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Hands-on Experiences Develop Writing Skills
Playing on the playground, visiting the maze, painting self-portraits, noticing spring or blowing bubbles are just a few of the ‘recreative’ writing m…
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Library and Scholastic Book Fair
Thank you to our community for supporting our annual Scholastic Book Fair. This was a successful Fair with the school receiving over $2000 to be spent…
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Money, Money, Money
If you are at Wairakei Primary School, Taupō, you may have heard some senior students mention that they are being ‘paid’ at school. You have not mishe…
It's Creepy and it's Spooky
After reading a haunted house story, Room 10 students created their own mysterious mansions using black pastel and watercolour paint.
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Which way do we go?
How do we know where we’re going? We’d probably end up in Timbuktu if we didn’t know.
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Lake Taupō and Its Special Creatures
We have learnt about the ecosystem in Lake Taupō, including the creatures that live in the lake.
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Creative Reactions
Twirls, spins, break dancing, robot arms, and laughter have filled Room 15 during the afternoons.
SWOOP the Setting
Imagine you are an eagle - gliding gracefully across the landscape. What do you see with your sharp eyesight?
A mountain range? Peculiar cloud format…
A mountain range? Peculiar cloud format…
It’s An Art to Teach Dance
The announcement of “We have to teach dance next term,” struck fear into more than one teacher. How? What actually is dance? Where do I start? Help!
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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work
One of our classroom jobs is to be the P.E monitor - which involved sorting and getting gear ready when needed and also taking charge of some Movewell…
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Do the Mahi. Get the Treats
There is nothing like chocolate to motivate some hard work thinking. Fair sharing a giant block of chocolate was a deliciously rich mathematical task …
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Probability with Fractions
I roll a die - what is the probability that I will roll a five? What about an odd number? What about a number less than four?
If I roll two dice - H…
If I roll two dice - H…
