Friday 27 February 2015

Avatar - Poppy and Charlotte

Poppy's avatar:
My avatar it is a mini me. It has a cat, nice flowers and really pretty earrings.











Charlotte's avatar:                                                    
An avatar is a mini person. it has a cat, flowers and a nice background.                                                            

Wednesday 25 February 2015

Avatar - William

This is my avatar.

I like fizzy drink so I put me holding some. Just so you now I don't surf but I'd like to lean.


Avatar - Holly & Kelsey


This is Kelsey's avatar. She looks like a freak of a sea monster.




This is Holly's avatar. She looks like a freaky monster.

Avatar - Max W & Todd

This is Todd's avatar. We both like skateboards and dogs. Max  has made his avatar this week and put it up for you to see. 





Avatar - Ben & Taylor


An avatar is a mini person. My avatar has fizzy,  a lollypop, a surf board and bubblegum.
Ben will put his avatar on later.

Avatar - Ella & Joseph

Hi my name is Ella and my buddy is Joseph. This is my avatar. Joseph will add his later.          

Avatar - Tegan & Darcie


This is an avatar of Tegan. Darcie is still making hers. We will put it up soon.

Tuesday 24 February 2015

Monday 23 February 2015

Mascot - Spec out with Holly

Holly and her friends having a picnic at the Groynes Dog Park with Speck.


Extreme Reading - Holly

Check out where Holly is doing her extreme reading. Check out her Dr Who Tardis!


Home Learning: extreme egg eating challenge

Check out Brigid's different way of eating a Cadbury's Creme Egg. You might need someone to help you too if you try it with chop sticks! That is a very slippery little egg!


Friday 20 February 2015

Mascot - at Molly's house

Look who we found asleep in Molly's bedroom!


Beach Ed Trip - Max & William


The crashing waves at Waimari Beach thundered, crashed and drenched us.

Our sandcastles were skyscrapers touching the floating clouds.

Stinging blue jellyfish waited quietly in the sand ready to sting like a knife.

Children in a line fighting the waves to 'high-five' parents.

We really enjoyed our beach trip.

By Max W and William Year 3

Thursday 19 February 2015

Mascots - Donkey's night out!

Donkey had to put ear-plugs in the other night and was very sleepy in the morning because he had been to the Foo Fighters concert. Check out the photo below!

Good morning Mrs Taylor,
Here is a picture of donkey, me and my foo fighters ticket.
Some of my favourite things.....
From
Max


Home Learning - Extreme egg eating challenge

Daniel has made a movie of how he would eat his Cadbury's Creme Egg. Look - he even cleaned up his mess!

I wonder how you eat yours!


Well done on the home learning challenge Daniel - come and check it off on the class list!

We will have popcorn and a special viewing next Friday!

Beach Ed - what fun!

On Wednesday we had our Beach Ed sessions. We will write a comment to tell you what we learned!
Here are some of the great photos of our day.

 Beach Education on PhotoPeach

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Maths - collecting data

On Friday we gathered information or data about ourselves and put it on a sheet. We measured our hand span, height, weight, eye colour, number of pets, siblings and bedrooms.


We are going to be usig this information to make lots of different graphs.











Sunday 15 February 2015

Extreme Reading - Charlotte

Charlotte must have been very busy over the weekend. It looks like she has flown to Africa to do her extreme reading!

Home Learning: Sjaak's Giant Cake


On Sunday I made an awesome cake! It was three layers high! I made it because I like cake and Ive never made a three layer high cake. I also wanted the cake to eat my class....I mean the class to eat my cake.




I learnt how to crack eggs properly, how to cut the cake into shapes and how to sprinkle the chocolate hail and 100s and 1000s. I also learnt that it was harder to ice cake that had been cut. The problems I had were running out of cocoa for the icing and the icing was hard to spread

because it was too thick (but it actually tasted really nice).

My favourite part was testing to see if the cake was ready because it wasnt ready and the knife came out gooey and yummy.


The ingredients in my cake were: self raising flour
cocoa
butter

vanilla essence sugar
eggs
water.


Some people may not be able to eat my cake (which is a bit annoying for them) so I thought I could give them a candy cane instead. 


Wednesday 11 February 2015

Stride Triathlon

Check us all out working hard at being A+ adventurous at the school triathlon.


Stride Triathlon on PhotoPeach
 

Jelly Baby Team Challenge

Today we had a challenge. It was to build the tallest tower using 5 jelly babies, 10 pieces of spaghetti and 30cm of scellotape. Allana was looking very carefully at our team skills and we identified a few things that we want to work on.



Jelly Baby Challenge on PhotoPeach

Extreme Readng - Zoë

Check out where Zoë likes to read. I wonder if there are a few apples up there for her to nibble on as she reads her book!


Extreme Reading - Max D

Wow - can you see him. Max gets up to the most amazing reading.

You will have to ask him about what he's in. It is called a mobile start. Ask him what it does!

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Bob the Bookman!

Bob the book reviewer can to tell us about some of his favourite books. They are in the show below so you can remember which ones to search out in the library.


Bob the Bookman! on PhotoPeach 



Check out Allana's blog Leap into Books for more book reviews.





Monday 9 February 2015

Extreme Reading with Tegan

What has Tegan been up to? She has been reading in strange places. No wonder she is finishing so many books!

Wonkey Donkey visits Kelsey

Wonkey went on a great trip with Kelsey over the long weekend. We will have to get her to tell us about it.

Thursday 5 February 2015

A class full of Wild Readers!

We are Wild Readers in Waka Stride.
We all have 2+ books ready to take home and some of us have already finished two!

Wild readers find any spare moment to read. That is called 'Edge Reading'.

They read inside.
They read in the car.
They read in the wild.

Wild Readers on PhotoPeach
 

Monday 2 February 2015

Home Learning Challenge

Check it out!
Our Home Learning this term is really cool. Select one of the activities from below or make up your own super amazing project.

Some of the challenges have a competition or movie viewing date to make sure you are ready.

Creme Egg Movie Viewing - Friday 27th Feb
The Great Boat Race - Friday 20th March
All home Learning Challenges due by - Friday 20th March


Click on the image for a bigger view.







How do you eat your Cadbury's Creme Egg?
 Here is a little inspiration on eating your Creme Egg from Maya. 
How creative can you get?

Sunday 1 February 2015

First Day of School!

Check out how Nimo was feeling about his first day at school.


What are you excited about?

What makes you a bit worried?

What do you want to learn this year?