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.

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.

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.

                      


             

Our Matariki Learning

Oops we forgot to add our learning after reading Matariki by Melanie Drewery. We used Thinglink to share our learning.

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. 

Ralph Tells a Story

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

What Do We Do With An Idea?

Do ideas grow or are they just there? 

The next two weeks will see Room 11 reading this book and learning about our brains. Click on the image below to find out about our new learning and our new shared book.

Check Out Our Learning!

Rona and the Moon

Some of Room 11 decided to create a play after reading Rona and the Moon.

BTBWCB Tools

Our Shared book this week has been In My Heart, written by Jo Witek. Some of us decided to give Toondoo a whirl to show our learning. We needed to think of a scenario and then show what BTBWCB tools we would use to make the situation better.

By Room11Rocks | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

By Room11Rocks | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

By Room11Rocks | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

By Room11Rocks | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

You Can Do It Bert!

Through reading our shared book we have been learning about how the author and illustrator show the character traits and emotions of a character. We have been using the Explain Everything and Educreation apps to show our thinking. If you are interested in our reviews click on our Shared Book page.

Our Awesome Affirmations

We are celebrating our achievements, successes and hard work this term. As a part of our shared book learning, we discovered affirmations encourage and support us to learn and overcome challenges. We have used Google docs to create an affirmations page about who we are and who we will be.

Felicity's Affirmations

Adam' Affirmations

Destiny's Affirmations

To view the remainder of our affirmations pages, please click on our Shared Book page.

Shared Book

Swim

Retold by: Chris Szekely

Room 11 has begun a new unit of learning about Maori myths and legends. We have started by reading a legend based on a true story from Rotorua about Tutanekai and Hinemoa. After reading we decided the moral or teaching from the story was:

• never give up on your dreams or goals
• everyone needs to be loved
• love wins
• never judge a book by its cover.

To see what we will be learning visit our Shared Book page.

Luke's Way of Looking, Authors: Nadia Wheatley and Matt Ottley

We have been reading Luke's Way of Looking for our shared book, a book about a boy who has a passion for art and discovers there are actually people just like him in the World. 

Our views:

Jennifer: I thought the artwork was creative, I especially liked the way some of the pictures were based on famous artists.

Shelley: At the beginning the pictures had no colour, as the story went on, the pictures got brighter and brighter as Luke got happier.

Somi: I liked how I learnt about famous artist's different styles. It told us not to give up on our dreams and to follow them.

Kuini-Marnie: I found the book to be inspiring because Luke used his imagination and that taught me to follow in his footprints. It also showed us, that we should never give up.

Adam: The book was creative because it showed me everyone has different passions for different things and that's ok.

Bailey: I found the book interesting because I found there were many different artists in the world.

  The art work in the story is inspired by famous artists like Picaso and J Pollock. We decided to have a go ourselves.