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.

Street Art

Shotover Air Show

We are doing a lot of thinking around writing this week in Skippers. We're looking at procedural texts (instructions). In order to understand how to write instructions, we had to follow some to make a paper plane.  Check out our planes! Next we're going to write our instructions.

Town Time Sand Fun

Nga Taonga

We found treasures in our own little rock pool.
I do like to be beside the seaside.

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.

Skippidee Doo Daa

Skippidee doo daa
Skippidee day
My oh my, what a wonderful day....

Skippers Skippers

Today at assembly Ms Bee reminded us of our school values. One of them is Growth Mindset. Here you can see Skippers children working hard to learn to skip. They didn't give up and worked really hard, even though it was tricky. We'll update you later. 

Planting Seeds of Opportunity

These Are The People In Our Neighbourhood

We celebrated our concept learning today. We have been learning about the different people in our community and how they help us.
Skippers stepped into the kitchen and made fruit kebabs. We know that chefs are people in our community who make food for others and bring them joy.
We also filmed our scenes for our concept movies. Thank you to the parents and kids for the efforts with dress ups, you all looked fabulous! We felt so safe at school today because we had so many firefighters and policemen/policewomen to look after us.

Session 2, Skippers Skaters

Skippers Skaters

A Message to Layla in Wales

"Thanks for the postcard, we hope you come back." - Ara

"I miss you a lot Layla." - Otis

"I hope you have a good trip away in Wales." - Aria

"I love you." - Benji

"I hope you're coming back Layla from Wales." - Zoe

"I hope you have a good time." - Nikau

"I love you Layla, I hope you have a good time." - Jake

"I hope you have a lovely time." - Natalie

"You are my bestie Layla, I love you." - Londyn

"I hope you have a good time." - Bastian

"Hi Layla, I hope you have a good time at Wales." - Charlotte D

"Hi Layla. How is Wales? Have you visited a lot of places? What is the food like? Have you met any Welsh people? How are your family? We look forward to seeing you when you are back. Arohanui, from Miss Eve." - Miss Eve

Busy Medical Staff

Watch our busy beehive of a hospital at Town Time.
Can you ask us at home: How do nurses help us? How do doctors help us?

Imperial Star Destroyer

We added a lot of things and the jump is higher. It has wings now. 

I'm Feeling Rainbow Today

I feel rainbow today because people are being kind to me and I'm happy. 

-Cate

A Visit From Ross (Skippers)

For our concept learning, Georgia's Dad Ross came to visit us and show us all the fun he has managing Coronet Peak. 

We watched a funny video of all the people who work there. 

There are 450,000 people who visit the ski fields each year. So he told us about the rubbish and recycling.

2000 people go up th chairlift per hour.

The Green Gates chairlift has a span of 40m high. 

Thank you for all the learning Ross. 

Alby's Creation

It's a big battleship.