world of Maths

 

Volume - Online Games

Explore your knowledge of volume and practice calculating using the following links.

Remember you need to use our schools login details after you click on the link.

Inside a cubic metre
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=164&vers=1.0

Inside a cube: Level 2
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=166&vers=2.0

Area - Online activities

Colossal Fossils
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=6901&vers=1.0

Area counting with Coco
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=139&vers=1.0

Design a Farm
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=124&vers=1.0

Design a City
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=123&vers=1.0

Design a School
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/digistore/protected/objects/?id=127&vers=1.0

Healthy Habits and China Inquiry

China

This term we are working on our China inquiry. We have been looking at the Olympics and other aspects about the country and the culture. We have made PowerPoint’s in pairs for a mini project utilizing the subject areas the famous places in China, the colours, dragon dance, festivals and the Olympic game symbols.

Mathletics

For the last two weeks the school has been happily enjoy the fun of maths week. Jean of Room 6 is coming first in the country with over 400,000 points putting our school into 11th in the country!

Healthy Habits of Mind

This term we have started up a small programme to help us with our work and keep us paced. It is called The Healthy Habits of Mind and we have a new topic each week.

Starting with Persistence we have been happily aiming for these goals all term and are seeing how making they help make things in general less stressful.

Division

Well done to the people who have successfully made it into the division crew. These people are; Charquera, Olive, Olivia, Angela, Lakan, Taylor, Olly, Matt, Georgina, Isaac, Sam, Cameron, Kayleigh and Nimthara. This means they get over 95% in their timetables in under three minutes. We know that everyone in trying hard to achieve this goal and are doing very well.

Healthy Heroes

Just a small reminder that you must do healthy heroes each week. If you do not have access to a computer you must go on before school on Friday. Come on guys don’t let them down!

Laptops

We have had some issues with the laptops this term and last term. Although we are improving, we still need to take special care of them. Remember this is a privilege to use these computers.

China Inquiry

This term for our topic we have been learning about China. For the first time, we have each come up with our own Big Question based on something about China we want to learn more about. We have come up with research questions to help us answer our main one. After we have all of our information we will be sharing our findings in different ways.

Art

A few weeks ago we had an art workshop in the hall, with Room 1 and Room 3. It went on for the whole middle block (which is between morning tea and lunch).

They all look fabulous!!!

Dancesplash

On Friday the 22nd of August, the whole school went to the Michael Fowler Centre to watch and support our school in the Schools To Schools event, where many schools around the region came to show their talent. There were choirs, bands and lots of different dances.



Our school did are dance. We were very impressed and enjoyed it a lot. The people who danced from our class are; Olive, Georgina, Olivia, Angela, Josh and Jacob.

Geometry Celebration

Check out our finished products!


By Matt and Lakan!

Beijing - What will the world see?

Famous Places in China

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003-12/18/content_44556.htm

Colours in China

http://www.asianz.org.nz/files/colours.pdf

Symbol - Lion or Dragon Dance

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/node_65.htm

Festivals in China

http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_chinaway/node_147.htm

Olympic Games Symbols (Using characters/mascots)

http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/beijing2008/graphic/n214068254.shtml



http://en.beijing2008.cn/spirit/beijing2008/graphic/n214068254.shtml

A lot of learning and ALL NEW VIDEOS of Vanessa playing Maori instruments

Bird Inquiry

Last term we did a bird Inquiry.

We shared our things with the school
and if you look closely you can see an example of the birds we invented.

Geometry

We have been learning about geometry and we made 3-d objects in two ways;
out of paper nets and with chick peas and tooth picks.

We got to use the Mimio, which is like an interactive whiteboard.

This helped us see the back of some of the shapes because
Theresa found a website where we could watch a spinning shape.

Division

Well done to Olive, Olivia, Lakan, Olly, Geogina, Chaquera, Angela, Taylor, Matt, Sam, Cameron and Isaac for getting into the division group.

That means they got over 95% on all their times tables in three minutes!
Everyone else is working hard to get in the group.

New People

This term we have two new people in our class.

Their names are Oliver who has come back to our school from Canada,

... and Seung Young who has come to our school from Korea.

Reading

Our Literacy Circles have been going really well.
Here is a picture of Amy and Josh during their groups meeting.

Some of the groups are on to making Book Reviews.

We are allowed to do them on power point so most people are.

Laptops

Reminder - please be careful with the laptops. It is a privilege to have them.

China inquiry

We have started our China study.
It is going very well, we have learned a lot -
like every day there are 1000 new cars on the road - AMAZING!!!

Healthy Heroes

As you know we have been doing Healthy Heroes quizzes.

Last term the website was dull and boring but we are delighted to say that the Healthy Heroes people have updated it looks awesome now. Look on the right hand side of this blog under Useful Sites and visit the Healthy Heroes website to check it out for yourself!

Maori Language Week

On Thursday of this week Theresa's friend Vanessa came in
to show our syndicate some Maori instruments.

Cross Country and Nimthara

Cross Country
On Tuesday of last week we had our school cross country. Year 3 and up went to the Botanical Gardens. Seven students from our class got through to the Central Zone which happened on Tuesday of this week. The students from our class who went were Olive, Olivia, Nimthara, Melanie, Daniel, Olly and Matt. Olly did especially well and got into the Interzone. And Matt received a special mention for good sportsman ship because he helped a boy who had asthma.

Mathletics
As you might remember, we did Mathletics earlier on in the year. As our class got in the top 200 classes in New Zealand, we now get to go on Mathletics for the rest of the year for free. We do this as part of our daily mathematics, with each group getting at least one go on the laptops each week.
One student from our class got 58th in the country! She is Sam Panganiban! Congratulation Sam!

Nimthara
We have a new student in our class, Nimthara. She has moved from Sri Lanka. Nimthara is a Year 5 students and has just turned nine. On her first day at school she won the Year 5 Girls cross country race.

Whale Inquiry
We have finished researching and now we are writing our reports that will go into a book for the junior classes on New Zealand’s changed approach to whales and whaling.

P.E.
Our focus for the first half of this term is catching and throwing. We have been practicing with tennis balls, basket balls and netballs. Next week we get to practice with rugby balls.

By Georgina and Olly