Final Tech Session

We designed our own ice cream protectors in Technology classes today and tested them on real ice cream cones to check they were fit for purpose.....

Fantastic Fundraising!

The Milkshake Selling Team were all very proud to receive this letter!

Guy Fawkes....

This morning we have been discussing and debating Guy Fawkes. We watched this video and discussed our experiences and opinions.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/dog-targeted-fireworks-triggers-safety-debate-6122145/video 
Stay tuned to see some of our great persuasive work sharing our opinions.

The BEST Angles Math Song! (with bonus DANCING CATS!)

Later on this week. we will be working angles. Here is a great song to get us all thinking about the vocabulary that we will be using and how we use the equipment correctly.

The BEST Angles Math Song! (with bonus DANCING CATS!)

Later on this week. we will be working angles. Here is a great song to get us all thinking about the vocabulary that we will be using and how we use the equipment correctly.

Random Recipes

We had so much fun on the last day of term!

We created some crazy recipes and used our multiplication skills to find fractions of our recipe. Some were great, some were...different!

Measuring Madness Term 3

Measuring Madness

Today we did some experimenting with the measuring equipment. We rotated around a range of activities and did some hands on measuring.

Week 8 Homework

Spring Fair Fun!

It was great to see so many children and parents helping at the Spring Fair.

HNI Production

Elections!

Today we began reading the policies of some of the parties involved in the coming election.
We looked the Education, Law and Order, and Animal Welfare policies.
This has prompted some great discussion!
We would love to know your thought!

Adding and Subtracting Integers!

A big thanks to Miss Hooper for showing Miss Garland a new way to work with integers.
Very clever!

Week 3 Homework

Homework Week 2

Week 1!

Room 17 have had a great start to the term! We are all back into our learning and enjoying the new topics.

We have started talking about areas that we are passionate about...

Holiday Homework!

Remember that this is optional!
Be as creative as you like!
I made this using Mural.ly. It is a Chrome app that I have added to your accounts.

Amazing Minecraft

In their final session, the Minecraft club were working extremely well. Have a look at the fantastic modes of transport that they created. Great teamwork and planning!

Week 8 Homework!

Digestive System

Today we have begun writing about the digestive system. To help us find information we listened to podcasts and watched some great videos. Here is a particularly helpful video...

Freaky Fractions!

Yesterday we began to learn about Fractions. We started our learning with a great Kahoot. The Kahoot had a range of questions that required us to use our Fraction knowledge. Today we began working in groups to fix any gaps that we had and answer any questions from yesterday. We specifically worked with equivalent fractions. Here is a You Tube video which might be helpful if you are struggling.
 This image shows clearly, how the fractions remain the same.

TK Tech Challenge

Room 17 were given a challenge, along with the rest of Te Kanawa. Each group needed to make the tallest tower possible, to hold their egg.

 Luckily the eggs were hard boiled!

Rippa Skills

Check out our ThingLink....

Week 3 Homework

Prime Numbers

Now that we know about Factors, we need to think about Prime numbers. Prime numbers are numbers that only have 1 and the number itself as factors.

Finding Factors

Finding factors of a number: Finding Factors of a Number
This video is very long but if you watch the start, you will see how you can find out factors of a number.

Using Place Value to Solve Multiplication

Using Rounding and Compensating to solve Multiplication

Our Song for Assembly

Kotahitanga Sharing

Today Room 17 presented this  video to Room 4. We had a fantastic morning and loved the powhiri. Ka mau te wehi ruma tekau ma whitu!

Transformations In Real Life Math Project

Math homework for week 9. Your homework for this week is to create a presentation of some kind which shows examples of all of the different types of transformation...


If you find any examples of Tesselation, it would be great to have some photos of those also!
Here is an example of what you presentation may look like. You do not have to create a video. It is up to you. Try to be creative and use a new site or app. Remember that this is due on Friday.

If you are unsure of any of the areas, try playing some of the games in our math symbaloo at the bottom of our class blog.

Gangnam Style Math (Transformation Style)

02 He Hōnore + chords

We will be singing this song during Kotahitanga week. Here it is so you can practise!

Using Reversing to Solve Subtraction

Using Equal Additions to Solve Subtraction

Using an Algorithm to Solve Subtraction

Using Negative Numbers to Solve Subtraction

Using Rounding and Compensating to Solve Subtraction

Room 17 Athletics Training

Homework Week 7

Lots of amazing homework was shared this week. Miss Garland is totally blown away by the creativity and determination of room 17 students. Ka mau te wehi!

Super Athletes!

Room 17 had an amazing day at Athletics! We all made our house proud and did our best in all the activities!As you can see....

Summarising

Today we spoke about summarising. When looking at our responses on Actively Learn, some of us are unsure about summarising. We seem to put in too much detail and not identify all of the main points, so we have all had a turn using the Chrome app, Video Not.es. Have a look at our blogs and see how we went....
This is what Video Not.es looks like...

Decimals

Today we began working on adding and subtracting decimals. This is a bit tricky for some of us. If you need more practice, make sure that you watch the videos again. Miss Garland feels a bit geeky doing this, but she thinks it might help you to remember and visualise when you are working with decimals.
) )

Integers

This week we have moved on from Statistics. Now we are looking at adding decimals and working with integers. Here is a video which may help you to understand integers.... )

Room17 Softball Skills

Room 17 have begun improving their Softball Skills. We all had a great time...until we had a Fire Drill halfway through! We look forward to challenging Room 10 again!

Year 7 Tabloids!

We all had the best day down at the Village Pool this afternoon!

Decimals

Today we had a brief session about decimals, as some of us seem to have forgotten what a decimal is made of. Stay tuned to see some sessions about Rounding Decimals over the next few days.

Te Reo

Room 17 have been working hard to develop our Te Reo Maori knowledge. Here are some of the sentences that we have been working on.

Te Reo Mäori	English
Kia ora	Hello
Ata märie	Morning
Nö hea koe?	Where are you from?
Nö ………………...	I am from ………………..
Ko wai tö hoa?	What is your friend’s name?
Ko                      taku hoa.	My friend is ……………...
Haere mai.	Come here.
Titiro mai.	Look here.
Ka kite.	Good bye
Ka kite ano.	See you again.
Kei te pëhea koe?	How are you?
Kei te pëhea kõrua?	How are you both?
Kei te pai.	I am fine.

Reading

Today we all signed into our Actively Learn accounts. We use this site to practise reading. Today we read about Jellybeans! Click here to read the article we read.
This is this video that matches the reading.

Statistics

Room 17 have been working on interpreting graphs and thinking about the different uses for graphs. We have just started talking about this. If you click on any of the student blogs on the right side of this page, you will be able to see the presentation that we created together.
Make sure you leave us a comment about the work we have done!

Room 17's Thoughts about Cyber Safety

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CyberSafety

Today Room 17 watched this video. We were shocked! None of us would be happy saying this to someone, so we would never write it online. Watch it and let us know what you think.


We also watched this video. This one is a bit funnier! But the message is just as important. We are all online and have a lot of access to the internet so we need to think carefully about what information we share.

Hard at Work!

Room 17 have been discussing the Winter Olympics today. We have talked about the recent publicity concerning the dangerous SlopeStyle course. We came up with a list of reasons for and against competing.
Now all of the students are hard at work, explaining their thoughts and justifying the reasons behind their opinion. Stay tuned to see their work published on their blogs over the coming week.

Room 17 Weekly Timetable

Here is our weekly timetable. Remember that some weeks it will change. Most of this will begin next week.

Inspirational Video

Here is a video that a student has made. It is made up of inspriational quotes in movies. It has a pretty cool message!

5 Tips for New Students!

Day One!

Miss Garland has a fabulous day meeting the fantastic students in room 17 today. She loved working with them and getting to know what makes them tick!
The students all received loads of notices today! Hopefully they all return them tomorrow and we can sign into our Google accounts and get working!