Term 3 Topic - Space, Discovery and The Nature of Science

Farewell Assembly

Today we had an assembly to farewell two fabulous teacher from Kamo Primary School.

Mr Leathley is heading to Egypt for a working Holliday at an international school and Mr Whelan is retiring from teaching to travel Europe and explore the country side in her house bus.

Very emotional for everyone involved, kids sung some beautiful songs and put together a fantastic iMovie of pictures, quotes and special messages to both teachers.

Very sad day for Kamo Primary School.

 

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Hands on Homework - Week 9 Task

This week for your Hands on Homework you will not only be able to be creative and so me how talented you are as an artist, but you could also win yourself a new computer, iPad, $10,000 cash for KPS and best of all you could be flying down to the Coolest place on EARTH ... Antarctica. All you have to do is Doodle 4 Google.

Art Afternoon - RIMU Syndicate

Every Thursday we have our ART afternoon. This is a chance for all the children in the Rimu syndicate to have a go at Art and explore a new media. This term we are focussing on Collage. 

Literacy Observation - Hide N Seek

We payed a game of hide n seek in the school native reserve this morning as motivation for our writing experience. We discussed Why we write, What writing we could generate, then began to structure our stories.

 

 

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Probability - Dice rolling OR 4 moves

We played a game to test a theory of probability. On a 100 square board who would win if, 1 payer uses a dice and moved the number shown or would a person moving 4 squares each time win.

The first results where fairly even. So we tested the theory and game again.

These are the second round of games results. They clearly show tat moving 4 squares each time was faster to get to 100

 

 

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Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori - 2013

Check Out These Great Websites -

100 Maori words every Kiwi should know AND Take the Maori Language Week QUIZ  - http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/maori-language-week/100-maori-words

Place Names NZ, English and Maori - 

http://www.korero.maori.nz/resources/map.html

Te Wiki O Te Reo Maori - Main Site

http://www.korero.maori.nz/news/mlw/index.html

Language Club - 

http://www.korero.maori.nz/home.html