#kidsedchatnz

Wednesday 4th September - Topic: Maths

 This week's topic for #kidsedchatnz is Maths! 

 Q1. What have you been learning about in Maths?

 Q2. Tell/Explain a Maths strategy that you have learnt this year?

 Q3. What are some of your favourite activities that you have done in Maths this year?

 Q4. Why is it important to learn about Maths?

 Q5. What are some of your favourite Maths Apps that you use in class?

Here is just a little snapshot of our twitter chat! 

Koru Art Work

WOW sentences

We are learning to write interesting sentences. Can you hear which words are our WOW words?

Gym Sport Dance Competition

Today some of us competed in a dance competition. Here are some photos and videos clips of us competing.

 Funky Hip Hoppers

 The Glory Girls (year 3/4)

 2nd Pace for the Cheerleading Team (The Glory Girls)

Ways to make 20

Today the Pentagon's maths group learnt about the ways to make 20. They are learning to recall these facts quickly.

Cross Country

On Friday we had our Junior and Middle Cross Country. 

made by Poppy

made by Thomas

Our NZ Flag

Should we change the NZ flag?

There has been talk for a while now about changing NZ's flag.
What are your thoughts? Do you agree or disagree?

Here are our new designs for a NZ flag.

Daffodil Day 2013

What amazing and creative ideas do you have for Room 7 to raise awareness for Daffodil day 2013?

We are having a "Daffodil Day" at school on Thursday 29th August (since it's cross country on Friday the 30th). I wonder what we can do to raise awareness on Daffodil day? Add your ideas to our voicethread.

#kidsedchatNZ

Today at 2pm we have our first #kidsedchatNZ for this term. The topic this week is all about Technology.

Q1. What is your favourite piece of technology you have in the classroom? How do you use it?

Q2. What other technology would you like to have in your classroom?

Q3. What ways have you used technology in the classroom?

Q4. What are your favourite apps/programmes? Why?

Start thinking about how you will answer these questions.

I look forward to reading your tweets! 

Mrs Natusch 

100 Word Challenge

Look at all the clever writers in room 7!

17 children managed to publish their writing on their blogs and then upload it to the 100WC blog. 

Here is the link to the 100WC blog if you want to visit, read their writing and then make a comment! CLICK HERE

Genius Hour

On Friday we had our first Genius Hour. We got to choose want we wanted to learn or do for the afternoon.

We had a class full of bakers, designers, builders, artists and more! 

Here is a picture of just a few of the creative children busy at work. 

What did everyone in Room 7 think of our first Genius Hour? What went well for you? What would you do differently next time? 

WFW

Today on Wrap Free Wednesday we had 13/22 people wrap free. That is 59% and we had 31 wrappers. That's bad.
Next week we will try to get 100%.

Ashton "I am going to make sure I do not put any wraps in my lunch"
Debbie "I am going to try and not put any chips in my lunch box"
Aaron ''I am going to try to get less wraps everyday''
Titus "I am going to try not to put too many wraps in my lunchbox."
Tegan "I am going to make sure my mum does not put in wrappers in my lunch box."

Writing

Today in writing we focused on proof-reading our writing.

First we had to read our writing to check it made sense. Then we read our writing to a buddy. Next we checked for full stops and capital letters and then underlined words to check.

Our goal is to proof-read our writing independently. 

What makes us unique?

Today we brainstormed what makes us unique. We then buddied up and used a venn diagram to compare and contrast the similarities and differences between us. 

Wrap free Wednesday

Today we had WFW. We had 13\21 children wrap free. We had 61 percent wrap free.

Written by Aaron

Movie Making

Aaron and Ashton were part of a movie making project in Term 2. They worked with Rebecca and Ben from room 14. The movie had to be about keeping safe while biking.
What feedback do you have for them? What did you enjoy? What could they do differently next time?

Hello from Mrs Natusch

Hello Room 7! I hope you are having a great week with Mr Chell!

I am having an amazing time in Thailand. Here's a photo of the pool at my resort that leads straight to the beach! 

It's very hot here so we have been swimming in this pool and in the ocean a lot! 

Write a comment or ask me a question! :)

I hope you have a wonderful holiday. See you all in Term 3!

From Mrs N

WFW

For our Wrap free Wednesday we have 9 people that are Wrap free. And 5 people that have wraps. And our percent is 64%.

 

Maori Language week

Pentagon's Maths Group

The Pentagon's maths group learnt how to read three and four digit numbers with Miss Pethybridge.

Our Trashion Show

The fluro part of our show!

The Trashion Show

Wrap free Wednesday

 Our class has 15/23 people that are wrap free today. This is 65%. We had 23 wrappers altogether.

Writer of the week

Our writer of the week is Tegan!

 

Our goal was to write a narrative about our imaginery islands with a problem and a solution.

 

Writer of the week

Adelei is our writer of the week! We have been reading "The Lorax". Our goal was to write a persuasive letter to the Once-ler to stop him from chopping down trees.

Here is Adelei's letter: http://adeleislearning.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/to-once-ler.html 

Our Home Learning task

For home learning this week our task was to make a musical instrument out of reusable materials.

Here is a Pic Collage of our instruments. 

Made by Makayla 

Video taken by Zaric.

Writer of the week

This is the writer of the week Hayley!
Our goal was to write a narrative with a problem and a solution.

Wrap Free Wednesday

These are our wrap free kids today.

by Makayla



Wrap free Wednesday

Today is wrap free Wednesday. We had 9 kids wrap free. We also had 31 wraps. Here is a photo of our wrap free kids!

By Leah the enivro agent: )

Technology Unit

Here are some of us starting to plan and create our costume for our Trashion show! 

The Candy World group are painting their candy floss. The Fire Land group are making masks. 

If you were to create an imaginary land what would it be called and what would it be like?

Writer of the week

This week Manaia is the writer of week :) for her descriptive writing.

Wrap free Wednesday

 

By Titus

Technology with Room 6

We have begun our Technology unit and have met with room 6 to draw our designs. 

Our topic is Imagination so we have thought of an imaginary world and designed a costume that a character would wear who lives in our world. 

Apple tv and our iPad

Today we had the apple TV up on  the screen. Miss Pethybridge (our student teacher) went onto the kiwi kids news website. There was an article about manners and it told us that a lot of kids were not using manners and some kids at their dinner time are eating their dinner in front of the TV while their parents were at the table having a conversation. Some kids are swearing in public.

Then we went onto the show me app and did some spelling. Miss Pethybridge wrote some words and then we had to add magic 'e's onto the end of the words.

written by Tegan