Nine Inch Nails

Here is a reflection with 4 people about Friday’s discovery session: What did you enjoy? I enjoyed using the bee bots and trying out our maps that we had made during the week, I can see my self getting better at moving the bee bot around, practicing, window painting was cool because you could paint [...]

See who got 10 out of 10 for their weekly spelling test!  Remember to keep choosing  words that challenge you!

This week Alice, Connor and Zoe from Cloud 9 put together a presentation for us to help us with our presentations.  Here is the video and poster of the presentation they gave us.  Watch it again with your mum or dad: what do you think you will be good at?  What will you need to [...]

We have been very busy learning about our inquiry question “What if WWIII happened tomorrow? Predict what will happen.”  Our prediction should be based on evidence, not imagination.   We have been examining WWI and WWII so we will be able to use our knowledge of the past to help with our future prediction.  We [...]

This week’s task on the ‘War and Peace’ webquest was to sort the ‘Powerful Words’ given into two columns: war and peace.  We used a few tools to help us with this task.  First we used the dictionary in the dashboard of the macs to unpack what the words meant, then we used bubbl.us to [...]

In our reading reading group (The Tele’s) we have been making peace posters.  We were trying to show symbols of peace like the peace sign, dove, people together.  We also included people who fought for peace like Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr. Here are Alexandra’s, Millie’s, Saffron’s and Amy’s:

Another interesting moon observation on Monday morning.  Wow!  It is getting higher in the sky and closer to the sun on the other side!!

Morning is becoming a very exciting time for me!  Check out the latest moon observations:

This week in Numeracy, we have been focusing on ‘Directions’.  We began with a blindfolded task, with students in pairs.  One student was blindfolded, while their partner gave directions (Left, Right, Forwards, Backwards and, most importantly, Stop) to move them around some trees.  They were not allowed to touch their partner, so had to give [...]