{"id":11547,"date":"2022-03-18T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/?guid=e7857a372cd3874d850f462caa78bf2c"},"modified":"2022-03-18T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T02:40:35","slug":"kowhai-news-term-1-week-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beckenham.school.nz\/index.php\/kowhai\/kowhai-news-term-1-week-7\/11547","title":{"rendered":"K\u014dwhai News Term 1 Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! Where is the term disappearing? It's amazing to think that we are now in Week 7. As always, we have been a busy hub. Here is an outline of what we have been up to over the past 2 weeks.<\/p>

Discovery<\/b><\/h3>

The children continue to explore their ideas through Discovery, having a choice of activities both inside and outside the hub.<\/p>

Outside, we have been playing cricket, creating ball games and obstacle courses, digging and engineering in the sandpit, and Charlotte is also running the Gardening Club once a week. <\/p>

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Indoors, we are creating marble runs and bridges with wooden blocks, learning the art of origami and we are doing lots of construction, making houses out of boxes and dolls out of popsicle sticks and wool. Some of us have even been conducting experiments using magnets. Also, Nick is running a Coding Club which involves the children learning to code a maths game. <\/p>

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Reading \/ Writing \/ Spelling<\/b><\/h3>
Next week, we are sending home spelling cards and spelling workbooks for your children to be able to practise their spelling words (both reading and writing them) according to their reading stage. Please click on this link<\/a> for instructions on how to use them. You will also receive a hard copy of these instructions with your spelling pack next week. Remember, this is an optional extra if you want to practise at home. We will also practise these words at school every week.<\/div><\/div>

Art<\/b><\/h3>
We have finally finished our collage art and here are some of the finished results!

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Sustaining Relationships<\/b><\/h3>
Instead of sustainable art, we have now moved on to sustaining our relationships by playing co-operative games and undertaking co-operative challenges. We have been doing back to back drawing, lego challenges, trust games, building the tallest tower challenges and many, many more. The children have been learning a lot about building and sustaining relationships with one another and co-operating in order to achieve their goals.<\/div>
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Experiments<\/b><\/h3>
Some of us have had the opportunity to do some experiments with our wonderful teaching assistant, Elizabeth. Take a look at the volcano experiment they conducted. Exciting stuff!<\/div>
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Wellbeing<\/b><\/h3>
Every Friday, we spend time on our wellbeing \/ hauora and for the first weeks of term, we have been learning about Te Whare Tapa Wh\u0101. It is a model of wellbeing, which comprises four key areas, and is widely used in NZ. We've looked at keeping ourselves well by making time for: <\/span><\/div>