assemblies to celebrate our children. Please keep an eye on the newsletter for confirmed dates.

Technology Challenge

We have learnt about technology this term. We have learnt technology isn't just about electrical things, it is about being creative and innovative. it is about thinking of ideas to solve problems and putting that into action.

Smarties

We are the Maths Smart group. Look at what we created with all our clever thinking skills and problem solving skills...

Parent Catch Up

Kia Ora Koutou,

Well...another busy term has almost passed. I am so impressed with the effort your children have been putting in this term. They erally are very tired and will enjoy the 2 weeks break, I'm sure.

Just a heads up...
We will NOT be going to the library next Friday, so all the Mapua Library books need to be returned before the due date, which is stamped on the back inside cover of each book.

I am out of class on Tuesday next week and Anne Askin will be in for me. She has relieved for me bfore and knows the class.

We are testing this week, so please ensure your child is at school. Thanks.

Our last Smarties day for this term is on Thursday. Another successful programme to promote the amazing talents, skills and knowledge of the Middle Syndicate. I personally have loved creating a marble run with the Logic Smarties this term.

We have the opening of the Coastal Walkway on the last day of term. You are all welcome to come.

No home learning this week.

Thanks for another wonderful term.

Aroha

Making gifts in Room 6.

In room 6 we are learning about Technology. One of the challenges was to make a gift for someone spacial to you. We did lots of planning and thinking. We also had to tell Whaea Aroha why we were giving this gift to this person.


Then we had to do a Decision Making Matrix to help us make our decision for what we are making. We started making our gifts on Wednesday the 15 of September but some people had to start on Thursday the 16 of September because they had to wait for the clay to arrive so they ended up helping other people with there gift.

Soon we get to give our gifts to our spacial person. It will be a huge surprise when we reveal our gift to our special person.

By Brooke and Venka.

Smarties

Once upon a time in a land far far away ok ok on thrsday's we have smarties. Smarties is a thing when we make stuff like a box. There are 8 groups; Word Smart, Music Smart, Picture Smart, Body Smart, Self Smart, People Smart, Nature Smart and Maths Smart. I am in Self Smart and I am making a special box finished no that's not how you end it!!! ok okthe end.

Izaak

"Once upon a time in a land far far away... Ok! Ok! On Thursdays we have Smarties. There are 8 groups; Word Smart, Music Smart, Picture Smart, Body Smart, Self Smart, People Smart, Nature Smart and Maths Smart. I am in Self Smart and I am making a special box. Finished! No that's not how you end it! Ok, Ok.. The end."

Izaak

Technology Challenge: Design and Make a Gift.

This term fantastic Room 6 have a topic about giving gifts.
First we needed to make a list or a bubble map about who we can give gifts to.
Then we choose who to make it for why and what type of gift it is. For example, a thank you gift.
Later we had to write eight things they would like and choose the best four and write them down on a Decision Making Matrix.
The DMM had criteria for each gift and we had to rate (marking) from 1 to 3.
The one with the highest mark is the one we got to make for our special person.
Then we needed to make a design of what we were making.
Soon we get to make our gift. yyiippiiee!!!

Sasha

Changing the World

We are doing a change the world progect we are doing cool cristsmas tree deckeirashins to make the world be more happy and to celebrait more
about cristmas we thiger that the world needs more peace and happynes

George

We are trying to change the world in a good way. We are doing cool Christmas tree decorations to make the world more happy and to celebrate more about Christmas. We figure that the world needs to celebrate more about the the people we love.

Happy Father's Day

Basic facts test

Every Monday we do a Basic facts test. If you get 6 hundreds in a row, you get a treat. We are all hoping to improve on our last test. Well done Sasha for getting 100 out of 100, 12 times in a row.

KAPAHAKA

Every week we are doing Kapahaka. We are the only little kids in the Kapahaka group and it's really fun.

Marco and James

P.J Day

On Friday the 10th of September, the school is having a pajama day. We come to school in our p.jays and bring a donation for the Salvation Army. All the money raised will be given to the Salvation Army.

The Salvation Army started in New Zealand in 1883. They help homeless people find a safe place to live, they can help in emergencies like earthquakes, they help people who are poor, they help with missing people, they provide food parcels for people who need it, they help you find hope...


Here is their web page if you want to find out more.

http://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/

Library Visit

Today we went to the Mapua Library for our first class visit this term. We will be going every alternate Friday, starting today, from 10.30am-11.30am.


Friday September 10th
Friday September 24th

Your child has been issued 2 books and needs to bring these back to school on Friday September 10th, when we will be revisiting the library. The date on the books allows 3 weeks, however we will be visiting fortnightly, so try to have them read in that time.

The school has paid for individual cards, so the books are under your child's name if you want to return them earlier.

If you have lost a book or accidentally damaged one, please let the librarians know, so they can work through that with you.


The Mapua Library is a great resource and we really enjoyed our time there. If you want to join us, you are more than welcome.

Thanks.

Sports

This term we are doing winter sport. We are doing basketball, netball and rippa rugby.
In rugby we are lerning to pass and to hold the ball properly. In basketball we are
learning to bounce pass, chest pass and to bounce the ball under your waist.
In netball we lernt to pass and catch.

Bridge Building: The Dinobrains

This bridge was 23cm long. It was one of the strongest bridges.

Bridge Building: The Amazing Inventors

This bridge was the longest. It was 43cm long.

Bridge Building: Girls Rock

Girls Rock


This bridge was 21cm long.

Kapahaka

Every Monday Whaea Jane teaches us kapahaka.


We learned how to sing and do the actions to Tu Tira Mai Nga Iwi.

We hope you like it.

Bridge Building: The GT's

This bridge was 18.5cm long.

Building a Bird House.

How to make a Bird House. well First you need some string and 4 straws ,2 big peaces of paper, ,15 or 20 peaces of Newspaper and 1peace of plastik.Then you can start making it but It needs to be 60cm or 50cm high so its not as easy for cats or rats to get them. Then it should turn out like a toy Bird House. By James and Rebecca.



How to build a bird house. Well, first you need some string, four straws, two big pieces of paper, 15-20 pieces of newspaper and one piece of plastic. Now you can start making it.

Remember, it needs to be 50cm-60cm high so it's not easy for cats or rats to get them. It should then, turn out like a bird house.
(edited by Whaea Aroha)

Building the longest bridge.

We had a challenge to see how long each marble went. We had to make a bridge that's stable between 2 desks. The Amazing Inventors' bridge went 43 cm.The girls rock got 21cm.

Technology Challenge

On Wednesday we did a Technology Challenge.Rooms six,one and four got split up into three groups.group one did a catapult challenge the beans they fired went pretty long there was awesome designs.group two did some marble bridges some were very long and very cool.And group three made some bird houses they looked very comfy they were very imaginative.I thought the challenges were really awesome.

By Jamie and Fergus.

On Wednesday, we completed a technology challenge. The Middle Syndicate were split up into groups. Group one built a bird feeder, group two had to build a catapult to throw a bean the furtherest and group three had to build the longest bridge. The catapults fired the beans a long way. The bridges were really long too. The bird houses looked very comfy and were very imaginative. We thought the challenges were really awesome. (edited by Whaea Aroha)

Mapua E

We are learning mapua E actions they are cool as.We are sing at the same time.
It is cool.Because it gust is.Fun!.

By Milly

We are learning the actions to Mapua E. They are cool, as we get to sing at the same time. It's cool because it's fun!
(edited by Whaea Aroha)

Technology Catapults

On Wednesday the 25 of August the Middle Syndicate had a Technology Challenge. We were split into groups; one group had to make the longest marble bridge, one group had to build a stand alone bird feeder and another group had to build a catapult that threw a bean the furtherest. We're telling you about the catapult.

We had 10 minutes to make a catapult that fires a bean. After all that we had a competition to see who's bean would go the furthest when you fired it.The longest bean went 7m and 49cm. Second place was 3m and 69cm. I felt happy for coming second.

By Venka and Ethan.



Sometimes the ideas don't quite work, so we have to think about how to make them work better. But when they do work, it is really cool...

Fairytale Word Wall

This term we are learning to write our own fairytale. We made a word wall to help us use interesting words for our stories. Whaea Aroha got us into groups of four and five to make different parts of a fairytale; Once upon a time, a goodie victim(Princess), a goodie hero (prince), a baddie,things to stop goddie getting what they want, and....happily ever after. Then we had to think of interesting adjectives and verbs to describe those characters and settings. We placed them on the wall and now we have our own fairytale dictionary to use.

Parent Catch Up

Kia Ora Koutou.

Well, we've had a very busy start to the term and now we're half way through! Time does seem to fly when you're having fun.

Maths: Fraction focus. We are learning about fractions in context to real life situations. There is lots of problem solving using fraction strategies and knowledge. Try to encourage any discussions about fractions at home.

Writing: Fairytales. We have read and dissected well known fairytales in reading to help develop our knowledge and confidence in writing our very own fairytale.

Reading: We continue to work on using lots of different strategies for reading. The focus at the moment is "Skippy Frog" for most children. Skip it, skip it!
1: Skip the word (Skip it, skip it)
2: Read to the end of the sentence.
3. "Hop back" and read it, read it.

This is to encourage the children to use the sentence to put the word in context, to help look at the whole picture rather than just the word, which can limit comprehension. Try this at home.

Topic: We have finished our focus on "Keeping Ourselves Safe" I believe there have been some real life lessons learnt through this unit, where the children are armed with knowledge and tools to deal with unwanted touch. A task sheet was sent home earlier in the term to help you and your child discuss this.

Topic: Techonology. We will continue to have our Smarties programme on a Thursday afternoon with a Technology focus. This will support the learning we do throughout the week.

Sport and Health: Winter Sports: Basketball, Rugby, Netball. Soon we will be starting our atheltics programme to prepare for the Moutere Hills Athletics Day.

Any queries, please drop in and say hi.

Thanks
Aroha

Mind Bending Friday

Each Friday we are challenged to complete some Mind Bending tasks. These include; designing a t-shirt for the envronment, creating music using science to explore pitch, create a puppet to practice sewing, origami to think about angles in maths and how to follow instructions, code breaking to solve the secret message and then to create our own code, blogging to communicate our learning with you!

The boat story

I was making a boat.I put the wood in the wood.Curving it kod

By Ben

I was making a boat. I put the wood in the wood curving machine. It curved good. Then ten minutes later it was made. I went for a test. The engine bursted into life. I put the gears up like this... 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10! I was at my 10th gear. I was taking a risk. I went up the gears again from 11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19... I know I was at the top gear. I was really excited.

By Ben

Touch we like!

We like good touch like a hug. You can say no to people. We are learning to say stop, walk and talk! You can trust people like your mum or dad. It is fun! We don't like spitting. Teachers are good. If some one said they hit someone, you get help!!!

Maths

This week we have been learning about fractions.My group is trying to find a fraction of a number using + or x.This is how you lay it out:

1/5 of 25=?
5x5=25
so 1/5 of 25=5

Jamie

Touch we like!

We like good touches like a pat on the back. We are leaning to stop walk talk. It is so much fun! We also learnt about bad touches. We don't like a hit or spitting . Tell a teacher! Teachers help you.

Fractions in Room 6

We have been learning about fractions this week. We have learned what the bottom number and the top number means.

The bottom number means "the total number to make a whole".

The top number means, "the number of pieces I have".

The bar means "of" or "out of".

Written by Max and Travis



There are 24 marbles in a bag. 1/4 are blue, 2/4 are red 1/4 are green.

How many are blue?
How many are red?
How many are green?

Blue:
1/4 of 24=?
4x?=24
4x6=24
so 1/4 of 24 =6

So there are 6 blue and 6 green marbles.

I know 1/4=6
so 2/4 = 6+6=12

So there are 12 red marbles.

Travis.

Fairytales

For our writing we are learning about fairytales and how to write our own fairytales

We are reading as many fairy tales as we can so we now what we should write about.It`s like your doing reading and writing at the same time when you read the fairytales on the laptops. After we do the reading on the laptops we get a sheet that we do a plan on that has the....

1. title
2.author
3.illustrator
4.genre
5.main characters
6.setting
7.situation
9.the problem
10.complications
11.how does the story end


Thanks for reading. Now we're off to write our own...

Bad Secrets, Good Suprises

In our class this week we have been learning about bad secrets and good surprises for our topic. We watched a movie called Brian and Bob. It was about bad secrets and good surprises. For example:

Bad secret: You might of broken someones toy and didn't say you did it.

Good surprise: You might have planed something for someones birthday party like made a scrumptious chocolate cake.

The whole class drew one of their bad secrets and one of their good surprises on a sheet of paper. We then talked about how we felt about both. We all had good feelings for the good surprise and we all had bad feelings with the bad secrets.

We will try to keep good surprises only.

Monday Maths!

On Monday we do a maths test. The super year 4 kids have 6and a half minutes
and the rocking year 3 kids get 7 minutes. We have to try our best & this is whats
IMPORTANT about it.

1.Try and get a #1 score.

2. GO UP rather then down.Example: 74 to 89 is good and 100 to 78 is.......er..bad!

3. Last of all look at how you improved!

Georgina.

Takaka sports

On Thursday the 12th August Takaka school came to Mapua to play us in rugby, soccer, hockey, netball, tug-of-war and miniball. Mapua bet Takaka in every sport except for tug-of-war and for the first time, in four years, Mapua won the sheild.!!

Mrs Stevenson in Room 6!

When there was a reliever teacher at school, we did:

EXCITING MATHS [she gave us stickers!]

COOL GAMES [e.g. hot seat]

BOOKWORM BOOKS[amazing to read]

But we had to do silly things too.
Boring stuff was the worst like fairytale writing.
There are so many things we did I can not remember them all.

bye bye.by Georgina.

Tim's thoughts

I did a story on thursday i loved it and maths divedby and lexia by tim

I did a story on THursday. I loved it. In maths we did divided by.

Mind Bending Friday

On Friday we have Mind Bending Friday. We have different stations like Puppets, Science ,Create a T-shirt, Origami, Code Breakers,and Word Whiz. On Puppets we create and make Puppets. For Science we do experiments. Create a t-shirt we do awesome design. Origami we make and share all together. Code breakers we break the code. On Word Whiz we make and blog new posts on the blog. Thats all about Mind Bending Friday.

Natasha

Mrs Stevenson in Room 6.

The day our new reliever came we all rushed to our seat's and sat nicely! We played hot seat it was really fun! We did much much more. We did our fairy tales which were really hard!!!

Izaak

Poi E

Celebrating Maori Language Week

To celebrate Maori Langauge Week, the Mapua Middle Syndicate invited one class from Mahana, Dovedale, Upper Moutere and Tasman Bay Christian schools,to come and hang out with us. We welcomed our visitors with a waiata (song), then we had lunch and a play together.

In our mixed school groups we went to cool activities to help us learn and celebrate te reo Maori (the language) and tikanga Maori (cultural).

Rakau: We learnt smooth moves with the rakau and then we got to create some of our own moves.
Waiata: We sang Haere Mai and Tutira Mai.
Koru Art: We looked at different kowhaiwhai patterns and then created our own with chalk on the ground.



Weaving: We created ika (fish) with coloured paper. We followed simple weaving techniques.


Bingo: We played "Whare Whare!" Bingo with Maori numbers.
Hei Tama Tu Tama: We played this Maori game to find the World Champion.
Maori Legends: We acted out the legend of "How the Piwakawaka got it's tail."

It was fabulous to meet new people. Whaea Aroha's challenge was to meet at least one person from a different school. Most of us achieved this. Kia Ora (thanks) everyone for coming to our school. Let's do it again.

We are learning about Fairytales. Today we were Fairytale Jumpers. We were able to jump from one fairytale into another and another. We could jump as many times as we wanted. Our secret mission was to find things that are in MOST fairytales. This is what we found:
There are castles.
Happy ending.
They start with, "Once upon a time..."
Good versus Bad
Kings, Queens, Princess', Princes, Knights...
There is often a special message. (Little Red Riding Hood: Don't talk to strangers)
It's in a land far, far away. No specific place names.
Animals (horses, bunny rabbits, cats,...)
The characters could be not real (Beast)
All different kinds of feelings.
Evil sidekicks.
The good people always win.
There is often a rescue.
Romantic parts.

Safe As...

Our topic this term is about Keeping Ourselves Safe. We talked about feelings. We talked about how we would feel in different situations. We talked about:
1: How would we feel if we were going on a big holiday tomorrow?
2: How would we feel if someone we didn't know came up to us on the street and said our name?
3: How would we feel if we got a certificate?
4: How would you feel if you had to jump off the highest diving board?

We tried to come up with lots of different words to describe our feelings. Now we have a whole lot of words to help us describe how we feel in different situations. We can use these words to explain how we feel in real life. Then we ordered these words on our Feelings Thermometer.

Creating Maths Games

Over the last week of Term 2 we got to create our own maths games. We used adding and subtracting, and multiplication and division in our games.

Mad Scientists

Today we started MInd Bending Friday. We have to think interdependently and flexibly to solve problems. This group carried out some Scientific Investigations about invisible ink and music.

Animoto

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We learnt how to make an Animoto slideshow today.

Arty Farty Stuff

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Look at us! We are real artists! We are holding an Art Exhibition today. You are all welcome to visit. Please leave a comment about our art. We would love to hear what you think of our art.

Amazing Art

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Art Exploration in Room 6

In Room 6 we have been learning about 3 different elements in art; Line, Space and Colour.

Line: We explored the different types of line we could create with different tools. We then focused on Ben Heine, a Belgian artist, and created a "Pencil versus Camera" art piece. Look closely at what our imaginations could see in the photo. Check how we connected the drawing to the photo.

Space: We learnt about positive and negative space. We directed the person in our photo, created the background and took the photo. We then downloaded the photo and edited it. The shadow is our positive space and the light is the negative space. Do you think you can work out how we made our image?

Colour: We looked at Tone. We had to create a colour version of a black and white photo using light, middle and dark tones.

Ruby Bay Image: We visited the beach and spent time sketching main parts of the view we could see. In class, we were able to choose the tool we used to create our masterpiece. We thought about Line, Space and Colour. We tried very hard to use different techniques to create our image.

Maths Games

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Magic maths in Room 6. We love it sooooooo much.

Creative and Flexible Thinking

Whaea Aroha challenged us to create our own maths games using the materials we have in class. This was fun. We came up with a lot of different games, practising different maths skills like, multiplicationa dn division, adding and subtracting, patterns, memory recall, shapes in geometry,...

We had to work together to think creatively and flexibly. We learnt a lot.

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People Smart Art

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Some people in the Middle Syndicate were part of the People Smart Art group. They made scenes from "Where the Wild Things Are"

Go Green Room 4

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Room 4 visited us today and told us how they are going to keep the school clean. They have Rubbish Monitors and they have chosed to pick up any rubbish around the school in their lunch times. We thought this was soooooooo cool, so we decided to make them badges to show who they are. We like the cool idea and we love that Room 4 are doing something about it too. Go Room 4

Beach Art

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Our masterpiece for the Art Exhibition is based on the view we see of Ruby Bay. We sketched ideas in our Art books and then returned to class to create our final art piece. Come to Room 6 and view our masterpieces.

Smarties

Smarties is about your smarts

I`ve been doing Music Smart. We first draw what we think the music is about, the music was called "The Hall of the Mountin King." Then when we are all done we paint it
with black, white and grey. Sophie

I am in Self Smart. We painted about our dreams. My dream is about traveling the world. We are sharing our art and we did them with dye. It is so much fun. Sylvie

Room 6 Blog!!!!!!

Room 6 has the best,craziest Blog,YEAH!!!!!!!!


Milly & Georgina think it is SO cool!(100 out of 100)

It's the best,It's the best,Room 6 blog,Is the BEST.

By Milly and Georgina.

Tim's thought of the week

We have been doing a lot of art for a few weeks and we like doing it.I feel good.

Tim

White Out

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We wanted to support the All Whites on Tuesday, so we had a White Out Day at school. Everyone dressed up in white. There was a big football match too. I watched the game from up high in a tree. Whaea A did a header. Wow! Whaea A you are really good at soccer. The teachers won the game. Room 6 won the White Out Award for wearing the most white. It was a great day. I had a lot of fun and the All Whites drew with Slovakia. Cool!

By Fergus

World Cup Football at Mapua

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It was a big day. The staff and Year 7 versus Year 8. We had photographers high in the trees (otherwise known as Ethan and Marco). The supporters were screaming on the sideline. The game was on.
The ball was getting kicked all over the place. Nikau had control, passed the ball to Sam who took a shot, but Whaea A saved the goal and booted it away. Storm came back with a deadly shot and scored. 1-0 to Year 8.

Mrs Bibby-Smith put in a mean header, Mrs Stephens and Mrs Barnes had powereful boots and Whaea A juggled the ball skillfully. The staff quickly returned with a Big Mac special, Mr.Clearwater kicked it from the corner and Mr.Mac headed it in! 1-1

The second half was almost over when Mr.Mac booted it from halfway and it sky rocketed over everyone and landed in the goal. 2-1 to the Staff and Year 7.

The final whistle blew. The game was over. The champs; the Staff and Year 7. Well done everyone!

Arts Rotation

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Aren't we lucky we get to have a programme called Smarties. We get to use our different "smarts" to create art. The smarts are word, math, music, visual, body, people,and nature smart.

I am doing puzzle art because I am maths smart. We are making koru designs from broken up tiles. It is a mosaic.

I am music smart. We listen to music and we draw what we think the music is about, how it makes us feel. Jamie

We are nature smart. Carol teaches us how to weave flax to make flowers. Rebecca, Venka

We are visual smart. We are creating art with a Kiwiana theme. Marco, Fergus

I am self smart. We are creating art about our dreams. Tim

I am word smart. We have written a poem about colour and then put it onto a canvas. George.

I am body smart. We have to take photos using our body in different positions, like getting low and getting high. Reece


I am people smart. We are making a model of where the Wild Things live together. Max and Phoebe


We would like to thank all the teachers and parents for giving up their time to help us learn.

By Hamish, Marco, Tim and Fergus

Maths

For maths this week we have been measuring lots of different things like the art bench and our decks and lots of other things. We have been throwing paper planes. Our buddies and us figured out a way to measure how far our paper planes went. I used my feet to measure, my buddy guessed how long meters were and used steps. The day after that we realised that what we measured with was not accurate. Then we measured with rulers and our results were different because you could get the exact distance from the rulers.

by Ethan

Measuring Maths

We have been learning about measuring accurately. We have been using measuring tools like rulers. We are using millimeters, centimeters and meters.

I learnt...
you need to mark from the first centimeter line on the ruler. Rebecca
a centimeter is bigger than a millimeter. Milly
you need to measure from a starting point. Max
you need to decide the starting point and stand at that point when throwing the plane so you can measure accurately. Georgina
you can measure long distances with a ruler by making marks and using the ruler again. Jamie
that if you want to measure accurately, mm,cm,m are the most accurate units. George
that it is easier to measure a long distance with 2 rulers. Sasha
you need to mark the plane landing by the part that is closest to the line you throw from because we need to all have the same way of measuring. Chloe
you always need to write mm or cm or m to show the correct distance. Ethan
a cm is bigger than a mm. Reece
to keep my foot beha=ind the line because that would measure more accurately. Hamish
you can 300cm if you have 3m. Venka
you can write 132cm as 1.32m Izaak
some things are harder to measure, like the couch because it has curved edges. Benjamin
you have to measure from the 0cm line not the end of the ruler. Tim
you can mark and reuse the ruler to measure longer distances. Marco
1.56m means 1m and 56cm Rebecca
that if you want to measure the distance between places on a map you can use the scale. Sasha
that a scalw is a line that has marks that show cm and how far the cm is worth, like 10,000km for 1cm. Fergus

Tones of Room 6

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We have learnt about light, middle and dark tones. Look at our wonderful art.

Thanks PTA

The playground is an awesome place to play in. Thanks to the PTA for getting it up.

Room 6's awesome measuring

We have been learning about measuring. First we made a speedy paper-plane. Next we threw our smart planes and marked where it landed. Then we chose a way of measuring accurately without a ruler. Some people used dictionaries, feet, hands, bodies, cars,...
We learned there is only one way of measuring accurately which is using a ruler. We can measure in mm, cm and m.

I loved the way we measured in a fun way and learnt lots too. Venka
It was fun to fly the planes across the court. Milly

Venka, Milly

Tim's dad got an award...

Guess what happend! Tim's dad had a special award from the Queen.

My dad got a Serving Member of St.John Award. He is an ambulance officer, he teaches others about First Aid and he works on the resucue helicopter.

My dad gets to bring the work car home sometimes. Once we got to look in the ambulance.

I am proud of my dad because he takes people to hospital.

Tim

George`s new solution for Measuing

George came up with a solution for measuring. You know how measuring with feet, books,
sticks is not an accurate way of measuring. Now that problem is solved! With this new
strategy you can measure anything!

Intructions:
1: Measure your foot using a ruler.
2: Measure the object with your foot.
3: Multiply the number of feet by length of your foot.
4: Remember to write cm in your answer.

Example:
My foot is 20cm long. Gf=20cm
Room 6 is 36 George feet wide.

How wide is Room 6?

Gf=20cm
so 36Gf = 36 x 20

30 + 30 = 60
6+6 = 12
60+10+2 = 72

so the answer is 720cm

so 36f=720cm

So Room 6 is 720cm wide or 7.20m wide.

George, Jamie, Travis

Kath Bee

This week started with a splash! Kath Bee came to Mapua School. She sang "Dragons under my bed" and played along with her guitar. Also she made a SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sign that if we were loud she would show it and we would be quiet. She gave balloon dogs to people who were dancing really amazing and stood out. Then she got some people to say "hello" in diffren't launguges like... shalom, ola, bula, tena koe, konnichi wa. At the end she gave one of her CD's, drum roll please bang, bang, bang, crash... to Callum for answering a question correctly. You could get one of her CD's and t-shirts.

Thank you Kath Bee for visiting our school. P.S If you see Maisy somewhere thank her because her mum organizsed Kath Bee coming to our school.

By Rebecca, Brooke and Sasha.

Wikid!

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Run, run, run, as fast as you can...

Crazy Adult Cross Country

The adults race was funny because Nigel, one of the adults, gave Juliana, a mum, a piggyback ride around the adult race. But then Nigel dropped her. Mr Clearwater was trying to beat them. It was just so funny and my step dad, Dave, bet all of them. He came first!

I love Room 6 because....

Hello world! Tim here, I get to do the blog this week with a little bit of help from Lorraine. I'm teaching her what to do because she's never done this before!

We had cross country on Monday. The weather was kind of rainy and cloudy. All the year 3 boys ran together. Mt Taylor called us on the loudspeaker and we went to the start line. Mrs Pilcher warmed us up. Mr T said "on your marks, get set, GO" and we ran off. We had to run round the track twice. I got puffed out and I sprinted to the end. My Mum and my class were cheering for me. My sister Anja and my baby brother Max came to watch me race. At the end I felt happy.


Room 6 is the best class in Mapua School because the kids are happy and we always work hard. I got the "YOU ROCK" award on Tuesday for my art.

We have got a new playground. It is fun to play on. It moved over to beside room 9. It used to be beside room 7. My favourite thing is the climbing chain.

As part of our Art topic we made some artwork inspired by Ben Heine. Our challenge was to use our imagination to create a line drawing of something that we see in the photo, that isn't there. They came out AMAZING!!!! Come and see them next time you are passing!

Have a great week, I gotta go!!

Timothy

My new baby sister

I love my little baby sister, she is so cute. When she sleeps she makes funny noises. My baby sister was born last week on Thursday 27 May. I want her to be called Scarlett, but Mum and Dave will pick her name.

This is a photo of my little sister at the school cross country.

Scale Map of Royal Pigland

Our challenge was to make a scale map of all the settings from "The Three Little Pigs".

Step 1: List all the places you want on the map.
Step 2: Create a scale. We decided 1cm=100m We used meters because kilometers are too far for Pigs to walk and the wolf wouldn't bother if they lived too far away.
Step 3: Use our ruler to measure the pathways between places.
Step 4: Add the places in.
Step 5: Share out maps.

This is actually maths because there is measuring in it. Georgina
I liked making the scale and measuring the distance in between the places. Travis
I liked how we got to use our imaginations and maths together. I liked creating and using the scale for a real thing. Ethan
I liked that you could just draw anything on there that you want. I liked doing the scale. I liked the thinking. Sasha

We are H.O.T (Higher Order Thinkers- refer to Blooms Taxonomy Link)because we were creating, improving, planning, designing, inventing, predicting, synthesising (putting all we know together) ...

Awards for Cross Country

We were place getters in the Mapua School Cross Country.

Cross Country

We ran the cross country today and feel proud of it! We ran like the wind.

Rakau Rhythm

We are learning to improve our hand-eye co-ordination in PE with rakau. We are getting better every week.

TONE

Here are some black and white photos of us. Whaea Aroha is teaching us about tone.
Tone is...
light and dark
soft and hard
blending
hatching and
cross hatching
shading

What will we be doing with these photos to learn about tone? Come back in a week to see!

Pencil versus Camera

We have been looking at the element of LINE. Ben Heine is a Belgian artist who uses his imagination to draw what he sees in a photo. Here are some of our line drawings that are like Bens.

Paper Planes

We are using paper planes to help us learn about measurement. The challenge was to throw a paper plane and then measure the distance it flew, but...we weren't allowed to use a ruler! So we measured in dictionaries, people, feet, sticks, cars,...

I have learned...
Dictionaries are not a good way to measure because they are all different sizes.
People are not a good way to measure because people are not the same size.
Feet are a good guessing way of measuring.
Izaak

For maths this term we are doing measurment. We learned using things that don't stay the same size is not an accurate way of measuring, so instead we use metres and centimetres and millimetres. Boy, Wheae A,you have taught us some cool stuff!
George

Reuben Wiki

Reuben Wiki came to Room Six. He is so cool! He played more than a hundred rugby league games. Also he was in lots and lots of countries like Australia, PNG, Samoa, England, Tonga, Germany, Italy, Vietnam/Laos, Fiji, New Zealand, and North America/ Los Angels. So that is pretty cool. He signed autographs and danced Jump Jam with us too.

He played tackle bull-rush with kids at lunch time. Storm tackled Reuben Wiki and got Reuben's singlet to keep. He ran over Jake too! The boys were covered from head to toe in mud!

We were a very lucky school to have Reuben Wiki visit us.



By Sasha