Stem group by James Patterson

For year 3/4 in room 22 is a stem group. In the stem group we do things like holding marshmallows on hard spaghetti or seeing who can make the longest paper chain. Stem stands for science technology engineering maths.

 It is at the lunch bell/12:50 pm. It is about 25 minutes long. Except once when we were making a moving thing with wheels we were allowed as long as we want.

 There are lots of different techniques like when we were doing the chains there were people doing lots of little parts of a chain and there were also people doing big parts of a chain. There are also challenges like you have to use only 1 piece of paper to make the chain or the car has to roll down a ramp. Like you can't just nail a bottle lid on because to make it roll you would need to roll it with your hand for it to move the wheels.

I enjoy the challenges.

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HOW	TOMORROW	WATER
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Swimming by Lola

This  term we  have been doing swimming as you know we walk down to the Waikanae pool. But this year we  went for about  4 weeks . We were  called up in groups  in my group i had James and a few   other people we are learning  to swim lengths up an down the pool. James is best at freestyle Lola is good at breaststroke . We are practising  for swimming sports. Only some of us
get to go. But you still get a whanau point for trying. Here are some photos 😊

2019

Hello our names are Lola and James and we are the new bloggers for 2019. This year we are already doing lots of things like swimming, there is a music performance with Maori instruments and a science roadshow. We are also learning about growth mindsets and fixed mindsets. Hope you enjoy reading our blog this year.

Lion reports - Torrin Story and Priya Pillai-Greig

In room 22 we have been learning about writing reports 😁. The most recent one we have done is about lions, we got some books to search about Lions. We had quite a few people who were struggling but some people were finding it easy  so they helped the people who were struggling and together we completed it! 

Heres an example from Priya that was shared with the class:

Lions are big cats. Lions are the king of the jungle.

The lions mane makes him look powerful. Lions teeth are big.

Lions live in the west of Africa and live in zoos too.

Lions are at the top of the food chain. Lions eat zebras, antelopes and warthogs. They also like small animals.

Boy lions have manes and girls dont. A boys weight is up to 240kg and girls weigh up to 180kg.

Lions are very interesting animals. Lions are amazing.

Priya Pillai-Greig

                                                       Junior tough guy and gal challenge

 On the 4th of August it was the junior tough guy and gal challenge.   When we arrived at Palmerston North it was about 50 mins before the race. Later on the race started the blue went first then green then the red .  At the start of the race there were a few patches of mud.  100 meters later there was a swamp of freezing water.  After that there was a couple of tall walls that you had to climb over. A few minutes later there was some ups and downs. Our favourite part was a very very dark tunnel and we kept on touching each other . At the end everyone gets a loaded powerade zero. Then the fire brigade gave us a wash  off  then a hot shower.  After we had something to eat. 20 mins later we did spot prizes Benji got a spot prize it was a lego set and then we went home.

                                                by Otto Zachary and Lucas

Visit to the Life Education van - Tevita Faletau and Caleb Keenan

Today the class went to life education. We learned about five team rules. Flexibility,focus,communication,respect and reliability. We learnt an action to remind us about each one.

Flexibility is all about dealing with change. Focus is about listening to the speaker and don’t get distracted. Communication is about responding and listening. Respect is about helping people when they fall down and show the speaker respect. Reliability is about if someone said “Can you pick up my pen?”, you do it.

I enjoyed standing up at the middle of the van, showing how the people to do the actions.

Tevita

Today we went to life education. We learned about five team rules. They were:

Flexibility, focus, respect, reliability, and communication.

Flexibility means dealing with change. Focus means to keep on your work. Respect means take care of your things. Reliability mean if you say you're going to do something you do it calm. Communication means if someone wants to something let them, listen, comment, ask questions and respond.

What I enjoyed, doing the actions. Paula showed us actions so we could remember them.

What was hard, writing this.

What would I do differently next time, go up the front and read the five rules

Caleb