The Loaves

                 

This week for Literacy we have been learning about metaphors. A metaphor compares two different things.
We are learning about this language feature to help us become better writers.
In this poem, the author uses the language feature of metaphors to compare bread to clouds, and the sky to an oven.

Epic Reading

This year as part of our reading program we are using Epic. Epic is a digital reading platform with a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books.

So far our class has read 250 books!

We love reading the different genres of books. One of our favourites is graphic novels.

E-Pro 8

This week some of our students took part in the E-Pro8 Challenge. E-Pro8 is an inter-school science and engineering competition. Students take part in a series of tasks designed to promote science and engineering. 

The competition took place at Dargaville Intermediate School. Our class representatives were Dallas, Iroam, Amaziah, Isabella & Chris. All of our reps did amazingly well! The teams were Omega & Beta.

Team Omega took out the win for the day and is now off to the finals in Whangarei next week!

Some reflections the students made were that next time they need to read the task carefully and refer back to it.

Week 5 Maths Problem: Animals' Sports Day

 

Working in your groups, carefully discuss this problem.

Comment below. 

Who do you think won each event?

Why do you think this?

Answer using full sentences. 

Add the names of the people in your group to sign off.

Bonus question! (worth Caught Being Goods 👍).

The next day four of the animals wanted another sports day, but the caterpillar had gone to sleep and would not wake up!

"When he wakes up, we'll have another sports day!" said the frog. The three others agreed.

Some days later the caterpillar did wake up. He crawled out of his sleeping bag. He looked quite different!

What had happened?

Again they decided to have a swimming race, a running race, a high jump, and a long jump.

Who do you think won each event this time?

Has the caterpillar's change made any difference?

Why do you think this?

One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab

We read the book One Is a Snail Ten Is a Crab by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre.

It is a counting by feet book. There are different characters that have different number values. 

For example, 1 is a snail, 2 is a person, 4 is a dog, 6 is an insect, 8 is a spider, and 10 is a crab.

We then got into mixed groups. We had pictures of the characters and an iPad. Then we made number sentences and patterns using the characters. We talked in our groups about our ideas and came up with some on our own and some with our group. 
Next, we used the iPad to take photos to show what we learned. 
We really enjoyed looking at numbers in a different way like this.
Here are some of our pictures.

We are learning about writing Narratives.

The purpose of a narrative is to entertain your reader. 

What we already know is a Narrative has to have an Orientation. The Orientation is the setting that has the When, Where, and Who.

It also needs a complication or problem. Which means it needs the Resolution to solve the problem.

We talked with a buddy and came up with ideas for characters, problems, and solutions.

Here is one of our short narratives.

One day, mother horse took her ponies to the forest to look for berries. 

Mother horse saw a big tiger and she ran away from her ponies. 

Mother horse started limping, her leg looked sore. 

The tiger saw the horse but did not see the ponies. 

The tiger ran after the mother horse.

Mother horse's leg was not sore so she kicked the tiger and galloped away.

Welcome to room 6's blog for 2021

Welcome to Room 6's blog for 2021. It is day 3 of our school year and room 6 has been learning a little bit about each other and our teachers. We have been building relationships and friendships and learning how to do things in room 6. 

The first thing we did was be introduced to our class learning site. We found it was similar to our previous sites but different in other ways too.

Next, we constructed our class contract. We agreed on what should be in the contract and that we should try our hardest to not break the contract.

We also updated our blog profiles making sure we had thought about and written down our learning goals for the year.