Rāwhiti By The Sea: April 2015

Challenge Beach Ball and Legs

Aim: to move a beach ball around the outside walls of the hall by only using your legs.

Elizabeth read us the story If You Lived Here, by Giles Laroche. We had to think of ideas about our school for the collaborative eBook called 'If you Learned here.' Mrs Nicholson, Mrs Bourke and Teresa also asked their children about what they liked to do at Rāwhiti school.
The eBook will be available in two days from the If you Learned Here website. The children in the Whale pool all had to work together to create an illustration for the eBook.

This is the illustration we created for the eBook. You can only see the left side in the eBook....

Challenges: Paper Chain and Marshmallows

This week in the Whale Pool the children were faced with two challenges... Challenge one: TASK - Make the longest paper chain with an A2 piece of paper. Elizabeth gave us the paper and we chose who we wanted to work with. Reflection: We talked to our buddy and worked out who would do what. We worked this out by ourselves. One buddy cut the paper and one glued the paper to make the chain. Some of us swapped over our jobs after a certain amount of time had passed. We worked together. The longest paper chain was around 6.5 metres long? Why was this chain so long?

Challenge Two:

TASK: Each knife must touch only one marshmallow. All knives must be off the table and touching each other.

What Ms K saw: I saw groups of children making mistakes. When I explained the knives couldn't touch the table or you couldn't pile knives onto one marshmallow you accepted this and thought of what else you could do. I saw you all make lots of mistakes and you were talking to each other, like....what if we do this....I know....lets try.... Everyone accepted other people's ideas and I thought the atmosphere is class was positive. I saw some faces that thought...oh my gosh we can't do this....then I saw other team members in the group continue to try different ways of placing the knives onto the marshmallows.