We have been learning that each half in the symmetrical pattern needs to be the same.

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Symmetry

Today we started learning about making symmetrical patterns. 

We are using our patterns to learn our doubles.

Buddy Time

Buddy Time on Friday was once again lots of fun. We taught our buddies a subtraction game and then showed them how good we are getting at reading- we can read like we are talking. Then our buddies told us a little about the production that is coming up. We will get to see our buddies on stage soon. Thank you buddies, we always love you coming to Room 13.

Look at this creation from Thomas

Parkvale Commonwealth Games

                                          Sebastian got silver. Well done!!!

                                          What a team!!

                                          Go Ruby!!! What a fast runner.

                                          Rhythm-Lee having a well earned rest. It's hard work being an athlete!

                                          Team with the best Parkvale PRIDE. Well done Toby.

                                          Go Zenith!!! Look at those muscles! Weight lifting is pretty hard!

                                          More weight lifting.

                                          Getting ready to hear the results. I wonder who will win!!

                                          Yah!! Tom and Gurshaan's team won gold.

                                          One last effort. Showing off those muscles Thomas!!

Challenge Day

We finished off our fabulous learning about forces with a Challenge Day. Kowhai hub children were all mixed up and went to work with other children and in other rooms. The children worked so well together to design different things. In Room 13 the children had to design a ramp that stood by itself and then roll a golf ball down it to hit a target. Fabulous co operation and perseverance Kowhai kids.

My car

My car zoomed down the big slide. The slide was slippery it was so fast. It hit into Conner's car. On my car there was painted green with red windows and blue wheels

By Micah.

Buddy Time with Room 18

We always love buddy class time. Room 18 children listened to us read. They helped us practise our early words and spelling. They checked our learning about our vehicles and they watched that we had learnt how to jump correctly. Thanks buddies!!! We also thought Mr Miller's balloon powered car was great. 

The crows in there nest

Bing bong! the chruch bell rang loud and the crows were angry. Because the bell Was loud.

By Naisa

Testing our vehicles on different surfaces.

                              Our Cars worked well on the concrete. You had to push gently.  Toby

                              When there was friction like the grass the car didn't go well. Connor

                                                  You had to start off slowly. Alyssa

 The ramp helped the speed pick up. Here is Oliver, Joshua and Micah racing their vehicles.

 On the slide there was no friction. It sped down so fast.  My car did a flip at the end. Sebastian.

 We all liked the slide test the best, but if our car was a real one we wouldn't want it to be on a hill with no friction.

The cars were bumping against the grass blades. This stopped them from working well. 

My new toy egg

Did you know I got a toy egg? It is a penguin and his head is poking out of the top of the egg. Mum got it from a toy shop in wellington.

By Brodie.

WALT sort

 In Room 13 we sorted the beans by colour. When we put them in a row it was much easier to see which colour row had the most beans or the least beans. We could count them easier too!

Now we have made a graph.

Making vehicles

 One, two, three, GO!!! Whose car can go the fastest. We discovered a quick push worked better than pushing down hard. The carpet caused friction and made the cars slow down. Tom Purdie's car zoomed along the table top because that was smooth.

 We are proud of our finished vehicles. We worked hard and didn't give up. We helped each other with the tricky bits.

What a flash car Tom. We all liked the detail on your car body. 

The cat

I saw a cat walking on the rode and it was soaking wet

By Alyssa

Rainy Day

Me and Khloe jumped in the muddy puddles we got mud in our eyes.

By Alyssa

Using Texture in art

We are learning about using texture in art. We used pipes, cup rimes, pipe cleaners, feathers and tubes to create texture in our dragonflies.

Names for 10

Connor knows his names for 10. Well done Connor.

Painting the Story

Charli painted a part from "Lazy Duck". We guessed that this painting was from this story. In the end Lazy Duck found out that it was best to be a busy duck. Fabulous painting Charli.

Moving to the beat

In music today Room 13 showed how they are getting so good at moving in time to the beat. What a huge improvement since the beginning of the year. Well done Room 13!!

Inflatable world

At inflatable world Alssa and I bounced on the big bouncy castle and I did flips.

By Ruby

The black horse

I reckon the black horse was cool because he was just standing there in the wavy wind.

By Hinewai 

Frosty

It was cold on my hands because it was frosty.

By Caleb