Week 5 Certificates

Congratulations to Joe who received the Principal's Award for Week 5. He has been persevering and working diligently while we have been completing testing in our class. Keep working hard Joe.

Congratulations to Kupa, Ethan, Luke, Rylan and Karolin who received PRIDE Certificates for Week 5. They have been working diligently in class.

Equivalent Fractions

We are continuing to focus on Fractions in our maths. We have been looking at equivalent fractions. Below are some photos of what we discovered while using foam fraction shapes. 

Certificates for Week 3

The recipient of the Principal's Award for Week 3 was Karolin. She has been working diligently during class. She is a very helpful students both before and during class. Keep up the great work Karolin.

The PRIDE Awards recipients were:
Kupa, Isla, Rylan, Ria and Te Kapua

Reading Activity: Creating Homophone Posters

For a reading activity students were to create a poster demonstrating some homophones. Below you will see some of the posters that have been completed so far.

Similes and Metaphors

For our writing we are learning to add language features to our stories. 
We are focussing on similes and metaphors this week.
Here are some examples that students came up with yesterday:

"The star burst through the sky like a rocket." 

Karome and Ethan

"The star was as small as a rock." 

Kupa and Manix

"The stars are as shiny as glitter." 

Ria and Savannah

I wonder what we can come up with today and the rest of the week. Keep watching our blog for more examples of our similes and metaphors.

Principal's Award for Week 4

Milly received the Principal's Award for Week 4. She has been working hard on her spelling. This has shown in both her spelling tests on Fridays as well as in her writing throughout the week. Keep persevering with your spelling Milly.

Below are our PRIDE Certificate winners for Week 4.

Joshua, Dorian, Jordan, Joe and Kupa

Rona and the Moon Kupa Cayden

Here is Kupa and Cayden's 'Rona and the Moon' Legend.

Certificate winners for Week 3

Rylan was the receiver of our Principal's Award this week for his work with a junior member of the school, as well as helping many others while using Pic Collage.

Below are our PRIDE Certificate winners for Week 3.

Luke, Hayley, Ria, Savannah and Kupa

String Games with Room 14

This afternoon Room 15 were invited to Room 14 to learn some of the string games that were taught on Monday.

Students from the class had seen how much fun people were having and were trying hard to teach themselves how do make some of the string figures. After a day of persevering ourselves Mr Lodge and his class worked with us to show us the steps of creating some of the different string figures.

If you are wanting instruction on how to make some of the string figures you can go to:

5 top string games: fun string figures for kids

Certificates for Week 7

Congratulations to Ria who received the Principal's Award for Week 7.

Ria

Congratulations to this weeks PRIDE certificate winners.

Kupa, Cameron, Mahlee, Savannah and Isla with their PRIDE certificates

 

Art - Getting ready for Meet & Greet on Thursday

Step One - Complete

Step Two - Complete

Now to see how these two steps will join together 

to complete our art. 

Day One of Skip Counting on the Number Line

Today we were introduced to the activity: 

Skip Counting on the Number Line.

We had to use our number lines to help us skip count in twos.

Throughout the week we will be persevering to skip count higher and higher. We will also skip count in our fives and tens.