Home Learning Week 8

The Changing Face of Planet Earth

Click on the link to watch a fascinating video of how our Earth is changing. This has been recorded on NASA satellites. Write a comment about one thing you noticed changing and what has caused this change.

Youtube - Changing Face of Planet Earth

Home Learning Week 7

Here is the link to the quiz we did today for Topic. It will help you with your Home Learning this week.

River Quiz

The Water Cycle - Video by Caleb, Teeshan and Jadon.

Home Learning Week 6

Do some research and find out about how rivers are formed.

Write a comment that shares one interesting fact - make sure it's different to everyone else's!

Week 5 Home Learning

Some help for your Home Learning this week.

Check out this website: Easy Science for Kids

Write a comment about one thing you have learned through looking at this website.

Home Learning Week 4

Here is the poem 'The Town' written by James K Baxter, that we are basing our Memoir writing on this week.

Read the poem and identify:

one structural feature (how the sentences are put together) or 

one language feature (verbs, adjectives, nouns) etc.

that is used in this poem.

"The town was usual enough; it had

A creek, a bridge, a beach, a sky

Over it, and even a small tin church

I never went to. My brother, my cousins and I

Did what boys do - dozed in the hot

Schoolroom, made bows and arrows, dodged the mad

Boatbuilder, crept like rabbits through the black

Under-runners with a weak torch,

Burnt dry rushes, wrestled or swam

Doing nothing important"

- James K. Baxter

Home Learning Week 3

Memoir/Personal Experience Writing

We are going to begin Memoir writing this week. An important part of writing an excellent Memoir is choosing the appropriate vocabulary and using a variety of sentence lengths. 

Read the following piece of writing and make a comment about what you liked about it and why. Also comment on how this example can help you with your own writing.

(This is from the NZ Curriculum English Exemplars on the TKI website) 

Home Learning Week 2

You are watching the weather this week and reporting on this as part of your Home Learning. 

Here are some links to websites that may help you with your record of the weather:

Weather Wiz Kids - tells you all about the TECHNICAL VOCABULARY used in weather forecasts and what they mean.

Metservice - a great source of information about the weather all around New Zealand.

TVNZ weather forecast - a weather forecast from a news website.

Science Kids - Weather - informative, Science based information with experiments and facts.

 YOUR TASK: Have a look at these websites them come back to the blog and write a comment about one thing you've learned, or one thing you found interesting about recording the weather.

Pirates of the Curry Bean

Check out the Behind the Scenes movie of our School Production -The Pirates of the Curry Bean. Created by our very own classmates!

The Pirates Of The Curry Bean - Behind The Scenes from Mrs Morgan on Vimeo.

Home Learning Week 7

We had a mid-term break on Monday which meant a three day weekend and a four day week. Write a couple of sentences that would persuade Mr Sheedy to schedule a mid term break in every term. Include reasons why and specific details.

Home Learning Week 6

For home learning this week I want you to think about all the things you've learned in Maths this term. Fractions, decimals and percentages have been our main focus so keep this in mind. Write a comment on this post saying all the things you've learned and one example of how you could use this Maths in a real life context. 

What a Week!

Well…. it has been a very busy week this week! 

So…we haven't had any Home Learning on the blog. I have however just found a great website with awesome tips for writing a speech. 

Check it out, it will really help you! Mrs M.

Click here: Speech Writing

Commonwealth Games Day

Check out the photos from our Commonwealth Games Day. What a great afternoon of fun and challenging games.

Something New!

The Structure of a Building

This afternoon Ra 22 and 24 went to look at the new building that is being built next to Ra 23. We looked at the features and purpose of different parts of the building. 

These are very similar to a house.

Windows

This silver pipe is the fire sprinkler just incase a fire starts

Earthquake safety bracing

Internet cable

Frame of the building

Concrete flooring

Windows

Lots of windows that bring in natural light

Home Learning

If you're looking for Home Learning for this week…click on the Home Learning tab at the top of the page.

Commonwealth Games

Click on the picture to be taken to the Commonwealth Games 2014 Website. 

Home Learning Week 1

We are learning about Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. 

Write a Maths word problem that includes fractions, decimals or percentages.

 Write the hardest question you can, but you must know the answer! 

We will solve these on Friday.

For example: Jane had 1000 Rainbow Looms. She gave half to her friend at Morning Tea time, then she lost half of what she had left at Lunch time. How many did she have left at the end of the day? What percentage of Rainbow Looms was she left with at the end of the day?

Week 8 Home Learning

What is one thing you have learned this week? 

How will this help you in the future?

HOME LEARNING WEEK 7

If you get stuck and something is challenging, what do you do? 

Write a comment and make sure that it is different to what others have written. 

There are no wrong answers because it is YOUR ideas.