We Made Volcanoes

As part of our science inquiry topic, today we practised being scientists!
In our groups we mixed baking soda, food colouring, dish washing liquid and some vinegar. We watched while our 'lava' overflowed.

Here we are in our groups:

Here are some of the photos we took on the i-pads during the experiment:

Visit to Kilbirnie Library

This afternoon The Ngake Hub got to have our first visit to Kilbirnie Library for the year.
We walked down after lunch, met our lovely librarian, and got to get comfy on the lillypad cushions.
Our lovely library lady made sure we knew what to do to be safe if there was an emergency. Next we got to enjoy 3  funny stories. We had a lovely time, but were a bit tired after our long walk back to school.

Fun Swim Day

To celebrate the end of our swimming lessons, we had a fun swim in the school pool today. We started off with some races with the balloons.

Race 1: Get the balloon to the other side of the pool using only our heads
Race 2: blow the balloon across the pool

We also did some egg and spoon races

Then we got to have a fun splash around

Science in Ngake Hub

For the rest of the term our inquiry topic is "thinking and acting like a scientist"
During this time we will get to do lots of different science experiments that primarily focus on change.
We are learning to talk about what we observe and to ask questions using the "I wonder.... "starter.

Here are some photos of some of the experiments we have done already.

Rugby Coaching Sessions

Ngake Hub were lucky enough to have Isaac in from the Wellington Rugby Academy on Monday. He was teaching us about spatial awareness. We got to play some fun games to practise our space skills.

We are looking forward to having him back next week.

Art, PE and Digital Technology Rotation

Ngake Hub had a lovely afternoon on Monday this week doing some hands on learning!
Once a week the hub is split into 3 groups and over a 3 week period each group will get a turn to do some art with Mrs Mudge, some PE with Mrs Patel and some Digital Technology with Mrs Thomson.

This week group 1 did some digital technology with Mrs Thomson where they got to experiment with the Beebots to do some basic programming and problem solving

Group 2 started to make some 3D masks out of egg cartons with Mrs Mudge

Group 3 got to spend some time in the hall with Mrs Everest practising some basketball skills

Kilbirnie School Picnic at Khandallah Park

What a wonderful day we had!
The day started with a bus trip up the winding hills of Khandallah.
At the park we started off by having morning tea and then got a chance to play in the playground.
Next we were off for a splash in the pool before lunch. Our last activity for the day was to have a short walk up some of the Mount Kaukau track to the creek where we got to do some exploring.
We had such a wonderful and busy day that some of us even managed to sneak in a wee nap on the bus ride back to school.

Mr Austin even got a turn on the flying fox.