Statistics

When we look at this graph, it shows comparisons betweens Rooms 7, 8 and 10. I can see that only room 8 has students who could wall squat for over 20 minutes. I can see that all three classes have 1 student who can only wall squat for less than one minute.

This graph has comparisons between boys and girls of Nepia house. I can see that all of the girls stopped before 13 minutes. We can see that boys could wall squat for the least amount of time.

Health

Room 7's thoughts about how we can maintain our health.

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Camp Update

Room 7 and room 10 had an amazing camp experience. We all loved trying new experiences and getting to know each other. If you look at our individual student blogs you will see evidence of this!
We all enjoyed different parts of camp, but Miss Garland's favourite was definitely the waterslide....despite the uncomfortable after effects!

Position and Orientation

Today we began to explore different elevations.
We began by creating our own designs and drawing them from the different views. This was difficult and required us to move our designs around so we could check our ideas.
As an extra challenge, Miss Garland drew a plan, which we then had to create with the blocks. This required us to keep checking and testing.

Heavy Animals

Room 7 have been exploring Rich Tasks and using a range of Problem Solving Strategies. Today we had to work out which was the best way to arrange the animals in the Vet shelves, so they didn't exceed the weight limits. Have a look at our blogs to see our strategies and reflections. Some people made diagrams, lots of people used a table and I showed how I used a spreadsheet could be helpful to keep the information organised.

Science Technology

Nepia Swimming Sports

Last week, Nepia house competed in our Swimming Sports. From this, we determined the students who will be swimming in our School Competition on Wednesday evening. In the photos, you can see us all competing in the whole house race across the pool.

ASB Get Wise

This morning, we began to explore some Financial Literacy. At the end of February, we will have a visit from ASB bank. Today we did some research about salaries and the differences between average incomes. We also used a calculator from the IRD to work out what our Tax could be, if we earned that average salary. Check out the bottom Padlet to see what our dream jobs are. Some of the salaries are pretty outrageous!

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Welcome to Room 7

Room 7 have had a super busy start to the year. We began our first week with a Learning Buddy Challenge. Check it out to see how far we shot the frogs!

Super Science

Math Madness

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

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!

Athletics with Te Mata

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/

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!

Language Features

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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	E	A	D
+	T	H	I	S
	P	A	G	E

And we are still working!

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!

Teamwork?!

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

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.