As part of Māori language week we began learning a greetings song. Here is the song for you to practice at home as well.
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With this week being maths week Miss Ward thought we would do something a little different. She introduced us to rich tasks and we talked about how there can be different answers and different ways to do things. We had fun teaching each other the different ways we worked the problem out. We are now learning to think of another way to work out a problem once we have solved it. On Thursday Johnny and Bella read a book called Shadow Puppets for reading. The book taught them how to make shadow puppets and after reading they made their own. On Friday we decided to make our own shadow puppets. Miss Ward read the story to the class. We learnt that when something blocks light it creates a shadow. We also talked about things like a sundial and a solar eclipse. To make our shadow puppets we took a black piece of paper and drew our puppet on it. We then cut it out and taped a straw on to it. We talked about how we had to cut things like eyes and mouth out because you wouldn't see it in the shadow if you just drew it. After making our puppets we created plays using them. We used the light from the data projector to make the shadows. Last week we had our class poetry competition. I was so impressed with the way everyone spoke with a clear and loud voice. It was certainly a hard job for the judges! Well done to Josie taking third place, Emily second and Isla first. With Isla away Josie and Emily represented us in the finals. They both did a fantastic job!!
Everyone should be very proud of their efforts!! I had planned to make an iMovie with our poems. However, unfortunately the sound quality was not very good. On Monday morning we had Greg O'Connell, a poet from Christchurch come to visit us. He showed us how to make reading our poems aloud interesting. In the afternoon he came in to our classroom and we created a poem together.
On Wednesday we created our own poems using the same style about cars and dinosaurs. Here is our poem we created with Greg: Busy Bots Hum, hum, hum, Go the Thinkingbots. Whirr, whirr, whirr, Go the Writingbots. Brrr, brrr, brrr, Go the Freezingbots. And gizt, gist, gizt, Go the Gizmobots. Yesterday we went to Imagination Station. We took turns at going on the computer and creating rooms. We learnt how to change the colours and faces, how to add new Lego in and how to move objects. Lots of us added in animals. While we were waiting on the other group we got to play in the Lego pits. Some of us made houses and spaceships.
A big thank you to our wonderful parents for coming along on the trip! The computer program we used is available for free download on the following link: http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/download This morning we had a visit from the SPCA. They told us about what the SPCA does and why animals end up there. We learnt about the 5 things that animals need: exercise, love, shelter, food/water and vet care. They brought along a greyhound and two guinea pigs for us to pat.
Today we all dressed up as different book characters for book week. I was so impressed with the amazing costumes everyone had. Well done to Cat and the Hat (Felix) and Harry Potter (Harry) on winning best dressed. It was a hard choice as everyone looked fantastic!
Thank you to Kim for the fantastic photos! |