Cricket Wellington Visit

Two members from  Cricket Wellington came to school today to teach us some skills and let us  have a go at nonstop cricket. It was hot in the sun but fun. The best part was getting a prize pack at the end!

To Homework or Not ?

This week for homework, students wrote an argument supporting homework or not. Charlotte argued very strongly for no homework and it became a heated debate.
Evie gathered supporters for her "yes to homework group".

Everyone stated very valid reasons for their point of view.  

What do you think?

i Pad Day !

Lucky us as we were able to use the ipads all day today. First we spent time exploring the programmes and sharing ideas with the class and then it was time for maths. Luckily Room 7 students knew which were the good apps to try.

  During the day we made a sock puppet movie that presented information about water. One puppet asked a question and the other puppet answered the question. The pairs shared with other pairs and then the class. That was fun as there were lots of different things to choose from to make the movie different from other groups.

 After lunch we made an i-mation movie. We wrote a book title letter by letter or word by word!! Considering it was our first time everyone was amazing. Just about all the groups got finished. We can't wait for next week to have another go. Look at the movie below to see an example.

Athletics

On Monday we participated in the Y3 to 8 athletics . We have trained for the whole term so were confident we would all have fun and do well.

Room 8 won the Y4  class relay !!!!

Water Park Homework

Last week for homework students designed a water park that both adults and children could use. What imaginations Room 8 students had.Take a look. Everyone explained their designs to the class very well.

All the water in the World .

Yesterday we experienced how little useable water there is in the world.
All the water in the world can be represented by  20 litres or 2 buckets .

The only fresh water found in ice, snow , rivers, lakes clouds soils and rock is represented by 2 mugs from the bucket. One and a half mugs of the water is found deep under the ground or in  the Antarctic or Arctic circle and we can't easily reach it.

All the rest of the water left in the buckets is salty. 

3 teaspoons of water from the mug is the only freshwater we can easily reach ! That's not much!

This has made us think very carefully about the way we use water.We didn't waste the water and used it to water the plants in  our garden .

Term 4

We are back for another exciting term. This term we are learning about Water. Who needs it, where it comes from and what we can do to save water .Sounds like fun!
For maths we are revising number and things we have covered this year. Our writing is persuasive or argument writing. We have covered a little in Term 2 so we will be revising and expanding our ideas to get better.
For PE and sport we have Athletics and swimming.
The best thing of all is that Muritai now has 32 ipads!!! We get to have a lot of  time trying them out and improving our skills.

Goodbye Theo

The last day of term 3 was Theo's last day at Muritai. He is moving to Tauranga with his family. We will miss his cheeky smile and his cheerfulness. Theo was a great helper in class and loved being responsible. Theo would always help other people and look after them. Hamish baked a lovely farewell cake for Theo as his homework task. It was yummy.

Take care Theo and keep in touch!

More Homework.

We had wonderful homework to share this week. Ilya made a boat, Sophia an animal kit that was attracted to light and Oscar a model of Homer Simpson.  Daan and Fergus made an amazing go cart. Amazing! Look at all the different types of things that people did for their "Choose your own Homework."

We also had lots of lovely baking and we loved that a lot!!

A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum...

We had a busy last week of term with the Mini Olympics, a greek dress up afternoon and a farewell for Theo and Flora.

As you can see everyone loved dressing up and looking gorgeous in their Greek robes. They ate Greek style food and had lots of fun to celebrate the end of their Greek study.