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.

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.

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!

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

We Love to Create.

Room 10 loves to create and build. The first part of the video clip shows our spaghetti towers (inspired by the book Iggy Peck Architect), where we had to plan and build our designs. The second part shows us building machines that were run by constructing a simple electrical circuit.

An example of our planning.

                      


             

Reading Inspired by the Olympic Games

The Crunchies and Starbursts reading groups have been reading a novel from Epic Books, Olympic Miracle, by Peter Birle. As we read through the chapters we have completed learning activities to help us understand what we have been reading.

                     

The Bald Eagle

We are super proud of our writing this week. It was a challenge, but worth the effort. Thank you to BBC UK for the use of their video clip. We wrote a script using vivid verbs, adjectives, similes and interesting language to narrate the video clip.

Click on the image above to read more of our narratives.

The Bald Eagle

We are super proud of our writing this week. It was a challenge, but worth the effort. Thank you to BBC UK for the use of their video clip. We wrote a script using vivid verbs, adjectives, similes and interesting language to narrate the video clip.

Getting Around New Zealand

This term, Room 10 has been learning to locate and plot New Zealand places on a Google Map. We have also been reading about New Zealand current events and plotting where the events took place. We have also been learning about some New Zealand authors and plotting places that our guided reading text took us. 

A tribute to author, Sarah Johnson

You may have heard that we were very lucky to have New Zealand author, Sarah Johnson come to visit and share some author's tips to help us improve our writing. Sarah was absolutely amazing and a true inspiration to us all. We also recommend you check out her books, Wooden Arms and The Bold Ship Phenomenal, they are both great reads. As a way of thanking Sarah for sharing her time with us, Room 10 has been writing up a storm. Most of us are still in the editing and publishing stages, but Brooklyn has worked hard to get his tribute to Sarah finished. More will follow, so keep watching this space.

A Peek into Our Guided Reading

Asma has been not only learning to read, she is also learning to improve her English. She has been using the Explain Everything App to help her understand what she is reading.

On a Beam of Light

After reading the our shared book by Jennifer Berne, some of us decided to write a rap about what we learned about Einstein from the story. 



einstein1 from Tanya Taylor on Vimeo.

We have also received an email from the author and the illustrator after Rayne sent a picture of our favourite part in the story. 

We Leave Positive Digital Footprints!

An Exciting End to Our Year, Wacky Wednesday

This year Room 11 decided not only to showcase and share our learning with whānau and parents, we also ran small workshops to teach them how to use some of the ICT we use. We had a blast and want to thank our whānau and parents for their support and enthusiasm.





                                          



                                         

 

                   

DIY Hangi

Last week, Bankwood kids were lucky to experience a hangi for lunch, and it was yum. So yum, we decided to teach you how to make your own hangi. We used the Doink app for green screening our movie.

               


                             

Ralph Tells a Story

Room 11 has been busy learning about how to overcome the challenge of writer's block.