Mt Maunganui Primary School

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Kia Ora from Mt Maunganui

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Look at Us

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Our Legends in Blue

Mt Maunganui Police Station Visit on PhotoPeach

Out of this World Creatures

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

SPCA Team Trip

Last week we enjoyed a much -looked- forward- to trip to the Tauranga Animal Shelter. The children (and parents and teachers!) loved patting and leading the new puppies and saying hello to the cats. We brought them in some pet food to keep them going and we hoped that they all find new human companions very soon!
















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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Legend of Mauao Art Work

Here are some of our completed mixed-media artworks from Visual Art Week (the end of Term 2). These pictures were inspired from the local Legend of Mauao
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Our Sock Creatures with Features

Out of This World Puppets on PhotoPeach

Tay St Beach: Meet Team Lee!

Tay St: Meet Team Lee on PhotoPeach

Our Backyard Birds

Go Rockin' Robin! on PhotoPeach

Nimbus the Horse says Neigh!

The Mighty Nimbus on PhotoPeach

My Favourite Tree

My Favourite Tree in My Backyard on PhotoPeach

Presenting: The Team

The Team on PhotoPeach

End of Year Adventures. Happy Holidays!!!

The Grand Finale 2010 on PhotoPeach

Something Fishy

Something Fishy on PhotoPeach

Flower Power

Flower Power on PhotoPeach

Rain, Rain, go away!

Rainy Day on PhotoPeach

Commonwealth Games Day

Commonwealth Games Day on PhotoPeach

We are Firewise!

The Legend of Mauao

The Super Fun Supermarket

Last week Team Tay visited the local NewWorld Supermarket as part of our Term Two 'Food' Topic. We had a good look behind the scenes in the bakery, chiller, butchery and packing area. We have written about our highlights for you to read:

Super Fun Supermarket

What's inside My Fruit?

Autumn Leaves are Fluttering

Our KidPix Bug Life Cycles Movie

Night Moths

Beach, You Are Our Friend!

Cheeky Monkey Makes Friends

Our Good Morning Song

Aren't We Amazing!

Who Are We?

More Adventures with that Cheeky Monkey!


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Pop Art Photos of Us

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That Cheeky Monkey...


Christmas Puppets


Welcome 10 new classmates!

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Welcome 10 new families!

Welcome new children from Room 12 and your parents and caregivers!  We are working to ensure a smooth transition in becoming a Room 8 Great.  Feel free to come and have a chat if you have anything to share or questions to ask :)

Weather Wordles

Wordle: Oliver Wordle Wordle: Robbie and Charlie Wordle: Andrew & Josh Wordle Wordle: Mikey Wordle Wordle: Maya & Kate Wordle Wordle: Matthew Wordle Wordle: Lincoln Wordle Wordle: Josiah Wordle: Joe Wordle Wordle: Helena Wordle Wordle: Geordie Wordle Wordle: Evva and Lillee Wordle Wordle: Emily Wordle Wordle: Jemima & Lucia

Iron Brion Show

We Love Iron Brion!

The Iron Brion Roadshow visited Mount Primary last week.  We learned about the 4 different food groups:

Meat and meat alternatives, vegetables and fruit, dairy products, bread and grains.

Now we know that to be healthy and strong we need to eat foods from all of the groups. 

The children that eat meat were given a hamburger to enjoy for lunch - yum!!

Thanks, Iron Brion!

Why does a boat float?

Water, Water, Everywhere!

Last week, as part of our Water Topic Inquiry we conducted some simple science experiments to find out what kind of classroom objects float and what kind sink, and why. 

We found out that the shape, weight and density of an object affect how much water is displaced, and whether it will sink to the bottom, or float on the top. 

We excitedly took turns to dunk pencils, paper-clips, erasers, cotton-wool, corks, coins and the teacher's apple(!), into containers of water -and observed and recorded what we saw.

Some objects sunk quickly, and others more slowly.  

Earlier in the week, we also investigated the differences between salt-water and fresh-water.  The taste-testing part proved popular!

Bubble Bubble

This week we began our writing topic outside blowing bubbles.  As well as having a lot of fun, we looked very closely and asked ourselves some questions.

 What did they look like?  What shapes were they?  What did they do?  What did they feel like?  Some children also discovered what they tasted like... :-/

The children took photos of eachother creating the bubbles.  Next they wrote descriptions of their bubbles on Kidpix on the C.O.W. laptops and imported their photos in as the background picture.

Finally we used ink blowing through straws to create a picture of our favourite bubble.  Miss Walker made sure we used tissues to stop us accidently tasting the ink...

Bubble Magic!

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Blowing Beautiful Bubbles

Life Education Week

Room 8 is gaining from our time in the Life Education mobile classroom this week.  We are learning about how to look after our bodies and what our heart, lungs, stomach and brains do.  Some of the children were invited to be 'doctors' and to show their classmates where these parts of the body belong on the model.

We also gained some tips on how to be a good friend and look after each other.  We are all special!

We are special

What a lot of characters!

Book Week

As Term 2 began, Room 8 celebrated Literacy Week by reading about and dressing up as, our favourite book characters.  Pirates, witches, fairies and more, played happily with Hairy Maclary and his friends.

Didn't we enjoy the parade! 

We also decided to learn more about local Author Lynley Dodd, as her books were among the most enjoyed in our class library. 

Hairy MacLary - you're a star!

Busy Bees

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Weather Patterns

Rainbow Magic

We are learning about rainbows this week, as part of our Weather and Water Topic.  How many colours does a rainbow have?   What are the names of the colours?  What order do the colours go in?   We used Kidpix to show our learning.  It was tricky to draw all the colours together in an arc shape!   Everybody's rainbow looked different, just like we do! 

I can see a rainbow!

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Cheeky Monkey Out and About