Welcome to another busy term.
Last week the children participated in a technology activity called "The Great Egg Challenge. They had to work in groups and using the materials supplied design an egg container that would keep a raw egg intact when dropped.
The children really enjoyed working in groups to plan their design, make their design and then finally to test their design.
Here are some showing different stages of the process.

For Mathematics at the moment we are focusing on addition and subtraction. The children are being encouraged to practice their basic facts, doubles and skip counting forward and back in 2s,5s and 10s to help them with their problem solving.
Our P.E. focus at the moment is running, jumping and throwing skills. This is in preparation for our athletic sports later in the term. With the warmer weather upon us we encourage the children to wear layers so that they can take some layers off when it gets hot and when we are outside practicing our run, jump, throw skills.
We were very lucky this week to be able to visit the Waikato Museum. This enabled us to participate not only in the Excite activities within the museum but to also experience the Eco Warrior installation. During the next few weeks we will be using our museum visit to help us with our talking, writing and other activities based around our topic work.
We look forward to sharing our learning with you all over the next few weeks about how we look after and help our environment.