Balloon Fun

We had a lot of fun blowing up balloons for some games that will be at the Burnside Primary School Fun Day tomorrow! We are all very excited!!!

Te Waka o Matariki

We worked in groups to sequence some story cards.  We worked in groups to say which picture came first, next and last.  Then we had to make up a story to match the pictures.  We had to look very carefully at the pictures to see what order to put them in.

Burnside Stars

At Assembly today we had 3 certificate recipients - Riley, Ahi and Eseta.  We are very proud of these students and what they have achieved this week.  Riley showed Integrity, Ahi showed Excellence and Eseta also showed Excellence.

We were also very proud of the three children who received Cool Kids Awards - Heather, Tyson and TK.  They were able to have a hot chocolate with marshmallows with Mr Bateman.  Thanks for bringing the teachers back a marshmallow too :-)

Great learners!

How many piwakawaka's can you fit around one computer?  It was so lovely to watch this bunch of learners before school helping each other to find the numbers.  Great cooperation, support and encouragement!

Cultural Week Visual Art

During Cultural Week we learnt a lot about the Maori gods that are part of the creation story.  We used these outlines to practice drawing a koru shape.  We will fill the backgrounds and dye them.  Come back next week and see the final results of these and our printmaking koru shapes.

We've also been practicing our collaboration by working on these with one or two buddies.  It is awesome to watch the children working together and using their words to express their feelings and ideas about their learning together.

Hui

This week in hui we sang one of our old favourites - two little dicky birds.

Today Ahi, Collin, Mason and Alexia were our leaders! They did a fantastic job in leading the whole team in our rhyme!

Check out their awesome performance!

Handwriting Star Ahi

Ahi was our handwriting star for trying to make his letters the right way and focusing on his work and getting it finished in time.  Ka pai Ahi!

Discovery Time

Today we watched a youtube video and we had to work out how each part of it was showing our focus disposition of collaboration.

You can watch the video here.

At the end of Discovery Time we celebrate those children who were our Discovery Stars.  This week congratulations go to Pagen, Collin and Maya.  Each of these students did a very different part of Collaboration.

We also have our reflection time.  This is the time where we think about our own actions at Discovery Time.  Today we looked at some photos that had been taken during Discovery Time and thought about what each person in the photos was doing and if it was Collaborative.  Some of the photos were taken because they were great fun, others because they showed Collaboration.  Can you find the photos that are collaborative?