Friday 29 August 2014

Pepeha

If you have looked on our Te Marae page, you will know we have been learning our pepeha. We have used the Tellagami app to present them. We are so proud of how they have turned out. We would appreciate your comments on what we have done well and things we could improve on.


Saturday 23 August 2014

Learning our Times Tables

Many parents asked for practise examples for their children to learn their times tables at home. The website provided is great as it is timed and you can choose the level of difficulty. You can also select which times tables or basic facts you want to practise. Click on the graphic to take you straight to the website. Have fun with your tamariki :)


Friday 22 August 2014

Te Marae

Challenge Unit

Room 11 and Kauri Block are getting prepared for their marae visit this term. We will be learning marae protocol, our pepeha and about the meaning behind the different parts of a wharenui. 

You are able to see our learning units by visiting our guided reading and our Te Marae pages.

Wednesday 20 August 2014

Cross Country

Vignette Writing

Room 11 has been busy writing up a storm about our cross country experience. We were inspired by the story "Cowpat Girl" written by Jessica Hemmings and used her writing as our model. Our "playing hard" learning was also incorporated into some of our writing too. We used Youblisher to publish. Click on the picture to read our ebook.


Room 11

Wednesday 13 August 2014

Shared Book

Swim

Retold by: Chris Szekely



Room 11 has begun a new unit of learning about Maori myths and legends. We have started by reading a legend based on a true story from Rotorua about Tutanekai and Hinemoa. After reading we decided the moral or teaching from the story was:

  • never give up on your dreams or goals
  • everyone needs to be loved
  • love wins
  • never judge a book by its cover.

To see what we will be learning visit our Shared Book page.

Tuesday 12 August 2014

We Play Hard!

Room 11 has been inspired by Patricia Grace and her "Beans" story. You can visit our learning intentions on our writing page. This is just a taster. You will be able to view our other authors on the Authors' Arcade page as we were able to choose how we published our work.




We would love to hear what you think of our presentation and writing. We would also be interested in your view on how we could improve our next piece of writing and presentation.

We have already started reflecting on our learning.

Daytona said, "I didn't have enough time to read some of the slides."

Kuini-Marnie said, " There are spelling mistakes."

Mrs Stuckey said, "I can't read the text because of the colour of the font over the background."


Sunday 3 August 2014

BTBWCB

Being the Best We Can Be!

Room 11 has been keen to settle into term 3, we have been setting our goals after reflecting on our classroom and what we would like our classroom to be like.