Terra Nova

Room 9 have been working hard on their Terra Nova projects.  This week we were looking into gravity.  What is gravity? Why do we need gravity? Where does gravity come from? How much would we weigh on a planet that has less gravity...... just a few examples of the questions that we are looking to answer.

Mr Hyde - Terra Nova

Today Te Tipunga team had Mr Hyde visit and share his knowledge about the Solar System. He put together a wiki for us and then showed us around some of the fascinating things about our space.
We discovered that gravity is an important feature on earth, that our sun is a star that is rather unique as we are the only solar system that has one sun star.  We also learnt a little about travelling at the speed of light and that space exploration to other plants could take up to 20 years!

mrhydespace.wikispace.com

Everyone was buzzing with curiosity and a host of new questions.  We will look forward to discovering the answers to these wonderings.
Thanks Mr Hyde

Singing with Mr Ritai

Over the past two weeks Room 9 have been learning a new waiata - A Haka Ma.  On Thursday we invited Mr Ritai to join us to sing with us, he bought along his guitar and we had a lovely time sharing our skills.  We recorded ourselves and made it into a powerpoint which we have shared it with the rest of the school so they can join us when we sing in assembly this Friday.

Singing A haka ma as a round.

Getting Crafty for the Carnival!

Room 9 have already begun getting their Carnival Craft organised.  Thank you to our parent helpers Phillippa and Kim who ensured that the scoll rollers and paper macheers were well underway.  It is exciting to see our 'rubbish' being transformed into something function-able to sell to you next term.  We will keep you posted on our progress :)

Mercy and Aliya busy with paper and plastic.

Ben is busy writing.

Lola is weaving plastic bags.

Congratulations Cricketers!

The boys sharing their day & trophy.

Coby, Luca and Noah had an exciting day on Thursday as their team was involved in a cricket tournament.  The boys brought home a trophy as well as some new skills which they enjoyed sharing with us when they returned. Congratulations boys it sounded like a fantastic day!

A new games called 'Freeze!'

Amazing!

The finished bag

Jenny sharing her bag with us

As you may have guessed we have been looking at ways to reduce, reuse and recycle our rubbish.  Jenny also caught the bug! Here she is sharing her AMAZING bag that she made entirely from used shopping bags.  To crochet her bag it took Jenny around 54 bags and about 40 hours to do.  We are all very proud of Jenny and what she was able to do with plastic bags! Ka pai.

Basket Weaving

The basket was quite complicated and it was hard weaving it at the start because it didn;t have any weaving on it.  When I got use to it, it got easier as I went.
Kaed

My basket was fun going over, under, over, under.  I am trying to do my best, it was easy and the best thing ever was making the weaving. 
Nathan

Today around 9:45 am I finished my basket.  It took a long time to make it because we had to weave and weave and weave.  Luca and I worked really nicely because we never fought.  First we had to make the poles then it was time to weave.  In my head I thought it was going to be really tough and hard but it ended up being really easy.
Noah C

I made my basket in 3 days.  Looking at the video it looked easy but it was hard.  Mine looks like a crab pot.  Thanks to Mrs Wilkinson and Mum - otherwise I would still be making my basket now.
Jack G

On Friday Room 9 made some baskets.  We made them out of rolled up pieces of newspaper.  It was really complicated when we started to weave.  First we got a kebab stick, second we got a piece of newspaper.  Thirdly we rolled the newspaper up then cut two cardboard circles and started to weave over, under, over, under and it started to get bigger and bigger.
Aliya

I liked making the basket but it was frustrating because I didn't realise that I only had eight scrolls for the base so it wouldn't weave properly.  I would change how thick my scrolls were and to try and make it less wonky.
Shanelle