Smoothie Delight

Last term a student decided that he would like to do an inquiry into making some healthy smoothies to share with the class. He used a tally chart to find out which flavour was most popular with the children. He researched possible recipes of that flavour and after shopping for ingredients tried a taste test at home. He needed to keep in mind food intolerances and allergies and came up with a winning recipe. After making the smoothie at home he brought it in and served it up with delicious coconut sprinkles and a scoop of chocolate coconut ice cream. The children all loved the delicious and healthy treat!

Here are some pictures of parts of the process:

Performance Evening

Our students loved sharing their learning of the Arts with whanau and friends this week:

Playing a solo

Singing a peace song

Playing our instruments

Singing with the rest of the school

Another solo

Part of the Kapa Haka group

Walt describe a moment in time and add detail.
As I saw my competitors gaining up on me I felt terrible I thought I would come 2nd. I felt the waves splashing on my face. The salt water tasted discussting it was so salty. I heard the crowd cheering loud it became louder and louder. I smelled the victory it was so exciting. My arms started to ack but I didint stop paddling the oars on my boat. I said to myself do not stop! I was in the lead I have wun! I got the gold medal!
By Carmen Stewart.

Amazing Artwork!

This is a shout-out to Mo for helping me complete my goals in art and sketching!

Music

The Year 5 & 6 students composed a couple of pieces in music.

The first one is an Ostinanato Piece. (Click on the link to hear the piece.)
The second one is a composition the students did to cheer me up when I was home, sick.

Enjoy!

Why Montessori has multi-age groupings

Here is an interesting article about the benefits of multi-age classrooms:

Why Montessori has multi-age classrooms

Exciting Learning in Term Two

Students using adjectives to describe different types of triangles

Here is some of our amazing learning this term:

Here a student is finding out that a mixture can be separated (e.g. iron sand and sand)

Students wrote and performed a play for the class 

Exploring prepositions using the Grammar Box

Building skeletons of 3D solids

Putting all of the skeletons together to make a structure

Exploring the parts of a flower

Sketching a dog

Drawing a fish to make a clay model

Finished and labelled model of a fish

Some students sewed pieces of fabric together to make a mat for our bead chains

Here they are checking the measurements of the mat