R3 Book Character Day@Auroa Primary School

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On Friday 28th October Auroa Primary School held our 2016 Book Character Day. The students were able to come dressed as their favourite book character with some amazing costumes - we also had some of the teachers dressing up as well. This slideshow was created by Aroha and Ashley from Room Three.

R3 Junior Robocup at Auroa Primary School

Its hectic at Auroa Primary School at the moment - we've got so many awesome opportunities coming up for the school and students. One of the most exciting for some of our students: Jake, Mccallum and Jamesen is the Junior Robocup coming up. These highlights were filmed by Aroha and put together by Aroha and Ashley.

Junior Robocup 2016 from myles webb on Vimeo.

R3: Robotics At Auroa Primary School

Its three weeks until the Junior Robocup in Whanganui.   Today the students of Auroa Primary School who are in the Robotics Program had a full day of Robotics programming and work with Mrs Knapman.  Auroa Primary School have a number of teams who will be competing in this event.

Jackson and Ashley from Room Three, filmed the robotics people, they are telling us what they're doing.  Edited and produced by Jackson from Room Three on Thursday 9/6/2016.

Robotics@Auroa Primary School from myles webb on Vimeo.

Junior School Engineering

On Friday 6th of May the students of Auroa Primary School Y1-3 (juniors) had an opportunity to try out some engineering tasks in the classroom. This video was created by, edited and published Aroha, Ashley and Ella and shows some of the activities that the students were involved in.

Journal Engineering@APS 6/5/2016 from myles webb on Vimeo.

The Katydid

The Katydid www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=katydid

katydids eat leaves,flower stems and fruit of many kinds. the Katydid is a bug that looks like a leaf bug but is not a leaf it chips when it wants. There is a rare pink/red one and a yellow but is very rare. They are found on tree branches and bushes. They go through 3 different stages to be born first is the egg then the nymph and last is the Adult. There lifespan is from the egg to Adulthood the last about one year. Katydid it a relative to the grasshopper they are known as bush bugs The Katydid is common but it camouflage into the plants because of the color and pattern on the wings. By Aroha Nathan and Ashley

Where Nathan found it the Katydid inside the house in the lounge on the window sill then Nathan caught the katydid and trapped in the jar.

Snowy the Goat

This video was created by two of our students and features some of their activities from the holidays. It also features Snowy the Goat, whose previously featured on our class page as she is Ashleys pet. 
Snowy the Goat from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Diamante Poem about Snowy the Goat

Snowy is my crazy goat, she play fights with the dog hates cats but, loves children. she we guess she is a saanen goat she hates the colour white and she is on a diet because she eats too many rabbits pallets she loves eating poplar trees that are on the farm she loves to run and do stuff all the time.

Ashley created this diamante Poem about her goat and the photograph is of Snowy.   Snowy was also house trained when she was young, but she is not allowed in the house now because she jumped up on the kitchen bench and started eating food and smashing and breaking things.

New Zealand compared to France

We've spent the week for our AKO looking at comparing New Zealand to France - we're collaborating with our friends from CM2 from Brindas School, France. This group of collaborative work was prepared by Regan, Ashley, Aroha and Tiani.

Q&A for our Friends in France

We had the Auroa School Triathlon - today, the first major event of 2016 for our students. That meant we had only a block this morning to complete our answer videos for our friends from Brindas School in Lyon, France. They've already created a series of videos and questions for us in New Zealand and we're answering some of their awesome questions below - you can click on this link for their original video or here for their class page. Its our first effort in using iMovie for some of our students and we are also collaborating with another class for the first time from another country. This video was created by Aroha and Ashley and answers the questions about what beautiful places are: 
This is for Cm2 at Brindas from myles webb on Vimeo.
The girls choose three locations for their answer: Dawson Falls - which is a local attraction, Lake Taupo and a place that Aroha visited during her holidays, Tane Mahuta, the largest and oldest tree in New Zealand.

CM2 from myles webb on Vimeo.
Paige had a special challenge - she was the only one from her group that was present and needed to complete the task herself - and she did an amazing job.  Her question was about how expensive it was in New Zealand and how much do things cost.
Jamesen's Questions for Brindas School, France from myles webb on Vimeo.
Jamesen and Jackson R had a tricky question related to currency - the students from Brindas School wanted to know what our currency was and also how many Euros it was worth.  Our boys did an amazing job with their video.

Photographs Around APS

On the 2nd of February, the second day of School Paige, Grace, Tiani, Ellazae, Ella, Ashley, Aroha and Reagan made a slide about our school. They took a series of photos from interesting angles and locations around our School. They then collaborated and put them together in the form of a Google Slide.