Monday 12 October 2015

Math Madness


Today we completed our Mini Olympics!
Check out our student blogs to read our results.

Thursday 10 September 2015

Outstanding Homework

For homework this week, students were asked to construct a board game which involved an element of chance. We had lots of fun sharing these games with Room 2!

Tuesday 18 August 2015

Integrating Language Features

This week, we viewed several famous speeches to determine what language features had been used and their impact.
When we viewed these speeches, we could see examples of...
Repetition
Rhetorical Questions
Personal Pronouns
Emotive Language

Check out the famous speeches at the link below...

http://www.englishtrackers.com/english-blog/10-famous-speeches-in-english-and-what-you-can-learn-from-them/



Tuesday 11 August 2015

Cross Country Training

Hillary House had a great final training session for our school Crops Country.
We think these photos show the importance of pushing you self as you are really only competing against yourself!
Best of luck for Friday!

Wednesday 5 August 2015

Algebra Problem Solving!



Today we worked on......Algebra!
We needed to do a lot of problem solving to work through this problem. We started by looking at the upside down triangle. We first thought it might 1, but that didn't work. We suggest you start with the triangles!

We then worked on this problem,
Replace the letters with numbers to make the addition work out correctly.


R
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P
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And we are still working!

Sunday 26 July 2015

Language Features

Today we continued to explore Re-Crafting our writing.
We have decided that your can re-craft your writing in three different ways.


We each re-crafted the same piece of writing, to show how this can make a simple piece of writing more interesting.
Check out our student blogs to read our writing.

We then began to creating a Language Feature Dictionary. We have put in our first examples, but this will definitely need to be re-crafted!

Friday 24 July 2015

Teamwork?!

Room 6 sure know how to have fun, as you can see in this Flipagram!

Thursday 23 July 2015

Fantastic Focus

This week, Room 6 have all made a great start to term 3. We have been working hard in our math and reading groups and pushing ourselves individually to improve our fitness for the cross country.

On Tuesday, we all completed personal reflections, including Miss Garland. Our reflections were based on our thoughts about our achievements so far, goals for the future and practical steps that we can work on to achieve these goals.
Through this process, Miss Garland has decided to revamp part of her teaching. We are now going to have the opportunity to direct our own learning, through Passion Projects. Stay tuned to find out more about our passions and how we are going to use these passions to develop our literacy skills.

Monday 8 June 2015

Innovation and Creativity

This term we are learning about Innovation and Creativity.
Eventually, we are going to be designing something for our Treemendous area.
Today we looked at some crazy inventions and developed Rube Goldberg Machines to practise some creativity.
Check out this video that we looked at for inspiration!

Wednesday 22 April 2015

Taking Control of OUR LEARNING!

This term, Room 6 are going to be trialing a new way of learning. We are going to be planning our day, based on a list of activities and group sessions that Miss Garland provides us.
In order for this to be successful, we need to be aware of our learning. All the time we should be asking ourselves how our learning is progressing and what our next step is.
Miss Garland has created some posters to help us be aware of our role in the Learning Process.
We started using these Save Me Starters in our math session yesterday and it worked fantastically! Now Miss Garland knows exactly how we are feeling and what she can do or where she can direct us to head to for more help.

Sunday 29 March 2015

Sunday 22 March 2015

Crazy Animals!

This week we have translated our learning about paragraphing and topic sentences to report writing. We have created some wacky animals, and are now writing informative reports about our animal.
Miss Garland's Elleocerous is rather unusual!

Tuesday 17 March 2015

Tuesday 10 March 2015

Writing

This year, we have been working on organising our writing in paragraphs and adding supporting detail. Today we moved past this and are now specifically working on using precise vocabulary to add impact to our writing. Here is our criteria for this, followed by Miss Garland's first paragraph that we helped her to write. Poor Miss Garland!

The minute that I saw the droplets on the windows of the classroom, I knew that it was going to be a traumatizing afternoon. I crossed my fingers and hope that it would clear, maybe it was just a shower, a brief downpour, a little drizzle. When the deafening bell rang, I knew that my fate was sealed. He was coming. It was cold and he was coming. Cold meant track-pants. And track-top. Saveloy red. He would usually wear revealing rugby shorts, but the minute the cold weather began, out comes the Saveloy Suit.

Thursday 26 February 2015

Number Knowledge

Here is a presentation that I have made to help with your Number Knowledge. It is a work in progress, with some slides not started yet. If you click on the image in the area that you need to work on, it will take you to a page with some links to sites that you can use to practice. This will allow you to improve your number knowledge.

Wednesday 18 February 2015

Being a New Zealander



Being a New Zealander means freedom to me! I think we are very lucky to live in a country where we are able to go to lots of different places and see amazing sites. I hope that we never become a country where access to our amazing natural resources is restricted

Room 6 Swimming Champs!

Room 6 had an amazing evening at the Swimming Sports. We have some great swimmers in our house and class.
Congratulations to all of the children who competed. We look forward to hearing the results at Friday Assembly!

Sunday 15 February 2015

Class Song?!

We watched this video at our last house assembly. We have all been challenged to come up with a class song which reflects our class values and school beliefs.

This principal is pretty crazy! We think Mr Ellis should do a video too!

Determination!

Room 6 had a great morning at the Village Pools for our Hillary Swimming Sports.
Congratulations to the the students who have made it to the Inter-House Competition this Wednesday.

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Learning Buddies!

We have had a great start to the year! We have completed our first Learning Buddy Challenge. We enjoyed getting to know each other and working together to make some outrageous towers! See if you can spot the winners!

Thursday 29 January 2015