Special Days

From Birthdays to student of the week awards.  We all like to share in your celebrations:)

Daffodil Day to Scale

Great planning.  Maths in action.  Promoting a great cause.

Sharing Quarters

Why is this posted twice? We want to make sure the message gets to our audience. It isn't about looks but how effective the practice is. Sharing Quarters on PhotoPeach Sharing Quarters on PhotoPeach

Daffodil Day

Week 7 WWW Focus

Words where the prefix indicates a number.

Look where Oliver is..

Looks a bit like he has visit the 'Epic Citadel' for real.

What are you going to do about your goal?

My Goal

Post your comments to this blog.

Have you made a comment under your goal on your ePortfolio yet?

How can you make your goal :

·      Meaningful?

·      Visible?

·      Easy to practice?

Be creative!

Sending 3D a message

Fractions to explore

A long e in 6 different ways?

Find your list for this week on spelling city.  Remember to find my lists then the list specially made with love for you:)

What works best for you?  Is it how to spell?  What they mean?  both?

and then test yourself even further! 

Working together ( our Key Competency)

It has been lots of fun working with 3D in Palmerston North.  Ben and Katelyn put together this intro to our explanation writing at assembly.  And check out the great movie on the Ins & Outs blog.  Looking forward to doing it again and maybe some other 'real' collaborative learning!  Any great ideas?

Drawsomething fun on Prezi

Fractions Games

What we are reading

Today we really enjoyed the start of ...

We are hoping that Oliver has got his hands on this book too.  He is closer to the London Eye than us.

Working Together- Our Key Competency.

•  A Team gets stronger if they work together. 
• It's harder to work together as the team gets bigger.

These are 2 quotes that we came up with after playing a rubber chicken game.

We knew that we had to work together to make it easier.

Working together looks like

• whole team knew what the goal was

• communicated so all could hear

United we stand, divided we fall ( Sheena) 

We really were putting our skills to the test today

Today we used the iPad app 'Drawsomething' to draw and try to guess and spell some rather interesting things that our buddies from 3D created.

It was great fun to work in real time, with  real opponents,  and a real desire to try hard.
 REAL LEARNING.!

Skyping through the process let us sort out a few thing!  Really looking forward to doing this again.

Check out their blog for some cool pics. ( Sorry 7Wonders, we were a bit busy to capture the moment, next time!)

How about join our reflection on the Learning involved in this fun activity.   Contribute to the doc! 

Or maybe you like to use a Y chart to organise your thinking???

Maths Week

Reflecting on our Swimming Progress

Maths Week 2012!

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Swimming Sports

What a great showcase of what's been going on every day while we are swimming.  It is amazing to see the progress that many swimmers can make.  Great effort all!

We have a real problem. Can you help?

On Monday next week we are going to muster all of our vocab, spelling and visualising skills.  We are going to compete against some children that we don't know, in the game of 'drawsomething'.

All good you think?  Well we have a dilema!

I am trying to organise enough sessions to make sure all children get to play ( Fair play being our Key Competency recently)

Problem is...... we have 5 devices, 30 children and only so much time.

1. What fraction of the class will get a turn if we only have 1 session? What fraction would miss out?

2. How would that change if I booked 10 ipads?  or 15 ipads?

3.   How many blocks of time do I need to book with the other class to ensure we all get a turn if we have 9(a) 5 ipads? (b) 10 ipads ( c) 12 ipads?

Please help!!!!!

What does this mean?

"Turn a setback into a comeback!"

The online world has been buzzing with words of wisdom today.  What do you think this one could be about?

We are having a blast working on spelling, vocab and some problems solving

Have a game of 'drawsomething'against someone in our class.

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Olympic Reading

Kiwi gold medallists get new cars

'Aus Zealand' currently ninth on medal tally

Valerie Adams left off startlist for shot put

 

 The games Medals

Olympic Rings Activity

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Homelearning task

EXPLAIN THIS

What a week

The word of the week has got to be water!
It is great to see so much effort going in to developing skills in the water. 
Looking forward to Thursday which will be our show case day at the pool.