Tuesday 13 September 2016
Thursday 8 September 2016
Trip day tomorrow!
Final details of tomorrow's Tiritiri Matangi trip
See you all bright and early tomorrow morning! i
See you all bright and early tomorrow morning! i
Wednesday 7 September 2016
An exciting new opportunity for Room 15's amazing learners!
In Room 15 we're starting to use a new tool called Seesaw to share even more of what we're learning in class. Each child has his or her own learning journal, and parents and whanau members can be notified when their child adds new items. It's completely private -- only you can see your child's journal outside of class. If you want to, you can like, comment on or share the items.
The children will be able to add all sorts of different items to their journals. They've already learnt to add photos! We're really excited about this new opportunity for the children to share their learning with you, so please give it a go.
There are two ways to set this up, depending on whether you want to use the app or the website:
1. Download the Seesaw Parent app onto your smartphone or tablet, then use the device to scan the special QR code they brought home today (it's really easy, I promise - you don't need a special QR scanner or anything!).
OR
2. Click on https://app.seesaw.me/s/556-
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks!
Miss Molloy
Our videos are working now!
Apologies to anyone who's been trying to view our class's videos and having trouble - they should be working now. Enjoy!
Friday 2 September 2016
Remember last year's 60s Celebrations?
Here's a video by Room 15's 'class of 2015'! You might not recognise them though, most of us haven't seen looks like these for a few decades!
Room 15's Assembly
Today was our assembly. Thank you to all the parents and whanau members who came along to support us - your children did a great job!
We felt prepared and confident!
We had beautiful artwork to share! Aren't our fraction creatures lovely and bright?
We cut our shapes into halves, thirds and quarters to make these.
Lots of our brave children had turns to talk into the microphone. Well done!
Friday 8 July 2016
Wednesday 6 July 2016
What can we do to look after our environment?
Look at our latest ThingLink!
Our Environmental Superheroes
Our environmental superheroes learned all about imperative (bossy) sentences when we made these videos!
Our Environmental Superheroes
Our environmental superheroes learned all about imperative (bossy) sentences when we made these videos!
Tuesday 5 July 2016
Monday 27 June 2016
We love playing Chopsticks!
1. You need two buddies to play the Chopsticks game.
2. You tap each other's hands and fingers when you play Chopsticks.
3. You put numbers on your fingers.
4. If you got tapped and the other person had number one on their fingers, you would add one to your fingers.
5. You need to have less than ten.
6. The first person to get to ten fingers is the loser!
7. You clap if you have two o your hand, and start all over again.
2. You tap each other's hands and fingers when you play Chopsticks.
3. You put numbers on your fingers.
4. If you got tapped and the other person had number one on their fingers, you would add one to your fingers.
5. You need to have less than ten.
6. The first person to get to ten fingers is the loser!
7. You clap if you have two o your hand, and start all over again.
Written by Aradonya, Hannah, Jahna, Malupo Kayden, Cove, Pilikimi and Bezalel
Playing Maths Slide
You need one to four people to play Maths Slide. You play on an iPad.
It is a game to practise addition (adding numbers).
You tap any colour to choose players.
There are pictures of dice, cards and fingers with numbers on them.
You put the answers in the middle and add the numbers that come up.
You win when you have added all your numbers and the screen tells you when you are a winner!
It is a game to practise addition (adding numbers).
You tap any colour to choose players.
There are pictures of dice, cards and fingers with numbers on them.
You put the answers in the middle and add the numbers that come up.
You win when you have added all your numbers and the screen tells you when you are a winner!
Written by Humairah, Alyssa, Cameron, Max, Leon and Tyra
Making Our Magnificent Mandala
1. We each got a piece of paper which was shaped like a circle.
2. We folded our circle papers in half two times to find the middle and make sections.
3. We used a pencil and drew important things to us. For example, Chloe drew people holding hands, Tyra drew love hearts, Ajo drew her sister, Marshall drew a scooter with a booster, Malupo drew his favourite things to eat and Mani drew her family.
Written by Noah, Mani, Darren, Chloe, Ajo and Akaysha
2. We folded our circle papers in half two times to find the middle and make sections.
3. We used a pencil and drew important things to us. For example, Chloe drew people holding hands, Tyra drew love hearts, Ajo drew her sister, Marshall drew a scooter with a booster, Malupo drew his favourite things to eat and Mani drew her family.
Written by Noah, Mani, Darren, Chloe, Ajo and Akaysha
Making Our Magnificent Mandala
1. We each got a piece of paper which was shaped like a circle.
2. We folded our circle papers in half two times to find the middle and make sections.
3. We used a pencil and drew important things to us. For example, Chloe drew people holding hands, Tyra drew love hearts, Ajo drew her sister, Marshall drew a scooter with a booster, Malupo drew his favourite things to eat and Mani drew her family.
Written by Noah, Mani, Darren, Chloe, Ajo and Akaysha
2. We folded our circle papers in half two times to find the middle and make sections.
3. We used a pencil and drew important things to us. For example, Chloe drew people holding hands, Tyra drew love hearts, Ajo drew her sister, Marshall drew a scooter with a booster, Malupo drew his favourite things to eat and Mani drew her family.
Written by Noah, Mani, Darren, Chloe, Ajo and Akaysha
Tuesday 24 May 2016
Learning about measurement
We talked about different ways of measuring things. Once upon a time people used their hands and feet to measure length. This would have been tricky - surely everyone had differently sized hands and feet!
We decided to measure our hands and feet. It was fun to see who had the largest and smallest hands and feet.
We carefully traced around Humairah...
...and now here she is on the wall! She's even wearing her perfect Chaucer School uniform. She looks pretty happy to be here!
We can measure Humairah's arms, legs and height using the big metre ruler.
Monday 23 May 2016
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Dancing with Shane
We love Wednesdays because we have dancing lessons! Check out our moves - cha cha cha!
Reciprocal Reading
We love Reciprocal Reading!
We have learnt to make predictions, ask good questions, clarify things we're not sure of, and summarise the stories we read. We all help each other with our reading.
We have learnt to make predictions, ask good questions, clarify things we're not sure of, and summarise the stories we read. We all help each other with our reading.
Tuesday 17 May 2016
Two-week Goals
How is your new learning goal going? Remember, you have two weeks to achieve your goal - work hard!
Here is Jahna explaining her goal. She started working on this one as soon as she got it on Monday afternoon! He whetu koe, Jahna!
Here is Jahna explaining her goal. She started working on this one as soon as she got it on Monday afternoon! He whetu koe, Jahna!
Our neighbours in Room 16
We often work together with the children and teachers in Room 16. You may find pictures of your child's learning on the Room 16 Blog as well. Here's a link:
http://room16chaucerschool.blogspot.co.nz/
http://room16chaucerschool.blogspot.co.nz/
Check out our wonderful publishing!
We wrote about our favourite kinds of learning and the things we love about our class. We have been learning to write our opinions and justify them. We are getting really good at using 'because' in our sentences!
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