NZ Money - Money Matters

This week as part of our Money Matters theme we researched, read and took notes on various aspects of New Zealand money.  After we collected our individual notes on our specific money or topic, we collaborated with our group to write a script for a news broadcast to share our findings.  Once we had written our script and practiced it a few times, we filmed our news broadcast and published it to YouTube. On our individual blogs you will find the link to our video and to our collaborative research notes and script. (next week this will be posted on our individual blogs)


NZ Original Coins by Chloe, Emily, Jack and Ben
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History of NZ Money by MacKenzie, Tony, James and Parinaz
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Current NZ Coins by Juliet, Jordan, Chelsea, Amelia and Andy

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Current NZ Notes by Judy, Jade, Maria and James
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Original NZ Notes by Josh, Brad, Charlotte and Michelle
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Literacy Circles

As part of our Literature Circles this week, each group had  follow up activity in keeping with their chapter book.

One group made commercials just like Brian did in Brian's Brilliant Career.  The commercials were made with our upcoming market day in mind.  Enjoy!



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Another group made up an imaginary pet after reading their book, Midnight Pig.  They could design it using paper and pencil or Google Draw. Here is Jack's Google Draw pet.

Another group made treasure maps for the class to follow to find hidden treasure in the playground, after they read Treasure Island.

Literacy circles

We are reading chapter books and meeting in literature circles to discuss our books.  Each person is given a job to do before our meeting. The jobs are passage picker, connector, illustrator, discussion director, summariser and word master. 

20 minute Tuesday

I love how my class loves to read!!! We have "20 minute Tuesday" every Tuesday after lunch where the children get 20 minutes of uninterrupted reading of a chapter book.  By Year 5 one of our reading goals is to be able to read silently for 20 minutes. I think  everyone in our class can confidently check off that goal!! 

Oral Presentations

We've been sharing our poems this week practising our oral presentation skills. 

Book Breakfast

Today was the Kakapo team book breakfast.  We enjoyed hearing our teachers read their favourite stories; we watched interviews of our favourite authors; we learnt about our book challenge; and we enjoyed croissants and milo for breakfast.  

We each have accepted a book challenge to read either 30 or 40 books by the end of the school year.  We need to try to read a variety of genres.  Check out our individual blogs to see our genre bookshelves.  (Please ask your child for their blog address)

Ready for our reading challenge

We are ready for our book challenge! For each book we read we will record it on a slip of paper to put in our suitcase.  We are also going to record it digitally in our google drive on a Google draw bookshelf for each genre. We are going to compare the two methods to see which we prefer. 

 

Readers' theatre

On Friday our buddy class came to visit and we performed our readers' theatre plays. The plays were variations of classics: 'Slurping Beauty', 'Goldilocks and the Three Bullfrogs', 'Cheetah and the Sloth' and 'Brementown Rappers'.  Room 3 are natural actors and did fantastic job holding the attention of the Year 1 class. 

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.

SSR

We are really enjoying our SSR (Sustained Silent Reading) in class.  We have talked about the importance of reading for enjoyment.  We are making sure that we have one chapter book at school for SSR and one at home for home reading.  Our book should keep us interested for at least 10 minutes and we should be able to finish a book in about one to two weeks.