Today we thought flexibly and persisted to do two mazes. One was hard and one was easy. We were learning about the Habits of Mind and how they help us to learn and be life long learners.

"It was a fun day" said Thomas O

"Thinking flexibly means things of different ways to solve a problem" said Baxter

"We had a fun day and it was so cool" said Delta

"I love using the Habits of mind, it is good learning for you" said Liam

"We had a good day and learnt lots of new things like persisting and thinking flexibly" said Seth

"We learnt that when you persist you learn new ways" said Cailin

 

 

 "Persistence means to not give up and try new ways" said Summer

"Thinking flexibly mean things about different ways to do something" said Xavier

 Mila doing the hard maze- Keaton

We don't give up in Totara class.

 

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Cross Country

On Thursday we had the school cross country. We have been practicing pacing and sprinting everyday. Project Energize helped us with our nutrition and learning about all the food that will help us to be the best runner on the day. We had heaps of fun on the day and are all winners for  making it over the finish line. Thank you to all the parents that supported us.

 

Spy Week Shhhhhhhh ! dont tell anyone

Today the strangest thing happened. We had a visit from a top secret spy who delivered a top secret folder to us. We left a video and instructions to complete a spy form. We made our spy characters and are now ready for our next clue.

Technology

Today we started out technology planning.

We split into pod groups and we were given our design brief.

"You need to design, make and create a board game for a family"

We are really excited!!!!

We will be learning to work with others and persist when things get hard.

THANK YOU Whanau for attending our science fair. The kids have  had so much fun with science and learnt a lot about mixing and melting. We used aurasma to enhance our posters with videos and we loved sharing them with you. Please feel free to pop in if you did not get a chance to come on Friday.

This week we are starting our new topic of technology. We will be using design thinking to meet a design brief in the next few weeks. This will challenge us to also was in collaboration with our peers. We will be needing some resources, if you have any shoe boxes, glad wrap rolls, wire hanging around that could be used for construction please send them to school for us to use.

Take a look at our Friday.

 Thank you for the awesome post it comments left. We loved reading all of them.

10! What a day. We had a visit from Ronald McDonald. He was so funny and we all laughed a lot. He lost his sock and had to find it but needed to cross dangerous roads. We learnt to Stop, Look, listen and be road safe.

                          Olivia was lucky enough to help Ronald find his sock, Well done Olivia.

Yesterday we made jelly worms come alive. So we made them alive and we put them on our hand they were slimy and they moved on my hand. - Written by Keaton and Olivia

"When we held the worms they were fizzing and moving more" Said Liam

 

Blake did some great inference during reading time- Well done Blake.