Christmas Chickens

Not for eating! We are really enjoying our 10 visitors! Look how sweet they are!

Catapult Creations

This afternoon as part of our Notion of Motion inquiry we designed catapults. Then we took them outside and measured their capabilities, modified them and tried again!

The Senior Team Farewells their Taonga...

On Thursday the Senior Team surprised Ms Ellis and held a farewell assembly in her honour. As you can imagine there were lots of tears but also smiles, hugs and laughter. Haere ra our precious taonga. We will all miss you but wish you all the very best for your new school.

Wa we!

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Thanks Buddy Class Rm M

A snuggle from a maori princess

Farewell e hoa

Lots of tears here

Adi wrote a specch

Ms Ellis sorting out her students

No hug? Yes hug!

Mr Cribb is a wonderful speaker

We love you Ms Ellis!

Staff Vs MSS1Demonstrating

MSS1 -2018

Ms Ellis in action

Demonstrating the rainbow?!

Mrs Bosher takes on Kymani

Alice is a Spring Chicken!?

Alice loves KFC, Lightning and Uenuku (and they love her!)

New Fad

Since we used the speed stacks for a challenge in Week 2's Whole School Assembly we have been enjoying creating towers with the cups.

Daily before school we are busy challenging our hand to eye co-ordination with amazing creations!

Check some out below!

Fonterra makes a big delivery!?

On Friday afternoon  a Fonterra truck and trailer made a special visit to our school to share information about our milk before it comes to us in cartons.

It was an interesting and informative visit and the Fonterra workers were wonderful. Thanks Fonterra! We love our Milk in Schools!

Feilding High School spreads some smooth grooves.

Today the school was treated to the Feilding High School band. It was great to see some ex Manchester students performing. There were a wide range of instruments and styles of music. Something to aspire to for many of our students.  

Numeracy Superstars!

Learning a new game during Numeracy.

Look at us busily practicing our multiplication.

Matariki Festival of Music?

Rm I have been practicing their rakau. When it is polished we will record a version!

Rm J Matariki Whetu

Who are the stars in the Senior Team? Rm J!
Check out their skills in the photos below. Mr Cribb has been training his class members to construct stars in a variety of materials. (Flax, paper and plastic).
They are going to teach us on Enviro Action Day this Friday.

An egg...the real deal!

KFC, our biggest hen, had been displaying some laying behaviour so we made sure we had fresh hay in their nesting boxes. Sure enough over the weekend when they had some peace clever KFC laid our first MSS bantam egg. Check it out below. 

Ms Ellis hen egg on the left and KFC bantam egg on the right

Are the chickens finally earning their keep?

Guess what we found today in the chickens nesting bag...

Hmm, seems very big for a bantam? Also it was cold like it had been in the fridge...

We, in Rm I, think that mischievous Maui (AKA Ms Ellis) is foxing us.

But we loved it!

Jigging with Thornton

Thornton talked us through fishing for trout in NZ waterways. We found they must be 35+cm to be legal. Thornton and his Dad fish off a boat. With jigging you carefully drop the line in the water, you don't swing it back and cast it out. The most fish Thornton has caught is 7 in one trip.

Rm I were very interested and had many questions that Thornton answered well.

Triad Learning

Each week we work together in our triad (group of 3) to complete Seesaw activities. This week because of illness we have had to mix up some of our groups.

Here we are trying to label and identify all the parts of the Food Pyramid.

Lightning has some ideas for this lucky group

Haylee Teaches the Teacher

Today Haylee played a word game with Rm I. They had to create the template then find as many words as they could. Everyone enjoyed the challenge.

Mac's Spooky Halloween Jokes...

Mac has been busy entertaining the class with his jokes:

Mrs Palmer is so efficient she was posting Mac's Teach the Teacher as he did it!

What do you call a fat Jack-o -lantern?

A plumpkin

What do bats need after a shower?

A batmat

What time is it when a ghost comes to dinner?

Time to go...

What do little witches hope to get for their birthday?

A haunted dolls house!

What do ghosts eat for dessert?

Ice scream and booberries

Book Week- Friday

Dress up as a book character and we did!

Food for Thought

Nova has visited the Senior Team classes twice during this week to educate us about nutrition in food and best choices. 

She shared some startling facts:
* NZ children are the second unhealthiest in the world, NZ adults the third. 
* In 20 years it is estimated in NZ 50% of the adult population will have Type 2 diabetes.
* Type 2 diabetes are preventable. This condition is caused by poor eating habits and lack of fitness
We were pretty shocked by this information and were keen to learn more about nutrition. We are now confident with the food pyramid and what our bodies need to be healthy.
Her visits culminated in a class trip to New World. (Thank you to New World and the parents who accompanied us on our excursion).

Fun Seuss Song about Angles

Seuss like angle song that is fun!