Striving for Accuracy and Precision

Check out what William has been up to during maths time. He was able to stay focused during the whole black and completed the activity to a high standard. He produced some great graphs and statements to go with it. Way to go William. Keep up the hard work.

Wall of Fame: Applying Past Knowledge

Congratluations David! He's made it on the Wall of Fame again!. This week he was able to demonstrate our habit for this term, Applying past knowledge. When reading our story in the newspaper, Trail of a Kiwi Killer, David made a connection to when we had the Green Rig at our school last year. He was able to use the information he learnt from the Green Rig to understand the story better and help his classmates out.

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BP Technology Challenge Take Two

Well we decided to give our challenge from last week, building a castle, another go seem as it was such a disaster. Some teams learnt from their mistakes some didn't. Can you work out who?

SwimSafe

Today 9 lucky people from Room 15 went to the splash centre to be taught how to swim. They get to go every Wednesday and Thursday for the next 5 weeks. I bet they'll be great by the end!

Maths

Over the past week for maths we have been learning the skills needed to answer one of our maths questions.

In N.Z more than 1/2 our cars are white, less than 1/4 are blue there are more red than yellow and the least popular is green. Do the cars passing our front gate in 10 minutes match this statement? Display your findings. Make statements about your discoveries.

Today the boys started to answer the maths question. The boys went outside and started to collect the data needed. I wonder what they found out? Watch this space to see their results.

Striving for Accuracy and Precision

David had tried really hard with his book cover this week. He made sure it was detailed, had all the features it needed and tried really hard to make it look great. Well done David.

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Book Covers

We have been learning all about book covers. To show what we have learnt we all designed a new book cover for a book of our choice. Have a look at what some of the boys came up with.

Isaiah's

Campbell's

Collage

Over the week we have been putting the finishing touches on the collage pictures and wow stories we created about our holidays. Here are a few below


“Jump in the car Nathanael, let’s go to Briscoes to get my oven” said dad. Dad had a special paper to help find the right oven. “Yippee” I yelled “Now we can cook yummy pizza”.
By Nathanael



I bobbed up and down in the lazy river. The water pulled me round. It was warm like the sun.
By Campbell

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Over the past two weeks we have been learning all about keeping ourselves safe. Constable Tanya has been coming in and helping the boys out. They are learning lots of useful information.

Presents!

We are so lucky. Today Mrs Larsen was given a huge container of games and toys for our class. There were things like a lego city mat with cars, worker trucks and planes. There were farm animals and dinsaurs, and lot of constructing materils. The boys had fun playing with them during fun time.

Visiting Artist

Last Thursday we had Graeme Braddock an artist visit our school. He taught the whole school how to draw really well.

This is what they were being taught to draw


Check out what the boys were able to do

Our 1st Keeping Ourselves Safe Session

On Wednsday Constable Tanya came to Room 15 to talk about Keeping Ourselves Safe. First she said that one boy in Room 2 had a code so if someone was to come and pick him they must know the code. Then we had write what we did yesterday from when we get up and when we go to sleep. Then we had to number them to see if they are dangerous. 5 was the most dangerous number.

Coming back to school

On Monday we Came back to school and I enjoyed it. In room 15 Ms Oconnor came to our class to teach us. Ms Oconnor gave us a challenge and we did the Whale and soccer topics
On Thursday room 15 did Kapa haka with room 6.

Coming Back to School

Last week Mrs Larsen was away so we had Ms O'Conner. We did some newspaper work. We had to change the head line of the washed up whale. We had Buddy's through all the activities like searching for things like jobs and birth and marriages. Now Mrs Larsen is back and Ms O'Connor is going to get the prizes for the competition.

Last week we...

Last week Room 15 did newspaper work and it was really hard to do. We had to buddy up and my buddy was Dean. We had to do a whole lot of stuff for it. We even filled an A3 page up. It was very fun but still really hard.
By Eyra

The Competition

Last week we had Ms O'connor. We had a competition. We had partners. For the competition we used newspapers. We had to cut out bits about deaths, wanted jobs, news etc. We had to make a graph on how many vowels, conjunctions, consonnants, blends, prefixes and suffixes. It was hard. Some people had 530 vowels.

Coming back to school

On Monday morning we came back to school. We all went back in class. We found out that Mrs Larsen was not here. So Ms o Conner split us around the school with work sheets.

Easter Challenge!

Today for our BP Technology Challenge, the boys had to construct something that could hold a tennis ball and was Easter themed. Here are a few of the great ideas that came out. I wonder if they will get filled? I hope the Easter Bunny visits. I love chocolate!

Buddy Art

Today we went back to Room 12 for more buddy art. The students in Room 12 have been working really hard and some managed to finish their continuous line drawings today. Check out what they can do.

Striving For Accuracy and Precision

This week I have seen Isaiah striving for accuracy and precision. He has been listing carefully when we have been learning about book covers and has taken everything in. He created a new book cover for the picture book I read out. He tried very hard and I feel did the best job! Well done Isaiah. Keep it up.

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Continuous Line Drawing

We have finally finished our continuous line drawings of our faces and I think they look great!
Continuous Line Drawing on PhotoPeach

Scribble Pictures

Today we started making scribble pictures to be the background for our senses poem. I think they looks great. Watch this space to see how they look when they all come together.

Senses Poem

Today we looked more closely at our second Habit Of Mind for this term Gathering data through all senses. We discussed how we learn best when we use all of our senses. We decided to write senses poems. We choose either a colour or emotion and wrote what we thought it smelt like, looked like, tasted like, felt like and sounded like. Check out the ones below. I think they are great!

Love
Love looks like a beautiful butterfly
Love tastes like a chocolate cake
Love smells like perfume
Love sounds peaceful
Love feels like a soft teddy
That’s love!

Black
Black looks like a hot rod
Black tastes like mushrooms
Black smells like dust
Black sounds like an owl at night
Black feels like cold wind in the air
That’s Black!

Buddy Art

Today for buddy art, we started colouring in Room 12's continuous line drawing. I think they are going to look great!

Cricket Winners!

Our Wordles

Our Wordle display is finally up on our wall. Check it out.

All About The Brain

Here is the youtube clip I said I will put on about the brain.



I have also included the one you boys found and liked on Famous Fives Blog.

Be Funky

We have been having fun exploring a website called Be Funky. In Be Funky you can upload a photo and play around with them. Everyone has made 4 photos and then put them into word to create an awesome piece of artwork. Watch this space to see the final products. Look at the cool effects some of the boys have added to their photos.

Striving for Accuracy and Precision

This week it has been Joshua striving for accuracy and precision with his maths. He tried really hard to master his walt, using doubles to solve addition problems. Good job Joshua!

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