Senior Team Mathex Challenge!

Another AWESOME activity during maths week was our senior team mathex challenge run by our very own mathex kids.
We were pushed to our limits and had to use many skills and strategies to solve the problems in our groups. Well Done Mathex kids for organising this event! It was loads of FUN!!!

Maths Trail

During maths week we all participated in a maths trail around the school. Some of the questions were really tricky but together, in our teams, we were able to do lots of problem solving!

We are excited for MATHS WEEK!

This week is maths week and in room 4 we are going to be putting our brains into overdrive. We are going to challenging ourselves with daily dollar questions, a maths trail with the rest of the senior team, problem solving brain teasers, and our very own Halcombe School Senior Mathex challenge.

We are ready to go!!!

Congatulations to our Yr5 Mathex team!

Last Friday, 4 students from room 4 competed in the year 5 mathex competition in Palmerston North. They competed against 46 other teams from the Manawatu region and came away with a very 3rd place victory! They are very proud of their effort and we, too, are all very proud of them!!! Congratulations Team!! Top Effort!! 

CRAZY DAY IS COMING!!!!

Maori Language week!

Last week we celebrated Maori language week. Throughout the week we practiced lots of Maori terminology and then on Friday we played SNAP with our buddy class, room 1. It was loads of fun and we got to help our buddy class recognise Maori words we have learnt.

Floating and Sinking experiment

In science we did an experiment to see what sorts of things float and what sorts of thing sink. We discussed the different materials things were made of and what were the properties of each object that impacted whether it floated or sunk. Have a look at some of the objects we tested!

Term 3

Welcome back to term 3!!! We are well underway with lots of new learning! We have started our science unit of floating and sinking and we were able to identify lots of things that impact on whether something floats or sinks.

We have made an exciting start to gymnastics and we have really enjoyed showing off what skills we have! Miss Fleet thinks we are pretty amazing! Check out some of our great skills so far!

WELL DONE ROOM 4! I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE SO MUCH MORE!!!!

Wheels and Burger day!!

We saw term 2 out in style. We had an awesome time on our wheels -skating, scootering, jumping. We then had a yummy burger for lunch made by our wonderful student council! Thanks student council and Miss Simpson for organizing such an AWESOME, fun filled day! We had a BLAST!

Inquiry sharing!

In the last week of term 2 we shared all our inquiry work and learning with the other kids in the senior team. We saw what R3 had learnt about the early New Zealand settlers, we saw some awesome ancient Egypt work by R5 and learnt lots about Antarctica from R6. We finally got to share our learning about New Zealand Disasters and present out projects we have worked so very hard on.

Well done to our senior team! Another term full of hard work and awesome, interesting learning!