Journey through the stars - Alan Bagnall

Today we did a whole class reading activity on Visualisation. The class read and listened to a poem called "Journey through the stars" by Alan Bagnall. They then analysed the information and created a picture of what they were seeing in their mind's eye. We put all of the pictures together to display on our wall.

Here is the Poem:
On this gently pulsing deck I lie,
gazing down into
the infinite depths
of a night sky.
For every star in our galazy
is reflected on a polished sea.
Stars above
stars below
all sense of Earth disappearing.
Life is a space journey -
anyone steering?


Here are some pictures of a few of them and the whole lot.

Carys's Visualisation

Regan's Visualisation

The natural way to learn.

It was such a nice sunny day today we decided to go outside to do some research. Some of the class decided to do their work on the new playground. Others did theirs under the trees. 

We then started to make some poems about some unexplained creatures. These incorporated elements of the research the class is doing for their explanations.

Te Reo Maori

On a Thursday afternoon we combine with Room 7 to work on Te Reo Maori. Usually we work on the language but today we changed things and had a look at Matariki. Here are a couple of students working on a Matariki task on the computer.


The class also worked on the school song. Considering we had non of our Kapa Haka members present to lead us they perfromed well. Ka pai.

SOCIAL NIGHT

Two weeks ago we had our school social. I was lucky enough to host it for the children (although I pretended it wasn't me and obviously had all the children fooled) The children put into practice all of the dances they had learned over the previous term and earlier this term as well. It was a great night enjoyed by all.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? No... just Sea Turtles.

The writing we are focussing on this term is about explanation. We are learning to explain objects, processes and phenomena. Currently the class is looking at explaining about Sea Turtles.

Here is a list of some of their prior knowledge.

And here is a short video that they are going to use to help them explain about Sea Turtles in their own words.

Maths Work

In class We are working on Transformation. The class will need to access the class wiki to see what they wish to work on with a few different workshops set at different levels.
The class will need to do some frontloading (research before beginning) so that they can take part in the sessions.
http://room8hni.wikispaces.com/Maths+Main

TERM 4

This term we are focussing on the unexplained. Our current class project is on the mummies curse. This is a whole class project. Soon the class will be individually researching their own topics. I can't wait to see what people come up with.