Balloon Rockets

Balloon Rockets

Week 7: Stem Challenge:

The challenge for the week was to create a balloon rocket using straw, tape and a balloon. We had to create a line for our balloon to travel along. We could put our line anywhere in the class - as long as we were safe and cleaned up our mess.

                       

                   

          

This is what we found out...

 

Marshmallow Towers

Marshmallow Towers

STEM CHALLENGE Week 6:

Today our challenge was to build the tallest tower out of marshmallows and straws. At first the children were excited, but after a while they found the challenge wasn't as easy as they had thought!

                                       

                         

 

This is what some of our students discovered....

                                                                                    

                      

STEM Challenges:

 Room 2 has been completing different STEM challenges as part of our Topic Study. The children can tell you what STEM stands for as well. We started our new learning off with a whanau fun day, where our families came to school and completed various challenges.

                        

 

Last week the students in Room 2 had to build the strongest tower out of plastic cups and wooden blocks. We had 10 minutes to plan and build our towers. 

 

We had to work together as a team. Miss Poi wanted to test to tower the towers by throwing manaaki balls at them We thought this was a great idea - but decided to bust them ourselves. 

                           

Destroying the towers!

                      

The winner:

The strongest tower designed by the boys: Gallace, Kauri and Brooklyn. 

100% attendance

        100% attendance 

Today all 16 children from Room 2 were at school and on time! It is the first time, this term (and it is week 9), that every child in the class has been on the mat when Miss Poi has called the roll. She was so happy!
One of our manaaki goals is to achieve 100% attendance. If we achieve this, then we get an extra 10 minutes play during interval.
We also talked about, and recorded our ideas on "why it is important to come to school everyday".

Miss Poi was so happy that everyone was at school on time, so we took a photo to capture that moment.

  

Whanau fun day

whanau fun day is about sports. first we were doing fitness to warm up then we started to do our other things tawhiri was the first one to ride the bikes.

to day I learned how to embed my work into our blog . by Aronui 

Matariki stars

Matariki is a special group of stars in the sky i learned the names of the two new matariki stars pohutukawa and hiwa-i-te-rangi.

Today i learnt  how to embed my work into our blog by Atahlia

Matariki

The museum trip
Room 2 was cutting some paper it had insects we saw a seagull.
And we saw heaps of bones.
And a bug but it was so big.
It was also about matariki.
And we saw a gun.

I am Gallace.