Maths: Measurement-Weight

WALT: We Are Learning To.....

Read scales to one tenth, add/sub/multiply basic weights to compare and solve problems.

Watch the following video clip to find out about weight.

Keeping Up With Kereru: Week 7

We have a pretty quiet week this week!
Monday: Visiting Author
                Library
Tuesday: Author Writing Workshop
                Music (middle block)
Wednesday: Extra sport session with Mrs McQuillan
Friday: Sport
            Homework Check
Remember to bring your PE gear each day.

Oreo Moon Phases!

On Monday we got into groups of three and used Oreo Cookies to make moon phases.
We used a knife, plate and 6 or 9 Oreo Cookies. We had to make Oreo cookies into the New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter and Waning Crescent and then again New Moon.
Waning means that the moon is getting smaller and Waxing means the moon is getting bigger.
The moon takes 27 days 7 hours and 43 minutes to finish its rotation.
After we had done the task we got to eat the Oreo cookies. Yum!
By Reuben

Healthy Teeth!

Wow what an amazing talk about teeth!
Last week Issac's mum Annemieke came to talk to us about teeth and how to take care of them. She talked to us about decay and what you need to get it teeth, bacteria and sugar.
She also talked to us about the bad things you can get and she told us how to prevent getting it.
Then she told us that you should not rinse our mouths out after we have brushed our teeth because it washes some of the fluoride out.
At the end of the talk we had to answer a little quiz. If we got it right we got a free tooth brush yay! Thank you Annemieke for teaching us about teeth.
By Sophie & Maisie

Keeping Up With Kereru: Week 6

What's Happening This Week?
Monday: Queen's Birthday Holiday
Wednesday: Inter-school Cross Country
Thursday: Reliever in Kereru
Friday: Reliever in Kereru
            Sport

Have a great week!

Year 5/6 Hockey Tournament

What a fantastic day we had today at the Year 5/6 Inter-school Hockey Tournament! We had six teams entered into the competition and all of the students played brilliantly. The support they gave each other and the team work was great to see. Our Year 6 girls team took out top honours by winning the final against Henley, which came down to nail biting penalty shoot out, and they brought home the trophy! The boys Year 6 team came very close to making the finals but just missed out on points. Huge thank you to the team managers who made sure the teams got to where they needed to be and supported their teams throughout the day!

Clay Workshop

On Tuesday Kereru class went to Founders park to do a clay workshop, with Esther from the Suter Art Gallery. First we looked around looking for patterns on the buildings. After that we got a piece of clay and shaped out our building then we engraved patterns on our house till we were happy with them.
Esther is going to fire them in the kiln and we should have them back for painting in a couple of weeks.
By Jordan and Sean

 

Cross Country

Last week on Friday we had cross country. We had 6 stations including running, 5-8 year old's ran 1K and 9-13 year olds ran 2K. Our favourite part was the snack and relax station and the running.
By Hannah and Evie P