Working in the māra

 Today Sam brought in some bulbs to plant in the school garden. James, Braxon, Olivia, Aleigha and Sam all helped to tidy up some of the planter boxes and put in some daffodils, crocus' and tulips. We can't wait to see what they look like in spring.

More from the El Gregoe Show

Check out Nixon from Room 5 who also lucky enough to be chosen to be a part of the magic. Sue's hands and feet were locked and her task was to get out of the locked box in a record of time. She achieved this and appeared out of the box with every lock removed! We were amazed. 

El Gregoe's Magic Show

 Today NBC had a special visitor come to perform magic, his name is El Gregoe. El Gregoe has been performing illusions with a message in schools all over Aotearoa for 22 years.

He came and spoke to us all about how we have the power to stop bullying. The key message of the show was for us to be caring, respectful, responsible, accepting and trustworthy. El Gregoe explained this through poems written by students and illusions. Some of the incredible illusions were making a dove appear from a painting, putting his hand through a mirror and his partner escaping chains and getting inside a locked box.

It was such an enjoyable experience and reminded us about how to use our WITS (Walk away, Ignore, Tell someone, Say stop). We certainly were amazed at how he performed the illusions and has inspired us to be magicians who care.

Some of us were lucky enough to be helpers in the show, Olivia, Beau and Lucas got the chance to be in the first magic show. See the photos below to see how they were as a magicians assistant.

Dangerous Decibels

 Yesterday we had Julie in to talk to us about hearing and decibels. We learnt all about our ears and what they are made of (outer, middle and inner) and the safe level of decibels for hearing, which is 85db. Normal conversation is usually at 70-80 decibels, tractors and motorbikes were at 110 decibels.

Our first experiment was to see how vibrations caused movement, this was to understand how vibrations send messages to our brains about what we are hearing. We used tuning forks and ping pong balls to see how vibrations work.

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Next we learnt about the 18,000 hairs we have that help us feel the vibrations. We experimented with pipe cleaners and moved our hands across them to replicate how the vibrations affect the hairs. When we hear loud noises the vibrations are faster and this can cause damage.

Lastly we learnt about the strategies we can use to protect our ears and hearing; walk away, protect your ears, turn it down.

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Camp Day Fun

 Yesterday we had camp day for Years 1-4 in the Rawhiti Domain. We had to look for clues to get to the next place. We lined up in our team letters and we had to stay in our groups and stick together. We made human pyramids, some people kept falling off! It was really fun. Some of us also made nests using pine needles and pine cones. The part Khorvez liked the best was sliding down the hill. Isa liked making straw men laying eggs inside the nest. We went on walks with our groups. Lucas’ group had a running race. Brenna liked playing with her friends on the playground. 

Next time we would love to walk to New Brighton beach or the whale pool. Scout would like to do a band performance. Kiara would like an ice cream in New Brighton. Isa thinks it would be cool to swim. Despina would like more tents and to have a tug of war. Brenna thinks we could try and walk to QEII and have a swim. Khorvez would like camp day to be at Flip Out. Mitchell would like to go hiking with the whole school in the mountains or the Port Hills.

by year 3's in Room 6

Duffy!

Today we were lucky to be able to receive our Duffy books, Duffy books in homes aim to inspire a love of books in children so that they become adults who inspire a love of reading. We had our Duffy role model assembly where we listened in to our role model Denzel Laumatia who found his love for books at a young age after his teacher led him to read about his interests in sports! This led him to find his passion through bodybuilding and academics. We learnt that we too can follow our passions, the world is our oyster! 

Check out the photos of us enjoying our 2 new books that we were lucky enough to choose!