As you may have read in the newsletter sent home last night, we have new classroom furniture! The children are very excited about the new layout.
Come in and check it out!
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Science Experiment
Science Experiment
The Year 6 team have been looking at forces that shape our Earth over the last few weeks. We have been learning about physical differences and impacts plate margins make. On Monday we experimented with Oreo cookies, yogurt and crackers to show the 3 different plate boundaries - Divergent, convergent and transform. We had a lot of fun with this experiment and yes, we ate the Oreo at the end!
Inquiry for Term 2
Our Inquiry for Term 2 is based around our Central Idea
"Creativity is the way in which we discover and express ideas, feelings, nature, culture, beliefs and values".
This term the whole school concept is Creativity. The key understanding that we would expect the students to gain is that, ‘Original ideas have value’. We will be exploring this concept through music dance and drama with our context being “Forces that shape our earth”. This includes exploring plate tectonics and the creation of physical features in Aotearoa and the impact of recent earth movements in the South Island, in particular the 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura. We will be linking this to the humanitarian responses from different communities and the creative problem solving that took place during and after this disaster.
We are very lucky to have had the opportunity to take part in some dance workshops with someone from the Royal Ballet Dance Academy. Some videos will be posted soon.
We have also been doing some science research to help us with the planning of our production.
In the photos below, we worked in groups of 4 or 5 to find out about Plate Tectonics and some famous world landmarks.
This term the whole school concept is Creativity. The key understanding that we would expect the students to gain is that, ‘Original ideas have value’. We will be exploring this concept through music dance and drama with our context being “Forces that shape our earth”. This includes exploring plate tectonics and the creation of physical features in Aotearoa and the impact of recent earth movements in the South Island, in particular the 7.8 earthquake in Kaikoura. We will be linking this to the humanitarian responses from different communities and the creative problem solving that took place during and after this disaster.
We are very lucky to have had the opportunity to take part in some dance workshops with someone from the Royal Ballet Dance Academy. Some videos will be posted soon.
We have also been doing some science research to help us with the planning of our production.
In the photos below, we worked in groups of 4 or 5 to find out about Plate Tectonics and some famous world landmarks.
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