Louis' Penguin Inquiry

For my inquiry, I decided that I wanted to help blue penguins. I started off researching about what predators they have and what problems they face. I looked at where they live and when they would leave their homes. Then I designed a penguin house on minecraft and took a video so that I could add this to my presentation. Hopefully, I will be able to make this in the future when dad has some time.

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Community Service: Hospital Trip

On Wednesday 4th of November, we (Asha, Eloise and Gretel) went to the children's ward in the Wellington hospital and donated some books. We met with Shona Brunton and she took some photos of us to put on the mascot Hospi’s facebook page. We gathered the books from home that we didn't need anymore or that we had a double of and donated them to the Children’s ward. We met  two of the main nurses Megan the play nurse and Trisha the ward manager/ the big boss! They were really happy with our donation and said that they could replace some of the old books they have been needing to replace for a  while

Here is the link: Link to Hospi's Facebook Page

This is Hospi the Mascot!

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Gretel, Eloise, and Asha!

Passions, Talents and Lifelong Learning Skills

This week's @kidsedchatnz topic was about passions, talents and lifelong learning skills. Part of the chat is flipped so we watched the Kid President's YouTube clip on how to be an inventor. 

Here are the questions that we answered during the chat:

1. What are your interests, talents or passions?
2. Do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example.
3. What do you have to do to become really good at something?
4. Do you think it's important for children to have some time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why?
5. The top 10 jobs in 2015 didn't exist in 2004. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?
6. What skills do you think we will need for these jobs in the future?
7. The Kid President wanted to invent a Catuum Cleaner. What would you like to invent to make the world more awesome? *Opportunity to share a photo via a tweet here. 
8. Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom?
9. Sometimes we get stuck with our learning and have to problem solve. What does good problem solving look like?

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Vortex

Today we had a go at throwing the vortex. Look at us go!

Quoit Throwing

We are practising quoit throwing as part of our athletics training.

Sprinting

Look at them go!

Whose Role is it to care for the Disabled

We have been thinking about all of the people in our community, who they are, how we connect with them and what we can do to participate with them.  We asked specifically about the disabled, a group that are sometimes forgotten.  This is our research on the disabled.  We are planning to do something with this information.