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!

Homework for Week 7

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.

Fantastic Food!

Group 6B Masterchef Challenge on PhotoPeach

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!

Group 6B Mama Mia Pizza Showcase

Group 6B Mama Mia Showcase on PhotoPeach

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.

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.

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

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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!

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.

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!

Term One 2015!

I hope you are all as excited as I am!

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!