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

Thud! Thud! Thud!

“Quick! Let’s go! The helicopter is coming!” Miss Hall said excitedly. Room 25 quickly made a line and rushed outside to join the crowed.

Far in the distance we heard a faint thud sound, which grew louder and louder. We saw the helicopter coming closer and closer. Before we knew it, the helicopter was hovering above our heads.

The helicopter slowly came down and landed on New Windsor School’s back field. The New Windsor School students all cheered in excitement.

Room 25 joined up with their buddy class, Room 24, and together we walked around the police helicopter. We asked some really important questions. Muket asked one of the pilots “how do you catch the criminals when you’re flying the helicopter?” The pilot said “we radio the police car and tell them where the criminals are, and we wait for them to arrive to take the criminals away.”

The police helicopter visited our school today as part of our health unit on emergency services.

Just before morning tea we waved goodbye to the police helicopter as they flew off to catch some criminals.

By Darius, Thai, Muket and Miss Hall

Thud! Thud! Thud!

On Thursday morning at New Windsor School Room 25 excitedly and quickly rushed onto the field to see the police helicopter and the police pilots. It was health week and it was going to be the best week ever because of all the emergency services that were visiting us. It was so fun watching the helicopter land and take off.

By Alex

The Shiny Blue Police Helicopter

At New Windsor School something exciting happened…the police helicopter and police officers came to visit us. All this excitement happened before Thursday morning tea. We were inside and heard a whirring sound. Then Miss Hall said “quick! Let’s make two lines!” Then we went outside and when the police helicopter landed everyone was cheering. The reason why they visited us was because it was health week and it was part of our health unit on emergency services. When it was hovering above New Windsor School, there was lots of noise and then we waited to ask the police officers questions with our Room 24 buddies. Then finally it was our turn to ask the police helicopter pilots questions. We went around the helicopter asking police officers questions. Then they were checking to see if it was safe for the helicopter to fly again and then they flew away. We said “good bye!”

By Joseph