New maths maintenance website

The kids have been trying out 'skoolbo' today and are really excited by the competitive nature of this website. All of the games are leveled to their ability and change the level of difficulty according to success. This is a great website for maintenance and practice - both for maths and literacy.

www.skoolbo.co.nz

The kids all have usernames and know the password. If they forget their username then I have an extra copy!

Home Learning Task Term 3

You child should be bringing home a task sheet as below... 

 Native Bird Home Learning Task

Choose a native bird to investigate.  You can present your information in any way you like – powerpoint, poster, brochure, stop-motion, video ‘documentary’, speech, song/rap etc.

You will need to include the following information in your presentation:

A diagram that you have drawn yourself –don’t forget to label the different body parts of your bird.  Use colouring pencils/jovis/felts to show your birds’ feathers/colour pattern.	Where can your bird be found?
What trees does your bird like to live in/eat from?	What food does your bird eat?
What are the English and Maori names of your bird?	Can you find any other interesting information?

Due: Friday 7^th August

Autumn Leaves

On Friday the kids worked their socks off on some Autumnal art. Mrs. Riddell took them through the processes of leaf rubbing, stenciling and sketching. Their art looks fantastic as a result!!

Basketball skills videos

The kids have been learning the skills of basketball and have put these videos together on the ipads this week... (thanks Mrs. Sutherland!)

Tegan, Hannah and Phaelyn

Archie, Arna, Makayla AND Andre, Rose and Archie AND Sophia and Josh, with a little Archie!

Welcome back, Archie! We sure needed your skills this week!!

Kaitiaki

We have been working hard on creating our own kaitiaki as guardians of our classroom... we think they look pretty good!

Pink Shirt Day

We were lucky enough to have some people talk to us today...

Pink Shirt Day

Pink Shirt Day... anti-bullying!

Well, today was a little different for most of the kids. We talked, we questioned, and we discussed bullying. We used a few of the techniques learned by Ms. B. at the Thinking and Questioning PD last Friday like '3-2-1' where we distill our thinking down by sharing, comparing and discarding the less relevant ideas. We came up with slogans of our own to stamp out bullying, we tried to work out why people might bully in the first place, we did some creative role playing and recorded these on the ipads with the help of some super helpful kids from Room 12. The videos are 'rough' but you get the gist of our day...

Meanies

Bullying

No Bully