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.

Art expo projects

Today we began our art expo projects. We are creating large paper mache letters.  Today we joined the front and back and made them 3D. Thanks to the mums who were able to come and help and a huge thank you to the mum (and dad) who designed and cut all the letters for us!!!  More parent help will be needed over the next few Wednesdays as we continue to create our masterpieces. 

Reading & Writing in a Different Way!

This week we practised our memorising and listening skills.  We worked together in partners to copy a story that was posted in different locations around the classroom.  One person was the dictator whose job it was to read and memorise a portion of the story and then tell it to the person who was the transcriber, the one who wrote everything down.  Between the two of them, they had to be as accurate as possible with words, spelling and punctuation.  It was tricky but really fun!  Next time we do this, we will swap places and finish the story.

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.













  

  

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Juliet who celebrated during the holidays. 

Happy birthday today to Nicole!!

Mr Henty Comes To Visit by Tobey

Today Mr Henty came to visit our class and taught us about science. Phobic means fear of something and Philic means a love of something . Arachnophobia means fear of spiders. Philanthropy means love of people.  We had so much fun because I learnt lots of science thanks to Mr Henty. Hopefully we do more science this year!

Our Art This Term

In Term One we have completed two pieces of artwork. The first one was to sketch our team bird, the kakapo. We also had to sketch a background of New Zealand native plants and then colour it with pastels. Once we were finished, and had cut and mounted it for presentation, we had to self assess it against our success criteria. We are very proud of our finished work. 

Our second piece of art was a tiki or marae for our new theme, Mana Te Ao. First we had to find a picture on the internet that we wanted to draw. Next we saved the image to a Google doc so that we would be able to find the same image again. We then sketched our image making sure to add detail. We coloured using pastels, colouring pencils or jovies, depending on which would work best for our drawing. We printed off our original image to mount alongside our finished artwork. Our next step will be to self assess our work against the success criteria that we came up with for our project. 

James, MacKenzie and Andy are very proud to have their work on display in the school entrance. 

Chinese musical performance

Today the Year 5s were treated to a special musical performance by some Chinese musicians. At the end four students were presented with their own Chinese instrument to learn to play.

Senior Swimming Sports

Congratulations to the students in our class who placed in the swimming sports finals!  

It was fun to watch them do what they're so good at!

Congratulations Emily, Jade, Tobey and Nicole.

Also congratulations to our class relay team who placed 2nd.  What a strong team!

Jade, Tobey, Jordan and Brad.  Well done!

 A great crowd gathered to cheer on the swimmers.  

Those who weren't swimming were great supporters!

 It was fun for Emily to swim against her twin sister!

Research

We are learning how to research a topic using a variety of resources including School Journals, library books and the Internet. Today we are researching the kakapo, our team bird.  We looked on two websites to find some facts to add to our research chart.  We looked at www.kids.nationalgeographic.com and www.kakaporecovery.org.nz .  We were even able to listen to recordings of the kakapo's booming.