Room One Math

Room one has been learning about multiplying and dividing by 10,100, and 1,000 here is how they have been working it out

63x10 = 630 

There's a thousand,hundred,tens,and ones column, so u put 6 in the tens column because there's 6 tens and the 3 goes in the ones column because there's 3 ones and you times it by 10 which makes the 63,630 so you move the digits one to the left so the six is in the thousand column and the 3 is in the tens column and the 0 is in the ones column because there's 0 ones.

Room 16 Making Shapes

Room 16 are learning about the different shapes around us. They looked at 2D shapes. They named the shapes by looking at its sides and points. Some shapes that they learnt about were, squares, triangles, circles and rectangles. Look at the cool patterns they have made with the shapes!

Zackery's Amazing Animation

Well done to Zackery from Room 13 who made this awesome animation. Room 16 and 13 are going to be learning more about animations over the next few weeks.

Puke Ariki Museum

Puke Ariki Museum 

Senior classes visited Puke Ariki Museum to learn more about our past. Students were fortunate enough to look through the exhibits in the museum Education Centre as well as working with the museum teachers, to find out more about New Zealand history. Students also tried their hand at some novel pieces of abstract art after visiting the Art gallery and having an art lesson. They also  visited Richmond Cottage

Dress Up!!!

Hi Everyone

Remember to get your "glad rags" or your dress up clothes ready for the first day of school. You can dress any way you like from any era (time). You might like to dress like someone from the 20's or the 60's or even further back like the the 1800's. Remember the best dress up gets a "juicie". Please remind your friends!!!

Slice of Time

On the first day of Term 2, we would like students to bring items to school for a Time Capsule. In this way we will be able to capture a slice of our time. The capsule will be buried on the school grounds. The items will be photographed and archived on the school blog. The items should represent something that reflects the way we live our lives today, so that when it is opened at the next jubilee it will be like a walk down memory lane. Please keep items fairly small and obviously non perishable.

Our Taonga

Yesterday afternoon we saw the last of the teachers sharing their taonga with the school.
Mrs Williamson shared her greenstone. She talked about how the greenstone needs to be blessed. She also shared how a greenstone is special to individual people. If the greenstone is not meant to be then it may break or be lost.

Mr Frank shared the story of his Grandfather and the whistle that he used during WWI.

Mr Sefton talked about the wedding rings he wears. He explained that they were important to him because of the meaning behind them. 

Triathlon Spot Prizes

Congratulations to all of those students who participated in the second triathlon last week. Three students from Opunake Primary School had their names pulled out for spot prizes. They were Charlie, Hamish and Quba. Congratulations.

Charlie W

Hamish

Quba

 Well done also to those students who have been participating in the triathlon as a team. Dallas participated with Tyler and Liam worked with Jaden. These boys worked effectively together and their effort has paid off by coming in 1st and 3rd in their races.

Dallas, Tyler, Liam and Jaden

 We have one more triathlon left that will be open to students who are 7 years old and older. This is a good chances for students to get a practice in before the Weetbix Triathlon that is coming up.

Taonga - Family Memories

During the last two afternoons Teachers have shared their special "taonga" with students that are special to them.

Here are some of the examples of the "taonga" they have shared with the students:

Mr Lodge and his old home movie footage from over 30 years ago.

Mrs Weir shared a painting of her family her daughter made when she was 7.

Miss Hale shared a sketch book that her Grandfather started. Her father and Miss Hale have also added drawings to the sketch book.

Mrs Potroz shared a fossil that her Grandfather sent to her from England when she was a little girl. The fossil was from a mine that her Grandfather worked in.

Miss Churchman brought along a violin that was her Dads. She told us that the violin was about 300 years old and has been handed down through her family.

Miss Churchman even played the violin for us.

Miss Ogle shared her Scrapbook and Ancestry App that shows her family tree. 

Today the whole school has been involved in a number of co-operative learning activities as part of our new unit. We are learning about how the past influences who we are today. We started by learning about archaeology and how archaeologists can make predictions about what happened in the past from fossils and artefacts. Artefacts are objects that have been created by humans. Teachers have shared special "taonga" with students that are special to them. They brought the artefact (object) along to school and have shared the story that makes this object special. In the next week we will be asking students to bring a special "taonga" (treasure) along to school and share the story behind the object with their class. 

As part of today's work students pretended that they were archaeologists. They will be given a packet of puzzle pieces that they have to put together. Once they have put their puzzle together; they will have a pictures of about 15 artefacts. They have to make inferences about how that group of people may have lived based on the artefacts in their puzzle.

Please follow our blog to learn more about what is happening each day in the unit.

Small Sticks Hockey Training

Today all students in the school worked with Mark Lyes, who is the Regional Development Officer for Taranaki Hockey. Mark was very impressed that many students had retained and built on the skills they learnt last year. Students will have four more sessions before the end of the term. Mark is hoping that some of these students will choose hockey as their winter sport this year.

Cool exercises to help students with their co-ordination

 Practising hockey drills

 Now to practise the skills in a game. Room 14 had a great session.

Try-Athlon

Today Opunake Primary School students participated in an inter school Try-Athlon. This is an amazing event organised by Kay Pointon and a team of able helpers including many Opunake Primary School parents. Our students had a great day and enjoyed every moment of this challenging event.

 Dallas, Jevyn, Pharrell and Brody getting ready for the cycle event.

 Ariana getting ready for action.

Hamish completing the swimming leg of the Try-Athlon.

 Charlie and Jazlin

 Ivy and Quba

 Waiting patiently for our events.