Tennis

We had a special visitor, Mr Cottrell, who came and taught us tennis skills.  

We learnt how to hold the tennis racket correctly.

We hold the end of the racket so we can reach further with our racket.

We hold the racket on top (we put the racket on the ground and pick it up to get our grip right). 

We also learnt to play a forehand shot.
Our feet are sideways
We point with our left hand to where we want to hot the ball
We swing the racket through like an aeroplane and catch in our other hand after we have hit the ball. 

Mr Cottrell showing us a forehand shot

Maia controlling the ball with her racket
So much concentration

Walking or running with the ball
on our racket

Coopa's follow through

Sienna keeping her eyes on the ball

Charlie pointing with his right hand

Angus being very determined

Mac has his eyes on the ball

Marshall moving towards the ball

Maia catching the racket in her other hand

Maddie hitting a great forehand

Marshall catching the racket

Thank you so much Mr Cottrell we had so much fun and can't wait for you to come again so we can learn some more. 

Poems

We have been learning about different kinds of poems. We wrote acrostic and cinquain poems about our learning. 

LEARNING                                         

Listening carefully                                

Enjoyment                                             

Arguing with manners                           

Respect each others ideas                      

Never give up                                        

Independent learning or collaboratively

Negotiating                                             

Give it a go!                                            

Poet Zack                                    

WRITING  

Working hard

Re-reading    

Ideas              

Tell stories     

Imagination   

Non-fiction    

Great authors  

Poet Sienna

SCIENCE

 Scientist           

Code-breaking

Inventing        

Experiment     

Never give up 

Chemicals        

Evolving          

Poet Joseph        

LEARNING

Learning collaboratively    

Enjoying learning               

Amazing work                    

Risk-taking                         

Never give up                      

Inside, outside, everywhere

Never rush                           

Go back to make changes     

Poet Tyler

MARCHING                         

Miss Stacey                            

Actions                                   

Ranks                                      

Cheering                                  

Hold a position-hands gripped

Include everybody                   

Need to count                            

Girls love to march                    

Poet Ashley

LEARNING      

   Lots of thinking            

Ears                            

Arguing with manners

Risk                            

Never give up              

Independently learning

New Learning              

Growing knowledge     

Poet Jordan

ART                           

Artist                           

Really focused            

Trying new techniques

Poet Jessica    

MATHS                          

Making mistakes             

Always makes maths fun

Team work                       

Helping each other          

Subtraction                      

Poet Coopa             

WRITING

Non-fiction, imaginative

Concentrating, sharing, creating

Hooking in the reader

Writing

Poet Caitlin

MATHS

Challenging, exciting

Trying, learning, getting

Arguing with manners

Maths

Poet Blair     

ART
Messy, colourful
Creating, painting, splashing
Display so people can enjoy
Art

Poet Jack B

Weight and Capacity

We have been learning about weight and capacity.

1kg = 1000g

1litre = 1000ml

Estimating and then measuring how
many potatoes are in 1 kg

Zack and Blair trying to make playdough
weights

Aotea and Katie working out how far away from 1 kg their estimation was

Issy counting how many 1/3 of a cup
fit inside the jug

Janice and Zack measuring how many
mls they used to make colours 

Georgina made a a container to hold 1/4 of a cup.
Look how close her estimation skills were.

Ruben cutting a lemon
I wonder how many mls of lemon
juice he will put in his lemonade?

Charlie and Keiarliya working together to make
a 200g weight.

How many kernels fit in 1/4 of a cup?
Great strategy of making groups of ten by this group

Angus and Pinenga testing how many mls
their containers hold

Squeezing lemon juice ready to make the perfect
lemonade. How many mls of lemon juice and sugar syrup? 

Jack measuring his lemon juice

Blake and Jordan calculating together
how many mls of each colour they will
use to make purple.

Weighing to find out what they can send in a
parcel and how much it will cost.

Jessica carefully measuring 2 tablespoons
of cocoa powder

Working together to put the mixture
in a cup ready for cooking

Estimating and counting in 1/3 of a cup. 

Maia following the instructions to cook
the chocolate cake

Yum! Chocolate cake.

If you would like to make the chocolate cake at home here is the recipe

WALT measure a fraction of an amount

                                           Follow the recipe to make a 1 cup chocolate cake

3 Table spoons flour
1/4 of a teaspoon of cinnamon
2 Tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of cocoa powder
1/4 teaspoon of baking powder
1/8 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence
1/2 large egg (scramble the egg in a bowl and then just use half)
30 mLs of vegetable oil
30mLs of water

1)   Mix all the ingredients together in a jar or cup

2)   Put in microwave for 2 minutes

3)   Let it cool down

4)   Eat and enjoy!