Monday 21 November 2016

Sunday 11 September 2016

Tuesday 9 August 2016

Yr 5/6 Rugby/Netball Tournament POSTPONED

The Yr 5/6 Rugby/Netball tournament has been postponed until Thursday 11th August due to poor ground conditions at Lincoln.

Friday 15 July 2016

Tessa, Alex and Eric's Inquiry Project

Sonya, Raewyn and Lily's Inquiry Project

Maxwell, Shay and Sam W's Inquiry Project

Luke, Ben A and Todd's Inquiry Project

Ianthe, Isabella, Holly and Hayley's Inquiry Project

Alex, Eric and Baxter's Inquiry Project

Ella F, Joseph, Molly and Sienna's Inquiry Project

Lachlan and Brody's Inquiry Project

Ben W's Inquiry Project

Friday 1 July 2016

Ella's Horse


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We had a visitor in Rakiura today. Ella F built this fantastic horse as part of her home learning.

Ella's Horse


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Friday 24 June 2016

Let's Make Kindness Go Viral!

Over the past two weeks we have been talking about being kind. Lovelock have created a video about why they think kindness is important and they have also given some examples of kindness.


Friday 17 June 2016

Chemistry Games

Check out these games to help our learning in chemistry. What can you tell me about chemistry?

Chem-i-kul!
Changing States
Melting Points
Solids, Liquids & Gases

Friday 10 June 2016

Speed Writing

We got sent some photos from Tessa's overseas trip and decided to use one of them for our writing inspiration.


In speed writing we get 5 minutes to write as many words as possible. Today Sam G wrote the following:

Boom! As the doors open to my dream world every lolly, sweet and chocolate were in there. There was a computer and it said to type what you wanted so I typed in Destroyers. Something zoomed past me and it had 1 tube of Destroyers. "Oh my gosh!" A bit of saliva rolls down my cheek.

There was a door to the left of that said Rainbow Fall. I open the door. You're allowed to eat anything in that room and you don't need to pay. I sink my teeth into a lolly flower.


Inquiry Ollie Alex Lachie


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MOUNTAINS Tall rocky structures formed by tectonic plates strongly pushing large pieces of earths crust upward. VALLEYS Low land between two hills or mountains. Formed by glaciers and rivers.

Valley Project


Valey


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Valey


Valleys And Mountains


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Valleys and Mountains This is my valley I made out of play dough. The valley is in between two mountains . The difference between a mountain and a valley is : That a valley has been pushed down by plates and the mountains have been pushed up by plates.

Sussige Mountin


Friday 20 May 2016

Arty Farty


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As part of her home learning Estelle found out about Vincent Van Gogh and created her own version of Starry Night. The colours she chose are fantastic!

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Eliot's Home Learning

Check out Eliot completing Home Learning Task #16 "Exploding Lunch Bag".
What do you think Eliot has put in to the bag to make it explode?





Thursday 12 May 2016

Extinct Animals Information Websites & Games

Here are some websites to help you find some information about the extinct animal you are researching:

The Learning Zone
Top 11 Most Amazing Extinct Animals

Below are two games you can play that teach us about extinct and endangered animals. What facts can you find out through these games? Leave a comment below with a fact.

Team Wild
Endangered Animals

Friday 6 May 2016

20 Second Club

This term we have been issued a new challenge called "The 20 Second Club". We have to say our times tables in 20 seconds. Check out this video of William O showing us an example of how we do it - he's pretty fast!


We only started this yesterday and check out these people that have already passed one (or more!)!



P.S. Lucy has passed two as well but she did after the photo! Georgia L has also passed one and William O also passed another one after the photo!

By Chloe-Rose, Georgia L, Lilly-Maree, Lily, Piper, Savannah, and William O

Wednesday 4 May 2016

Blog Badges

Welcome back to Term 2!

Yesterday Carol came in and introduced us to BLOG BADGES. It is a great way to share our learning in different and creative ways. We are encouraged to use a range of apps to work towards different badges that then get put on our blog.

As an example, one of the activities is to create a time lapse. I decided to do a time lapse of our class on the brand new equipment in our adventure learning centre.

Thursday 31 March 2016

Growth Mindset


We've been looking at the challenges of learning and how important it is to have a growth mindset. Hopefully the parents are starting to hear some of the yellow comments at home.


Dynamic Thinking

We have got a great group of kids taking part in our Dynamic Thinking lessons and it is great to hear some of their enthusiastic comments about it.

We've been looking at what thinking looks like and the children showed me their thinking faces.


Make sure you ask your children about what the spiral symbol means in the bottom left.

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Rakiura 2016 - our awesome classroom

Hello and welcome to Rakiura 2016. We are a class of Year 4, 5 and 6 students from Springston School, Christchurch, New Zealand.

We work in the Rakiura building. It is named Rakiura after one of the nine great walks of New Zealand.

On this blog we will be sharing our learning and any important notices for our class.
We hope you enjoy our blog.