Assembly

Welldone to these clever girls for receiving certificates today! 

In assembly we also had a visitor from ASB bank! She gave out stickers to people who had been listening and could answer her questions. Look who was listening ...

Leaning our routines

Today we practised our mat and beam routines. Although we are not going to gym sports we are practising the routines anyway and we are awesome!! 

Note taking and note making

Today we watched a clip and used our note taking and note making skills. First we listened for key words like sun and hot. Then we then wrote down. This was note taking.  By themselves they didn't make sene so we put them into sentences. This was note making. Check out our note we made about how hot the sun is. 

Our notes;

The video showed us close up what the sun looks like;

Here we used our bullet points in a sentence. We told this sentence to a buddy;

Keeping in touch

Today the Elephants group read a story called "keeping in touch"  it was a story about a boy who kept in touch with his grandad who lived far away. It gave us instructions how to make our very own envelope! The elephants group used the book to make their own

Certificates

Welldone to these super stars for receiving certificates! Keep up the good work!

Q6. What are 3 dreams/things that you would like to achieve in your life?

Kidsedchatnz

Today Mrs Moorhouse told us about an awesome new e-learning opportunity - Kidsedchat, a blog where children from all around New Zealand post and respond through Twitter. We joined up with Koromiko class and used Twitter to connect with children all around New Zealand.

Check out the link below to see this weeks Kidsedchat about a grandfathers letter to his grandchildren.  http://kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz. We can wait to look at posts and tweets tomorrow!

Skimming and Scanning

Today for topic we cut up an article and in groups we skimmed and scanned the words to find key words to help us find the answer to or first question; How close is the Sun to the Earth? 

Word endings

Today in our big book; Beware of the Cat we went for a hunt for words ending in 'ing' and 'ed'. We found lots of words ending in 'ed' so we turned them into words ending in 'ing' using our knowledge of the base word! 

Beam work

Today in gymnastics we practiced walking on the beam. We walked across the beam one foot infront of the other with our arms out for balance. We then jumped off safely, bending our knees to land!

Fridays certificates

Whoops! These didn't go up on Friday! Welldone to Baxter and Charlotte for their awesome effort this week!! 

The sun is the center of our solar system

Today we watched part of this video clip to help us understand about where the sun and earth are in our solar system. We stopped it often to talk about what was being said. If you wish to watch it again to help with your Padlet Wall activity please click the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c_lL6I3OaA

Reciprocal Reading

Today the leopards group participated in reciprocal reading. There were 4 jobs that we each had a part in. 

The questioner- they ask us questions about what we have read. 

The clarifier - we can call this person up and ask them to clarify tricky words or words we don't understand. 

The boss- their job is to tell us how many pages to read and whose job goes when

And the summariser - they re tell the story in their own words. 

Open and closed questions

Today in topic studies we had to decide on 3 questions we want to focus on over the next few weeks. We decided that we wanted to know moor about the sun, so we based our questions around that. 

First Mrs Moorhouse talked to us about two types if questions. Open questions and closed questions. We came up with one of each and chose our favourite 3. 

Ask us what a closed question is .... 

And an open questions is! 

Key words

We used highlighters to highlight key words in our topic brainstorm. We learnt that key words are special information words that tell us about the topic. We highlighted words like; cold, round, pointy, firey. 

Sign Language Week

This week is Sign Language week. Today we learnt our ABC and counting by signing. We were very fast learners! Our challenge this week is to try and sign our name. Click on the link below to learn the alphabet.

http://nzsl.tki.org.nz/Video-gallery

Gymnastics

Today we had a gym instructor come and work with us! She taught us how to tumble and land.

Computer suite

Today we went into the computer suite to use the school website and our logins to acces our class page. On our class page there is a link to our blog, learning websites and songs. We need lots of practise logging on at home and at school! Please ask us to show you how we log on!