Athletics

Wow! Look at these cool photos from Athletics Day.

High Jump Practice

Here are a couple of cool photos of Com 1 practising high jump. What great action shots!!

Westen was our girls' champion and Jimmy was our boys' champion.

The blog is alive!

Hey everyone,

The blog is alive and kicking ! Starting this week, we will be having Blog Detectives who are going to be looking out for cool and interesting things to go up on our blog. There is heaps happening at the moment!

ICT Expo

News:

Hi everyone. Tonight is the ICT expo. This is an opportunity for parents and children to come to school together. The children are showing their wonderful ICT learning to their parents. Please make sure that all children come! The times are as below:

5:30pm - 6:15pm Junior children are sharing their learning with their parents in communties 4-7.
6:15pm - 6:30pm Supper will be served in the hall for parents and children.
6:30pm - 7:15pm Senior children are sharing their learning with their parents in communities 1-3.

We expect all children to be here. Junior children should arrive from 5:20pm to get themselves set up. Please ring school and ask to speak to Denise or Wendy if you have any questions.

I look forward to seeing you all tonight.
From Denise Johnson

Fun way to improve your Times Tables

We are trying hard to learn our times-tables and division quickly. Go to the Mighty Maths page to practice using the games! Who knew maths could be such fun!

Riveting Reports

Community One are taking journalism to another level!
We are in the process of creating our own Newspaper the Team Tahi Times. Below are links to some useful online news websites. Remember to look for quotes, facts, photos, captions and explanations!
Happy Reading.

www.stuff.co.nz

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

Geometry

We have been working hard learning how to draw scale maps, follow and write directions, use grid references and will soon be orienteering with compasses. We did a quick brainstorm of words we are commonly using. Go to our Mighty Maths tab, click on GeoNet and practice your geometry skills, you may want to use an Atlas too.

Team Tahi's Fair Test

Fair Test

Com 1 was investigating what the different reactions would be if you put a mentos in Coke. The coke's we used were Diet Coke, Flat Coke, Normal Coke and Coke Zero. We just used Mint flavoured mentos. The Fair Test was fun and the results were interesting. (Jack, Laura, Noah, Sophie)

Hypotheses

A hypothesis is a prediction of what is going to happen. These were our predictions.

18 people thought normal coke would react the most

4 people thought that coke zero would react the most

Everyone thought that flat coke would react the least.

(Westen, Jazmin, Eve, Kate, Lochlan, Cassie)

Results

Diet Coke left 970mls in the bottle

Normal Coke left 1200mls

Coke Zero left 1140mls

Flat Coke left 1500mls.

The flat coke did not react at all.

(Iain, Skye, Mikayla, Valdemar, Jamie S, Martina)

Findings

Flat coke did not react, diet coke had the biggest reaction and coke zero came second.

We thought the reaction was mainly to do with the carbon because there was no reaction in flat coke.

Variables

These are things that can change our results for example:

amount of coke, different flavoured mentos, size and shape of the bottle, amount of bubbles in the bottles.

(Paris, Shane, James, Kaleb, Jamie M

The first week of Term 2 was Science Week. We decided we wanted to look at the idea of fair testing. The coke/mentos experiment was the one the class decided on. Have a look at our video to see it in action.

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

Marae Camp

Flower Show Art

For our flower show art we studied Maori patterns. From here we cut up small pieces of paper and created our own Maori Mosiacs.

Our Mihi

While we have been getting to know each other in Com 1, we have been revisiting our Mihi. A Mihi is a greeting in Maori (the indigenous people of NZ). It is used to introduce ourselves. When many people get together for the first time, it is nice to make connections. A mihi helps us identify what people, places and ancestors we might have in common with people we are meeting for the first time.