Magic School Bus in a Beehive

Here is an amazing video that we watched from the magic School Bus. It has lots of amazing facts about bees. We really loved it and learned heaps!

We thought all the bee jokes were funny too!

All Blacks Win!!

All Blacks

Bang! Leg’s moved fast,breath increased,heart pumping.The finish line in sight.Running like a cheetah to catch it’s prey.I was so excited the All blacks are in the final.

At the start of the trans tasman clash new Zealand vs Australia there were four penalties before a try the penalties all went over Dan carter scored three of the four for NZL and Foley got one over for AUS.

The first try came close to the break.Conrad Smith set it up by off loading it to Jerome Kaino then Jerome Kaino the passed it the spikker richy then he un selfishly offloaded it to Milner Skudder Who got the first try of the match and for New Zealand.

Dan Carter got an a outstanding drop kick it was from 49m away! He was yelling at the ball to go over and cheap saying go over go over then it did it was awesome on the tv.

At the end of the match after the medals and the trophy was given a kid run on the field to hug sonny bill williams.sonny bill gave his medal away to the kid.Sonny bill said if it was a kid from his family he would of gave the security a hiding

The Mighty All Blacks!

Kick,catch,the game has started the ALL BLACKS have the ball and are running toward their line. It's the first half and the ALL BLACKS have the ball. It is the 2015 world cup finals!

Conrad Smith has the ball, passes it to Kaino, Kaino to Ritchy, Ritchy to  Skuda ... score!!(half time)

Bernly Foley has the ball but OH NO!! Ben Smith does a tip tackle & gets a yellow card! Now their is a scrum right by there line! Pollard has the ball and scores for the Australians. Ben Smith on the pitch again Phew! Then Nonu scores!! Then Sonny Bill off loads it to Ben Smith , Simth kicks and Barret scores 34-17 we win!!! I was so exited!!!  

Planting our minions to feed bees

We planted our minions this week.
We put herbs in one minion. That was rosemary, sage and thyme. These herbs have blue flowers and bees like blue flowers the best.
We put lavender in one minion. Lavender is one of the bees favourite foods. It is like chocolate cake for bees.
The last minion we planted with flowers. Some blue/purple and white petunias and some blue lobelia. Naomi says the lobelia will grow and come out of the minion like blue hair.
We cant wait for the plants to grow. We will water them every day to help them get everything they need.

What we know about bees and our questions

Bee Rap

Term 4

Hi!
Welcome back to Term 4!
We have another fun filled term starting with CAMP in week 1!!!!!!

Curriculum Overview

Reading/Writing: Focus on writing explanations and recounts

Maths: Focus on multiplication and division strategies, as well as maintaining our addition and subtraction knowledge. Our strand is Algebra looking at patterns and predicting 

Learning Pathways: Our big question is “A world without bees - should we care?” We will look at bees, pollination, working as a team, the hive etc. and come up with our questions. We will have a visit from the bee lady and have some hands on activities with honey and wax.

Science: We are learning about electricity and circuits

Sports: The focus is athletic skills of run, jump and throw.

Arts: We will be learning to sketch bees, use pastels and dye to create bee artwork.  We will be learning to communicate using dance (like bees do) 

We will look at music appreciation listening for and identifying different instruments in an orchestra.

Languages: We will continue to learn Maori with Whaea Jo on a Tuesday afternoon.

NEW: I am super excited to announce we will have Chinese lessons on a Thursday with a Chinese tutor in Bejing via skype !!

Homework

Students bring home reading, spelling and basic maths to practice each week. Please remind your child to complete a little each day so they form good habits.

Marvelous Minion Gardens

Today we built the minions. We filled them with soil. We got a spade and wheelbarrow. We had to dig the soil from the pile to put it in the wheelbarrow. We wheeled it to the minion tyres and used out spades to put it in the minions. It was really hard work. Leo, Oliver, Brooklyn, Caleb and me did the most work. Check out Samuel's pictures of what we did.
By Rieley

Jasmine is a science star!

Jasmine scored so well in the recent science ICAS. She passed with credit! 

Sumdog Champions!!

This week Room 12 have participated in the Sumdog contest for schools in the whole of North Island.  Everyone tried really hard to correctly answer as many questions as they could with some of our students answering more than 1,000 questions!

Check out where we placed!!!!!

Jasmine also placed as an individual in 48th place (out of 1,583 participants!)