Monday 1st July

Monday the 1st of July

Today at Technology the Media studies group learnt how to put pictures onto a storyboard.
The group in wood and plastics started learning how to make pens and they also began to design their own pens.
With mathematics today we learnt some new vocabulary for geometry, line segments, parallel, perpendicular, chords, and more, even some tricky things like what a hypotenuse is.
We also learnt the basics of fair testing today as we prepare for the school science fair.

Wednesday 26-6-2013

Wednesday Week 8

Today the class was working hard at enlarging and reducing some images for maths. They were using good old worksheets for this activity so had to pay attention to detail when completing this activity.

Here are a couple of the finished tasks by Mikayla and Chloe.

During writing, those children that have finished their persuasive writing are helping the class out by determining success criteria for our next writing genre; procedural writing. Over the last couple of days we have studied recipes to see common features among them all and what makes the good ones good and what makes the bad ones bad.

Some students have also finished their chapter summaries. Here is an example from Zoe about Sadako and the thousand paper cranes.

sadako chapter summarys - slideshow

25-6-2013

We learned how to do scale drawings in maths. We learned how to use scale factors. When you enlarge by a scale factor of 2 you double each dimension.

Tuesday 25-6

Today is the first day of the Masterton exchange so we have been without 5 of our regular class members and gained a new student for 2 days.

We also worked on our game-shows today. Most of us managed to finish our scripts and have been working on props. This is going to help tell us more about our inquiry topic of waste-water. This is how we are going to show our learning and also to teach other people about our learning.

Monday 24-6-13

Today at school the Wood and Plastics group learned about scroll saws and that holding your fingers on the sides of the blade doesn't cut them,we also learnt about the different files: the half circular one the circular one and the triangular one. At media studies we learnt about different camera angles: Tilts, wide shots, close ups, pocket shots, medium shots, extreme close ups and a long shot.

In reading we read a story about the precious liquid and the sky stones and we focused on questioning and were using question cards to prompt us for developing questions. This is useful because it helps us find out more about the story.

Wiki Work

WIKI WORK

Over the past 2 weeks the class has been hard at work on a collaborative wikispace about waste water. The class came up with a huge amount of reasons why and how we can save wastewater. Here's a link to the class' work. Just click the picture and go from there.

Thanks for looking!

Last Week...

...we had a fire alarm go off the class was great about getting up onto the courts but...

some of the class were busy inside practicing for a play at the time. They really loved having to go up onto the courts in their clothes for the play. I couldn't help but laugh at the situation.