10-7-13

Wednesday the 10th of July

Today we began on some procedural writing in preparation for next term. The class had to, without any help, develop some instructions for me to put up my chair. I did take some things a bit literally at times but the class had a load of fun putting them into practice.
Here's a video of a lot of different class members giving me some instructions.
It's a little embarrassing.

3rd of July 2013

3-7-2013

Today in class we worked again on learning the properties of triangles. We also learnt how to create equilateral triangles using a compass. Each vertex of an equailateral triangle has a 60 degree angle.

For reading we continued looking at inference with the story of Hurry up, Tim. Some students made some excellent inferences such as the teacher in the story really knowing that Tim cheated through the sly smile on her face.

The class has been extremely busy catching up on any blogposts that need doing at the moment as well. We seem to be in a mad rush now for the end of the term.

We also practiced talking about our blog to each other.

Tuesday the 2nd of July

Tuesday the 2nd of July

Today in maths one of the groups learnt how to find the inner angles of a triangle using protractors. They also learnt that all of these inside angles add up to 180 degrees.
With our writing today the majority of us finished our expositions. We then began to use this writing to turn it into a speech. Some students even began timing these and practicing them to see if they are long enough for sharing at the assembly next week.
For our inquiry work, our waste water game-shows, the majority of the class again finished off their scripts for the game-show. Soon we will be practicing these and then filming them for our blogs. Props are also well underway for some groups, these gameshows will look amazing!

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.