Sharing our mahi live on Facebook

 

This week we have been working hard on our presentations for our Whanau Matariki Art Trail (happening in week 10). We have been making inforgraphics to show what we have learned. Some of our students were chosen to share their awesome mahi with Miss Simeon. When they went to show her, she decided to share some more by broadcasting on Facebook Live. 

I Am Water

We are learning to locate language features and to understand the purpose of different texts. We read a poem called I Am Water. We talked together as a class about the poem and we created a glossary to help us with the words we didn't know. Next, we glued the poem into our literacy book and we looked for different language features. Most of the language features we found were verbs and nouns. Then we highlighted what we found to show we knew what language features there were.
We found it easy to locate nouns in the poem.
We found it hard to understand some of the words in the poem so using the glossary was helpful.
We really enjoyed reading the interesting verbs used because they inspired us to write better.
Next time we need to practice using some of the new vocabulary we have learned in our conversations and our own writing.

                     

 

Lego Spike Prime

On Fridays, for Technology, we do Lego Spike Prime. 

This week we made some creations and presented them at assembly. We had to think about what we would make, collaborate within our group, and reflect on our learning.

We are building our collaboration skills and realising who we work well with. We are also developing our resilience and problem-solving skills.

Countdown Challenge

The challenge is to use the numbers available and the four standard operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) to hit the target.

Using the 6 cards below, try to get to the target. 

Show your working out.

You can only use each card once in your solution.

Want to step it up? Try using exponents.

Write your thinking in the comments.

Cybersmart: Kawa of Care

We have been going over the Kawa of Care during our class Cybersmart Lessons. We are remembering how to look after our devices, so we have them for a long time. The Kawa of Care ensures that students will get the best use of their device and that schools and families understand how they can best care for the devices.  
We discussed being in the "Right Place Right Time Online" and how this looks both at school and at home.

Term 2 Week 1 Holiday Recount

This week we have been practicing our recount writing. 

We started off with Whaea Debb recounting something she did on her holiday in Queenstown. We discussed the orientation of a recount, having the 5 W's. We then worked on organising our ideas into paragraphs by sequencing the events. We followed this by adding a conclusion about how we felt. Then we reread the writing and worked on adding language features such as verbs, adverbs, and adjectives to make the writing more interesting for our reader.

Here are some of our recounts.

Clickety-Clack Cicada

We have been learning about language features during Literacy. The way we have been doing this is by reading and understanding poems. 

Some of the features we identified in the poems are metaphors, verbs, onomatopoeia, and adjectives. 

This week we read Clickety-Clack Cicada by Jill Brasell.

We found it easy to identify some of the language features such as metaphor, onomatopoeia, and verbs.

We found it hard to locate the nouns because it is an area we think we need to work on more.

We really enjoyed learning about metaphors because they make the story more interesting and help to create an image in our mind about what the author is trying to tell us.

Next time we need to work on discussing the poem more and sharing our ideas.