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Our Taste Sense

We focussed on the sense of taste.

We were all very excited and waited patiently while Joy looked in her bag and we wondered what she was going to pull out.

First up were the sour patch kids. We held on to them first, some of us couldn't resist having just one little lick. Out of 7, 4 of us thought they made our engines run just right and 3 students thought they slowed down their engine. We showed on our dial how the sour ptch kids made us feel.

Next up was the potato chips. We held onto them until we all had some. And then we tasted them. We described them as salty and crunchy and all 7 of us agreed that they made our engines feel just right. In fact we enjoyed them so much that we even asked Joy if we could have some more!!

Our next taste was peppermint.

We described the peppermint in different ways. We said, "it smells like adult toothpaste", "it's so hot", "it's too hard", "it's too strong" and "fire came out of my mouth". Out of 7, 4 of us thought it made our engine slow down and we were in the blue zone and 3 of us thought it made our engine feel just right in the green zone. Some of us even had to spit it out.

Poor Emma held on to her tongue for a while after and she showed us what this did to her engine.

Next up were the minties. Somne of us showed excitement when we saw them.

The chewing action that happens when we eat a mintie was calming for most of us, especially for Jasper and Cooper and made our engines feel just right. This was broken down as 5 out of 7 in the green zone and 2 in the blue zone.

Then ww tried the sweet jellybeans.

We all really liked the jellybeans. For 5/7 of us it made our engine feel just right and for 2 of us, it sped our engines up and Cooper shows us this on his dial.

We finished off our lesson with Joy by eating an m&m mindfully. We looked at the m&m, felt it, popped it into our mouths and sucked it. Someone said "It's falling apart because it's wet". The m&m varied our engines from green to yellow and when we got to the nut some of our engines began to slow down. Thanks Joy for another great lesson on the sense of taste. It was an insight watching to see how taste can change the way our engine runs. We learnt that we all enjoy the crunchy and chewing motion so maybe we need to make sure we have things in our lunchbox that support this. We then wrote about our experiences. Have a read......

Lest We Forget

On Friday we had an ANZAC service at school to remember all those who had lost their lives at war. Weka Tēina made a wreath that was laid by Emma, who was the youngest girl at school that day and Jack who was the eldest boy at our school. We made our wreath out of paper flowers that were left over from our Christmas Float last year. We used cardboard to glue our flowers onto and we cut out leaves to go around the edge of the wreath and around the circle in the middle. We were very proud of the wreath we made.

Our Term 1 Reflection

We reflected on our 1st term at school. This was the first imovie we have made this year and we reflected on what we could do to improve our movie as well. We need to speak a little louder and we will work on this next time we make another movie.

Sausage Sizzle

Today was the last day of the term. Our lovely Home and School organised a sausage sizzle. Many of us were very excited about the sausage sizzle and were waiting all week for this. We loved our sausage for lunch and we were very lucky to get more than one. Thanks Home and School, we think you are great. Check us out enjoying our yummy sausages.

The Athletics Sports

On Thursday 25th March we had our school athletics sports at the High School. The activities we completed were high jump, long jump, soft shot, quoits, running, relay races and we also had a turn with the parachute. We had lots of fun and we all enjoyed trying really hard with the activites which were a new experience to most of us.

We wrote about athletics day.

Our Portrait Art

We began our art work by completing the background to our portrait. We used marbles dipped in paint to create a background.

We put the photo of our face in a laminating pouch and using a vivid we drew over the main lines we could see in the photo on to the laminating pouch. The laminating pouch then had our marbled background placed in it and laminated. This is how they turned out..... When we reflected on our art works we found out that we really enjoyed painting the background of our portraits with the marbles. We think the portraits with the lighter background paint colours are easier to see and if we were to complete this activity again we would use this to improve our art works. We enjoy looking at our portraits and are proud of the work we have produced.

We have been working hard on our tens frame patterns

We have been working really hard on learning to recognise instantly and accurately tens frame patterns. We are also getting very quick at making these patterns. Mrs Scott tries to give us some harder ones but we are too clever! Well done Weka Tēina, this is really helping you to recognise patterns and learn all about your numbers to 10.

Sienna found a nest

Sienna found a nest at her house in the garage around the lightbulb. The nest belonged to a swallow. The nest is made of mud and feathers and grass. Sienna said "Nanny showed me the nest and I said WOW Nanny, that's pretty cool."

Naomi asked "I wonder how long it takes to build the nest?" Angus thought 4 weeks. Google said 6-24 days. Wow Angus you were close in your estimate. Thanks Sienna for bringing along the nest and sharing it with us, we thought it was pretty cool too.

Weka Tēina's Picket Fence

We drew a picture of ourselves and put our pictures together to make a class picket fence. We coloured our portrait in crayon and then dyed the background so that the top half of our portrait looked like the sky background and the bottom half looked like the grass. Our portraits were then glued onto cardboard and paper place between each picket so that it looked like a fence. Mrs Scott added a whakatauki that reflects what we need to do in our learning space so that we can be the best learners we can be.

Our Easter Eggs made from nature

Today each of us in Weka and Weka Tēina made a natural easter egg using things we found in our school environment. We chose different materials to decorate our egg. Some of the materials we collected in our school environment that we used were harakeke, stones, leaves, flowers, twigs, grass, bark, berries and seed pods.

These are the eggs that Weka Tēina created.

When we shared our eggs with each other when they were completed we thought our eggs looked great. We thought they looked surprising, creative and some looked a little like a garden. We are very proud of our creations. Happy Easter everyone!!