Tuesday, 22 March 2016

Tanya shared her Cinquain with me on Google Docs tonight too, I love all these motivated learners in Room 14!

Easter Cinquain

Easter

Decorate eggs

Family and my friends

Fun memories with family

Fun time

By tanya

Isala has been working hard on his Easter Cinquain for homework, he shared it with me from home, I was so impressed I had to put it on our blog!

Easter Cinquain

Easter

Chocolate eggs

Easter bunny, hunting time

Decorating Easter eggs with friends
Travel

By Isala

Teach the Teacher - starting term 2

Teach the Teacher

Two children will bring a card home each week.

You have been to selected to Teach the Teacher on Friday.

You will need to share an idea or activity with the class. It could be a science experiment, recipe, model or a cultural tradition. Be unique!

You may choose one other class member to be your assistant on the day. You may use props and costumes for your presentation. If you need to type up anything remember to do it on Google docs or Slides.

Your presentation should take no longer than 15 minutes.

Lucy's New Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Tidy, green

Cooling, exploring, sparkling

Pakuranga, Half Moon Bay, Dunedin, Auckland

Learning, partying, swimming

Fresh, peaceful

Aotearoa

By:Lucy

Regan's Publishing her Cinquain

Regan working on Google docs.

Allison's Easter Cinquain

Easter Cinquain

Easter

Egg hunt is fun

The Easter bunny comes

Giving fun clues to everyone

Chocolate

By Allison

Editing Glasses

We started using our editing glasses today. These glasses help us see where we need capital letters and full stops. They also help us find our words we are unsure of in the dictionary.

Wednesday, 16 March 2016

New Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Beautiful, clean

Playing, swimming, dancing

Auckland, Mt Wellington, Pakuranga

Jumping, laughing, running

Small,fresh

Aotearoa

By Mia

New Zealand Dimante Poem

New Zealand

Kind, helpfull

Playing, helping, writing

Glenmore, Pakuranga, Auckland, Sunnyhills,

Jumping, climbing, fishing

Nature, cleanness

Aotearoa

By James

New Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Beautiful, fresh

Playing, running, laughing

Lovely, home, cool

Swimming, eating, drinking

Nature, sea

Aotearoa

By Tanya

Room 14's Class Dimante Poem

New Zealand Dimante

New Zealand

Clean, green

Running, playing, swimming

Land of the long white cloud, peaceful country

Whitebaiting, fishing, skiing

Great, native

Aotearoa

By Room 14

Using our Chromebooks to Publish

We have been busy on our Chromebooks publishing our Dimante poems.

Skills we used:

Opened our Drive

Created a new doc by opening the subject folder first

Centre allign and right allign

Change the colour and size of our font

Insert an image from Google

We underlined our title

We chose part of our poem to use bold

We went back and editied our work on the Chromebook

Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Room 14's New Zealand Dimante Poem

Click here to see our whole class example of a dimante poem about New Zealand

We are Learning Our 6 x Tables

We all know the words now and we sound great, test me at home!

Lyrics:

VERSE1:
when you use multiplication

and count by 6 don't get confused, and lose your patience

no no

see those 6’s can be tricky

but if you just sing it with me

you’ll be counting up to 60

know your 6’s in a jiffy

they say

PRECHORUS:

cmon try it

sing it it, don’t be quiet

i wanna hear it from the highest

top of mountains, to the sky

they’re singing

CHORUS:

oh I think that I found a way to count by 6

12, 18, 24, 30 and 36

4-2, 48, 54 and then 60

get up out of your seat and sing it with me!

VERSE2:

6 x 2, you just double

you get 12, and 6 x 3 is no trouble

18

6 X 4, count one more

6, 12, 18, 24

6 x 5, you gotta try

you get that 3-oh my!

they say

PRECHORUS:

cmon try it

sing it it, don’t be quiet

i wanna hear it from the highest

top of mountains, to the sky

they’re singing

CHORUS:

oh I think that I found a way to count by 6

12, 18, 24, 30 and 36

4-2, 48, 54 and then 60

get up out of your seat and sing it with me!

VERSE3:

so if you try 6 x 6

well the answers 36

did I mention 6 x 7

gets you 42 and next is…

8 x 6, gets you 48 and if…

you try to multiply a 6 and 9

then 5-4’s what you’re gonna find

CHORUS:

oh I think that I found a way to count by 6

12, 18, 24, 30 and 36

4-2, 48, 54 and then 60

get up out of your seat and sing it with me!

Monday, 14 March 2016

Room 14, here is some extra learning about hammerhead sharks, what feature reminds you of a chameleon?

Fast Facts

Type:: Fish
Diet:: Carnivore
Average life span in the wild:: 20 to 30 years
Size:: 13 to 20 ft (4 to 6 m)
Weight:: 500 to 1,000 lbs (230 to 450 kg)
Group name:: School or shoal
Did you know?: Hammerheads use their wide heads to attack stingrays, pinning the winged fish against the sea floor.
Relative:: Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man

Joe's Hammerhead - Shark Bait :)

Joe's family caught a hammerhead shark. We got to look at his gills; where he/she breathes oxygen. We also dicussed that sharks have their babies live, not as an egg.

Our Butterfly Hatched

This morning our butterfly hatched, we watched it come out of the chrysalis and start to dry out its wings. They have doubled in size!

Thursday, 10 March 2016

Kiwi Sport with Mrs Grant

Every Thursday we have Kiwi Sport with Mrs Grant, she calls us Team 14 because we are learning to work as a team.

Dehydrated Fruit

We are dehydrating fruit, Thomas and Joe told us this means; we are taking the moisture out of the fruit, this will make it last longer as the water is what makes fruit rot. At lunchtime tomorrow we get to taste our dried fruit, yum!

Monarch Butterfly Time Lapse

We watched this time lapse video of a caterpillar going through metamorphosis. We were amazed by how the whole butterfly could fit in there. Thomas' caterpillars all went missing, he thinks they were eaten by wasps; they prey on juicy catterpillars.

Vera's Chrysalis

This morning Vera shared with us about her chrysalis, she has brought one to school so we can all see it hatch into a beautiful butterfly. Catterpillars go through metamorphisis like we learnt about when the tadpoles visited. Vera told us that when the chrysalis goes black then the butterfly is about ready to hatch, we can't wait!