Monday, 10 November 2014

Fantastic Fundraising!

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

Monday, 3 November 2014

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.

Sunday, 2 November 2014

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.

Monday, 6 October 2014

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!

Sunday, 21 September 2014

Measuring Madness

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

Monday, 1 September 2014

Monday, 25 August 2014

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!

Thursday, 24 July 2014

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...


Wednesday, 9 July 2014

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.

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

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!

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

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...

Tuesday, 3 June 2014

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.