Writing Challenge #3

Your challenge is to...

Describe the monster!

Don't forget to use adjectives (describing words) to help explain your ideas.  

Extra for experts: Use the joining words 'so'  and 'which'  to explain what the different body parts you have described are used for.

Ddak Ji with Sohee

Last week was out last week with Sohee, our student teacher from Gongju University in Korea.
Sohee helped us with our reading, writing, maths and other classroom activities. We will miss having her in our class!

Sohee shared a traditional Korean game with us called Ddak Ji which she used to play when she was at primary school.  She taught us how to make the game pieces needed and then two different ways to play the game;

1. We made our game pieces using two different colours of thick card.  We had to fold the two pieces in exactly the same way then fold them together to create the inter-lapping square.



2. We played the game in a group using several smaller ddak ji.  We had to take turns hitting the small one in the middle with our larger ddak ji pieces.  If you flipped the ddak ji over you would win that piece.  The winner was the person who collected the most small pieces.


3.  We played the game in pairs using only our ddak ji pieces. If you turned the other persons ddak ji over you were the winner and could keep their ddak ji piece.



4.  Sohee wrote our names on our game piece in Korean!

Last week in Room 11

Daily Writing:
We write a story together each day before independently writing in our books
.  Mrs Robertson models some skills and we all contribute writing the story
and brainstorming ideas together.
We know that adjectives are describing words and help create a better picture in the authors mind.

Poetry
Every Friday we look at a different poem. 
We have learned that visualisation is an important skill involving 
seeing the pictures in your head when you read.
We look at rhyming words and spelling patterns within the poem.
We discuss what senses and interesting vocabulary the poet has used.

 

Kapa Haka 
 We go to Kapa Haka every Tuesday to learn different waiata and Maori dances.

Kelly Sports

Kelly Sports on PhotoPeach
Today Kelly Sports came to school.  We had a skills session involving netball passes, hitting with a cricket bat and lots of relay races. 
Check your reading folders for a notice on how to join sessions every Wednesday.

Writing Challenge #2

Your challenge this week is to..... 

describe your favourite sport!

See if you can use the joining word 'because' to explain why you like it so much!

You can choose any sport not just the ones pictured.

Extra for experts: Include two adjectives (describing words)

More Graphs

We have been continuing our statistics unit over the past week.  We have become very good at understanding the cycle.
1. Ask a question
2. Collect the data (tally charts, counting, sorting information)
3. Display the data (picture chart, bar graph)
4. Interpret the data (discuss what we found out)

Today Mrs Robertson gave us our own bag of m&ms.  We each had to make our own bar graph displaying the colour of m&ms in our packets.  Then....we got to eat them!
We had to remember titles and labels in our graphs and make statements explaining what we found out.

Inflatable Soccer Pitch

Ricardo from Christchurch Football Academy (CFA) came to school on Friday.  We had so much fun playing mini games of soccer.  Thank you Ricardo and CFA!

Soccer Fun on PhotoPeach

Meet the Stars of Room 11

Meet Room 11 on PhotoPeach

Statistics

We have been learning about how to sort data (information).

First of all we needed a question.  Our question was:
'What pets do the children in Room 11 own?" 

Then we had to work out the best way to collect the data (information/answers).
We tried all yelling out our pets but Mrs Robertson couldn't hear everyone at once. 
We went around in the circle saying the pets one at a time but Mrs Robertson lost count.
Mrs Robertson ruled up a quick tally chart to help collect the data and then recorded everyone's answers. We could easily see the totals.  We learned that when you do tally marks you put every fifth tally through the middle - it makes it easier to count!

Next we made a picture graph to display the data. 
We each coloured in the pictures of the types of pets we own and put them on the piece of paper.  We could tell straight away that there were more cats than any other pet because the line was much higher.  Mrs Robertson said we had to put some labels and titles on the graph because otherwise people wouldn't know what they were looking at.

The last thing we did was understand and interpret the data (discussed the results).  You can read these on the graph.

All About Me Writing

We have been learning about each other this week.
Mrs Robertson was proud of our great publishing skills. 

Holiday Writing

We have been busy writing and illustrating a story about what we did in the holidays.  Here are some examples.  Come and check out the rest of our stories hanging in the classroom.

Writing Challenge #1

Write three facts you want Mrs Robertson and Room 11 to know about you!  

Some ideas include your pet's name, something you are good at, your favourite hobby, a place you went to in the holidays, something you are allergic to, or your favourite sport to play. 

(Click on the word 'comment' below to make your entry.  Record your comment/post and then in the drop box select 'Name/URL' and record your first name only.  Ignore the URL section and click 'Continue'.  Then click 'Publish'.  Your post will not display straight away as I will have to authorise the post before others can view it.  To view others entries click on 'comment' and scroll up.)

Welcome to Room 11, 2016!

Swimming

We have been attending swimming lessons at Canterbury Swim School.  We are learning lots of new skills and getting in a lot of practice!

We are looking forward to Friday's survival skills session!

 

Making Masks

This term for Art we made masks. 
First we looked at why people wear masks.  We came up with the following ideas:
* For performing (dances, acting, plays, dress ups)
* Breathing (snorkeling, scuba diving, firemen, astronauts)
* Protect you (nurses, dentists, doctors, fireman)
* Disguises (superheroes, masquerade balls)

We looked at photos of different masks on the internet.

We had to plan our own masks first.  We each chose a theme and designed a mask to suit our theme.

Lastly, we got to make our masks!

We think they look fantastic!

 

Samantha's lamb comes for a visit....

Samantha from Room 13 brought one of her lambs to school yesterday. It is a female lamb and is called Elliot. She is 7 weeks old. Elliot drinks milk, and eats grass and sheep pellets. We all had a turn to pat her and some of use were lucky enough to get to feed her the milk from a bottle. We thought it was funny when Elliot went to the toilet right in front of us! Thanks for bringing her in Samantha! We really enjoyed meeting her. :)

Father's Day Cards

Happy Father's Day

Art Attack: Next Thursday 3-6.30pm

We have been busy creating two lots of amazing weaving art creatures. 

Come along to the Art Attack to see our fantastic efforts!

Reading Activities

We have been learning the spelling rules to turn a singular just one) word into a plural (more than one).

 

We had to think of synonyms for the word angry and/or ways to 'show not tell' that someone could be angry....

Writing in paragraphs

We used our prior knowledge, and the internet and books to research an animal of our choice. We then wrote a report about that animal. We had to group our ideas together into paragraphs.