Last week in Halberg

It was a big week last week, with our move into the new 'Kepler' space. This week we will be sharing this space with the rest of Sprint and Mrs Taylor's Stride class.

Here are a couple of project options that we will be working on this week:

1. “Christmas Around the World” Multimedia Presentations (Using Google Slides)
Mrs Taylor's Information about Christmas around the world

2. The Twelve Days of Christmas Acts of Kindness Contract (Write and sign your own)
Traditional Twelve Days of Christmas Song
Shrek's 12 days of Christmas
Kiwi Version: A Pukeko in a Punga tree

3. Chalk and stencil Art 

Poem Inspiration

Today we are going to use the poem 'Budapest' by Billy Collins as our inspiration for our own poetry or story.

Summer Water Safety Competition

With so many families planning to spend time in, on or around water in the holidays, let’s promote water safety before the summer season gets into full swing.

The winner of this three week competition will receive $100 towards swimming lessons at a Quality Swim School or a SNZ affiliated swim club. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Gettingpreparedforsummer

This competition also raises another important issue about giving out personal information online. What could we do, so that we can still enter the competition?
What information is compulsory?
What are the Terms and Conditions?

How to write a limerick?

http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/lessons/how-to-write-a-limerick/

Book character day

Book Parade

Stop, drop and read

Today was stop, drop and read day... The bell rang in the middle of maths this afternoon... This is what happened: 

Sports dress up day!

The Narrative Song

What are the chances?

Here are a couple of probability statistics warm up games we'll be playing this week:

The Vile Vendor

Random or Not

Thanks Statistics NZ

Halberg's New Flag

Thanks Charlie for sharing your idea for a Halberg flag. What do you think?

What's your angle?

For the next two weeks we are going to be looking at angles and geometry. These great videos from mathantics are a great introduction to some new ideas.

Writing Inspiration

A 14-year-old photographer has taken the internet by storm with his creative and dreamlike images that make normal-sized people appear tiny. 

Zev Hoover, from Natick, Massachusetts, goes by the Flickr username Fiddle Oak, a play on 'little folk', which adequately describes the incredible images that make up his 'miniature world'. 

Thanks to Literacy Shed

Here is his website: http://fiddleoak.com

Maybe One Morning...

"Crunch" went the leaves under his foot. "Creak" went the bolts in the street sign above

him, as he walked to the bus stop on a cold and frosty morning. Alex wondered why there

was nobody at his bus stop. He stood proudly in his new shoes. When he remembered the

old shoe salesman's warning: "Never get these wet " he said suspiciously. Followed by a

creepy cough. A loud shatter woke him from his daydream. Alex looked behind him and saw

a trail of floating objects along where he had walked. Just then the bus pulled up. Alex didn't

know what to do, so on autopilot he got on the bus as usual. The driver put his foot on the

accelerator and the old rusty machine whirred to life. Alex could feel the bus heaters on the back of

his ankles as the rickety vehicle slowly floated up to the height of the tall fur trees then as the

bus descended the old man turned around and yelled in a deep voice " I told you not to

get those shoes wet " followed by a creepy cough.

Community Time: Managing Impulsivity

Here are the poster we made in Community Time today. Well done Ika-tere what an awesome supportive and thinking bunch of Springston kids!

READING: Relevant and Irrelevant Information

This week we will be using this website to practise identifying irrelevant information:

http://www.studyzone.org/mtestprep/math8/d/relevantp.cfm

http://esl.fis.edu/learners/read/irrelev3.htm

Life without geometry is point-less!

From this week we are going to be investigating 2D, 3D shapes, lines and angles. Here are some useful links we will use over the weeks:

  Maths is fun - geometry - solid geometry

Ever wondering where those funny sounding names like icosahedron came from:  Greek Prefixes



This video contains some pretty tricky geometry, we will just be looking at the first 2 minutes.

Expand Vocabulary: Dictionary or Thesaurus

Blogging It with Room 22

This week we are going to start blogging with Whaea Alice's friend's class Mrs Barbour and Room 22 at St Albans School in Christchurch. Here are their blogging topics for the week:

Halberg can post their answers on their own blogs please.
Make your blog post title Blogging It.
http://room22blogginit.weebly.com/

Week 5 Writing topics:
* Who am I? (What makes me the unique and special person that I am? What are the special things I like and do that make me who I am? Remember to use "because... because")
* Describe the oldest person you know. (Make sure you use interesting sentence starters, as well as your 5 senses to make you writing more interesting).
* Dear Alien, let me tell you about Earth 

The Earth is a Puzzle: Key Word Vocabulary Exercise