Kapa Haka rakau

Today we learned some new actions with the rakau. It was interesting to learn how to work as a team and make our movements clean. 

Wheels day!

Despite the weather we have managed to have our termly fun day! There were all kinds of wheels at school today. 

Class dojo - 50 points!

This week we had our first three children reach 50 points on class dojo. We are all so proud of them! They received a wrist band to take home & a star to decorate their avatar! 

Goldberg Machines

Last week after much planning and consideration, we made our Goldberg Machines.  A Goldberg Machine is a series of actions, that perform a simple task. We had to use so many skills for example - imagination and prediction! We had to check, experiment and retest. Once we had a simple set of one action, we then extended it by working backwards. Here are a few of our finished results. If you wanted to have fun in your school holidays and really use your mind, these are great fun and very challenging!

Create and Make!

We had an amazing time a few weeks ago, creating recipes for our own muesli bars. We then used our recipes to make our own.

After we had made them, we designed and produced packaging for our product.

Using our recipe to combine our ingredients

adding our ingredients to the baking tray

Getting ready to put our creations in the oven

The wet ingredients before we heated them

heating the wet ingredients

The finished product

our packaged products

Hurray! we did it! Our completed product - natural ingredients, turned into a man-made product. 

Hutt indoor sports

Today the junior syndicate is participating in a trip to hutt indoor sports centre. We have had a turn at soccer, cricket, ultimate tag & scatter-ball.

Making Sherbet

Today we were scientists! We explored what happened when we mixed chemicals together and then added water.

Here is the recipe to make sherbet so you can try it at home:

1/2 tsp of citric acid
1 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 flavouring (we used raro)

Mix it altogether!
Eat it!


We found out that mixing together the baking soda and the citric acid produced a reaction. That reaction created gas - the bubbles that we could feel on our tongues.