S is for symmetry

  

Can you work out what we have been learning all about in Maths this week?  We'll give you a clue. It starts with S...... it's symmetry!

We had fun learning about symmetry in lots of different ways. Our favourite ways were decorating biscuits, getting arty and going on a symmetry hunt around the school with the IPads.  

  

We also talked about rotation, reflection and translation. Check out this song we used to help us remember these words.

As it was the last week of term we also performed plays.  Here is Lily as a native NZ bird up in her tree

Our week!

Highlights from our week

This week in Maths we have been learning about maps and directions.  As part of this we drew maps of our classroom and then wrote instructions to find some treasure.  I wonder what our treasure was?

In reading we continued reading instructions.  Each reading group then on Thursday got to get creative and follow the instructions.  Two groups made special rotating Keep out Signs for their bedrooms, another group made Wrist wrappers and the last group had the difficult task of breading friendship bracelets.

We also carried on working on our masks this week for the mask parade. We got all sparkly adding the glitter to our lollypops!

 

Crafty and Creative

We've had a week of being crafty and creative.

As part of literacy we have been both reading and writing instructions.  Here is one group of students getting creative following instructions to make rocking cards.

In ICT we had lots of fun creating our own animations using Lego Movie Maker.

We also stated making our masks for the annual Nelson Masked Parade.  Our school wide theme is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and our syndicate are making lollypop masks.

We weren't just crafty and creative this week however.  On Wednesday we enjoyed another session with George from Nelson Soccer and our second gymnastics session.

Sweet Treats

We've had a week of sweet treats this week.

On Monday we got to drink our lemonade that we made the week before as part of our inquiry topic.  It had turned slightly fizzy due to the yeast in it.  Some of us thought it smelt a bit like bread and some of us even thought it smelt like beer!

On Wednesday we we made sherbet.  Some of us found that our mixture foamed a lot when we put it in our mouth! We have also been learning to write instructions in writing so can you guess what we wrote instructions for?

On Thursday we had fun melting chocolate and making interesting shaped chocolate molds.  We decided that making the chocolate molds is a reversible change.  

After a couple of weeks of making lots of different things we began evaluating what product would be good to make and sell at a Kahikatea Market Day next term.  What will we sell? What this space!

We wrapped up our week with a special visit from the story teller Roger Saunders.  He kept us entertained with his stories using a range of musical instruments.

This week we also finished off publishing our stories using Little Bird Tales.  Check out Sylvie and Amaya's high quality stories below.

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