PPPs

Thank you to everyone who came to our class PPPs - Pupil Progress Presentations.  The children truly enjoyed sharing their learning with their parents and even a couple of grandparents came along.  It was wonderful hearing the children talking about their goals, successes, achievements and everyday classroom work. Using our Chromebooks was a great way to share their learning at our PPPs and now to be able to show it to those who were unable to attend.

Happy birthday Amelia!!

Our three birthday picture poses. 

Serious. 

Happy. 

Crazy.  

Hope you had a great birthday Amelia!

Maths - position

We designed houses by drawing and writing a description of the plan. We then traded books with a friend and built a house using their plan. We are master builders and designers!

A busy week in review

Another week has flown past!  Here are a few highlights from the week.

FITNESS

For fitness this week our focus has been 'games', so we made up one.  The children named it 'Hide and Guide'.  All of the children found a hiding spot in the nature walk behind our class.  Two children were 'it' and they had to close their eyes and be guided by a friend who gave them instructions to find the children who were hiding.  A lot of fun was had by all!

  

ART
Another layer of paper mache and newspaper went onto our letters.  This coming Wednesday will be the final day of paper mache when we add our last layer of plain newsprint.  Thank you so much to the parents who have been able to help us out!  This is the last week that we really need parent help for completing our paper mache.  If you are able to join us between 1.30 and 3 on Wednesday, it would be greatly appreciated!

MATHS
We have learnt a new game on our iPads.  It is called Maths Slide and can be played with 1 to 4 players.  It can be played using multiplication, division, addition, subtraction or place value.  Here are Juliet and Liam playing a game together.

THEME & BLOGGING
We have been busy posting to our blogs this week, as well.  The children have all completed a Google Slide show in which they researched a country and its culture and created their own slideshow.  Some chose to work independently and some chose to work with 1 or 2 friends.  Their slideshows, along with their Learning Intention, Success Criteria and Self-Assessment, have been posted to their blogs. Please be sure to stop by their blog and have a look and leave your own comment.  Here is one of the slideshows made by the students.

Measurement

This week we have been working with measurement.  On Friday we had fun playing a game using measurement.  In groups of 4 we took turns choosing a card and naming a member of our group who we would measure.  We had to each estimate what the answer would be.  Then we measured the length and whoever was the closest won the card.













  

  

Science Research

This week is Science Week at our school.  Today we did some research of science facts and collaborated by sharing them in a class Google Presentation.  We were so engaged in searching the www.sciencekids.co.nz website to find our facts.

Click HERE to view our presentation.