YMCA

YMCA is very exciting as we are learning volleyball!

We have learnt how to serve, spike, pass and play together as teams.

Every week we are learning new things on how to play volleyball and hopefully by the time we’ve finished we’ll all be pro’s!

Thank you to the YMCA leaders for all their hard work!

 

 

Incredible I's ENVIRO DAY photostory!

Enviro Action Day

Enviro Action Day

What an AWESOME day we had as a class for Enviro Action Day.

This term, Term Two, Enviro Action Day was all about birds!

We got to make a bird sculpture, kiwifruit food, play Kiwi Sports with a focus on recycling, as a whole team, (run by the Enviro Kids) and we got to work in the garden during the day.

It was busy, but rewarding and fun day with smiles all around.

Come along to our whole school assembly next week to see more photos of the activities we enjoyed doing and some of the fun we had!

Art Workshop

We were very lucky to have an art lesson/ workshop with a very talented artist. She came into our school and worked with all age groups within the school.

As the Senior Team have been focusing on studying New Zealand wetlands we focused on drawing Shag (the bird). It was great to go through a set of steps that everyone in the team (110 children) could follow and do in the right order.

The children really had to use their listening and following directions/instruction skills in order to complete a successful drawing, which many were able to do.

The teachers will be continuing to use the skills and techniques taught in their own classrooms and finish completing the artworks.

Come on in and see them, they are just STUNNING!

Here are some photos of the afternoon’s session and images of the children working in such a large group to complete such amazing drawings.

Wet Feet Update

Wet Feet Update

Today we were discovering new information on Wetlands. We were finding out what kinds of living things are found in Wetlands, such as which bugs, insects and animals. We also were finding out what threats there are to Wetlands and the creatures living in them.

We were in groups of four or five and everyone had a part to play e.g. they may have been the collector or the scribe.

Here is our group’s new information….

Kaylen

WET FEET

WET FEET

Our Inquiry unit for term 2 is called Wet Feet. It is a study and focus on New Zealand Wetlands.

We have started brainstorming what we ‘think’ we know about New Zealand Wetlands and also created a question each that we want to answer over the 10 week unit.

Our first brainstorm...

Brainstorm One…

Water             Eeels               skinks       Africa       moss      NZ

Geckos                  Land               deeper ponds seals      rainforests

Birds                     Hill valleys          logs           dogs          crocodiles

Pukekos         ditches            slips           nets           cats     

Takahe           frogs               some amphibians       rivers

Grey Herons        man made holes       fish      swamps      turtles

Long grass           puddles          mammal’s           streams    snakes

Trees                     toads              cold blooded animals/ reptiles

Plants lily pads         when flooded some wetlands appear

Geese                    flax bushes          rain           stormy weather

Paradise ducks         mud    tui       fantails     native plants/ bird

Endangered species        insects      dry up in drought      larvae

Dragonflys     sunsets      algae        bugs    spiders      habitats  

 

It was great to see what the children already know so we can now build new knowledge from finding out new information to gain a better understanding of New Zealand Wetlands.

Here is our display so far J

 

Bike Out!

Yesterday, the 10^th of April, was a WONDERFUL DAY!

Incredible I, and the Senior Team, biked as a group From Manchester Street School to Timona Park, in Feilding.

It was a great BUT challenging ride to the park. We were VERY LUCKY to have the police come and escort us and stop the traffic as we rode on the main roads.

During our time at the park we all competed in a range of activities.

The 5 activities were:

Endurance- which involved us riding around a 0.7km track as many times as possible in 30 minutes (some children got up to 11 laps!- That’s 7.7km!).

Figure 8- which was the children biking around a figure 8 shape and having to avoid bumping into others and staying on course.

The Obstacle course- which was a bike route that had a range of different obstacles for the children to ride through. Some of these obstacles were zig zaging around the cones, stopping at signs and intersections etc.

The BMX track- This was a big hit with the children. They all loved going as fast as they could to get the fastest time, which meant they could go in the finals.

Relays- The children formed groups and had races to see who could complete a range of relays with the fastest times.

Here are some photos of the day…

It was such an AMAZING day. We all had so much fun. We know we worked hard because we all felt so exhausted by the end of the day!