Maths- Slide, Flip and Turn.

Today we looked at sliding , flipping and turning.
We started by asking "What do we already know about slide, flip and turn?"
We wrote our responses on sticky notes to then look at it again later on to see how much we have learnt.
Miss Shaw showed us the three ways we can move objects, then we completed a couple of activities to help us remember and get better at sliding , flipping and turning.
We then chose an object from the foam shape container and traced it onto paper. We then slid it along the paper and retraced it, to show how it moved. We then either chose turn or flip as our second option and also showed that on a sheet of paper.
The year 4 kids also looked at rotation, translation, and reflection.

Here are some online games to help you get better Room 9

Icy Slides, Flips and Turns

Transformations Quiz

Awesome Homework Room 9!

Wow! I was really impressed with the number of people who completed the on-line homework that I set for week 4. Here are some examples.

Garden to Table

Today Kowhai Syndicate used the vegetables from the garden to make some tasty treats. Each class made a different item of food using the produce we harvested from the garden.
All the kids in Room 9 helped make our Marmite and Lettuce, and Mayonaise and Lettuce sandwhiches.
Room 6 made Beetroot and carrot crackers.
Room 7 made Parsley Pesto.
Room 8 made spinach raita.
Room 9 as above
Room 10 egyptian red beetroot dip.

Room 9 please tell me what you have learnt and what you enjoyed about today. You may even want to tell me how you helped in our little production line:-)

Writing: Newspaper Reports HOMEWORK

We have been looking at non-fiction texts and how to write a newspaper report.
For your week 4 homework I would like the Room 9 children to write a newspaper report using the interactive website that we used in class.
Once you have finished writing your report and adding in those cool pictures, please print it or email to Miss Shaw.
Click here for the website.

P.S Can you remember what features/types of words you use in a piece of writing like this? What is the social purpose?

Globalisation: Commonwealth Games and Communication.

This term we have begun looking at Globalisation.
Our first activity was to show Miss Shaw what we thought this topic was all about. We placed our topic banner on the floor and set off to find images that we thought might be related to our topic. This showed Miss Shaw what we already knew.



Today we then began looking at the following statement:
We live in an interconnected and interdependent world.

What does this mean for Room 9 students?
How do we know?
What evidence do we have?
Why do we?

Room 9, please post a response to the questions above.

Book Week

Hi Room 9. If you'd like to post a comment on the book week blog follow the link which is down the right hand side of our blog page.
Please tell me all about what you have been learning about during the rotation.

Telling the Time

Today we spent some time learning how to read analogue clock(the clocks with the numbers and hands).

Remember that the little hand tells us the hour that it has been. The big hand tells us how many minutes past or to the next o'cock time.

Go to the netvibes page to find the activity under the maths tab.

Room 9: Your mission: practice, practice, practice!

Using Google as a search engine.

In Room 9 we are focussing on reading and writing information reports. At a later stage we will gather information to write our own information report.
Today we learnt about how we can use different resources to find the facts we need. We looked at how to use library books, school journals, our school readers and encyclopedias. We are now going to learn about how useful the internet can be to help us find the important facts we need.

We watched a little video about the search engine we know as Google. It was very interesting and amazing how Google works really hard to find information for us.



Room 9: Your Mission.

Using the search example used in the video, (cheetah running speed)write the URL that appears in the first part of writing. Also...if you can ...write the name for the little part of information in the middle. It starts with "S"

Keeping Ourselves Safe-

Today in Room 9 we looked at some situations that would make us feel a certain way. We read out some questions and statements and we had to decide how that situation would make us feel.This is to help us learn to be safe around people and environments.
Room 9 Your Mission: what were the feelings words we discussed and used to describe how we felt. Post a place that you would condider to be safe.

The Friday Celebration Rotation....

Room 9 finally got to experience Miss Shaw's celebration activity today. They took part in two activities. One was a craft and the other involved eating! Yummy.

Room 9: Your Mission.
Please descibe what we did and how it linked to our celebrations topic. Also add any new learning from todays session.

More Celebration Rotation Learning....

Today Room 9 continued with their Celebration Rotation. They went to Room 7 where they focused on a Mexican craft and made an item of Mexican food.

After lunch they moved to Room 8 where they focussed on Birthdays.

Room 9: Your Mission...
Tell me all about it! What did you learn about different cultures and how they celebrate. How did the Gods Eye and food you made relate to our celebrations unit.
P.S. Sorry I couldn't post all of your fabulous photos, but you did take some very good shots to show us your learning.

Celebration Rotation

This week Room 9 will be moving around the different teachers in our syndicate to experience a variety of celebrations and related activities.
Todaythey went to Mrs Coutts in Room 10 for an hour and learnt about Hanukkah, the Jewish celebration.
Later on in the afternoon they went to Mrs Llewellyn in Room 6 and looked more closely at a Scottish tradition.
Miss Shaw gave the camera to the class so they could take some photos of what they did in each class.

Room 9-Your Mission: Please tell me which photos you took and what they contain. Secondly, reflect on your new learning while with the other teachers. Remember to tell me some details about the celebration and how your activity was related.

Chunks and Blends

Check the Chunks and Blends tab to find out what this weeks chunk and blend is...(on the blends and chunks tab).
Room 9 your mission- write the blends that were in the poem of the week. Which are actions and which are sounds?

Super Sleuth Spelling Detective

Can you spot the spelling mistake Miss Shaw has made?
Post your answer with the correct spelling.

Maths Week

Next week is Maths Week.
Everyday in Room 9 we will spend time working on the daily challenges.
Miss Shaw has made a username and password for each of us so that we can login and play the games and complete activities.
Here is the link to the website http://mathsweek.org.nz/

Room 9-Your mission: tell me your favourite activity on the maths Week website.

Fractions- Parts of a Whole

During maths we have been learning how to:
*recognise fraction symbols for halves, thirds, quarters, fifths,
*find fractions of a set e.g. what is half of 18?
*changing improper fractions to proper fractions e.g. 12/3 = 4 and 1/3
*identifying decimals to 3 decimal places.

We have talked about the top number and the bottom number in fraction symbols and how fractions are "parts of the whole".

As our maths books are getting quite full, and it was a lovely day, we decided to show off all of our new learning about fractions by drawing them all over the concrete outside our room.

Room 9-your mission: Tell us what your new learning has been while looking at fractions. Also tell us what activity you enjoyed the best: the mimio fractions or the concrete fractions.

Vegetable Soup

Last friday Kowhai Syndicate made hot soup! The soup was a creation we made using the vegetables that we planted last term.
Room 9 planted bok choy and and spring onions in their wedge of the circle garden on the 20th May. The vegetables were planted as part of our Healthy Eating and Sustainability unit.

For some of us, it was the first time that we had grown vegetables and made fresh soup.
Room 9, your mission: Please comment on any aspects of this process that were new to you and what you enjoyed the most.
It would also be good if you can comment about healthy food and how you have made any changes to what you eat because of your new learning.

Corbans Art Visit

Today Room 9 and Room 8 visited the Corbans Art Centre as part of our Celebrations unit. It was a hands on session where we were able to produce a piece of art that contained three media. The inspiration for our works came from the Pacific art commonly known as Tapa. Joy began the session by showing us some very import tapa that belonged to her family. From there we went downstairs to the work shop and began the process.
We began by brainstorming ideas about our recent two week school holiday. From that we selected four aspects to tranfer into symbols which would then be included in our piece.
It was all over far too quickly. We had a great time and learnt alot by working throught the art process.
Room 9-Your Mission: Please post comments related to the following aspects
*what facts you learnt about Tapa
*what media we used to create our art. (There was three).
*things you enjoyed about the art.
*new learning about any aspect of the day.

PS Don't forget that Joy will be reading your comments so please let her know how much you learnt from her teaching today.

Mid Year Report Survey

This is a little bit of homework for the parents. Here is a quick link to the report survey as mentioned in the notice that came home today. If you see this message show your caregivers so they can complete this online.
Report Survey

Words Instead of 'Said'.

As part of writing today we focused on dialogue. We are learning about dialogue because myths and legends often have dialogue to help paint a better picture of the characters involved.
While we were looking at some examples of dialogue we found some words that are more descriptive than "said".Here is a list of words we thought we'd use instead.
Please add some more to the list by posting them.

Matariki

Yesterday we spent the day learning about Matariki.If you are lucky enough to see Matariki in the sky, please post a comment and tell us what you saw, when you saw it, and where you looked to find it.
During the day we watched the following videos. There were three videos. They are one of the Maori Myths behind Matariki, and the same as the book we read in class.
Click on the links to watch:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Can you remember the title of the story we read in class? Post your answer.

MAKING KITES....


The pictures below are of Room 9s Matariki Kites.

Can you remember why kites are related to the Matariki celebration? Please post your answer.

2010 FIFA World Cup-Soccer.

In Room 9 we are keeping track of the scores and results of the games played during the World Cup. If you watch a game, or know the result, please write the teams and the scores that they got so we can add them to the chart.
Please write your posts like this: New Zealand 1 vs Slovakia 1.

Blend of the Week: SM

During reading today, Leo and Mele wrote lots of words that begin with the SM blend. Can you think of any others. You may add prefixes and suffixes to make new words using the words you see.

Chunk of the Week: AKE

Your task is to post any other words that aren't in this photo, that contains this weeks chunk.
Remember that you are allowed to add prefixes,sufixes, join two words to make a compound word to any words you do see here in the photo.

Celebrations

We have begun looking at different celebrations that people participate in. We have looked at groups and places we belong to, and have started taking a closer look at different cultures and the similarities and differences between various celebrations.
Please share with us, what you have learnt so far about Celebrations. To help you you may need to think about the activities we have completed so far.

Myths and Legends

We are beginning to look at Myths and Legends as part of our language program this term. We will be reading a selection of different kinds and also retelling a few too. We have found a really cool website where we can watch lots of different ones online. Click here to watch them.
Once you have viewed a story could you please comment on the following things: theme, any symbols there may be, and the main characters.

Trip to Botannical Gardens

We had a fantastic day today at the Botannical Gardens. We spent half of our day with an educator, and the other half exploring the gardens.
During our time with our educator we learned how to do many things.
Have a look at the photos to remind you of some of the neat things we did, then tell me about it.

Growing Beans

This afternoon we sat out in the warm sunshine and planted some bean seeds. We each have our own seed which we will observe and watch grow into a yummy bean plant.
Before we planted our seeds, we took the time to read the instructions on the back of the seed packet. This told us some very important information that we really needed to know. Room 9, can you remeber what information was on the back of the seed packet? Post your answer.

Measuring using centimetres

For the first two weeks of term 2, Room 9 will be learning about measurement. We will be learning to measure using millimetres, centimetres, and metres.
If you'd like practice measuring in centimetrs and want to also practice measuring using scales (capacity) click here.

Term 1 - Reflection on our learning journey so far...

This afternoon before going home, we all shared some thoughts about our first term in Room 9. We talked about things that were difficult for us and how we now find them easy to do. We also shared specific tasks or subjects that we have made the most progreess in, as well as some goals we wish to achieve in term two.So go on Room Niners...tell us about your learning so far.

WALHT identify important foods for a balanced and healthy diet.

Following on from Harolds visit, we then looked closely at the food pyramid. Each table group set about making their own food pyramid using pictures from magazines to show where they think each food is placed. From this it is clear that food is made up of ingredients from 3 different sources. Can you remember the three places food comes from?