It's poetry week!

Today we read  a poem called " Feeling tied down".

listen to ‘poem’ on Audioboo

What do you think the poem is aboout? Please write us a comment.

by Thomas

Tower Challenge #1

Wrap free

Today is Wrap free Wednesday. We have 14/23 children that are wrap-free. That is 60.8%.
by Makayla

Anzac day 2013

Today for shared reading we read this article from Kiwi Kids news about our 2013 Anzac service in NZ.

The Pukeko reading group read an article about Anzac biscuits. Read our comments to find out what they learnt.

 

Holiday Highlights

On Monday the 6th of May Term 2 begins. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!
We have another fun-filled Term..... so I hope you are all ready for the learning to continue!

Term 1 Reflection

Wow! What a busy term we have had!

Some of the highlights were:

• swimming (Aaron)
• camp (lot's of us)
• visiting Pirongia and walking the Mangakara bush walk (Tegan)
• maths - fraction pictures (Poppy)
• reading - chapter books (Zoe)
• writing recounts (Jade)
• writing more posts on our blogs to show what we have learnt (Leah)
• writing a 100WC and entering to on their blog (Zaric)
• playing learning games on the iPad (eg;decimal games) Aaron
• handwriting (Axell)
• spelling (Zaric)
• using puppetpals and sock puppets to create a movie (Thomas)
• inter-school swimming (Fin)
• getting reward coupons (Makayla)
• tennis lessons (Adelei)
• playing with my friends (Ashton)
• tweeting our learning and talking with others (Makayla, Zaric and Tegan)
• end of term PJ party and movie :)

Have a great holiday everyone!

pic collage made by Aaron

Wrap free Wednesday!

Last week we won wrap free Wednesday! We got 67% wrap free.

Today is wrap free Wednesday and we have a lot of people wrap free. Today we have 70% wrap free.

On Wednesdays maybe you could be wrap free, and if you do that you will be helping our environment.

 WRAP FREE WEDNESDAY ROCKS.
by Leah

Genius Hour in Room 7

We are going to be taking part in the "The Global Genius Hour Project".

First we watched this video clip of a 9 year old boy who reminded us not to be boring. He said to go down the road less traveled - the hard way, so we can not be the same and not boring.



Then we looked at the Genius Hour wiki to learn more about this project.

Next we brainstormed all the topics we wanted to learn more about and what we were curious about.

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Blogger of the week

Myspace Bubbles Note Generator
Manaia wrote 4 comments in the weekend, One was for her blogging buddy in Palmerston North! She even wrote a post about it and also finished her draft writing and published it.
You are a super STAR Manaia!

Wrap free lunch

On Wednesday the 10th of April there were 14 children completely wrap free in our class. That is 66.6 % of our classroom wrap free!

Reading buddies

 Today room 7 had reading buddies.

 

 We love to read!!!

 

 

by Makayla

Night Glow Balloon Festival

Did you go to the Hot Air Balloon Night Glow Festival on Saturday night? 

If so, what was your favourite part and why?

Hot Air balloon Visit

Animoto made by Zaric

Animoto made by Poppy

Today we had a hot air balloon visit our school. Some of us came to school at 7am and had breakfast! We then watched the people inflate the balloon.
We went to the hall to listen to Andy the pilot. This is what we found interesting....

• Balloons travel only in the morning because the air is calm and still (Fin)
• Balloons don't travel that fast so that the person who drives the truck to collect the balloon can catch up (Aaron)
• Some balloons can crash (Zoe)
• Andy the pilot has flown in different countries (Titus)
• Hot air balloons come in different shapes and sizes (Jade)
• You need to have to have a team to fly a balloon because they are heavy and need a team to control the balloon and someone to drive the truck (Thomas)
• The number on the balloon is their registration like a car (Aaron)
• balloons rise into the air because hot air rises inside the envelope and the air is lighter than the air outside (Zaric)
• Andy's balloon is called "the EGG" (Leah)
• The balloon's envelope is made out of fabric and it has a skirt (Aaron)

How does your blog help you with your learning?

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Tennis Lessons

Today was our first lesson of learning tennis skills.

We learnt to:

• control the ball by moving the ball around our racket
• park the ball on the racket
• hit the ball up on the racket and bounce on the ground
• forehand swing

Do you play tennis? What do you enjoy about playing it?

It's Earth Hour this Saturday

What will you be doing this Saturday at 8:30pm during Earth Hour?

This is how we are going to help our planet Earth.....

I will help save the Earth by reading a book and not playing the playstation.

Tukotahi

I will help save the Earth by using candles not lights.

Axell

I will help save the Earth by turning lights off and not have long showers.

Zaric

I will help save the Earth by not flushing the toilet so much so I can save water.

Thomas

I will help save the Earth by not having long showers.

Aaron

I will help save the Earth by leaving my lights off when I am sleeping.

Kasiti

I will help save the Earth by not having long showers.

Zoe

I will help save the Earth by saving water.

Ashton

I will help save the Earth by telling my friends to turn their lights off when they sleep.

Kaspar

I will help save the Earth by not wasting water.

Makayla

I will help save the Earth by turning the lights off.

Adelei

I will help save the Earth by turning lights off when I’m not in the room and having shorter showers.

Leah

I will help save the Earth by not using so much electricity.

Manaia

I will help save the Earth by not using the tap so much.

Fin

I will help save the Earth by turning off the lights.

Tegan

I will help save the Earth by turning off my lights.

Hayley

 I will help save the Earth by having wrap-free lunches.

Brandon

I will help save the Earth bringing wrap-free lunches to school.

Jade

 I will help save the Earth by not using the lights so much.

Lyric

I will help save the Earth by reminding other classes to turn off their lights.

Poppy

I will help save the Earth by reminding other classes to turn off their lights.

Titus

I will help save the Earth by not using so much water.

Debbie

Fractions in our names

For maths we looked at our names. We looked at the fraction of consonants and the fraction of vowels. Listen to our videos of some of us explaining the fractions and also check out our photos! 

Fraction Portraits

To end our week of learning about fractions we created portraits using squares of paper. We first counted up how many squares we had used and then calculated the fraction of each colour that we had used within our portrait.

Check them out on this photopeach!

Fraction Portraits on PhotoPeach

Fractions

We used pebbles, plates and colours to do maths today. We learnt about fractions. In every bag there were 30 pebbles. We had to write the fraction of each colour of pebble like 3/30 Yellow, or 6/30 red. We had to have a 30 in each fraction. Sometime people do fractions with out even knowing. It was so much fun doing maths today and at the end we got to eat 2 pebbles each YUMMY!

MATH IS AWESOME!

by Leah

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT ABOUT MATHS AND WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT IT.

Fractions

Today in maths we used lego and cubes to make a stick of ten lego/cubes. We wrote the fractions of each colour we used.
Here are some children talking about that fraction of each colour they used.

What do you know about fractions?