Our New Inventions!

We have been learning about advertising. The children have used lots of advertising tricks to sell new products that they have invented.
Caleb's Water Fair can be set up in your backyard. It's a fun water battle game.
Vincent's idea is a Hovercraft that is limited to a safe height and can slow itself down.

Sharon's invention is a hat that has a fan to cool you off.
Jackie's invention is a handy jet pack that can save you from hours in the traffic. Tina's invention is a robot dog that does any trick you want.
Cheralyn's idea is a helpful invention that will tell you the future.

Our Pacifica Experience

At the Pacifica Centre we were asked to share at least one thing we had learned before we closed our eyes that night.

This is what we wanted to share:


With weaving we went in and out. At first I didn't get it, but then I did. It was a lot of fun. -Caleb

I learnt how to weave a necklace out of flax. I only did the middle piece. A Pacific Mama did the top and bottom. It was hard at first but in the end I figured it out. -Georgia

We did a dance and learned how to play the drums. When I did a Pacifica dance we did crazy legs and then we turned around while we were doing the crazy legs. -Keanu

Seeing a real umu is amazing! It looked like bricks made into an enormous pot, stuck into the ground. The food was wrapped in tinfoil so dirt wouldn't get in. When we ate it, it wasn't burnt, so YUM! -Sophie

The umu looked very interesting because I've never eaten one before. The food was wrapped in tinfoil. There was chicken, potato, bread with butter, carrots, and coleslaw. My best food was chicken. -Sian

With weaving we had to go in and out. I only did the start, middle, and end. -Alfred

Family Traditions

Earlier in the term we read a big book called Friendly Families. We found out about some interesting family traditions.
We used Kid Pix to illustrate a statement about our own family traditions.

Have a look at our work in the slide show below...