Discovery Time

Here we are in this photo with a dog that we made during discovery.

What is a snow day?

A typical snow day at our house is like a normal school day but we have snow on the ground. When this happens we wait for a phone call to see if our school is open or closed. If closed we stay at home and do snow work. Our teachers assign us work on our Wiki page. When we finish our snow work we get to play in the snow and do our normal daily chores like bringing in wood.   

By Ben

Inquiry Brainstorm

Today we made a class brainstorm of questions that we have about minibeasts. Each person selected (or created) a question to use as the basis of their minibeast inquiry then wrote/drew a plan for how they would find and present the answers to their question. Our journey has just started!

A Little About Me

                                             

Hi I’m Ben I’m nine years old. I go to Lee Stream School. I live on a farm with my dad, my mum and my two brothers.  My granddad and grandma live just around the road.  I have a dirt bike at home that I ride. It is a TTR 125.  Dad bought a Yamaha Rhino.  We use it a lot for farm work.  My dad and my granddad run Perendale sheep and beef on our farm. I play rugby for West taieri.  I play in a rugby team. Sometimes dad takes me hunting in our quarry.  I like driving the tractor and 4 wheel drive in the quarry because it is rough.  I like farming because you always have something to do. My dad has driven trucks from when he was younger.  He has driven stock trucks for Cooks and also Tuapeka.  So once he retired from driving he came to help on the farm.  So that is how we live on a farm now. I want to play rugby for tons of rugby teams when I am older.       

My Days at School

My Days at School

Hi. I’m Shannon. I am 8 years old. I go to Lee Stream School.  At

Lee stream we do fun things.  Like we do Math, Reading and also

Writing.  When it is maths we do little sheets with numbers going down a line.  Mr Wheeler teaches us as a group.  After that we have to do maths that he has taught us.  At school we do also do Mathletics.  When it is interval we go out to play.

 

On Fridays we do Discovery.  Discovery is when kids be more creative and make and do stuff they want to do.  At the end of the day we sometimes play a game and when the day is done we go home.

 

On Monday we do homework and spelling at school with Mr. Wheeler.   We are also we are learning to do a blog page on our Computers.  We are also learning about minibeasts, insects and spiders with Mr. Wheeler and learned about bees and ants with Mrs. Weir.  

 

At school we have a swimming pool.  It is sometimes too cold to swim in.  But when it is warm we have a lot of fun in there.

 

My favourite thing is to do is drawing and helping with my Dad.  

 

 

By Shannon

A Wet Netball Practice

Yesterday was netball practise. At netball practise it was really really wet.  When we were half way down they called and said netball was cancelled.   But we decided to keep going to netball anyway. When we got there they said, “netball was on!”  We warmed up in the hall.  After that we went outside to have a game. But as soon as Jor’jah said, “rain” it started pouring down with rain. So we went back inside but it was too slippery. We went back outside. After that netball was finally finished.   

Here’s a picture of the Steel. I like this team.

By Jade

 

Fonterra Milk Arrives

Yesterday all of the goods for the Fonterra Milk roll out arrived.  Yay. 

Two of our responsible girls are in charge of orgainsing the milk, milk rotation and milk distribution!

Here they are organising the first shipment of milk, which is in theory enough to last our school about a month.

The milk is UHT treated, which means it can keep for about 6 months in these containers out of a refrigerator.

The real challenege will be teaching the children how to fold the empty milk carton the way shown by the Fonterra Milk representative.


These photos are suppose to be on a photoflick, but the site appears to be having issues creating the actual flick. 

Using the Digital Microscope

Today we used a digital microscope to take a closer look at some of the minibeasts we have been bringing in to the classroom.
We used 10x, 60x and 200x magnifications to look at the very fine detail on our minibeasts.

Here is a fly at 10x magnification, with closeups of the wing at 60x and 200x magnification:

Libby took these pictures of a honeybee wing at 60x and 200x magnification:

We also looked at a live spider at 10x magnification - he moved around a lot and was really interesting so we kept him under the microscope and he kept us company on the big screen while we did our maths and reading! Everyone liked it when we could see all his eyes looking back at us!

Have you used a microscope before? Does looking at a spider close-up make you feel shivery?!

Mangrove Ant Display

Today we completed our learning about Australia's mangrove ant. We created a display of our reports with our scientific diagrams of the ant, then we made 3D ants out of egg cartons and pipe cleaners to really make our display POP!
What do you think?

The String Family

This term in music we are learning about instruments of the orchestra. This week we examined the string family, listening to the violin, viola, cello and double bass playing together and on their own. We all had a go at playing a viola, we thought some people made lovely sounds and others sounded like a creaky door! This was a video we watched of a very talented viola player - we love the mellow but rich sound of the viola.

Charlotte's Term Break

In the holidays I was riding my motorbike in front of dad and then I did a skid.  The mud flew out at dad.  After that dad was head to toe with mud!

The next day dad went away duck shooting in Balclutha.  

Today they are going to Te Anua to shoot dad's friend, Nigel's pond .

Also in the holidays mum and I went to Mosgiel New World and we saw Libby.   Mum and I bought milk, chocolate and body spray.

By Charlotte

Friday at Lee Stream

Today is a normal Friday at Lee Stream School.

We start off by marking our spelling and maths homework. When that is finished we do our handwriting. Today’s letter is Jj. When finished the year 7 and 8s do a personal project about an animal or person. When the rest of the class finish they go on mathletics.

At 10 to 10 the year 7 and 8s go to manual. Manual is when we go to Taieri School and learn about cooking, sewing and metal/wood work. 

After interval the rest of the school have discovery time. This is when they do creative learning using different materials and problem solving.

The year 7 and 8s get lunch at the Outram shop and return at lunch time. After lunch room1 play chess for about half an hour, then join up with the rest of the school and go to the library.  If we finish early we have a quick game to end the day.

I like Fridays because it is the end of the week and the days  learning is varied and kind of fun.

By Libby

A term break

It is Monday, first day back for term 2.  There is no snow on the hills, but there are a lot of duck ponds on the Taieri Plains. 

It never ceases to amaze me the number of small teething problems that seems to plague ICT tools first day back.  Password setting, password rememberings, and administration passwords needed for updates and downloads. 

The school grounds are looking good, the grass is green and everyone is now here.

Hopefully we have a child post today!.