Sugary Drinks with Project Energize - Report written by Daniel and ?

On Wednesday Room 10 were visited by Project Energize’s - Jono and Zane. First Jono told us about sugary
drinks. Then we got into groups of 5. We were trying to figure out which drinks had the most sugar - from
the highest to lowest sugary drink.

We found out that the sugary drink with the most sugar is a flavored fruit drink E2. The lowest sugary drink is WATER!!! Room 10 also learned about how often we should have different drinks. We had lots of fun learning about sugary drinks with Jono and Zane.  

Our Historical Walk - Report written by Jawad and Seth

On Tuesday the 26th of March, Kauri Team went for a walk around Miropiko Pa, then along
River Road to Memorial Park, to learn about the history of Hamilton. First, we went to Miropiko
Pa and saw a house that had Maori carvings all over it. It had lots of information on the back
and the front of it.  Next to the house was a tall piece of wood called a Po, which had been
carved into 3 people. After exploring Miropiko Pa we had morning tea.

After we had morning tea we walked to Memorial Park and saw lots of cool stuff like the Spitfire,
the artillery gun and the anchor. All the statues were so big. One was bigger than all of them and
that was the Rangiriri (the boat). The boat was all rusty and some of it was broken off because
of the rain and the river.

It was so much fun getting to see so many different things, like the Spitfire, gun and the anchor
as we said at the start.  It was amazing - you should go and look at it one day yourself!

We got a Parcel #GetNZWriting - Report written by Nandita and Kodyak

In room 10 we wrote some poems and we sent them to Westport North School.

We waited for them to send their poems that they were going to write to us, and then
one day......Westport North School sent back something to us. When we opened the
parcel there was a poem that they had written to us “Black is it a shade”. There were
also little poems written on postcards, that each one of them had written to us. Each one
of the poems had numbers on them. We knew that all the little postcards were like a
puzzle. We had to solve the puzzle. We tried to solve it - we tried and tried until we got
it!

Everyone found it tricky but no one gave up!

Getting Inspired!

Today we were sketching some found "treasure" from our Gardens around the school.  Catherine made the students draw with their wrong hand.  The groaning from the students was entertaining but when they were allowed to swap back to their own hands, the next drawings were much better.  We had a trial using charcoal and then colouring in our work with chalk pastels.