Here is the Kiwi Olympics Event Schedule for the next two weeks.  Please keep checking as events may change due to weather.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Week 3	Football - Eve/Clare Skipping - Tanya Elastics - Demelza	Sack Race - Leonie Long Jump - Tanya High Jump - Demelza	Limbo - Sally Broad Jump - Tanya Balance Board- Dem	Gymnastics-Carissa Bee Bots -Tanya ScooterRace  - Dem	Tennis - Carmen Trudy- Shot Putt Straw Ping Pong-T Egg ‘n Spn - Dem
Week 4	Basketball - Andrew Hula hoop - Tanya Hurdles - Dem	Biking - Lucy/Ben Individual Skipping - Tanya ? - Demelza	Rugby- Carmen ? - Tanya ?- Demelza	Moon hopper- Angela 3 legged race  - Tanya ?- Demelza	Running--Sarah/Eve Wheelbarrow  - Tanya Human Horses- Demelza

Welcome to our 2016 Kiwi Olympics!

To kick start our Kiwi Olympics, we had football, long rope skipping and elastic events.  Take a look at our medal place getters.  Well done to all competitors, I can't wait until we compete again tomorrow.

Elastics Event

Long Rope Skipping Event

Football Event

The Leaning Tower of Pizza!

The Hippos Reading group have been working on gaining information from their reading and presenting it in an interesting way.  After creating questions about the Eiffel Tower then gathering very interesting information to answer these questions, the children presented their findings on a poster.  They then decided that it would be a great idea to investigate towers further through the construction of their own tower.  We found some pictures of various towers to view and then set to work.  Here is the process that the tower building went through.

These are the examples of towers we studied to make our own tower.

We spent a lot of our time helping each other with the construction.

 

We used triangles as our main support structure.  We learn about these by looking at the pictures of the towers and Mrs Pendergrast told us they are one of the strongest shape in the world.

The tower gets taller, but wobbles a bit so the children problem solve and come up with a great solution!

Then the tower became so tall, we had to take it outside to continue to work on it.

Lastly, we attached the final piece to become our Leaning Tower of Pizza.

What do you think?

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.

class.

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.