This week we are participating in Matific Maths Challengers and here are some of the challenges we have had.

Math Week Challengers

Week 4	Math week activity
Monday	Estimate how many green balloons  it takes to fill Mrs Smith’s car??
Tuesday	Junior school- Year 0-3 Adrianna has 10 pieces of gum to share with her friends. There wasn’t enough gum for all her friends, so she went to the store to get 3 more pieces of gum. How many pieces of gum does Adrianna have now? Senior school- Year 4-6  Nathan has a big ant farm. He decided to sell some of his ants. He started with 965 ants. He sold 213. How many ants does he have now?
Wednesday	Cross country day- Problem solve how many children  participated in cross country today?
Thursday	Whole school problem- Guess how many lollies are in the Jar?? The winner gets the lollies!!
Friday	Junior school- Year 0-3  Ariel was playing basketball. 1 of her shots went in the hoop. 2 of her shots did not go in the hoop. How many shots were there in total? Senior school- Year 4-6  Your team scored a total of 123 points. 67 points were scored in the first half. How many were scored in the second half?

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Duffy Theatre 2019

Duffy Theatre comes to Kaikohe West School 2019

Whainga Ako:  to listen and participate when asked at our Duffy Theatre Production

This is the Duffy Crew.  When they first started they introduced themselves and then we sang the Duffy song while he played the guitar.

We were all sitting down at Tawaraunui.  The sun was shining in our face.

These are some of the characters, the man is Duffy in his muscle costume and the fat round lady is the "Dismantler".

This is Duffy's cousin Sam.  Duffy was visiting Sam when he was sucked into the Magical Bricks game that her grandmother had invented.  Duffy had to find a way out of the game.  He had to solve the code.

Duffy asked the tamariki to help him work out the code on the magical bricks before the Dismantler came and wrecked the word.
What was the word?

Once they had worked out who invented the game, they had to solve the code for getting into and out of the game and it had nothing to do with the grandma's glasses.

So Whetu was the grandma's name, now just to try and remember what she did to access the game.

The codebreaker came in and tried to break up all the letters, but then we knew that it was actually the dance that grandma did that could get us back out.  

Finally we both did the dance and escaped back to our own home where our Mum was waiting for us.

Update on our Mural

Here's an update on our Mural, we are just about finished, but need to get a very tall ladder to finish off the top.  Unfortunately, we don't allow tamariki up that high, so looks like this will have to wait for the school holidays to be completed.  

A mural is born

Northlands Year 4 - 6 mixed Team League 2019

Wow, what a day.  A couple of Room 13 tamariki were lucky to travel down to Tikipunga today to compete in a Rugby League Competition.  
The day started out with an hour trip down to Tikipunga then a full on 5 game onslaught from some awesome teams around the Whangarei District.  The experience was so worth the effort for these League crazy crew.  We had such a hard out day, all the players went hard and still had energy to burn.  Fanstastic behaviour and manners and all were followed the fairplay rules.  You rock Jamie and Miah, ran and ran and tackled and tackled and had a blast.

Get well soon Arthur, we are thinking of you, and our love and aroha goes out to Whaea Lucinda, who is by his side during this time.  God speed and a speedy recovery for you Arthur.  Here is one of our tamariki making a Card for Arthur, Lucinda and whanau.

Tin Foil sculptures

Wow, these are made from tinfoil, they have been sketched then formed by scrunching up the foil and moulding it.  I think these look fantastic and a good medium to work with as well.

Whainga Ako:  to design a flat picture with a few lines, then be able to transform it into a 3D sculpture.