CDPS Spirits

We have been talking a lot about the school spirits in our class and last week we finally got our spirit board up and running! Each child has their picture on the wall and their picture is waiting to have the CDPS spirits added to it. The school spirits are: courage, creativity, heart, spark, and success.

The idea is that the children nominate each other to earn a spirit based on actions they have seen at school. They will leave their messages in the spirit bucket and each week we will read them out and add the spirit arms to each child's picture.

So far the class has been very excited about it and there have been some fantastic nominations. I think this activity might become a weekly highlight. Come in and check it out!

Experiments!

We have been focusing on science in the Kapowai Pod this term and each week we have been conducting two different experiments. This has allowed us to look at the scientific method and the terminology that is used. It has been great to see how eager everyone has been to sign up for the experiment workshops and how much fun they have while doing them. As you can see from the pictures they have been hard at work following the different procedures, recording results and drawing conclusions. Here are just a few pictures of what the Kapowai Pod has been up to:

Float or Sink?                    Gravity Challenge

  

Gummy Bears in different solutions

If you want to know more, soon there will be more pictures and results up in the learning street about what we have been up to!