Tabloid Sports Day

 Last week the Year 3's got to go to a tabloid sports day organised and run by the students at Shirley Boys High School. It was great. We got to try out a lot of activities.

Even giraffes are mindful!

Yesterday the Mindful Movers came to school for our second lesson this term. Mindfulness helps us keep calm and stay in our green brain. Here we are practising our mindfulness. We listen to the ding of the bell for as long as we can and concentrate on our breathing. 

Leave us a comment about what helps you stay in your green brain.

Super Sports Session

Today the college students from Avonside Girls' High School came and ran a tabloid sport session for us. We had a great time and tried some new games. We want to say, "Thank you, Avonside! We hope you can come back soon."

Come fishing with us ...

Today we made fish kites as part of our Choice and Challenge activities.
Here we are fishing off the playground.

Can you make a fish kite and share a picture with us?

Planting afternoon at Rāwhiti Domain

Yesterday a small group of students walked down to Rāwhiti Domain to plant trees. Thankfully we had amazing weather! We planted a range of plants on a hill. 

Thank you to all the parents who came and helped!

For Sale! Tiny Minecraft Houses...

A group of students from Papatūānuku were given the challenge to build a tiny house.  The limit of the floor plan for the house was a maximum of 40 blocks in perimeter.

Do you have any Minecoins? Check out the student blogs to see all the different houses for sale.  What house would you buy?  

Houses For Sale:

For sale: Stone Tiny House

Builders: JT and Maeve 

For sale: Red & White Tiny House

Builders: Joel and Jamahni

For sale: Tiny White House

Builders: Braxton and Archer 

For sale: The Tiny Stone House

Builder: Samara 

For sale: Tiny Spy House

Builders: Caleb and Samuel 

For sale: Tiny Mansion 

Builders: James and Niko 

For sale: Minecraft Tiny House

Builders: Emilie and Harley 

For sale: Tiny Wizard House

Builders: Jasper and George 

For sale: Tiny Wooden House with Secret Rooms

Builder: Paige 

For sale: Tiny House

Builder: Jaxon

For sale: The Luxury 2-Storey House

Builder: Ben

For sale: Purple Boy Tiny House

Builder: Lucas

For sale: A Tiny House for Sale!

Builder: Anika & Mira

Voice type reading

Today, during our Chromebook time we learnt how to use the 'voice type' tool in Google Docs.

We had to put our new skills to use and remember how to make a copy of something and save it to our drives. Next we had to insert a photo of the book cover and then use the 'voice type' to record our reading for us. Once we finished our book we used the 'word count' tool to tell us how many words we read. We hope to beat that number next time we do reading. 

This is the second time we have used this tool and each time we are getting better at navigating our way around the Google Doc and where to find the 'tools' we need.