Life Cycles

Today we are going to look into the life cycle of humans and the changes we go through. Here's a great game to discover more:  Human ageing game.

Here are some other interesting sites about the human body:

easyscienceforkids.com - Human Body

Sciencekids.co.nz - Human Body Facts

Life Cycles

Today we are going to look into the life cycle of humans and the changes we go through. Here's a great game to discover more:  Human ageing game.

Divisibility Rules

Thanks to Katie's internet search today, we have found a good trick to figure out whether large numbers like 2456 can be divided by a number like 2.

Here are the tricks (some are easier than others):

Te Reo: Mihi

We have been learning to talk about where we are from and who are in our whanau:

Here's a great talking map, I found on Waka Endeavour's Blog

NZ Place Names: Te Reo and English - click on the te reo maori names to hear the pronunciation.

What to do in a Flood - By Talia, Amy and Caitlin.

What to do in a Volcano - By Baxter, Ollie, and Logan R.

Independent Learners Licence Survey

This term we have been working on being A+ Independent. We decided what an Independent Learners looked like and how to earn a Licence:

For the past 8 weeks,  we have been setting class A+ targets, talking about our reading and writing goals and reflection on what worked and what didn't.

Now, it's time to review what we have done and look at how we can make it better than before! To do that I'm testing out a google form. It's a survey that you fill out online. So come on all you independent learners - be adventurous have a go (we'll do one together in class)

WOW Poetry

This week, we are exploring some poetry in our reading and writing. Here is one of my favourite New Zealand authors and poet: Margaret Mahy reciting one of her poems "Down the Back of the Chair."

What is a poem? 

What makes something poetic?

What kind of language can you hear?

Does it have a structure? 

Are the sentences the same? 

Friday Night at the Cultural Festival

Wow what a night!

Before the show with the Lorax.

Waiting backstage.

YouTube stars!

Monsterous Maths Week

Disastrous Home Learning

This term, we have had several different tasks to complete for our home learning, related to our inquiry into disasters and what to do in a crisis. There have been some fantastic examples of creative and adventurous learning being done at home. From movie making, e books, to a historical disaster diorama.

Check these out: