Thursday, 3 December 2015
Monday, 12 October 2015
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!
Thursday, 27 August 2015
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.
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.
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!
Thursday, 6 August 2015
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.
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A
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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!
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
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.
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!
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!
Monday, 1 June 2015
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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