Ideas for the school holidays

Me mahi tahi tātou mō te oranga o te katoa.We should work together for the wellbeing of everyone. 

For all children, we will be supporting their learning from your home in the new term through online learning via Seesaw, class blogs and via links on Facebook.  For the next three days and during the school holidays (that have been brought forward to next week 30th March to 15th April) learning resources will be available on class blogs. We are currently developing online programmes with some degree of connectivity to begin after the school holidays.

A message from Nathan Wallis:

If I can leave you with one thing, it’s this: at the end of all of this, your kids’ mental health will be more important than their academic skills.  And how they felt during this time will stay with them long after the memory of what they did during those weeks is long gone. So keep that in mind, every single day…

Hot air balloons

We've been thinking about hot air balloons all week in Room 15! We've read stories about hot air balloons, we've created hot air balloon art, we learnt how hot air balloons fly and we also saw some hot air balloons flying near our school on Wednesday morning.

Hot air makes the balloons go up. -MacKenzie

The fire makes the hot balloon fly because hot air is lighter than cold air. -Aryan

Hot air balloons only fly on still days. That means there's no wind and no rain. To make the hot air balloons go they pull a rope and cracks open up to let the hot air out. I saw 7 balloons outside my house this week and one of them was really close! One of them was a unicorn! -Cameron

 Hot air balloons can take you places like over the Waikato river in Hamilton. -Aeris

The hot air balloons only come out in the mornings and nights when it's cool. We saw some hot air balloons at school one morning. We saw one that was shaped like a truck! -Amelia

Some hot air balloons have chairs in the basket that you can sit in. -MacKenzie

The ropes can help hot air balloons turn. -Mahi

We read Barney Malloon's Balloon this week. He crashed his balloon. Barney learned to share his balloon. -Abdullahi