Collaborative Planning with our buddies in Wisconsin

We are learning to plan, write and collaborative on a narrative story with our buddies from Wisconsin. 

This morning we worked on our planning templates on google docs. We have been commenting on google docs with our buddy from Wisconsin about which picture prompt to we should use, asking them questions and getting ideas from each other about what to plan. 

We are continuing to plan our writing this week and then we move onto writing our stories together on google docs. We use a different colour to our buddy so we know who wrote which part. We can't wait to  hear feedback from our buddy tomorrow about what they think so far of our planning! 

Here are the Mysteries of Harris Burdick that we are are basing our collaborative writing project around. 

Google Hangout with Wisconsin

This morning most of us came to school at 8am to have a Google Hangout with a class of students from Wisconsin USA. They are a class of 11 and 12 year olds that attend Pulaski Community Middle school. It was 3pm on Wednesday for them and 8am on Thursday for us!

We are working together on a writing project using google docs. This morning we met our writing buddies and said hello.

We are using the Mystery of Harris Burdick and choosing a picture prompt to write a story together collaboratively.

Kids Cafe

Schools around NZ, and hopefully others from around the world, will be taking part in Kids Cafe.

Here is the Kids Cafe Blog where everyone's lessons will be added.

I wonder what you will teach others?

How will you record your lessons?

I wonder what you will learn from others?

It's holiday time!

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Update on our Dissolving Chalk Experiment

Poppy, Masyn and L:ucy found out that the three liquids (water, lemon juice and vinegar) are slowly dissolving the chalk.

The lemon juice and vinegar have acid in them and they are dissolving the chalk. The water does not have any acid so it is just soaking up some of the water. 

Dissolving Chalk

Growing Crystals

Look at our crystals only 5 days after we set up our experiment!

The water has started to evaporate from the sugar solution to leave behind sugar crystals. 

We can't wait to see them again in another 5 days! 

Growing Crystals

Today we made sugar crystals. 

First we made a saturated solution. This means we completely dissolved the sugar into water over heat. 

Next we set up our cup with an ice-block stick and string dangling into the cup.

Then we poured the sugar solution into the cup and made sure our string was dangling into the solution. 

Then we put our cups onto the window sill.

Our predictions:

• The water will evaporate and the sugar crystals will stay behind and grow and stick to the string. 

Scientific vocab we learnt today:

evaporate

dissolve

saturated solution


What do these words mean? Write us a comment and let us know what you think. 

Why do glow worms glow?

Glow worms glow to attract insects to eat. They have a natural chemical inside their bodies which makes a chemical reaction with the air. Glow worms produce bio luminescence, a natural light.

Maori Phrase of the week

This is last weeks maori phrase. Tegan and Adelei made a Puppetpals movie to show the phrase.

 Ko wai to kura? What is your school?

 Ko Vardon taku kura. Vardon is my school.

Tennis

Today we had our first tennis lesson. We learnt to balance the tennis ball on our racket and use the forehand swimg and hit the ball to our buddy. We played a fun game called "Poke" to finish.  

Waitomo Caves

Yesterday we visited the Waitomo Caves. For our global buddies you can find their website here.

Click to read our Geo Message.

More posts to come about what we learnt and enjoyed! 

Our feelings BEFORE our Waitomo Caves visit

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Buddy Reading with Room 6

Today we met with our buddy class Room 6. We read our buddy a story and then they read to us. 

We are going to enjoy working with Room 6 this year! 

The Green award

On Monday we got the Green award because we had over half of our class wrap free on Wednesday. I think we did very well!

By Zoe

Thomas has Talent!

This morning I brought in my ukulele for my reward.
From Thomas

A present for Mrs Natusch

This morning I gave Mrs Natusch a big present. It was a pumpkin! I carved Mrs Natusch's name on the pumpkin. I gave it to her for being a lovely teacher and so she can make pumpkin soup. 

By Jade

Class Award

Today at assembly room 7 received the class award. We received this award because of the connections we are making with other classes around the world. We are connecting with other NZ classes on twitter (@kidsedchatnz), quadblogging with NZ classes and classes around the world and using skype to connect and make global connections. 

Netball Skills

This morning we learnt netball skills with Aroha The Waikato Netball officer. We learnt to stop, pivot and defend: Here is a movie about our netball skills.By Thomas.

Maori phrase of the week

This morning me and Adelei made a sock puppet video of the Maori phrase of the week.