Terrific Balancing Teamwork

Jupiter

We made models and wrote about Jupiter.

Jupiter is/ has …

an interesting planet to learn about

lots of storms

The thick clouds make stripes on Jupiter

a powerful Great Red Spot

powerful spooky storms

lightning zipping and zapping

tornadoes twisting and turning

76 moons

Bianca

Jupiter Is …

the biggest planet

the fifth planet from the sun

terribly windy and stormy

vast

Has a moon called Io

Has a terribly humungous storm called the Red Spot

Has thick clouds

No one can stand on Jupiter

Elizabeth

Welcome Back to Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3 Weka Class and a very big welcome to Sean who is joining our class. Sean we hope you will be very happy here at St Pauls. We hope you all had a very happy holiday and had lots of fun.

This term we will be beginning a new Science and Art topic about ‘Fabric and Fibre'. We will have lots  of fun finding out about the properties of different materials and where they came from, as well as exploring ways that we can create with them. We will be sending home a list of bits and pieces that we need help collecting for this unit, but in the meantime if you have any scraps of wool at home we would love you to bring it in for us to use. We will also be learning about our Parish Church and what it means for us to belong to and be part of this community. We hope to make links to people within the parish and visit the Church.

Following up from last terms Space Topic - Google are running a 'Space Camp' this week with lots of interesting activities online. Click on this link beginning Monday 20th to have a look: https://camp.withgoogle.com/activities/week2

We are looking forward to another great term in Weka Class.
Mrs McTague & Mrs Bryant

Flotsam

Before we shared a wonderful wordless book by David Wiesner that begins with the picture above we wrote our own stories that follow from the picture. Our stories all begin with:

“Hey, look what I’ve found,” I shouted to anyone who could hear me. “I wonder what it is?” I thought.

“Hey, I think I know what it is. It’s a crunchy big fish bone and very slimy,” said Peter. “Look at that, it’s a paua shell,” said Peter. “It’s very shiny!”

“I can see a seal,” I said.

“It’s staring at us,” said Peter.

“It’s after us,” I said.

“Run” Peter said.

“I think we’ve lost him,” I said.

Spencer

One or two people came in to look at what I had found. It was a starfish. All of a sudden the starfish jumped up and started to run away. She ran to the little ice-cream shop then seven more starfish came running after it. When they entered the shopkeeper screamed and ran out of the shop.

Scarlet

There was a sparkling object, seaweed, cans and a kettle then I found some pancake rocks with a pebble on them. It is just like that legend about if you touched the pebble you would turn into something. Then I found a pearl then mum and dad called “It is time to go now”. What a good day.

Elizabeth

It might be a crab but it doesn’t have sharp claws and it looks bigger and as red as a stop sign. Let’s take it home but how would we put it in the bucket. Let’s just let it go. That’s a good idea. It’s time to go home.

Freddie

It might be a line shark skeleton that fought with a whale shark. It must have been a very dangerous battle. When it was washed up it was very scary and terrifying. As he walked across the beach he saw some interesting things. There were bones everywhere and he also found a swordfish’s mouth and all sorts of things.

Elijah

Beyond Planet Earth: The Sun Song

I'm So Hot: The Sun Song by StoryBots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kzdR93bqw

Zumba Fun

Our Zumba session on Friday was a lot of fun and it certainly warmed us all up.

Jack Flash Play

Yesterday there was a play called Jack Flash and the Giant Beanstalk. My favourite part was when Jack Flash was climbing the beanstalk. There was a flappy goose that was funny too. The unusual part was when the bag fell. There was a big bad giant. He said “Fe fi fo fum, I hear someone,” and the goose said “Oh no! Jack! Hide behind me!”

“OK!” said Jack.

“Oh and act like a big egg!”

“OK.” The giant thought he was a giant but he was just a man.

Peter

On Thursday I went to watch Jack Flash and the Beanstalk and the characters were very very funny and their play was amazing. The funniest part was when the bean had to step into the stinky cow poo. When the Mexican jumping bean grew the beanstalk grew. It looked amazing the way they made it. It looked kind of real. I liked the way they made the big red plum. I think it is made out of sponge. The king mouse said to Jack “I want you to go to the clouds and to tell the giant to stop throwing rubbish on people. It is not very nice.”  The giant said he thought he was a giant but he wasn’t a giant.

Jesse

Yesterday I went to a show. It was about a giant throwing his rubbish on people and the funniest bit was when the girl was standing in the cow poop. Then Jack Flash had to find out who was throwing all the rubbish and he found it was a man who thought he was a giant. An intruder came. The goose protected the man.

“What is behind you?” said the giant. The other man smelt him.

At the end we asked questions.

Rhema