The Brain

Kia Ora Whanau, 
This term we have been learning about 'The Brain'. Today, we decided to plan our ideas with words to help us write sentences about the brain.
Check out some of our writing. 

The brain needs water. Wrinkly. The brain is soft. Written by Teeraa

A helmet protects the brain. The brain is soft.
Written by Dalcee

My brain is soft and wrinkly. It works all the time. Written by Evelynn

The brain is soft and the brain is wrinkly. The brain is in charge of our body. My brain has 2 sides.
Written by Nico

My brain is part of the central nervous system. My brain has two sides and it even has a left and a right side.
Written by Tuakoi

The brain controls our balance. It helps us to think. Exercise and sleep help our brain.
Written by Isaiah

My soft brain helps me to think. The brain has a left and a right side.
Written by Chrisander

The brain is soft and wrinkly.
Written by Juwayne

The brain has a left side and a right side. My brain is inside the body. The brain works all the time. The helmet protects the brain.
Written by Joshan

The brain has 2 sides, the left and right. A helmet protects the brain. It controls our balance.
Written by Mahina

Swimming - Learning to use the Flutter Board

Greetings family and friends,
For swimming today the Courageous Cubs and Incredible Two's learnt how to use the Flutter Board. We have become really confident in the water. We challenged ourselves at the end of the lesson by gliding without using a flutterboard. Our teacher kept reminding us that it wasn't a race. We were all focused today and we think that we have improved since our last lesson. What do you think? 

Thank you parents for allowing your child to participate. Our next swimming day is on Friday. We can't wait!

Here are some photos and videos of our learning today. 

Room 3 and 4 getting ready to go swimming

Girls

Carmen, Mahina, Dalcee and Sammi

Boys

Kenzo

Girls

Juwayne persevering

Juwayne feeling more confident with himself

Juwayne coming up for air

Kenzo showing the class how it's done

Chrisander giving it a go!

Nico practising how to hold the flutter board

Mahina showing the girls how to do it

Carmen feeling happy with what she can do

Look at us go!

Courageous Cubs and Incredible Two swimmers

Boys first attempt at swimming with a flutterboard

Girls swimming with a flutterboard

Class swimming with a flutterboard

Challenged ourselves to swim without a flutterboard

Swimming without a flutterboard

Mathletics and Reading Eggs

Talofa Lava, 
This week we used the Chrome Books for Mathletics and Reading Eggs. Alot of us still need to practise how to log in. Your child has their log in details at the front of their notebook. 

Congratulations to Nico Start for achieving 100% in the Map 1 Reading Eggs Quiz.
Parents, please encourage your child to log into Mathletics and Reading Eggs at home. 

Check out some of our photos using the Chrome Books.

Welcome to 2017

Kia Orana family and friends

Our branding name is "Incredible 2" our teachers name is "Miss Manuele". As a class, we want to make sure that we come to school every day. We have agreed that we will always come to school with a positive attitude and that we will have a "give it a go" attitude. 

Parents, please make sure that your child is at school everyday. We are a healthy eating school so please make sure that your child is brining healthy food every day. We have homework every day which includes reading, learning how to write  letters, say their sounds and write some words (Essential List in their homework book). Your child brings home a book bag every day and they will read 2 different books a week. Your child will bring a poem book home on a Friday. Please parents, help your child with their homework.

If you have any questions about your child's learning please come and see the classroom teacher. 

Together we can support each other. Together we can learn!

Feeding the Pigs and Chicken

Talofa Lava
In week 2 our class got to feed and look after our pigs and chickens. We have 2 pigs - Percy and Hettie and 2 chickens.
When we were feeding our animals we found a beetroot and passion fruits growing in our garden. We have never seen a beetroot or a passionfruit before so we were really excited. Whaea Lena told us we could pick the fruits to eat. We didn't want to try the beetroot because it looked funny but we wanted to eat the passionfruit. Miss Manuele had to show us how to eat it. 

Here are some photos of our adventure.

Mahina holding the beetroot.

Going to feed the Pigs.

Getting ready to go in to feed the chickens.

Checking out where the chickens live.

Checking out where the Pigs live.

Yummy passionfruit!

Kenzo picking up the
passionfruit from the ground.

These are the passionfruit's that we found.