Mini Measurement Olympics

Today we put our estimating and measuring skills to the test as we competed in the cotton ball shot put, straw javelin and cardboard discus.

We first estimated the distance we thought we had thrown and then we worked together to measure the distance.

We had to work out the difference between our estimate and our actual measurement.

We won medals if our estimate were close to our actual measurement.

Cinquian Poems

We have been learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives through poetry. This term we have written cinquian poems on a number of different topics.

Last week we used our recently bad weather as inspiration for our poem.

Is all sand the same?

We've been looking at sand! We wanted to know if all sand was the same. We looked at sand samples from Piha, Blockhouse Bay, Big Bay and Port Waikato.

We discovered a few things! 

- sand can be different colours.

- some sand has little shells in it, like sand from Blockhouse Bay.

- some sand is rough to touch, like the sand from Blockhouse Bay and Piha.

- some sand feels soft, like the sand from Port Waikato.

- some sand is magnetic, like the sand from Port Waikato. We know that magnets stick to metal, so we think there must be metal in the sand from Port Waikato. 

We have layered all the sand samples in a jar...we wonder if we can separate the Port Waikato sample from the other sand using a magnet?

The Police Helicopter

The police helicopter came this morning (before morning tea). I felt cold. I saw the grass flying everywhere! I felt like I was going to fly away! I felt very excited and scared. The helicopter landed on the backfield as it was part of the emergency services unit we were learning about for health.  We got to ask some awesome questions to the police pilot. It was the most exciting day.

By Samuel