Felicity Using Her Measurement Skills

Feclitiy has been baking with her family during lockdown and made some wonderful looking banana muffins. She then used her digital skills to put together this slideshow.

Country Study

 The children in Room 5 have been studying the Tokyo Olympics.  One of the challenges they were set this year was to pick a country who competed in the Tokyo Olympics and do a country study on them.  Here is a fabulous example that Chido completed on Zimbabwe. 

Discovering Out Past - Ahaura Now and Then

 This term the students at Awahono have been 'Discovering Our Past'.  This has been a topic where the students did an inquiry around Ahaura and how the town came to be.  We learn many different things and the students were able to focus on half a decade per group.  They had 3 major challenges, 1 was to build a 3D model of Ahaura during the timeframe they were researching, 2 was to create a slideshow with information to support their 3D model and 3 was to build Ahaura on Minecraft.

We had a sharing afternoon today where all the other classes at Awahono came in to see our displays. I am really proud of all the children and the work they presented.

Fraction Kababs

 Today we combined Matariki and our learning.  We are having a whole school shared Matariki breakfast so we made some kababs and had to write the fraction of each fruit or marshmallow on each kabab.  

Here are some photos of us making the kababs:

After making the kababs we then had to put together a slideshow that showed the fractions that we had made.  Here is Aroha's slideshow:

Just before morning tea the whole school got together and had a shared Matariki Breakfast (it was a late breakfast), while we read the story 'Matariki Breakfast'.  Here are some photos of this awesome experience.

Grey High School Science Club Comes to Awahono!

 Today the students in Rm 5 were given a wonderful opportunity as the Greymouth High School Science Club came out to Awahono School to share some kitchen science with us.  There were 3 experiments that we got try one was making sherbert, one was looking at what fruit has the most acid and one was looking whether liquids were acidic, base or neutral. 

This was such a cool experience for everyone and we intend to develop our learning around this even more.

Rip Rugby Tournament

 We are lucky enough have the opportunity to enter a year 5/6 Rip Rugby tournament that is held in Greymouth each Friday throughout June.  The children who have entered are Adarsh, Tom N, Logan, Deacon, Taylor-Rose, Sophie, Cohen and AJ.  They had their first 2 games on Friday and had so much fun.  I would like to say a massive thank you to Julie the TA who is supporting this team and to all the parent helpers who are helping to transport the children into Greymouth.

Super Weirdos

 Room 5 were given a challenge today to create a 'Super Werido'.  This relates to the share story we are reading called 'Super Weridos and the Battle of the Bash' written by Mr Mac.

Without meeting as a group each person had a part of the body to design for example one person created the head and neck, the next person created the main body part from the shoulders to the hips and the last person created the legs and feet.  The next step was to come together and put all the body parts together to create our 'Super Werido'.

To bring writing into this challenge we had to write a character description collaboratively.  Here is an example from Corey, Chiedza and Frank.