Crawl Fish Stream

On Tuesday we went on a class visit to Crawl Fish Stream. Our class was investigating the health of the water in this location. We tested many aspects of the waterway to establish its health. We looked at the temperature of the water, flow rates, invertebrate populations present and periphytons in the waterway. We measured the water flow in the stream, stream bed composition, and water depth. All of the aspects were considered before we could pass a judgement on the stream health. The class undertook this activities because we got a School Kit from Dairy NZ. We chose Crawl Fish Stream because it was within walking distance of the school so we can repeat our visit at different times of the year to monitor the health of the waterway. Our favourite activity was racing the orange downstream and timing it between two points to work out the flow rate of the water. There was an awful lot of maths involved in our investigation.

Football Fun with Matt

Today Matt gave student is Piwakawaka a chance to show off their football skills. As well as drills we has us the opportunity to play a game. Matt is from the Football Association and he is promoting football as a sport for Westland children. Piwakawaka really enjoyed the drills and loved the game. Matt was impressed with the skills on display. Awesome effort Piwakawaka.

Junk 2 Funk Costume making

For Junk to Funk me Renny, Lucy, Olivia and Xanthe are making a super virus. It is made out of boxes any rolls, egg cartons  and tape. we glued it together with a hot glue gun.  It is fun because it is my first time using a hot glue gun.  We took turns using the hot glue gun. We did it at Renny's house in the shed. We had 2 packets of chips and we ate them all. My favourite thing was using the hot glue gun.

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Friday Fun

This is a copy of Taylors blog post about our Friday Fun.

Tessellation Art

Finally our tessellation art is finished and hanging on our wall. The art was part of our Geometry learning. We learnt about reflection, translation, and rotation of shapes. It took a long time to colour it in. We presented our work at assembly. We hope you enjoy it.

Anzac Day

These are some of the projects Piwakawaka students completed as par t of their ANZAC learning. The projects have been completed at home while we are doing distance learning. There are so many creative kids.

Physical Education

Piwakawaka has been focussed on building our aerobic fitness. This gets our heart and lungs fit. We have been circuit training which means we do short bursts of high intensity movement to increase our heart rate. The movement changes but it is fast. We can be running, jumping, or skipping. We are building our fitness for the cross country later this term. We also run our cycle track. It is four hundred metres long. As a class we want to run the length of the South Island. We will need to do 3500 laps.