Te Waka -Kahurangi Reading Group

Te waka is about these young adults who row there waka to different villages. They never stop chanting this haka as they row.

“toi mai”
“te waka”
“ki te urunga”
“te waka”

These particular boys got picked because there ancestors rowed the same waka and they wanted to keep it running through their families.

by Matthew and Cole

Dissolve It!

I worked with Alex and Troy. Our experiment was to see what lolly pop would dissolve the quickest in different liquids. We got Highly Commended Award. It was a lot of fun.
By Nathan - Kowhai Reading group

What Ball Has The Most Bounce?

I worked with Collete and Caitlin this term to do a science board investigation. We scored 26 marks by the judges.
I really liked doing the testing.
By Taine - Kowhai Reading Group

Extreme Acid Overload

Ka pai tamariki ma for all the hard work and effort that you have put into the science fair over the last few weeks. And a big congratulations to Sol and Cole for making it through to the regional science fair competitions.
All of you presented A1 standard work. Kei te pai!!!
Mrs Miss Mason

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

In Papura we are starting to read Bridge to Terabithia which is a book about a boy called Jess. He meets a girl called Leslie. Together they discover an imaginary world of their own, filled with magic and adventure. To get into their magical kingdom they swing by a rope.

This book is a powerful, moving story about friendship.

We can’t wait to read it.
Chapter one is called. . . Jesse, Oliver Aarons, Jr.
By Collette and Emma

Papura Reading Group - Speeches

Dear Diary

Speech writing has started in room 4.We have a time limit of 3-5 minutes!!!!

Our Topics are:
*Get involved.
*Something or someone I admire.
*I’d like to tell you about...

We have already listed lots of ideas and we are up to the point where we are picking our speech topic and brainstorming our ideas.

Akomanga Wha - Don't forget that you need to work on these at home too.

By Sol and callum

Kahurangi Reading Group - Science Fair

Things you need to do for the science fair:

1. You need to think of a question to investigate.
2. You need to have a hypothesis. (predict what will happen)
3. List things I will change. (variables)
4. List things I will keep the same.
5. Test and measure. (you need to test 3 - 5 times)
   
6. Record results
7. Set your board up.

Meihana and Danielle