Ruma Toru, Wha 2018

Miles came to teach us some more basketball skills. He showed us how to bounce the basketball. We could only use one hand at a time. We needed to practise swapping hands while still bouncing the basketball. We bounced the ball to a buddy. Bouncing the ball in basketball is called dribbling.

We were treated to a special visitor to our team during Science week - a real scientist! Mr Naffa treated us to some amazing science experiments with dry ice. The scientific name for this is liquid nitrogen. It freezes at -200 degrees!! Brrrr that's cold! He showed us how quickly if could turn a squishy marshmallow into a solid  marshmallow. (They still tasted yum!) We then went outside and Mr Naffa made elephant toothpaste. It made us all go oooh and aaah

We had fun on Wednesday afternoon making volcanoes!! Our mission was to make a volcano with a tray, a trowel, vinegar, baking soda and water/dye. Our special visitor to help us was Mr Pouniu and Jacob! We first watched a video about the volcano in Hawaii! Click on the slide below to see what we got up too. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1loMlvqudYPbN2v-NFq9qzkDjWvEzl1EkktjyVUwO9q8/edit?ts=5afb9be0#slide=id.p

We were lucky enough to have Sarah and Rowena from DOC and Horizons Education come to school and share with us their love of bugs. They told us that bugs are very important to the environment. We then went on a bug hunt!. We collected leaf litter in a tray and then carefully looked under the leaves to find and identify bugs. We also found a BIG spider!!!! We had lots of fun looking for bugs!

Today Miles came to teach us basketball skills. We learned how to "Jump stop!" We have to jump, then stop with our feet part, knees bent and hands ready to catch a ball. We bounced a 'small furry basketball' with a buddy - we thought this was funny and told Miles we were bouncing a tennis ball!

We took some skittles and put them on a plate. We put hot water on one plate and cold water on the  other plate. We were scientists. We predicted what we thought would happen, we used our eyes to OBSERVE what happened, then we recorded our findings.

On Monday a special visitor came to speak to us. His name was Brando Yelavich, but he said we could call him Wild Boy. He is an explorer and likes to go on big adventures. Wild Boy's first adventure was walking all around New Zealand - it took him 600 days! Sometimes he got really tired, but he never gave up - he showed resilience. Wild Boy's next adventure is to walk across Greenland - he is counting down. He will give updates on his adventure on his website https://www.wildboyadventures.com/about-brando  Wild Boy says, "Make your own luck!"