Rich Task Maths

This week during rich task math we were faced with the word problem.

"Sarah works in a toy shop. She can see 37 wheels. There is a mixture of go carts and tricycles in the shop"
 How many tricycles and how many go carts are there?

The children were able to work this out anyway they wanted to. They used a range of different tools and strategies. Below is a couple of videos of them explaining how they got their answers.

Getting our groove on!

To give our brains a break and to get rid of our wiggles between lessons we use a website called Go Noodle. We LOVE doing these activities and watching our monsters grow as we complete the different stages. This is a wee video Lynley snapped this week.

Learning elastics

Thanks to Ashley who brought in her elastics for us all to have a try. The children were all very amused that Lynley knew a thing or 2 about this 'old school' game!

100% Basic Facts!

Congratulations to Olivia for getting 100% on her basic facts this week!
I know you have been working hard to achieve this. Ka pai! Keep up the excellent work!

Cityscape Art

Today we have been exploring 2 and 3D drawing. We looked at cityscapes and tried drawing skyscraper buildings. This was a very tricky concept to understand and a technique we will need a bit more practice to master but we all gave it a great go and thoroughly enjoyed our creations. We started by practicing on whiteboards and then moved onto paper.  We will paint these using primary and secondary colours.

Weather Warning

Dear All

Tomorrow there are high wind warnings (120km)  in place for Nelson. 

Hopefully this does not turn out to be the significant weather event that is forecast...but just in case we have decided on the following.

To minimise the possible danger- particularly around the pick up areas outside the school,  we ask you to pick up your children from their class after school tomorrow (Wednesday) . 

To alleviate the possible traffic congestion we suggest children from Kowhai  and Pohutukawa syndicates , and all those in Te Pouahi are picked up at 2.30pm, if you are able.

All students in the senior main block of the school can be picked up from their classrooms at 3 pm. 

Obviously if you have children in different areas you can pick them up at either time.

We hope that - by afternoon- this plan will not be necessary . Please check back on our Facebook page , or via email for changes to this plan.

Thanks for your support in making sure all our students are safe during this potential event.

Regards

Nga mihi

Pip Wells