The Impossible Bridge: Hampstead Edition

This week the Dolphins reading group read a story called 'The Impossible Bridge' during guided reading.

The teacher in the book got the children to build all kinds of bridges: beam bridges, arch bridges and suspension bridges.

Then they were to make a bridge using just cardboard... they said it was impossible! Miss Brown was a bit easier on us and we got to make it out of cardboard, tape, straws and things around the classroom.

Have a look below to see the bridges the dolphins reading groups made... 

Cooper, Alizah & Jorja's Bridge 

Milla & Poppie's Bridge 

Ma is white, Whero is Red...

This term we are learning the colours in Maori, we know heaps now and are getting much better at naming them without having to sing the song! 

Today we had a treasure hunt to find things around our room that were different colours... 

We had to find something that was: kakariki, whero, kowhai, karaka, poroporo, mawhero and mangu/pongo. We did really well! 

Below are the photos of what we found...

Ihaka, Milla and Indi with their treasure

What have Ashley and Cooper found?? 

Maria, Jorja, Harrison, Josh & Rereahu look super organised! 

 

Fruit, Glorious Fruit!!!

Last week we were super lucky because we got some yummy free fruit to eat! We got to choose between mandarins and apples and they were really yummy. 

So as Miss Brown read us a story we munched away on our fruit, here's a photo of us enjoying it... 

Thanks for the fruit!! It was so yummy!!

Cross Country 2014

Earlier this term we completed our school cross country. It was a lovely sunny day but after many days of run the field had turned REALLY muddy! 

We all managed to run it without getting too dirty... Our Mum's and Dad's were pretty happy about that!!! 

We got to run with our buddy class, Room 9! Check out some of our photos from the day below...

Room 6 lined up waiting to be called to run... 

Ready... Set... 

Go!!! And they're off! 

Go Room 6 and Room 9! 

Zayla jumping over the mud! 

Keep running guys!! 

Tuku from Room 9... A bit muddier than when he left! 

Student Council 2014

That time of year has rolled around again! We had to nominate someone from our class to be our student council representative.

As a class we came up with a list of things that we thought a student council member should have or be, here are some of our ideas...

• Kind and caring
• Honest
• Considerate
• Listens to others
• Has good ideas
• Is responsible
• Shares with others

And many more! We all voted and our class decided that...

Milla should be our student council representative! 

 Well done Milla, you deserve it and have been doing a great job so far!

Student of the Week!

This week we celebrate Maria for being Student of the Week! 

She is always kind and caring, always has something nice to say and tries her hardest when she is learning. 

Well done Maria! Enjoy all your treats :) 

Strike Percussion

During the last week of Term 1 we had an amazing performance by Strike Percussion. They had heaps of different drums and other percussion instruments.

It was really strange because they were all called Tom! But luckily they had nicknames so we could tell them apart.

They did heaps of awesome songs and even got some of the teachers and students to come and help them perform.

The end was SO cool because they turned off all the lights, lit some fire sticks and blew methylated spirits onto them with spray bottles and performed a song with those… Awesome!!! 

The teacher battle off with Miss Park & Miss Dobbin

The 3 Tom's performing a song

Fire song!