A Bee-Bot Maths Game

Fergus + Harrison Maths Game from Shotover Primary School on Vimeo.

Zebra's Lego writing

This week we have collaborated and built wonderful creations with lego which we have then written about.

Neo and Sam - We built a haunted house together It had a skeleton and a guardian. In the trap there was a wizard who was killing a person.
Libby and Tim - We made a trap house. Me and Tim collaborated. We made a dumpster that is a special way to empty the rubbish to get in to it. It was fun and a rubbish dump we made with lego.
Finn and Danika - We made a secret garden. The secret garden can shoot fire. The garden has little pots that spray.
Finn and Hunter - We made a bungy jump. You can jump into the water.
Dom and Bella M - We made a kingdom. It has a trap and a jail and tools.
Tianyou and Alfie - We made a skeleton castle. We made a zoo and our zoo looks cool because we made it.
Dillon and Olivia - Today we made a building shop. It has a car to go with it. We tried our best. We collaborated.
Audrey and Felix - We designed a village with a double layer. It has a river and a bridge and we have a car. It has a really tall mailbox and a person. We designed a space catcher and we worked together. It can shoot bullets and it can fly.
James and Reece - We made a skate park truck and bikes can go on it and scooters can go on it.
Harrison and Fergus - We collaborated and we made a flying car with lego.

Bee-Bots

Bee-Bots from Shotover Primary School on Vimeo.

Watercolour Madness!

We tried a new medium today - watercolour! We used watercolour paints and watercolour pencils. We also got to spray our art to make it run - check out what the colours do in the timelapse at the end of the video.

Caption This!

We created spring paintings using paint and then we wrote captions. Look at our growth mindsets at writing time.

My House, My Castle

In writing we are using our study of homes to look back a few centuries at castles. Miss Eve showed us real castles she's been to such as Edinburgh Castle in Scotland and the Hohensalzburg fortress in Austria. Some of us have been to a real castle - Lanarch Castle in Dunedin. Hunter C went to a castle in Australia that had real jewels. We explored the parts of a castle, photos of real castles and even used a 'how to' video on YouTube to get ideas for how to draw our castles. We're going to use our castles to do some writing this week.

"Castles normally have rocks and wood. And also castles have flags, drawbridges and windows." - Tom

"A castle is a safe place where you can hide from people." - Felix

"My castle has a drawbridge, walls and a roof." - Benji

"Castles can have bricks and stones." - James

"Some castles have flags." - Lily

"They have walls and rooves." - Ashton

"Castles have really good hiding places. The enemies can fall into the moat." - Luka 

"Castles have canons and drawbridges. They pull them up and down for people to come and fight." - George 

"Castles have flags on the top of the roof." - Hunter C

The Book Nook

We have a new Book Nook in Kimi Akau. It is a place we can go to read quietly on our own. 

Who were the ANZACs?

We've activated our curiosity about who the ANZACs were. We learned that they were the New Zealand and Australian soldiers, nurses and all those involved in the wars many years ago. Some of us knew that 100 years ago (1915) there was a big war. We wear poppies to remember our special people who were there.

We were so lucky to have a visit from Alex and Oliver in Skippers. Alex showed us a uniform from his great grandfather who flew in the airforce. Felix was lucky enough to try it on. He practiced his salute. We remember how special it was to be a serviceman or woman during the war.

Lest We Forget.

Kimi Akau Collaborate

We are learning about Kimi Akau and what it means. We did some collaborative art about Kimi Akau...the Shotover River!