The Crazy BIke!

Today we saw this recycled bike. It was made out of different kinds of bikes. When you ride it you lie down. The bike is relaxing! The pedals are way in front of you. You have to have long legs to reach them! It is a weird bike because there are three parts that are made out of different bikes. It is way wider than a normal bike. It goes extremely fast! Adam got to have a ride on it. He couldn't quite reach the pedals. The man rode it after Adam and he went really fast! Sometimes when you go around a corner really fast the back wheel skids. The bike has three wheels and a very long chain that goes from the front of the bike to the back. This bike has a mirror because you can't twist your head right around because your lying down so you need a mirror to see behind you.

What a neat bike!

Amazing Measurement

We are learning about measurement. We drew around our bodies with chalk and then we used rods or other objects from the classroom to measure parts of our body.

We measured how tall we are. Like me (Jacob) and Maia are both 55 counters tall. Other people come be taller or shorter than us.

We also measured how long other parts of our body are. We can get objects from the class to measure how long parts of our body are.

We have to make sure the objects we are using are all the same size.

We were estimating how long our body part is before we measured it. We are getting really good a estimating.

We also learnt you can measure using your hands. If different people measure with their hands they get different answers because their hands are different sizes.

We want to find out the length of our classroom. We thought we could measure it with our bodies. We wonder, how many Cam's would fit down the length of our classroom?

Bye for now,
The Pirates.

HOT Wheels

We've been learning about wheels. Some planes land on water. They don't have wheels. We are also transport. Transport is something that can take you to a different place. If you are in one place and want to go somewhere else you can use transport to get you there.

We talked about what transport is. Is walking transport? What about skating? Are snow shoes a type of transport? If you imagine you are somewhere else in your mind is that transport? These could be good ideas to talk about at home.

Length

We started to learn about length in maths today. This is what we already know about length.

Fire Wise

Today we learnt how fire fighters get ready for fires. We learnt about what firefighters wear to protect themselves. They wear a mask that helps them breath because they can't breath the smoke. They have breathing gear like at the hospital you breath though a mask. They have zips on their boots and they have the boots on their pants to get to the fire quick. They also have jackets they put on. When they have put on all their clothes non of their skin is showing. They have a button they can press so that if they get hurt they press the button and other fire fighters come to help them. They have torches in their jackets to help them see through the smoke. They don't wear their thing that goes over their face so they don't have a crash when they're driving to the fire.

Run, Jump, Throw

We are going to start doing some athletics. We learnt some cool new things outside. We were jumping over a pole. It kept on getting higher and we had to try jumping over it without making the pole fall. We learnt how to do shot putt. You have a very heavy ball and you put it by your neck. The other hand you have like you are looking at a watch. Then you have to push the ball forward. We had to turn around and look at the other people and throw the ball behind us. We were learning to heave the ball. It was fun because we had to jump over skipping ropes. In the middle of the skipping ropes was water. We had to take off with one leg and then land with two legs. We ran out of time to do the hurdles.

We can't wait till we do some more athletics.

Term 4

Wow it's term 4 already! This year has been going so fast! We have all had great holidays but we are happy to be back at school. After the holidays we were excited to come back to school because Ngaire was engaged.

We have started learning about fire wise. We came up with some ideas about what is fire, like the blue parts of the flame are the hottest bit. We got books gave out to all of us about fire wise and it's got a disc in it so we can watch it at home. It would be great if families looked at the book and watched the DVD together. When we started learning about fire wise we looked at some pictures with children in it and some that were safe and some that weren't.

We are excited to hear about fire wise tomorrow.