Ultimate Natural Disasters

Welcome to our natural disaster post!

We learnt about volcanoes, tsunamis, bush fires, earthquakes, tornadoes and hurricanes.

We enjoyed learning about natural disasters. A natural disasters is a volcano, hurricane, tornado, tsunami, sand storm and blue storm. Natural disasters are very dangerous. A tornado is a very very strong wind. First a tornado is a funnel cloud, if a funnel cloud touches the ground it is a tornado. A tsunami is a big wave. A volcano is filled with lava and magma. A sand storm is like a tornado but it is in sand. That's a sand storm. A blue storm is a storm with thunder and lightning. That is what we enjoyed learning.

The things that were challenging were how long it took to publish the stories we wrote about the natural disasters. The other thing that was challenging was editing our publishing because I had to ask the iPad experts. The super challenging thing was the writing.

Our next step is to finish our natural disaster publishing, then Miss Nodder is going to print them and make little books for us.

Thank you for looking at our blog post. 😃

By Sharn, Mohamed, Awan, Utu, Rayyan and Rehmatullah

Hungerball

Hello Bloggers!

We are learning about how to kick in Hungerball. We even learned how to play with hockey sticks. We even learnt how to play with big balls and small balls too. In Hungerball we were learning how to use hockey sticks to get the ball away from our goal. It was fun.

I enjoyed being in the game for 15 rounds with Agnes. At first Agnes wasn’t paying attention to the ball but then I gave her advice, then we stayed in for 15 rounds. Now she is soooooooo good at Hungerball. I also enjoyed being in Agnes’ team.

What I found challenging was stopping the ball from going in the goal. It was hard. My buddy was Krisha and we were in for lots of rounds, almost 20 rounds!

Our next step is to make sure we pay attention during games like Hungerball so goals don't get scored against us.

Thank you Bloggers for reading our Hungerball post.

By Tanysha, Anoosha, Krisha, Josie and Layla

Concept Learning

Dear Bloggers,

We are learning how to be healthier. We are also learning how plants grow. We are learning what different fruits do for your body and how they keep you healthy. We are also learning about how we can 'eat a rainbow'.

We enjoyed learning about healthy eating and our wellbeing. We enjoyed learning new facts about plants and putting them on Explain Everything. We enjoyed eating a rainbow. We enjoyed doing our art about healthy eating.

What we found challenging was trying to spell the tricky words. We also found replacing the pictures on Explain Everything a bit hard too. The hardest thing was to think about what we are going to write. It was very hard and challenging work.

Some people still have to finish their 'how to grow a plant' project and some people just have to get their's printed and then they will get hung on the wall. Some people have to finish the 'I can eat a rainbow' task and people that are finished are going to share with the class.

Thank you for reading our blog post.

By Zahra, Renesmee, Agnes, Hadassah, Loiloi and Neha

Flipping, Flying, Twisting, Turning

Happy Friday bloggers!

It's been a minute, but Harris Class is back with a new blog post!

The last few weeks have been very busy and we've been doing lots of fantastic learning. Some of that learning has been in P.E.

This term we have been lucky enough to have a Sport Auckland coach come to our school to teach us how to do gymnastics. Last week was our last session and we got to go to a proper gymnasium!

Check out some of the stories we wrote about our experience.

Here's some photos too!

       

Tornado in a Jar

Mālō ni everybody!

This term we have moved onto learning about tornadoes and yesterday we made our very own! How, you ask? Well! Let us tell you.

Renesmee - Today I have created a tornado in a jar. We used glitter to make it look like the tornado was sucking all of the stuff off the ground. The tornado is created by centripetal force.

Mohamed - I shook the jar to make a tornado. The glitter represented the debris that gets sucked up by the tornado. The centripetal force is what pushes the air to the middle.

Malia - We shook a jar and we made a twister. We made it look like a twister. We put soap, water and glitter in the jar. The centripetal force makes a twister by pushing the air to the middle.

Awan - I shook the jar to make a tornado. The glitter represented the debris that gets sucked up in a real tornado. A centripetal force is the air that's pushing the water and that's how you make a tornado in a jar.

Check out these videos to see how we did it. You might even like to give it a go yourself! Let us know if you do, we'd love to hear what you think of our little experiment. 😊

Happy Friday bloggers!

Dinosaur Detectives

Talofa lava bloggers!

We hope everyone has had a great start to the term - we sure have!

This week our reading group read a book called Dinosaur Detectives. One of the chapters was about how fossils are made and how to find them. Once we finished reading about fossils we had a go at searching for them ourselves!

Here are some pictures of our excavation efforts.

Blog yah later,

Layla, Rehmatullah, Renesmee, Malia and Krisha
Ngā Honu reading group

Little Garden League

Nĭ hăo bloggers!

Over the last three weeks we have been working away, growing vegetables and herbs, as new members of the Little Garden League!

After a rigorous application process, we were accepted into the club and given our mission - Grow, Protect, TATSTE! Our plants haven't grown quite big enough to eat just yet but we've got the grow and protect parts down pat! 😎

Are you guys a part of the Little Garden League as well? We'd love to hear from some fellow members.

Here are some photos of us planting our seeds, playing Veggie Patch Match, cracking the secret codes and preparing a patch in our school garden, where we will replant our seedlings once they're ready.

A big thank you to our caretaker, Mr Brody, for all of his help. 😊

Shake, Rattle and Roll!

Kia ora bloggers!

As you know, this term we have been learning all about natural disasters. Most recently we've been focussing on earthquakes. As a part of this new learning we took on the challenge of building an earthquake proof tower using only marshmallows and dry spaghetti!

The aim was to build the tallest possible free-standing tower that could withstand Miss Nodder's earthquakes (shaking and bumping the tables 😆).

It was quite a tricky (and messy) challenge but we had lots of great discussions about possible ways to construct the tower and build a strong enough foundation to support the weight of our materials.

Check us out, working as a team!

The Floor is Lava!

On Monday we wrote about volcanoes and it was all about what we knew about volcanoes. We described what a volcanic eruption is like. We all had to use fun, exciting words not boring words.

It was fun because every single volcano picture was amazing and we tried our best.

It was hard to think  of interesting words.

Our next steps are to publish our lovely writing and hang it up and maybe it can go in the newsletter.

Cook Islands Language Week

Kia orāna bloggers!

Pe'ea 'ua koe?

We hope you've all had a great week learning about and celebrating Cook Islands Language Week.

Here in Harris Class we learnt how to say some common phrases in Cook Islands Māori and we focussed this week's art on the tiare flower, which is the national flower of the Cook Islands. We also hosted a whole school assembly to celebrate all of the wonderful learning that has been going on in our school.

What did you learn about the Cook Islands this week?

Happy Matariki!

Kia ora bloggers!

Check out some of the Matariki art that we completed at the end of Term 2. We're very proud of our efforts and really enjoyed learning about the Māori New Year.

What did your class do to mark this special time of the year?

 These artworks were inspired by the story The Little Kiwi's Matariki.

We were lucky enough to have the fabulous Mrs B in our class while Miss Nodder was away for a few days. We made our very own Matariki stars and did some weaving too.

Amazing Animations!

Kia ora bloggers!

We were inspired by our Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu buddies at Makauri School. Check out their awesome animations on their blog.

So we decided to make our own animations using Explain Everything.

Here is Rayyan's...




And here is Krisha's




What do you like about our animations? Is there anything you think we could improve on?

Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa

Happy Samoan Language Week!

This week we celebrated Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa by creating our very own siapo. A siapo is a special Samoan mat, also known as a tapa cloth.

We looked at lots of different siapo designs and talked about the commonly used patterns and what they represent. We noticed that flowers were used a lot in Samoan art, particularly frangipani and hibiscus. Other patterns are inspired by leaves, animals and the ocean.

Here we are, presenting our finished siapo at our Samoan Language Week assembly for the whole school to see. We are very proud of our work and enjoyed learning about such a beautiful culture.

A special thank you to Mrs Falefa, our amazing learning assistant, for sharing her knowledge of Samoan culture with us.

Distance Learning - Week 5

This term we are exploring the concept of diversity. We're starting this unit of work off by finding out about ourselves and our own cultures.

One of our distance learning tasks this week was to make a 'discovery box' of things that represent who we are and where we come from. A discovery box is a collection of items that represent a person, place or thing.

Here are some of discovery boxes. Let us know what you think! 😊

Axel's Samoan discovery box

Anoosha's Pakistan discovery box

Tameer's Muslim discovery box

Distance Learning Weeks 3 & 4

Hello world!

Here are some of the distance learning tasks we've completed over the last two weeks. Take a look and feel free to leave us some thoughtful, helpful, positive feedback in the comment section below - we love reading and responding to your comments! :)



Another big thank you to our wonderful families for supporting us with our learning.

Distance Learning - Week 2

We're starting to get used to this whole distance learning thing here in Harris Class. Miss Nodder knows that learning from home can be hard at times so she's very impressed with the amount of time and effort we're putting into our online tasks.

Check out some of the work we did this week!




Thank you again to our families for helping us with our learning.

Distance Learning - Week 1

School looks a bit different at the moment but we've been trying our very best to continue learning from home.

Check out some of the distance learning work we've done this week.



Thank you to all the parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, aunties, uncles and cousins who have helped us with our learning this week. We appreciate you!

Duffy Books

At the end of Term 1 we received a special delivery from Scholastic New Zealand. Everyone in our class was gifted two new Duffy books! We got to take these books home and read them with our families.

Thank you Duffy and Scholastic New Zealand!

Term 1 P.E.

This term specialist coaches from Sport Auckland have been coming to our school to teach us about cricket and taekwondo. Here are some photos of what we have learnt so far.

Sustainable Coastlines beach clean up

Yesterday we took part in a Sustainable Coastlines beach clean up. Jody from Sustainable Coastlines came to our school and spoke to us about the amount of damage that plastic and other rubbish is doing to our wildlife and how we can help reduce this damage.

To do our bit to protect and preserve our natural environment we headed down to a local beach and collected all of the rubbish we could find. We found rubbish on the beach, on the rocks, in the bushes, and along the road and footpaths next to the beach. It made us sad that so many people chose to leave their rubbish at the beach instead of putting it in the bin or taking it home with them.

We're glad we were able to help clean up our local area and stop so much rubbish from ending up in the sea.

A big thank you to Jody and the Sustainable Coastlines team! 😊

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