Jellyfish Cove: March 2017

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Milo the rabbit

Milo the rabbit

This morning, Jaxon from our buddy class brought her rabbit to school. The bunny's name is Milo. She was cute and very soft. Milo is 3 years old and is a dwarf Dutch rabbit. We were pretty impressed at how tame she was.

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

The Impossible Bridge

Yesterday the Blue Jellyfish group read a book by Jane Buxton called The Impossible Bridge. At the back of the book were some instructions on how to make a simple bridge using a sheet of paper.

Today Rebecca showed us the one she made one at home and then demonstrated again for us.

This was a child led and practical way to talk about measuring, folding, balancing and predicting. The children worked together to make their bridges. Some wrote reports as part of Story Writing that followed. What a great morning!

Isaac wrote - Room 6 made bridges. It was awesome. Nathan even put a workshop with his road.

Oscar wrote - Loughan, Isaac and me made a bridge but it kept on falling over. But then we found stronger bits of paper. We used it and it made the bridge stronger and now it is better and now we made a very good bridge.

Nathan writes - the garage is for stopping over for fuel. There are lots of roads..

The cars go so fast. Loughan had a broken piece of paper and made it into a train tack. Jamie has a bucket that is made for a house and his car can jump on the road. We have an awesome bridge that never breaks. Lilly's away but she and her friends made an awesome bridge too.

Ofa wrote - Roads always have to have some signs. Loughan's train track didn't work so he made a bridge. This is the garage for the person to get in and out and when he gets out he has to lock the door!

But wait there is more to this story.......

Nathan writes again...I built a bridge with my Dad. It is strong. It could hold three trucks of mine - really heavy trucks. One of my strongest was a tractor-trailer. I put two boxes together. Today I brought it to school and it is long and strong. It is good looking!

Sunday, March 19, 2017

Sign Language at Hoon Hay!

We are really fortunate to have a new student to Hoon Hay who is encouraging us to learn sign language. Team Harakeke is meeting together each week and learning together. Here is the New Zealand Sign language alphabet to help you learn at home.

Here's Oscar practising saying his name at home as part of home learning. Way to go Oscar!

Maths in Jellyfish Cove

Check out the great sorting and patterning happening in Jellyfish Cove.

Last week, the children sorted some Maths equipment in piles according to colour. They found that by making groups of 2, 5's and 10's the equipment was much easier to count.