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Teacher - Carolyn Henwood - email carolynh@mangakahia.school.nz media type="custom" key="9824247" align="right"
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= = = Our Learning Overview for Term 3 = In English we will be writing personal recounts, reports and returning to persuasive writing. Our Mathematics learning will be about measuring, addition and subtraction strategies and geometry. Our topics are; My Grandparents Remember (Social Sciences), Where is the Water? (Science) and Designing Calendars for 2014 (Technology). For Physical Education we will be practising and improving our ball skills as well as our movement skills. In Te Reo we will be learning to use and follow simple commands, learning the Maori names for animals and shapes.

**__ Our Learning Overview for Term Two ... __**
=== In English we are learning to express an opinion and justify it. We will be learning to write to persuade our audience, retell stories in our own words and to recount events that are important to us. === === In Mathematics we will be learning to measure objects, distances and volumes using non-standard measures, like our hands and feet. We will be learning to solve addition and subtraction problems as well as building up our number knowledge. === === The topics we are learning about this term cover the Science, Social Sciences and Technology curriculums and we are learning new ball and movement skills for Physical Education and The Arts. We have a topic about ice that will lead into producing ice block treats for Matariki. We are also making up a dance to entertain our school community at our Matariki Celebration. Our other Social Sciences topic involves identifying places that are important to us. You could help your child by discussing places your whanau value and even why those places are important. ===

At our school we get milk to drink everyday. We have carried out a Social Sciences inquiry to find out where our milk comes from. We formed some questions and we found out ...
The cows make milk for the calves. Shae. Dairy cows make milk for their calves. Dairy cows eat grass to make milk. Mele .Dairy cows make milk for their calves. Cows live in the paddocks. Izayah. Dairy cows make milk for their calves. Truce. Dairy cows live in paddocks to eat grass. Peter. The cows live at the farm. Cows make milk for their claves. Olivia. Dairy cows have milk in their udders for their claves. The cows go on the paddock to eat grass. Sivana. Dairy cows make milk for their calves. Dairy cows eat grass to make milk. The dairy cows live on the paddock. Blake. Dairy cows are eating grass. Cows need to make milk. I will find a cow in the paddock. They eat grass to feed their calves. Adam.


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Dairy farmers milk the cows. The dairy farmer gets the cows from the paddock. Izayah. The dairy farmer milks the cows. The dairy farmer puts the cups on the teats to squeeze the milk out. He cleans the teats to keep the cows healthy. Dairy farmers wear blue overalls. Mele. I am a dairy farmer. My Dad milks the cows and he puts the cows in the paddock. Peter. The dairy farmer milks the cows. They make cream and milk for us to drink. Olivia .The dairy farmer puts the cups on the cows. Truce. The dairy farmer milks the cows. She sprays the teats. She puts the cows into the paddock to eat grass. Shae. The dairy farmer gets to milk the cows. Dairy farmers get the cows out of the paddock. Cows give us milk and cream. He cuts the horns off so the cows will be safe. Adam. The dairy farmer milks the cows for us. Cows eat the grass. Then they go to the shed to be milked. Then the dairy farmer cuts the horns off the claves. The dairy farmer wears gumboots. Blake. Dairy farmers milk the cows. The dairy farmer takes the cows into the milking shed. He puts the cups on the cows. Sivana

Where Does Our Milk Come From? - Social Sciences

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= Our Topic Overview for 2012 = =__** Term Four **__= = Show Day = = Sand, Salt and Jelly Crystals - exploring and changing everyday materials = = Preparing for our Kapa haka Festival = = Designing an Interesting Jelly - Technology = =__ Term Three __=

** Life Cycles continued - Raising Chickens **
=__Term Two__=
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Exploring Sound - Science
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2011 work __**Mana, Mahi, Mauri - We are learning to be Respectful,Responsible, Safe.**__ __**Our Mangakahia School Community**__ __**Rubbish, How We Deal With It?**__ __**Caring for our Environment - improving our recycling systems in Room 1**__ __**Our Wider Community**__ __**Being Firewise**__ __**How People in Our Community Help Us**__ __**Floating and Sinking**__ __**Healthy Food is a theme for the entire term.**__ __**Making Heathly Food Choices.**__ __**Fresh Food, How Food Keeps and Loses Its Freshness**__ __**Food Technology: Making a Healthy Food Product for sale at school**__ follow this link to find educational games Zerototwo
 * Our Topic Overview for 2011**
 * Term 1**
 * Term 2**
 * Term 3**
 * Term 4**__
 * Show Day**
 * Our Kapa Faka Festival and other Celebrations**

At the end of week 5 we visited the Whangarei Fire Station. Check out the photos Mrs Henwood took of our visit.


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We found out that firefighters ... *help children and big adults. Rymona-Marie *press abutton in the fire engine to make the ligths and sirens go on. Mathew *use a special fire engine, with a ladder to climb up, and save people trapped in tall buildings. Juliet *put out fires with a big hose. Angel *turn on the hose and put the fire out. Summar *have a special tent and they can have a shower in it and they can wash off the dirt after a fire. Shyanne *don't slide down a pole because they might hurt themselves. Tania *sometimes get scared when they go into a big, burning building. Taurus-Jay *get the water for the hose from under the ground. Le keisha *go to a training school to learn to be fire fighters. Lei Quon To link to Room 1 2010 click here

**At the end of Term 2 we carried out some testing to find out about why some objects float and others sink.**
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