20 Facts About New Zealand

Read carefully! Write a question for each fact.  Make it a multichoice answer.

e.g A kiwi is a ______   native to  New Zealand

a. native plant
b. bird
c. fruit
d. native of New Zealand

Oral rehearsal of our Fables

A long e - eeeeek!

Visit Spelling city to explore your long e list

Making a Form

Click on the image to get some support to make a form in google docs
http://screencast.com/t/K0nUOLGGxQX

Home Learning Week 2 Term 2

Like the look of this app for learning?

Doubles

Great real context in a game- Test your X tables knowledge

Rich reading experience

Today some of us were using 'into the  book' to help us with our summarising skills

A Cool Writing Tool

Try this fun writing starter.  It can be used to get an idea or to take right through to published.  Have a try.

Spin

Choose a format

Begin your writing and illustrating

Home Learning Week 1 Term 2

Fill in the form for our Statisics

Welcome Back! (well almost)

Leave us a sentence or so to share something that you did in your holidays

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Great Skype Session

We had a visitor this morning using Skype.  Zoe's dad Graham skyped us from an unknown location and we could only ask questions that could be answered with a yes and a no to find out where he was.

There were great questions.  We got just over an hour from London, and finally, with a little help, we discovered he was in Mayfield, England.

Thanks so much Graham for staying up late to talk to us this morning.  There were so many questions and discoveries.

I wonder who our next mystery skyper will be?

Celebrating Great Character Writing

Home Learning Week 11

Share your favourite maths games for learning

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A great collection of reads for the holidays

Thanks for all of the book recommendations that you left on the  blog last week.  I have put them onto a spreadsheet so they can be viewed easier.

The spreadsheet has been shared with you in your google docs so you can add a comment and all will be able to see.  You could also add a link to a book trailer to help encourage others to read a book that you have recommended.  One has been done for you.
Scroll over the icons below on the thinglink to help

Welcome to the world of collaborative writing using Google Docs

It was the first introduction to what google docs allows us to do for some this week.  I was so impressed with how quickly the writers were able to record, share and learn from each other.  Well done.  

Wellington Adventures

Digital Citizens.... we are learning many new skills

Skooville is helping us

Chatting to help each other

What a great day Tuesday was

Here are a few more pics of Tuesday.  We will see more at Assembly on Friday

Iceskating Fun on PhotoPeach.

 

On the road.

Very excited kids :)

We love playing ! Testing our knoweldge and speed

It was great fun playing math slide today. 

Great to see what we are doing

All really into it

Home Learning Week 10 Term 1 2013

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Great Reads for the Holidays

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Using Place Value Blocks to Visualise

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Visualising numbers

Can you see a pattern ? How are the odd numbers different

Problems that come as a sentence

Think carefully about what the questions are asking you.

What are the key words in these problems that help us know what to do?

You may like to challenge yourself further.  Discuss these questions at home with someone

Sharing Our Visualising

Yummy Easter Treats.

Thanks so much

Wonderful Western Zone Swimmimg

What a great morning. So much effort.

Fun with Quick Responses- QR

LISTEN... to this one.

 

http://qrvoice.net/?id=P6BHce

Triangles using Mr Wolf- What's the time

Using 'into the book' to assist our reading

Into the bookhttp://reading.ecb.org/

We are going to be doing some vizualising.   

Visualising is like creating a movie in your mind while you read. You try to see, feel, hear and even smell what is going on.  Your mind movie helps you remember what you've read and it's fun!

Making a chatterbox

Try out your calendar knoweldge

Capital E Arts Festival

We had a real selection of performances to appreciate.  It isn't easy to capture images  as taking photos of live performances is not always possible.

Here are a few.  Tell your parents about them and help them visualise the "The Man  and the Seesaw" by showing them his stage and explaining what he did.

Making us think about Place Value to solve

Cybersmart

Mrs Campbell's Garden

We have read Mrs Sprtizer's Garden.  It is a book about a teacher who loves to garden.  Can you make the connections between growing a garden and growing great learners in the classroom?
Super 7 said.  To grow in our garden we need:
1. bugs like ideas to help us
2. lots of ideas to keep us cool and thinking
3. managers to manage ourselves
4. different bright colours because we are all different
5. colour to involve us in our learning
6. bees to share the good stuff
7. shoes to keep us safe
8. love to share
9. children to do the learning
10. nice and quiet if its a quiet activity
11. feedback to help us without learning
12. sleep to help us concentrate
13. exercise to keep our muscles fit
14. cooperation to work together
15. carbohydrates to give us energy
16. visitors to see our learning
17. greetings to welcome others to our growing class
18. manners to make our garden a nice place to be
19. thirst to
learn and keep learning
20. independent time to think independently
21. sunshine to keep us seeing whatever we want
22. healthy food to keep us alert
23. questions to exercise our brain
24. ears to listen to all great things
25. smile to welcome others to our learning
26. oxygen to help us learn
27. Grow together in our garden