Bike course

Yesterday and today we had a visit from Bigfoot. Bigfoot is a bike company that comes to schools to teach the year five and six students about bike safety. In our first session we didn't ride our bikes, we just learnt about safety. Today we got to ride our bikes on the tennis court. We did some bike games like red light green light, but also did a course which had skills like weaving in and out of cones. It was a lot of fun. Thank you to big foot for coming in and teaching us bike skills and bike safety. This is a photo of our group playing a balance game on our bikes.

Possum

In reading we read a book on possums and how they affect New Zealand's native animals. We learnt that possums are happier here in New Zealand than over in Australia. This is because New Zealand doesn't have any predators that will eat possums. But over in Australia they have lots of predators like snakes, dingoes and goannas. Another reason is that possums like it over here better than Aussie is because possums have more to eat. The reason for this is that a lot of our native birds are flightless which make it easier to catch them. Possums also carry diseases. This leaves us to a conclusion that possums must go. If you discover claw marks on the bark of your trees, pellet-looking poo (possum poo), clawed lemons and new leaves with claw marks than it would be a good idea to set up some traps.I hope you have learnt something about possums.

Fractions booklet

In Maths we refreshed our work with fractions. We had a booklet with different activities to do with fractions such as equivalent fractions and adding and subtracting fractions. It was lots of fun. Something I found interesting was converting improper fractions.

Kia Kaha

In Room 5 we have been learning about Kia Kaha. Kia Kaha is a program run by the police force. Kia Kaha teaches us about bullying and how we are all special. Even though we are all different we still learn abut ways we are similar and ways we work as a team. Here is a picture of my shield explaining how I am unique and how my class is unique.