Shared Book- Little Mouse and the Red Wall

Amanda and Hannah have been working hard to share their new learning with you all. 

Our Personal Taonga

We used a model from Gail Loane's book, I've Got Something To Say, to write about our personal treasure. 

How to Take a Chance

We have been reading this wonderful book by Kobi Yamada to help us with taking risks and making the most of an opportunity. We have been using our SMARTs to help us think and respond to the text.








Peyton explains how the main character changed through the story using the Chatter Pix app.

Ruma Toru Loves to Write

All year, we have been focussing on being descriptive when we write. We try very hard to paint a vivid picture in our reader's minds by adding detail, using different sentences starters and sentence types. We also like to add vivid verbs to help with this.

Reading Response

The Explorers reading group has been reading and responding to an article from Kiwi Kids News about the game Fortnite. 

Reading Response

The Spies reading group chose an article from Kiwi Kids News completed a reading response. Amanda chose an interesting article about the laziest countries in the 

world.

Digital Devices

We love to write. We were inspired by a video clip about the effects of the overuse of digital devices. We chose our own genre to write about the information from the video clip. Noah shares his thoughts on digital devices.

Wire Sculpture STEAM Challenge

We have been working hard over the last 3 weeks to design and create wire sculptures to hang in our classroom tree. We found it wasn't as easy as it looked and needed to overcome many challenges. Hannah and Jasmine show their learning journey below.

Our Vision Boards

For the start of the term, we decided to put together a vision board to show our goals, aspirations, inspirations, passions and how we will achieve them.

The Promise Book Snap

We have been reading The Promise by Nicole Davies this week. We are very excited to share our reading responses as a Book Snap. Thank you Tara Martin for the great idea.

STEAM Challenge Week 7 Term 1

Every two weeks Tuakana Toru complete a STEAM challenge.  We were challenged to design and build a brushbot to paint a picture using fractions of colour. It really was challenging.

Check out our shared book for this week

We all get stuck at times and Floyd is no exception. We would love you to share our shared book and thinking. Click on the image to follow our learning. 

Be More Dog!

To start our year, we watched a wonderful YouTube clip and discussed what it meant to us. 





We decided we wanted to be more DOG not CAT. 

Bethany The Master Chef

As a part of our Passion Project, self-directed inquiry, Bethany's goal was to inspire young people to cook. She certainly achieved her goal!

Sarah Johnson's book signing at Books for Kids

Room 10 were privileged to be asked to create artwork inspired by Sarah Johnson's book the Bold Ship Phenomenal to display in the Books for Kids store in Hamilton East. We would like to say a huge thank you to the lovely ladies at Books for Kids who were generous and gave us a free book if we visited the store. Happy Birthday Books For Kids.

             

Room 10 Entertains at The Bankwood School Production

Room 10 performed as the Young Farmer's Club in our school production of Wooden Arms by Sarah Johnson. We practised and practised and practised! It wasn't easy dancing swan lake in gumboots :)

Haka, written by Patricia Grace

You will have noticed we have been reading Haka as our shared book. We talked about why the haka is so important to New Zealanders and how it is an important part of our culture. We also realised the haka, and there a many, have been handed down from generation to generation. The purpose may have changed for some over time, but its importance remains. 




By Karika

Pokemon Enlargements

Room 10 has been busy learning about enlarging Pokemon images. We found it a challenge to get the squares exactly the same, but we persevered with great results!

Click on the image to view results

Minecraft Selfies

For maths we have been learning about area and perimeter. Once we created our selfies, we then calculated the area and perimeter of our images. We used a variety of  strategies, including addition and multiplication strategies. We also needed to find the fraction of each colour we used in our mini mes.

Thank you Mrs M (aka Miss Atkins) for the great idea. http://r9sminions.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/math

Brain Matters

Our artwork comes from the idea we can grow our brains. After a discussion about this, we were inspired to create a zentangle hiding symbols of how we learn and what motivates our learning.