A Visit from a NZ Olympic Ambassador - Alexis Pritchard

39 year old former NZ Olympic boxer came to Paparore School this morning. We learnt some important values from her talk this morning 

EXCELLENCE

FRIENDSHIP

RESPECT

Here are some ways we can show this: 

1. Never give up when you lose, go back and try again
2. Show respect for your opponent 
3. Always do your best in anything you do 
4. Be brave, even when you're scared or trying something new

Our First Pet and Ag Day!

We all had so much fun at Paparore School's first Pet and Ag Day!

Here a just a few entries to have a look at...

Some superb efforts at home to make these miniature worlds!

The decorated cupcakes were made at home.
They were outstanding! Too cute to eat!

It took a few weeks to make our paper plate farm animals.

On the day, everyone made pretty patterns with petals on a vaseline saucer. 

 

Metamorphosis!

 From Caterpillar to Butterfly!

Caterpillars eat lots and lots to grow big and strong.

We created role plays about one of our favourite books!

We created art to learn about the life cycle of a monarch caterpillar.

And an ant too!

One of our caterpillars made a chrysalis on the swan plant stem

But one of them made a run for it...

Higher and higher across our name banners...

...all the way up to the ceiling! We called him 'Roofie'

Then he curled up and hung there for a few weeks.

Until one day he morphed into a butterfly!

 He dried and strengthened his wings.

Aria and Mermaid Barbie saved 'Roofie' after he flew down into the sink!

Then we let him fly free outside.

We are scientists, actors and artists!

Theatre Show!

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Playhouse Theatre came to school to perform a show!

There were only three actors. They spoke in French accents.

One of their costumes was a mannikin.

The actors sang, danced and told us a story.

Everyone laughed and cheered!

Especially when the Emperor tried on his new INVISIBLE clothes!

At the end, his suit was made out of a money cheque.

 

Father's Day art

Today we made some art for our dads (for Father's Day on Sunday). We used our hand and finger prints to make these wonderful creations. It was lots of fun.

Daffodil Day 2022

Today we dressed up in yellow for Daffodil Day. We brought gold coins to school to fundraise for the Cancer Society. Our school raised $370 this year!  Michele painted daffodils on our cheeks with the face paint.

Lykan's funny biscuit

We love our school lunches. Today Lykan found a funny shaped biscuit. One of his friends thought that it looked like a poppy flower. What do you think happened to his biscuit???

Fun Maths!

 Coding with BeeBots!

Richard visited our class to teach us about robots.

We learnt names for directions: turn left, right, go forwards, backwards.

First we worked out the instructions or codes on a white board.

Then we programmed the Beebot with our code.

Go Beebot! Now we see if our instructions are correct

If it doesn't work, we press Clear and try again.

We also learnt to scan a QR code on our iPads.

We found the Beebot emulator programme and different maps.

We chose a map or grid to move the little Beebot around on.

We loved our new learning and we are practising each week!