Week 7 Reminders

Lady Bug Note Generators   Do you like the new gadget I found? You can have your very own if you click on the link above. Make sure you link your messgaes to your learning and then you can embed them on your own blog. Have fun!

Room 7's blog is on the Blog Dipping website!

We are so proud to have our Room 7 class blog featured on the Blog Dipping website!

We hope everyone around the world enjoys reading our post on asking questions and also checks out the rest of our blog!

Cross Country

The year 1-4 children had their cross country today. This is a photpeach that Loren made.

In our class the 7 year olds ran two laps of the school field. 8 and 9 year olds ran 2 1/2 laps of the field.

We had hay bales to jump over and a course to run around to make it more fun!

 

What did you enjoy about our cross country and why?

 

If you are visiting from another school what is your cross country like?

Cross country 2012 on PhotoPeach

Asking questions

We are learning to ask questions before, during and after reading.

We read this big book called The Lion and the Mouse. We asked questions about this book.

These are the types of questions we are learning about:

1. Right there questions (Literal)
The answer is right there in the story

2. Search and think questions (Inferential)
You need to search for clues in the story and think about your answer.

3. On my own questions (Evaluative) 
The answer won't be in the story. You need to find the answer in your head. Think "I have to answer the question on my own".

 Here are our questions. Can you guess what type of question each of us asked?

listen to ‘Aaron’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ashton’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Christian’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Courtney’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Dakota’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Fin’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Katherine’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘katie’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Leah’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Loren’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Makayla’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Megan’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Toby’ on Audioboo
listen to ‘Tukotahi’ on Audioboo

Feelings

How are these athletes feeling and why?

Spring is coming!

This morning we discussed this photo for oral language. Listen to our descriptions.....

What do you think of when you see this photo?

NZ has 100 medals!

We found this video clip on another class blog and think it's pretty cool!
We are proud of our country NZ because we have 100 medals in total.

When were YOU most proud to be a New Zealander?

Maths week

This week is Maths week. Click on the link below, sign in and have fun practicing your maths skills!

We LOVE Learning!

This week we created posters to show how we LOVE learning. 

 Our learning goal was to use MS Publisher to show the different ways we love to learn.

We were successful when we could;

• choose a background style
• choose photos saved in our folders or take new photos to show different ways of learning
• add a title and words to describe what we were doing in the photos 
• make our posters easy to read by thinking about the lay-out

We entered our posters in this competition - http://www.ilovelearning.org.nz/
Search for Vardon School to see our entries. You can even show you "like" them by clicking the like button!

We LOVE Learning! on PhotoPeach

Do you think we achieved our goal?

Maths week 2012

Next week is maths week in NZ.

Here is a snapshot from the 100 word Challenge website that some of us used for writing. We can't wait until this is up and running again in September!

Below the picture are some maths problems to solve.

 Make a comment with your thinking and your answers to these problems.  Remember to number your answers.

1. How many posts altogether were made for both the 100 WC and the 5 SC?

2. There were visitors from 50 countries. If 25 more countries joined in September, how many countries would that be altogether?

3. There are actually 196 countries in the world. How many countries did not visit the 100 word challenge blog?

4. 68, 000 visits were made to class blogs. What is 100 more than this number? What is 1000 more?

EXTRA - make up your own problem using these numbers for someone to reply to.

Have fun solving these problems! We can't wait to read your comments!

Retelling a Maori Legend

The Takahe and Kiwi reading groups retold a maori legend for Maori Language week. First we read the legend and also watched a video clip. Then we each chose a part to retell. We drew a picture to show our retell and then recorded our voice.

What did you enjoy about our retelling?

Olympics

Wow! What a weekend of sport!

The Waikato Chiefs bet the Sharks in the final game of Super 15 Rugby. :)

We watched lots of sports in the Olympics over the weekend. We are proud of all our NZ athletes who did their best.

NZ now has 3 gold medals and 4 bronze medals which equals 7 altogether! YAY!

What have you enjoyed watching at the 2012 Olympics and why?

Our NZ medals at the 2012 Olympics

This is our equestrian team who won a bronze medal.
Megan "I felt surprised when they got the bronze medal because for horse-riding it's really hard and I'm proud of them because they tried their best"

Toby "I felt excited  because it's good to get a medal"

In this photo we think these rowers are.....

Loren "They are feeling really tired and puffed"

Katie "I think they are very happy and proud and they are trying their best"

They are being resilient and trying their best.

Dakota "When they get the gold medal they would be really proud of themselves for getting NZ's first gold medal"

Fin "I think they are feeling really happy and proud of themselves"

Christian "These rowers are happy and proud because they are holding their bronze medal"

Over the Rainbow

Taku Mihi

One thing we have done this week to celebrate Maori Language week is to record our mihis that we wrote last term.

Here are some of them. Please visit our individual blogs to hear the rest of them.

listen to ‘Loren’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Christian’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Victoria’ on Audioboo

Olympics discussion

For Oral Language this morning we discussed this photo.

What is happening?
How is the person holding the Olympic torch feeling and why?
What is the crowd doing?
How would we feel if this were us?

2012 Olympic Mascots

Today we watched this video clip on the 2012 Olympic mascots.
We also learnt some information about them.

Here are the mascots;


Hi. My name is Mandeville.

• My name comes from Stoke Mandeville where a doctor had an idea to help his patients recover from back injuries. He set up a wheelchair Basketball competition and this is how the Paralympics began.
• My eye is a camera lens so I can record everything I see
• I always want to be faster
• I wear a watch so I can beat my speed every time
• I was created from the last two drops of British steel used to make the 2012 Olympic stadium

My name is Wenlock.

• My name comes from the town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire
• My eye is a camera lens so I can record everything I see
• I love all Olympic sports
• I wear friendship bracelets and they are the colours of the Olympic rings
• I love making new friends
• The light on my head is inspired from the London famous black taxis

Circuits

Victoria used the ipod today to take photos of us doing circuits. She then created a video using the splice app on the ipod. This is our first time using the splice app.

Circuits are a fun fitness activity. We are doing circuits to get fit and ready for our cross country. 

Writing in room 7

Today we used a movie animation from The Literacy Shed. We watched the animation and brainstormed adjectives, nouns, verbs and adverbs.

This is a screenshot of the ending of the animation. We wrote an ending on our blogs. Visit our blogs to see our writing.

Pablo Picasso

We are learning about different artists.

One of the artists we looked at is Pablo Picasso. Here are some of his paintings. Can you guess which one is NOT a Picasso painting?

Make a comment and tell us which one you think is NOT by Picasso?

http://www.artsology.com/pablo_picasso_gallery.php

(This is the website where you can see more of his paintings)