Maths Like A Pirate - Day 4

Can you build a tower without a hammer and nails?
We are taking up the challenge of building the tallest tower using only marshmallows, toothpicks and collaboration. Chocolate fish to the best collaborators and the tallest tower.

Christmas On The Beach

Our annual Bring and Sing is in a week's time. We are looking forward to having a picnic and a singalong. We are singing Christmas On The Beach. Can you please practise our song at home? We can also bring our ukulele in to learn the chords. The chords are below.

Maths Like a Pirate for Skippers

This week Skippers will be collaborating whilst doing some Maths Like a Pirate challenges. Here is them building a pirate ship to hold all their treasure - "argh me hearties!"

Scribble Bot Fun with Miss Emma

The children have been collaborating to make a Scribble Bot with Miss Emma. This looks like so much fun and the Art work being created looks Amazing

Collaboration in Skippers

We are challenging ourselves in art today. We are creating our own busy street scene by using pva, scissors and magazines. We like Eric Carle's style and are using it to cut out trees, buildings, trains and cars. Come in and see our art in progress.

Helping Hands

In Skippers during Concept we are discussing how we use our hands to help our community.
We did some hand print painting last week.
Now we're collaborating in our groups to talk about how we help each other.
Some people are the writers. Some people are the speakers.

Army Base

We built an army base. 

Town Time on Day 1

Puppets and Parfaits

We, the Explorers and Discoverers, shared our learning about mechanisms. We created puppets using a simple mechanism.  We performed a song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, "Doll On A Music Box/Truly Scrumptious".

The puppet making process was very challenging. A lot of us had to start from scratch more than once as our puppets weren't big enough. 

Thank you for coming to see our learning journey. 

Castle Collaboration

Our Castle

Playdough with Zoe

"I tried first and I don't make it well, then Londyn and I collaborated and she showed me how to do it. You roll it up and then you curl it up ad draw little faces on them. All together we made four." -Zoe

Playdough Collaboration

Playdough Collaboration

"The Friendship of Magic Castle"

These four hine (girls) worked together to make a beautiful castle.

Is it Spring time? BOING!

This morning we were exploring springs. 

We talked about stretching and squeezing and bending. We looked at a simple writing pen and observed the spring inside it. 

Have you got a slinky at home? Get us to show you the three different things you do with springs. 

stretching

squeezing

bending

Learning About Levers

We are learning about simple machines. Today we were learning to identify different levels and we even had a go at making our own. What levers can you spot at home? 

Collaboration with Hays

Some children have been learning how to perform a traditional Irish dance called a Ceili. Siena and Ataahua performed with Nate and Griffin from Hays. Co-ordinated and managed by Nate Haa. Ka pai.

Collaboration in building