Sheep Song

Note Taking

Today to be successful learners we refined how we note take.

WALT: Make poi and create movements

Today we made poi and created a set of movements. What do you think?

Defining Culture

Help us please!

We are taking up the challenge Mr Cribb set Te Roopu Arohanui which class can skip the longest. Have you got any tips that can help us out?

Arguments

We have been busy having arguments to help us identify a strong argument.

Today we have debated about saving the Plaza. After reading about the a City Council wanting to close the plaza to replace it with a flower garden.

WALT: Use Persuasive Language in our Writing

Here is a sample of a students piece of writing. Should lollies be classroom rewards?

WALT: Use the visualising strategy to help us comprehend text

WALT: Drop the y and i

We are trying to sharpen up our spelling skills. Today we have been looking at adding endings onto words that start with y but like most spelling rules there are exceptions. Check this out!

Y TO I ANIMATION

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Geometry

We are back after a great break. We have hit the floor running with geometry over the past week we have learnt a lot about angles, creating and working out the number of degrees in an angle. Today we looked at symmetry and creating symmetrical monsters using paint. Here is the one, we have been but to the test to try and create one with 3 and 4 lines of symmetry.

What a successful Week

This week our voices have been heard. We have found out that our Duffy Books in Home Video was a winner and Miss Gorrie gets to go to Auckland for a day, hopefully bringing us back some goodies and a video of her experience. She shouted us a morning tea.

We have also been recognised for our learning. Check out this blog post by the Inventor of CSI Neale Pitches.

Determination

We have recently finished the novel The Silver Sword. It was a powerful tale of four children who traveled from Poland to Switerland facing many troubles along the way. The share determination of these children to be reunited with their parents was evident throughout the novel and we were amazed at how war can split a family in a second.

Over the past few weeks we have been discusing values that help us to succeed in life, determination is key. It must come from the mind, being able to think in a positive manner, having a goal and being determined to reach it.

Today we discussed Valerie Vili road to success at the Bejing Olympics. Using our infering skills we were able to make predictions about her and how she managed to succeed in the Olympics. Her mind played a powerful role. Over the past week we have been learning to visualise while we are reading to help us understand the text and we have linked this with Valerie and see this as a possible tool that she could of used to make sure that she succeeded.





For us as students it is reinforcing the need to be determined to succeed. Even though we are using visualising to help us understand what we read we can also use it to help us succeed in life.

All Whites Dream Over!

This morning we have been discussing values and the importance of these on our lives. We have been discussing the values that the All Whites had in order to get where they did in the World Cup.

We have decided that these are essential for us to succeed in life:
* Think about the potential we have
* Belief in ourselves and others around us
* Respect for yourself and others
* Graditude for others and things that come your way
* Dedication

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Barn Dance 2

Today we have worked on our barn dance. We wanted to make sure that we were in time and that we were sticking to our lines. On reflection we can see that we have made huge improvements. Our next step now is to add STYLE!

Maths Place Value Strategy

We are learning to solve multiplication problems using the place value strategy.

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Forming a Hypothesis

Today we have been learning how to form a Hypothesis
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How we are going?

We have been preparing for our barn dance. After watching our video we think our next step is to get ourselves staying in our lines so that we are all in time.

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Myself as a Learner

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What is a Scientific Investigation?

WALT: Infer from text