Welcome to Term 4!

What a beautiful start to term 4! We have got Mr Crowe working in our class over the next 5 weeks. We are are really excited to be working with him.

We are also very excited to have our new libary, staff room and classroom which we will be having an opening ceremony for later on this term.

And it is is so nice to have our courts back now that the builders are gone. 

Keep checking back here to see all the exciting learning we are up to this term. 

Maths Night

Tonight at Hay Park School we have maths night. We have created some videos to help you remember how to play these games. These games will help us with our division and subtraction.

This clip is for the game Divison Dice.
Well played Arnav and Rose, that looks like a great way to practice your divison.





This clip shows us how to play Covers Subtraction. Well done Carleece and Evanjaline!



And this last clip shows us Remainders.




Great work guys!

Term 3

This term we are going to be learning about the noisy reef. We have begun by doing some research about some of the reefs around the world. When Miss Paton came in last Thursday she worked with us to create our own maps. On our maps we located reefs and put some information about those reefs. It was really exciting to create our own maps. We also had Ms Grant come in and see our learning. She introudced us to the Google World Wonders site. We have loved looking through the images of the Great Barrier reef, especially the under water images where we can use streetview so it is like we are under the water.

 Google Cultural Institue World Wonders

We are also going to be doing invasive sports this term for our PE. We have Netball on a Monday morning with Sport Auckland, then on Tuesday mornings we will be going to Waikowhai Intermediate to play hockey with Barry. We are loving our sports at the moment.

Last Thursday we were after our writing we had a some time to share what we were proud of in our writing.

We are looking forward to another busy and exciting term of learning in Flox Class!

A super busy term!

We have been really busy in Flox Class this term, especially over the last couple of weeks. We have had a trip to the Marine Education and Recreation Centre in Long Bay, a cycle safety session with Bigfoot Adventures, a session with Constable Rob, hockey tournaments, parent/student conferences and presenting an assembly!

 Here is our asembly slide show which we all collaborated on together as a class. It captures some of thing things we have been up to lately.

Sculpture Trail Opening

On Friday the 23rd of May we had a opening for our sculpture trail. Mary and Hunter spoke about our sculputre.

Construction at Hay Park School

Our old library was a leaky building and wasn't a safe place. At the end of Term 1, our library, staff room and resource room was demolished. New building has begun. Today we had a cement truck and a cement pumping truck come into our school. The pump truck has some really long pipes that go high up in the air. The cement comes out of the pipe like a hose.

O'neil class watching the action.

The cement being pumped into place.

The first cement truck.

The pipes carrying the cement (the pipes reminded us of Georges Grandma from Georges marvelous medicine).

Football

Over the next six weeks we will be having sessions with Courtney from Auckland Football. We had our first session today and played capture the flag. It was very funny to watch, especially when we had to have our hands and feet on the ground! After we had played warm up games we had some games of four-a-side football.

e-learning with Miss Paton

Every Thursday afternoon Miss Paton come and works with Flox and McCahon classes at Hay Park School. Today we were learning to create online identity, pride and ownership of our learning through our individual blogs. We are also building online relationships within the Ako Hiko cluster of school by commenting on others blog posts.

Home Learning in Flox Class

In the last week of term one our home learning task was to design a container for transporting Easter eggs. The container had to not only look good but also protect the eggs. Here are a few of the completed containers.

Flox Class Playing Softball

Check out Flox Class having a go at softball over the last few weeks with our awesome coaches from Auckland Softball. Thanks Steph and Tina.

Goal Setting for Term 2

Last night we shared our learning with our parents. This is Hunter's presentation. Check out our individual blogs for all of our goals.

Assembly

On Friday it was our turn to host assembly. Checkout what we presented to the rest of our school.

All about me By Sakina

We have been learning our own personal mihi. Sakina included her mihi in her All about me presentation.

All about me by Lyle

Today we have been learning to use Google presentations. This is Lyle's all about me presentation.

Alaskah's Poster

In our class we have been learning to use Google draw to create posters about ourselves. 

This is Alaskah's poster. 

Flox Class 2014

Welcome to our class blog. We are a class of 27 year 4 and 5 students at Hay Park School. We are super excited about using Chromebooks this year.