Fox Inquiry

After folding foxes during discovery origami, the children decided that they would like to know more about foxes.  First we wrote a list of questions we wanted to find out about.  Some of these questions were - Do foxes eat chicken?  Do foxes play with chickens?  Where do foxes live? Do foxes live underground?  How long do foxes live for?  Do foxes live in the snow?  After we had thought about what we wanted to learn, we then searched up this information in books from our library and on some websites.  We recorded all of this information on our research inquiry.  Then we shared it with the class.

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Origami

We have been exploring origami during discovery over the past few weeks.  We have been following the folding instructions from a few different books.  Some of the folds are very tricky but there are pictures which help us.  Also, we have had a couple of parents helping us too.  We have made birds, dinosaurs, jumping frogs, snap dragons, water bombs, planes and our favourite, foxes.  If you would like to come and join us for an origami lesson, please do!

Matariki Celebrations

What a great Matariki Celebration we had last Friday.  Well done to all of our Matariki Stars at Oropi School and also to the fabulous performers in Kapahaka and in the class items.  Te Ruma o Te Kiwi were happy to share this day with you all.

Kiwi were also lucky enough to to have earned their class reward by Friday, so we treated ourselves to a movie and popcorn.  Well done Team Kiwi

Geology and Civil Engineering 

during Discovery Learning.

A team of boys have been working for a number of days excavating a site in our gully.  Many large sized 'rocks' have been unearthed with much discussion about their origins taking place.  The latest discovery has uncovered the biggest 'rock' ever!  Ideas about volcanic rock, space rock and 'special rock' were considered until closer inspection revealed that it could possibly be concrete.  The amount of teamwork and problem solving to move the latest find was nothing less than impressive.  I can't wait until we see what this site is going to reveal next, or what the engineers decide to do with their newly excavated site.

Discovery Art

These children have used some leaves found in the gully and others brought from home to to create these amazing owl collages. They had to work carefully at matching the leaves to form the shape of the owl, skillfully sketch three different sized circles to create the eyes and then shape the middle piece to form the pupil. I think they look great!

What amazing stories...

The weather was against us today and we ended up not going to KRSA cross country as planned.  An unplanned writing session took it's place. WOW,  this must be the best writing from my writers this year. Have a read...

Once upon a time there was a dragon.  It lived in a cave and it has sharp teeth.  It eats other dragons and its colour is read and it can fly and the dragon is big.  Something happened to the dragon and it was getting bigger and bigger.  The draon was not happy he wanted to stay small...

Once upon a time there was a dragon that ruled the world. It ate zombies. A soldier owned the dragon. The soldier he had blood all over him.  It was in a desert.

Once upon a time there was a person that was incredible. He could climb up a tree backwards with his hands. I saw him.

Once upon a time there was a dragon at volcano land. Lava went everywhere and the dragon flew away.

Once upon a time there was a dragon in a very long house. The dragon was eating people. Now the dragon had blood on his nose.

Once upon a time there was a dinosaur. He was ten feet long.  He had teeth and pointy arms. He had blood in his teeth from eating humans. They didn't want to be eaten so they ran away.

A long time ago when the people wer not around but ther were dinosaurs they roared and the peole ran and ran.  They eventually got away back to the village. And they all shouted 'Happy ever after'.

Once upon a time 129 days ago I saw a princess at the castle and she was pretty. She had a kitten.  The kitten was cute. I love her. 

The night before Christmas a creature was not making a sound. The kids were in bed. Christmas was ruined! Instead a skeleton was giving dynamite! The kids were excited. The dynamite explodes. The kids got up then they were in a nightmare... 

Once upon a time a long time ago there was a huge dinosaur in the desert far away and it had some bones stuck in his teeth. He couldn't get it out so he pulled it until it got out and now he is happy again.

Once upon a time 120 years ago a fairy was i my bedroom and it had brodken it's wing. It took out a tooth it was my one I was excited!!!!

A long time ago a dinosaur wanted some water with his mate. He was very grumpy. One day he found some water.

A long time ago lived dionsaurs on the earth and then bombs came. Then all of the dinosuars died.

A long long time ago there was a dinosaur high up on a cliff fighting another dinosaur. The one that won the fight that killed the other one was the leader.