Characteristics of the ANZAC soldiers

In our class we have been talking about the soldiers that went to fight in the war. We looked at some of the characteristics we thought these soldiers would have.

It was interesting that we could see so many of our school dispositions being important to these people too. 

Have a look at our brainstorm and see what other characteristics you think would be needed.

Problem Solving and Teamwork

Working together is so important in our classroom. It helps us to learn from each other and also develop our flexibility and compassion for others.

Maths is so much fun when we work in our co-operative groups, because we all do things differently and then we can learn new things from other people in the group.

Some people like to use counters, others like to write on paper or whiteboards, any way that works for us is great as long as we are always talking with our group and explaining our learning to others.

Talking together about our ideas

Using the counters to help us

Writing our thinking on whiteboards

Room 10 took part in a great activity run by Warehouse Stationery and School Kit. Teachers could sign their classes up to receive a kit that we completed and sent off to another class somewhere else in New Zealand.
We were each given a postcard which we wrote an example of a metaphor on the back of and then coloured in the front (these joined together to make a big poster).

What was the most exciting, was getting our package from Waiwera South School way down in Otago. We are very different schools in so many ways. They only have 41 students IN TOTAL from years 0-8!!! and can be found in a rural area.

Even though we are very different there were quite a few things we had in common such as:

- Our longest word was - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

- Our Random thing we sent were both toy snakes

- Our three most important things in our class,  both included our school dispositions

Have a look at the slides below to compare our two classes and the posters and information we shared.

What did we notice this week?

We have been talking about how it is important to always use our eyes and notice things that are happening around us, especially the great things.

Outside our classroom (the music room) we noticed a new plant had popped up and was not like any of the plants around it. We were curious learners and wanted to know all about this plant. We got on the internet and used key words to research about this plant.

I saw white flowers outside room 10.

They are  called Japanese anemones.

The flowers have more than 20 petals and a yellow centre.

Iris 

We took a photo and observed a real white flower outside our class. We noticed the middle bud comes out first then the outside ones come out after that.   We found out all that with our eyesight.  One of our senses. We also checked our idea.

Stella and Peter 

You wont believe this but the anemone hupehensis was found in China!

Austin

We have discovered what that funny plant is. It is called an Japanese Anemone. Mrs Sietkiewicz said that it isn't a weed, like Miss Waghorn thought.

Spencer and Tim

Table Tennis Taster

We had so much fun learning some new skills and techniques up in Room 15. Some of us had never played Table Tennis before so it was hard to keep the ball on the table. Check out our photos and see the fun we are having!

Deadly Animals

I have been reading about box jellyfish and poison dart frogs with my group. The box jellyfish is the perhaps the most venomous animal in the world. More than 5,500 people have died from box jelly fish stings in the last 150 years.
There are more than 175 kinds of poison dart frog. The skin oozes a deadly venom. One kind of poison dart frog makes is so deadly it makes enough toxin to kill ten people!
By Noah Rm 10A

Ngauruhoe Maths Group

Jumping the Number Line

WALT: jump through a tidy number on a number line 

Today we were learning all about how to solve problems, involving bigger numbers, by breaking it into smaller jumps. We used the number lines to help us and were quickly jumping along ourselves when we got it!!

This is a page from our modelling book showing how we solved the problems.