This week's reading

Your challenge this week is to answer your question about the moon, by researching in books and on the internet. The guidelines are:

• You must work in pairs or threes
• Create an open question to research - remember an open question has a long answer, not a yes/no or one word/fact answer. I have to check your question before you start researching.
• You have to use at least 2 books, and no more than 2 websites to get your information (choose carefully!)
• Use the links on our blog to help you get started
• Use the sheets provided to record your information and where you got the information from (the sources). Take notes (no copying directly - only choose the most important information)

When you have gathered all of your information, you can begin thinking about presenting it. See Mrs W to talk about your possibilities.

Timeline:
Monday - writing question and beginning research
Wednesday - gathering more information
Thursday - finish gathering information and meeting with the teacher about your presentation
Friday - begin work on presentation

Week 9 - finishing our presentations and presenting them to the class.

Eclipses

Click on this link to learn all about lunar eclipses. Please leave us a comment below once you have figured out what these words mean:

-umbra
-penumbra

Visit from Super Tourers Drivers

On Friday, we had a special surprise! A few of the Super Tourers drivers brought some of their cars (not the V8's, but porche's, mini's etc) to show us. Some of us got autographs, and all of us left with smiles on their faces.

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Mr Topham let us in on a wee secret this morning........... some powerful V8's are visiting us tomorrow after morning tea, plus some Motorsport stars! There may be another special guest (although he's a month early!). I'm very excited - I hope you are too!!

The Moon!

Willowbank Videos

Last week we visited Willowbank to look at the animals and participate in the Ko Tane experience. We learned all about the haka, rakau and poi. Here are 3 videos of our class performing in front of Rooms 18 and 19. Enjoy! Please leave us a comment below to tell us what you think.

Hi from this week's bloggers!

Hi it's Bella and Georgia this week's bloggers. We are very excited about going to Willowbank and seeing cool animals in their habitats.We are also looking forward to Art Gallery and swimming.