Should farmers care for our environment?

If dairy farmers are busy milking cows should they have to worry about our environment. Listen to our ideas on why we think farmers should or shouldn't have to care for our environment.

Are dairy farms important?

New Zealand has a lot of dairy farms but are they important for us to have?
Listen to the thoughts we have as to why dairy farms are or aren't important.

What jobs are created because of dairy farms?

Listen to our ideas of jobs that we can think of that are linked to dairy farms. We have found there is more than the farmer and their cows that produce our dairy products!

Questions from our KWL

We have completed a KWL in class and put our questions that we want to find out more about on a wallwisher as well. A KWL stands for what we already KNOW, what we WANT to know and then what we have LEARNT. We hope to be able to come back to these questions and answer them maybe after our farm visit but hopefully by the end of the term.

Cow Jokes

This term our big idea is 'From Milk to Ice Cream' looking at the dairy industry that surround us.
I know how much you all love jokes so here are a few to get us excited about cows.

1) What do you call a grumpy cow?
2) What do you call cattle with a sense of humour?
3) What animals do you bring to bed?
4) What happened to the lost cattle?
5) Where do cows go on dates?

Leave a comment with what you think the answers might be and I will put the answers up in a few days.

PRODUCTION

Earth on PhotoPeach
I am learning how to do a photopeach.

Mathethon

Remember to keep practicing your maths for our mathethon in Week 2.
Click on the link below and scroll down to find the fun practice games.

http://www.studyladder.co.nz/about/fundraising-mathethon

Don't forget to keep collecting sponsors either.

Some other good websites to practice your multiplication (times) and division (divided by) are;

www.wmnet.org.uk/resources/gordon/tlit%20the%20button%20v9.swf
www.resources.oswego.org/games/mathmagician/mathsdiv.html
www.resources.oswego.org/games/sumsense/sumdiv.html

Fairytale Play-The Popsicle Boy

This term our big idea has been performance and with that we looked at fairytales. We have practiced our parts over the last week of term and on Friday performed it to the class.
Can you guess what fairytale The Popsicle Boy is based on?
What do you think we have done well?
What could we improve on for next time?
PS: We had a PJ party for our last day of the term which is why we are in our PJ's at school.

Enlargement Art

We have been learning about enlarging an object, shape or image as a nice way to end the term we have done some artwork which required us to enlarge. so we had to do the maths before we could get started on the art. We first of all choose a kiwiana picture and then we measured out grid lines 3cm apart. We then got our big sheet of paper and enlarged it making the picture 1.5times the size.
Check out our progress so far.
REMEMBER YOU CAN CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO 'ENLARGE' IT IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE OF A CLOSE UP.

Fairytale writing

We have listened to lots of different fairytales this term including twisted versions of our old favourites (some with a New Zealand twist eg: Trev and the Kauri Tree, Cindy and the Lost Jandal, The Three Sheep and The Ugly Hatchling). We have started writing our own twisted fairytales which we want to put altogether in one big book for others to read. First we walked through the much loved story of the Three Little Pigs. We wrote down on the footprints what the setting was (where it took place), the characters (the people in the story), the problem and solution (way the problem was fix), what happened in the beginning, next, then and finally at the end. This helped us to step out exactly what made this fairytale special.

We each got small versions of these posters to put in our books and we choose our own fairytale to twist. We glued the posters in the middle of our page and on one side wrote what happened in the original version and then on the other side what our version was going to include. This became our plan which helped a lot when we came to writing our own fairytales. We also knew that a fairytale must start with 'Once upon a time...' or something similiar and most fairytales end with 'And they lived happily ever after.'

James and the Giant Peach

We have read the story James and the Giant Peach after lunch this term. We love listening to Roald Dahl stories! We enjoyed the adventures that James and his friends went on so we linked our reading and writing by pretending we were James. We then had to think of someone to write a letter too and then write it as if we were James telling them about all the wonderful adventures we had been on. Some of us used similes and some of us created great pictures in the readers mind by describing the giant piece of fruit floating through the air.