Sonshine Ranch Trip

On Friday the 23rd of November we went on an amazing trip to Sonshine Ranch. We did four activities and they were water confidence course which D4 did first when the water was freezing cold however we still had fun. The next activity we moved to was the flying fox and rope swing which was a little nerve racking at first but then felt cool. After the flying fox we moved to the last activity which was horse back riding there were three stations. One of the stations was practising some important tips on a a wooden horse before we went on a real horse. The next station was riding a horse around the track. The last station was patting the farm animals. There were bunnies, goats, guinea pigs, and an enourmous pig with her two little piglets. But before we left Sonshine Ranch we went on the playground where there was a huge, long, green slide on a hill. On our way back everyone looked and felt exhausted including the teachers and parent helpers. We would also like to say a big thank you to all the parent helpers for their assistance on the day. Here is a video of the amazing day.

East Idol

We had our East Idol finals today. Enjoy the video.

Coconut Ladhu

Coconut Ladhu- Recipe
Ingredients
3 packets of desiccated coconut
395g of condensed milk
food colouring
mixing bowl
spoon
plates

Method

1. Open 2 packets of desiccated coconut
2. Pour into mixing bowl with 1 can of condensed milk
3. Take some mixture and squeeze lightly until sticky and looks like a round ball
4. To make colour use the extra desiccated coconut and split in half
5. Pour any colour you want for food colouring on the coconut
6. Do the same for the other half
7. Dip the ball into one of the colours and coat the balls with coloured coconut
8. Wait for a couple of hours
9. Enjoy!

Hope you guys have fun making and eating the ladhus.

Rangoli Designs

This we as part of our topic study on stories and celebrations we learnt about why people celebrate Diwali "The festival of lights". We made some Rangoli designs because indian people decorate their house with diyas (Indian candles) and these colourful art on diwali day. Hope you enjoy our rangoli
designs.

Have A Go Day!!!

Last Friday (08/11/2012) we had a "Have A Go Day" at school. These are just some of the pictures we took. We are going to share more information about the activities later in the mean time hope you enjoy the pictures.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to everybody.

Make sure you are safe when you are trick or treating.Did you know that the name halloween actually came from when people celebrated All Saints Day. It was also called Allhallowmas,which is the evening before All Saints Day became known as All Hallowe'en or Halloween.

Happy Halloween!
By Tylah and Taa

Coming up...

Hello everyone,

We are in the last term of the year and there are some cool things happening for example today the Year 6 students have their Dinner and Dance-Good Luck to all the Year 6's and we hope you have an awesome evening.

Next week Monday we are going for our swimming lesson and we need to make sure we have our swimming gear ready.

We are going to have Athletics and the Year 5's have already started practising some of the track and fields events.

But we are really excited about our trip to Sonshine Ranch! On the 23rd of Nov, we are off to Sonshine Ranch. We can't wait!

These are some of the things that are coming up and we will keep you posted on these on Planet D4.

Enjoy Term 4!




                                                                                              

D4 Term 3 Flight Inquiry

This term D4 worked really hard to find answers for their flight related inquiry questions. We finally finished our inquiry path. 1.We had to decide on a question 2.Find information 3.Use the information 4.Present to an audience our findings 5.Finally evaluate our own group work. Here are some examples of what we acheived during our journey.

Fluttering Butterflies

The Year 5 and 6 Orchestra students had a concert at Papatoetoe West School. The year 7/8 Papatoetoe Intermediate played with us. The year 5/6 school Orchestra of Puhinui School played the Brass and Percussion. The year 5/6 school orchestra of Papatoetoe west school also played the Brass and Percussion. We had special student from the original Tironui Trust group Elizabeth Gaspar from St Marys College. Special thanks to our music teaches, who have prepared the students for their performance. And thank you to the people of the Tironui Trust for giving the students this opportunity. It was a wonderful performance. Here are some photos of the concert. By Quinton D4

The Art Exhibition at Papatoetoe North School

The Art Exhibition at Papatoetoe North School On Wednesday I went to Papatoetoe North School to see the art exhibition. I went their with Miss Capstick. My art was displayed and I was the lucky one that got chosen from D4. When I first went there, I was kind of scared but when I got inside the hall, I was amazed with the amount of art inside. All the art there were awesome and I also saw my little brothers, art. It was a good visit and I hope other people enjoyed seeing the art from all Papatoetoe Schools. By: Bill Wu-D4

Duffy Theatre

Yesterday we had the Duffy theatre show at our school. It was really funny and I bet everyone enjoyed watching them perform. The show was all about encouraging students to read and find out how books can act as friends, provide space when you are stressed(Time Out)and take you on fantastic adventures. The show was all about the journey of a book called "The Best Book In The World" D4 thinks the actors were amazing and the best actor was Scruffy. He was really hilarious and we loved the way he acted like a 5yr old (BIG) boy. We still cant believe that Scruffy was Duffys YOUNGER brother. Thankyou Duffy Theatre for coming to our school and sharing with us the importance of reading.

D4 with the actors

D4 trying their best to act, along with the actors :)

Tread Lightly Caravan

This week we went to the Tread Lightly Caravan. First of all the educators introduced themselves to us. There were 6 stations and these were:- 1.Ecobike- We had to pedal the bike to generate (more than 240 volts of power) energy to power different appliances. 2. Environmental Footprint- A computer game that showed that our footprints are too big and we are over-using the earth’s resources. 3.Geckos and Vines- This was like playing Snakes and Ladder but it was about NZ plants and animals. 4.Video Microscope- Used the microscope to look at the beauty and detail of nature’s design of plants and animals. 5.My Driving Day- We had to put in our home address to calculate the CO2 (Carbon) for each journey. 6. E-waste- We looked at lots of part such as computer parts and batteries and how this is a growing problem (electronic waste). They told us how to work each station and informed us about some small things we can do to help the environment. For example we can turn off the tap while we brush our teeth. (Aaliyah D5 and Raeesah D4) To find out more check out our video.

Special Assembly

OUR SPECIAL ASSEMBLY

On the 3 of August 2012 we had a special assembly. At our assembly Mr. Len Brown (Mayor of Auckland) came to our school. He was a real entertainer.  While we were waiting the school leaders and Mr. Gilbert showed Len Brown around the school then they bought him in the hall where everyone was waiting for him. He gave us lots of tips about how to be a good leader. We had a lot of fun at our special assembly.

By Raeesah

Stardome Observatory Planetarium

Fairy Tale Day

Here are some of Planet D4's fairy tale characters. We think some of these characters were really creative and FUNNY, so here are the photos...enjoy:)

 Who do you think they are?

Our Completed Puzzle

After 5 weeks of hard work, we managed to complete our puzzle. We had two pieces that were missing. Thankyou to everyone that didn't give up. 

Our Puzzle- Week 5

This is how our puzzle is looking after 5 weeks of hard work and perserverance.
Only a hundred or so pieces to go...but Planet D4 will not give up.

Water cycle

This week D4 learnt about the water cycle.We now know that water is ever lasting.Water is the only substance on earth that can be a solid, liquid, and gas.Here is a picture of the water cycle.

ANZAC day!!!

We made amazing ANZAC cookies to celebrate ANZAC day. We worked in four groups so we first had to half the recipe. We competed against other groups to see whos cookies were the most crunchiest and the best tasting. It felt like we were on Papeast junior master chef. Here are some pictures of our ANZAC cookies.

It was a very tough decision but this was the winning groups cookies. This group was called Diamonds.

Well done to the other groups.

Our Puzzle

This is what our puzzle looks like after two school weeks.

Kete Art

We learnt how to draw weaving designs and then we used these skill to make our own ketes. We hope you like the video showing examples of our work.

Puzzle Time

We started our new puzzle today and it lookes like this at the moment...

How long do you think it will take us to solve it?

Check out this picture!

This picture was taken from the teacher space behind our room this morning. Our class had some cool ideas about what it looked like.

What do you see?