The Strongest Bridge Tech Challenge

We were faced with another challenge in technology today - to build a bridge to cross an imaginary river!  "We'll find out who can build the strongest bridge by stacking books on your bridge until it collapses", said Miss Simpson.  Here is the information we were given before starting our challenge:

• 'river' is 40cm wide
• equipment:  straws, sellotape, icecream container lid and newspaper
• tools:  rules, pens and scissors
• good communication with group members is the key to avoiding an epic fail
• choose your own groups
• create strong poles by tightly rolling the newspaper

 

We were all VERY nervous before our bridges were tested.  We could not believe how strong some of them were!  Congratulations to Tyler, Cameron and Jensen for building a bridge that could hold ten books!  Well done Levi, Leah, S and Logan for building the 'prettiest' bridge too!  Here are the final results:

YELLOW DAY

On Thursday Halcombe School celebrated Daffodil Day by all dressing in yellow. We paraded around at 9am and donated a gold coin to the Cancer Society.

Costumes ranged from yellow rugby socks to wearing a yellow rubbish bag as a dress. It was an outrageous day to have fun, dress up and give to an awesome charity.

Well done to all those who put an effort into dressing up. We look forward to Yellow Day again next year!

 

SOUTH MAKIRIKIRI SPORTS EXCHANGE

Today was the South Makirikiri Sports Exchange. We battled the weather, played fair and had a fantastic time.
Thank you to all those who made this event possible for us to compete in.

WINTER WARMERS

Well done to all of Room 4 for completing the Winter Warmers book review project. Today we all got rewarded with a free chapter book and sticker tattoos from the Fielding Library. We are all SUPER DUPER excited to have a book to keep and read thoroughly at home.We have worked very hard on writing ten quality reviews and our commitment has paid off.
Happy reading everyone!

WHAT A GREEN DAY

Environmental Education

This afternoon lots was going on in the environment.

During lunch time the Green Team planted trees for our school bush walk and did a fabulous job.
In the afternoon Room 4 visited our own garden and then picked up our buddy class Room 1 for a walk to the Halcombe Village. 
We explained to our young buddies what the word environment is and why it is important to look after the environment. We then got a buddy each, plastic bag and gloves and carefully walked down to the village searching for rubbish. In some areas we did not need to search hard as it was everywhere. 

GYMNASTICS CONCLUSION

This term we have been doing Gymnastics. On Thursday morning we celebrated our successes by sharing one of the best things we can do to the class. Take a look at some of our gymnasts.
 

 

JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER

How are you going with your 15 days of creativity photos and your Winter Wamers booklet? Make sure you have 10 reviews in your Winter Warmers book and they're all are done well.
Have a fun time exploring with your creativity photos and keep working hard Room 4.

Message from Sophie and S.

BULLS SPORTS EXCHANGE

Today we had the Bulls sports exchange. We were welcomed onto their school with a powhiri, had a few notices then were straight into it. All games were fun and fair. Following the games there were short speeches and delicious kai provided by Bulls School. What a great day out! Well done to all those who participated today and thank you to the parents who helped get us there and back safely.

DISCO

On Friday night it was the school disco and what a night it was! We all dressed up and danced the night away.
Thank you to the student council for making this fantastic event possible for us.

EARTHQUAKE AT SCHOOL

This afternoon we experienced a 6.2 earthquake at school. We took this very seriously and all of our danger drills paid off. At the time we were working at our desks then suddenly we felt the big shake. The lights swayed and the ground shook making our heads go a little dizzy. We covered our heads correctly under the tables, listened and waited so fantastically to our teacher’s instructions. Once Miss Campbell instructed that it was safe to move we silently went and assembled to the front court. Next the roll was taken and we still sat without talking. 

We felt safe because we listened to calm instructions and stuck together. 

MATHS WEEK: CALCULATOR EXPLORING

Today to end our fabulous Maths Week we had some calculator fun!
Room 4 was so surprised and excited about a calculator activity that they wanted to share it on this blog to carry on at home with.

Calculator Words

607- LOG

376608- BOGGLE

1.       Giddy as one of these- 17503 x 2

2.       A pig by another name 50 x 12 + 4

3.       The earth is one of these 3173 x 12

4.       Travel on this over snow 3691 x 125

5.       What birds hatch from 195 x 29  + 8

6.       Eat too fast 1021 x 371 + 15

Try making some words of your own. First think about what letters appear when the numbers are turned upside down