Maori Phrase of the Week

Ko wai tô hoa?

Ko Gina taku hoa.

Who is your friend?

Gina is my friend.

Maori Phrase of the Week

Ko wai tô kura?

Ko Vardon taku kura.

What is your school called?

Vardon is my school.

Making groups of ten

At the moment the Hexagons are learning to make groups of tidy tens to help when adding lots of numbers together.
Here is a little video to remind yourself of how to group the numbers using tens frames, and of how to show your working. Use this video to help you when you get a little stuck. Remember being able to explain your strategy is just as important as being able to get the correct answer!

Class Award

On Friday we received the class award. Mrs Anderson had been very impressed with the way we are using our blog to share our learning particuarly with the Maori Phrase of the Week. Each week we come back to class, practice it together. Write the Te Reo Maori and English version of the phrase in our Te Reo books and then take turns at having buddies video it for our blog. We have had lots of people view our videos and it is great to have an audience to practice this second language with.

Maori Phrase of the Week

Ko wai tô kaiako?

Ko Mrs Head taku kaiako.

Who is your teacher?

Mrs Head is my teacher.

Waitomo Caves

 
Room 11 and the Middle Syndicate visited the Glow-worm Cave in Waitomo on Tuesday we then headed to the discovery centre and onto the Ruakaui bush walk. We had a great day seeing all of these amazing parts of New Zealand with our own eyes. Coming out of the Glow-worm Cave we took a boat trip seeing loads of glow-worms. Did you know that glow-worms can only be found in New Zealand and four states in Australia?

Waitomo tour

On Tuesday we were lucky enough to tour through the ancient Waitomo Caves. Check out this video to remind yourself of what you saw and then have a go at answering these questions.
1) When were the caves discovered (found)?
2) Where can you find stalagmites and stalactites?
3) The man in the video's highlight (favourite part) was the boat trip. What was yours and why?
4) Tell me one thing you learnt from our trip.

Pre ideas about caves-our questions before the trip

Doubles Song

We have also been learning our doubles so that we can quickly give the answer. This song will help us remember our tricky doubles so that we can add other numbers like 8+9 using our doubles; eg: 8+8=16 plus one more because it asked for 9=17.

What Makes 10?

In maths we are looking at what makes ten. Later we will be able to use this and place value to work out questions like 70+30=100 or 700+300=1000.

True Friend-Miley Cyrus

Here is another song with a strong message about what it means to be a good friend. Are you a good friend? One that people can rely on?

Maori Phrase of the Week

Nô Whea koe?

Nô Kirikiriroa ahau.

Where are you from?

I am from Hamilton.

Language Experience-notetaking

Today was the first day we have used our note taking notebooks. In Room 11 we use our notebooks to quickly write our amazing words down, especially when we have a language experience. Hopefully we use these words in our writing to make it really interesting with our descriptive vocabulary. Mrs Head modelled to us first how we take notes using key words and not being worried about our spelling, so long as we can read it back. The idea of the notebook is to get all of our ideas down. This afternoon we had five different plates of food including; dried cranberries, salt and vinegar chips, smarties, honey and citric acid. Mrs Head warned us to only take a tiny bit of citric acid because it makes your eyes water but lots of us went back for a little bit more! We had to make sure that we wrote down at least five descriptive words for each one. We came up with words like slimy, sticky, crunchy, gooey, sour, smooth, chewy, bitter.

Count on Me-songs

Room 11 are enjoying singing this song about friendship and being there for each other.

Tabloid Sports

What a great day was had by all and we were lucky enough that the weather held off for us, in fact it almost got a little too hot! This year we had a range of fun new games from the classic egg and spoon race to polka dot goals and games with wet sponges. We worked together as a team to get points and helped the juniors. But the highlight was at the end of the day when each of the middle and senior classes went head to head in a tug of war competition. We had practised some techniques of counting one, two, three pull and standing on alternate sides of the rope but Room 10 were just too strong for us!

Maori Phrase of the Week

Ko wai tô ingoa

Ko Tawhiao tāku ingoa.

That means...

 What is your name

Tawhiao is my name. 

Golden Rules

A few of Room 11 made a video to highlight some of the Golden Rules that we all live by in Room 11, we made it for our parent/teacher BBQ. Check it out we hope you enjoy our little skits.

Welcome Back to 2012

Welcome back to 2012!
Well what a busy couple of weeks we have had to kick start our year with. We have been learning about statistics and have created our own investigations completing the process of gathering data through a tally chart and then graphing our results. We have been looking at our classroom rules and what it means to be a powerful learner. We have written about one event from our holiday's and then set our writing goals from these stories. We have also been perfecting the art of sketching, having sketched half of our face. Room 11 is learning to work together as a team through our Survivor Challenge that we complete every Friday and this has already been a huge hit!
It is great to see the familiar faces of Room 11 being great role models to our new Year 3 students and taking on leadership roles. Well done to our new Year 4's who are settling into the Middle Syndicate well and into Room 11.
Check back in on our blog throughout the year to see what exciting things we are up to and don't forget to check out our individual blogs as well.

Celebrations

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