Strike Percussion Show

Waikowhai Primary School was  extremely fortunate to have award winning “Strike Percussion” come to perform for the whole school. It was a high energy show which drew on styles from around the world to introduce a broad range of modern percussion. Some of the students were chosen to play some of the instruments. We really enjoyed their music and we hope that they will come back again to perform for us.

Floating and Sinking Exploration

We went to the Maritime Museum to find out more about Floating and Sinking. We were lucky to go for a sail on the Ted Ashby. The sailors on the boat asked us to help them pull the ropes to make the sails go up. When we came back, Emma the teacher at the museum explained to us about why some things float and some sink.

 

 
 

Inquiry Investigation- Floating and Sinking

Over the past few weeks the Junior Syndicate has been on an Inquiry Investigation. Room 4 and Room 5 have been doing some experiments like scientist do. We wanted to find out what makes somethings float while others sink. Just like what real scientist do, we made some predictions first, then tested out our predictions and finally tested them out to observe if our predictions were right. Finally we got together to discuss our findings.

Stay tuned to find out what we are going to do next week.

Support Staff Day

Today was a very special day. Waikowhai Primary School celebrated Support Staff Day to acknowledge all the wonderful things that our office staff, caretaker and teacher aides do for us. Room 5 is lucky to have Mrs Ward and Louise who help us in our class. They are amazing, very talented and really wonderful people. We are really thankful for all the wonderful support they give us in our daily learning.
Room 5 was chosen to do a special card for Mrs Ward. We decide to make a book for Mrs Ward because she loves to read. That is why she is an amazing storyteller. We wrote to tell Mrs Ward what we are thankful for and then we used some interesting adjectives to describe her. We also did some illustrations to go with our writing.

Dear Mrs Ward, 

Thank you for helping us with our Reading and Maths. You are a very kind, caring and generous person.

Dear Mrs Ward, Thank you for giving out the fruits and the lunches. You are awesome.

Dear Mrs Ward,
Thank you for reading to us in the library. You are a very good storyteller. 

Thank you Louise and Mrs Ward.
We LOVE you!!

How to be Wastewise

Waikowhai Primary School was lucky to have Ron come in to show us how to we should dispose our rubbish appropriately. Room 4 and Room 5 were in the hall together and we gained lots of new information. It was very shocking to find out how much rubbish Aucklanders generate. Ron shared some slides with us.

Here we are all eager to be Waste Wise.

Just one month's rubbish.

One month's rubbish if we compost all we can.

Here we are discussing and sorting pictures of items into three categories:- landfill, compost and recyclable.

What did we learn?

I learnt that a yoghurt pot can be recycled. Do not put it in the yellow bin.

Demitrius

I learnt that food scraps should be put in the compost bin.

Disaree

I learnt that we should put the if we put the right rubbish in the right bins. Food scraps will be eaten by worms and they become compost.

Tristan

I learnt that it is important to throw our rubbish correctly. We should wash our yoghurt pots before we put it in the recycle bin.

Nirvana-Jayde

I learnt that grass should go in the compost and cans should go in the recycle bin.

Mahan

I learnt that not everything should go in the yellow bin. Some things should go into the recycle bin.

Alisha

I learnt about recyclables. We should put orange peels in the compost and yoghurt pots should be empty and washed first before you put them in the recyclables bin.

Ruta

I learnt that we must put our rubbish in the correct bins.

Leilah

I learnt that cans should go in the recyclables bin and banana peels go in the compost.

TJ

I learnt that about recyclables. We put fruit peels in the compost bin and chips packets in the yellow bin.

Peitynn

I learnt about and recycling. You put orange peels in the compost bin.

Amara

I learnt that all fruit peels should go in the compost bin and things that cannot be recycled go in the yellow bin.

Jacob

I learnt about what rubbish to put in which bin.

Khash

We put food scraps in the compost bin. We put plastics in the recycling bin.

Freddy

Procedural Writing- How to make a banana and kiwifruit smoothie

We used the fruits that we get at school to make some smoothies. Have a look at the ingredients and steps involved in making our smoothies.

The Ingredients

                                             

Cut the kiwifruit in half and scoop out the flesh.

Peel and chop the banana.

Put the fruits into the mixer. Pour in some milk.
    

Add a scoop of vanilla ice- cream into the mix.

Put the mixer lid on and blend for two minutes.

Make enough smoothies for everyone to have.

Have a taste

      

It was sooooo delicious!!!