Archive for May, 2011

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Discovery Time:

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 [...]

Monday, May 30th, 2011

Spelling Test

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

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Moon 25.05.11

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Oral Language: How to be a good presenter

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 [...]

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Inquiry thinking maps

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 [...]

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Tele’s Reading Group

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 [...]

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Tele’s Reading Task

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:

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Moon 24.05.11

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

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

More Moon Madness!

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

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

Spelling Test

Friday, May 20th, 2011

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 [...]