Mathex

A few weeks ago my Mathex team went to Mathex, I was really nervous and so was the rest of my team. In my team was Blake, Mikayla, Natalie and me. We walked into the hall of Wanganui Intermediate and there were lots of people in the grandstands, there was at least 20 schools we went up against. When Mathex started we all started to figure out the questions really quickly and we worked together as a team. We only had 20 minutes to get through 20 questions and the clock stops for the first team to get all 20 right, The team that stopped the clock was Fordell Primary school. We had all tried our best and guess what? We came third!!! We were all super excited and we went up to receive our bronze certificates. We were all really happy because it was the first time Carlton School had ever got a placing at Mathex. My mum said I might be able to get it framed.

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Well I'm Confused!

I went onto our blog to publish a few of our draft posts and guess what I discovered. I couldn't believe my eyes! All of our post between now and August the 13th were gone. Yes you read correctly GONE! How did that happen? Panic set in. All that hard work gone!

So...I did a lot of searching and managed to find some old post. I have copied and pasted them below.

Unfortunately all of our draft posts are gone! I'm not clever enough to work out how to get those back. So over the next few days we will try to restore our blog and rewrite some of our latest interesting posts.

Published Posts that were deleted!

Spelling - Week 9

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Our Special Visitor

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Today Andrew Little one of the Labour MP's came to our school. First we welcomed him into our school with a Haka Powhiri. After the haka he let us ask him some questions about his life. After we asked him some questions we stood up and watched him leave the hall. When we got back to class he came in and looked around the class and asked us some questions about the class.

Mitchell's Weekly Reflection

by Room 15 Carlton School

What: On Monday Ms O’Connor came to our class and talked about our school Moto. She asked us questions about our Carlton school hands on learning… there are 6 hands because we have year 1-6 and the hands go bigger.

On Tuesday our class went to the gym to learn how to do cartwheels and our coach was grumpy. It was stink because we didn’t get free time like other classes… I think we don’t get it because we are a year 5-6 and we are not little kids.
On Wednesday the crocodiles were with Mrs Larsen for reading and we read ‘The Dragons Egg’. The characters are Nick, Karl, Rebecca and mum. Nick found an egg and told Nick and Rebecca.

So What: I learnt how to do P.V.A prints and how to make a warm fuzzy for our class rules.

Now What: My goal for next week is to continue behaving how I have been this week so I can make Ms Larsen even happier.

Our new HOM

by Room 15 Carlton School

A couple of weeks ago we learnt about our new HOM we are focusing on, Gathering Data through all Senses

We created a brainstorm to show our first thoughts about the Habit.

Next we wrote down a favourite memory about last Christmas. We discovered a lots of us use our touch sense and we need to start thinking about all the other senses when learning.

We are now working on writing senses poems. Watch this space to see how they turn out.

Our New Class Member

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we were all really excited because we have a new member in Room 15, Mitchell. We are sure he is going to fit right in!

Spelling - Week 7

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Buddy Art

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we went to Room 9 for buddy time. Instead of doing I.T we did some art together. We helped our buddies sponge a background for the bugs we are going to help them print make. Everyone in Room 15 was great at being the teacher. They all clearly explained what to do and did not try to take over. Well done!

Spelling - Week 6

by Room 15 Carlton School

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Duffy Book Winners

by Room 15 Carlton School

Congratulations Tarron and Justin!

Wacky Hair Day

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Today we had bad hair day to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis. We raised a lot of money and had lots of fun too.

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Watch this to learn more about Cystic Fibrosis.

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Print Making

by Room 15 Carlton School

Today we did some more print making. this time we used the rollers and ink. We all had to find some leaves. then we came back and inked them up and created leaf prints. We created a leaf collage. They are looking pretty good.

Guess Who's Back!

by Room 15 Carlton School

We all got so excited because look who's back. Kingi! We cant wait to read all about his travels in Germany.

Weekly Challenge

by Room 15 Carlton School

Here it is..

Why is Valerie Adams now a London 2012 Olympic gold medalist? Remember the more information you supply the better your chance of winning.

Congratulations Tarron for winning last weeks challenge. Don't forget to come and collect your prize!

That's a Wrap!

by Room 15 Carlton School

After many nights staying up late, the Olympics have come to a close. Wasn't it great!

Closing Ceremony Slideshow

Closing ceremony video

Spelling - Week 5

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Financial Literacy

Today Ewen from ASB came and talked to us. He told us about how we can earn and save money. We learnt about interest, eftpos and credit.
Here are some things we learnt...

• you can earn money from the bank (interest)
• it's important to save money and treat yourself a little too
• there are many different ways to earn money - chores, jobs, neighbourhood jobs
• its better to use an eftpos rather than credit
• using a credit card means you are borrowing money
• don't spend all of your money

Bob Bickerton

Today Bob Bickerton came to our school. We really enjoyed seeing all of his instruments and how they worked. We discovered Bob's first ever instrument was a guitar and his favourite instruments are the harp and flute. It was a great show.

Spelling - Week 4

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Weekly Challenge

Well I thought it was time to start up our weekly challenge again. Each week I will place a question online. To tell me your answer place a comment on that post. You need to be very specific with your answers. The more information you supply the higher the chance you have of winning. The first person who gets the answer right (with all the information) wins. Anyone from any class can answer the question. So what are you waiting for?

Here goes...
How old is the oldest athlete at the 2012 Olympics? Who are they? What country are they representing? What sport are the competing in?

Buddy Art

Today we went to Room 12 to help them with their art. We sponged a piece of paper with 2 colours ready for them to print some bugs on top. The seniors boys were a great help.

Finger Painting

Today for art we made some prints, finger print pictures. We looked at some ideas and examples then Mrs Larsen let us go and create our own. It was great fun. Here are a few things people created.

Here are a few things the boys learnt when creating a print with their fingers.
Tarron - I learnt that is was pretty challenging because I had to make it look like an actual circle
Wiremu - I learnt that print making is when you dab your fingers up and down instead of rubbing
VJ - I learnt how to make a person using my fingers and nails.
Isaiah - I learnt how to make little people using just your finger prints
Keylen - I learnt how to make it darker on one side and lighter on the other to make it 3D
Te Paerangi - I learnt to use a little bit of paint because if you use to much it wont look like a finger print it will look like a blob.

Olympic Bus

Today we went for a walk down to Springvale Stadium. We went to have a look at the Olympic Bus! We got to use a lot of fancy gadgets to find out information, some of us left messages for the Olympic Athletes in London, we got to look at the past Olympic torches and equipment used and a few of us got a photo taken holding an Olympic medal.

Olympic Videos

Opening Ceremony Highlights

 Mr Bean at the Opening Ceremony  Official Olympic Song

Torch Relay Video

Duffy Assembly

Last term we had Duffy Assembly. Hamish McDouall came and talked to us about reading books. He showed us some of his favourite books one of his favourite books was the English dictionary. I found out that he loves the culture English.

Our HOM

Today we did some more work on our HOM. We created a wordle showing what Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision means to us.

After that we searched for some information about David Lange and why he is successful, especially at our habit. This is what we found.

This is a video that Isaiah Found of  David Lange at the Oxford Union debate.

Spelling - Week 3

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Inquiry

Today we started our investigation for our Inquiry. We were trying to answer our first question, What do the Olympic Rings represent. Here is what we found out...

• The Olympic Rings were designed by a man called Baron Pierre De Coubertin in 1912 after he saw a similar artifact in Ancient Greece.
• The five rings represent the five continents: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania.
• Every country in the world has at least one of the five colours of the rings in their flag.

Tech Expo

On Friday Room 6 and 15 went to the Memorial Hall to the Tech Expo. Firstly we listened to a couple of speakers. They talked about Mathletics and showed us a really cool robot that speaks Japanese. After that we had a look around all the stalls. We loved getting up close with the robots, chatting with the doctor in Christchurch, watching WIS demonstrate their robotics, watching St Georges showing us how they make 3D models form drawings and playing with all the programmes on Awa City Clubhouse computers. We had lots of fun.

Our Habit of Mind

Today we did another activity to help us learn more about the habit we are focusing on, Thinking and Communicating with Clarity and Precision. We worked in pairs. One person had to create a pattern using objects hidden behind a barrier. They then had to give clear instructions to their partner so they could create the same pattern. Then they swapped roles. Everyone had so much fun!

Buddy Art

Today we went to Room 12 to start our buddy art for the term. We helped them create a mirror print using paint. Next time we will help them turn their prints into butterflies.

Spelling - Week One

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Term 3

Well we have all had a nice long rest. Hopefully you are ready for lots of learning as we have an action packed term.

Here's what we are up to.