New Addition - Online Math Tab!

You may have noticed that our Blog has a new tab....It's our "Online Math" tab. It sits right underneath our site photo (see below)

Anyone with a school Gmail account can now access "Maths Hub" via our blog, which is an online tool we use at school to learn and practise math.

On Math Hub there are video lessons for each strategy we learn at school. There are games to help us practise our new strategy too. Math Hub has lots of reseources for areas such as Statistics, Geometry, Measurement, etc.

Last week Shona and Susie's math group had a go at "Computer Math" (with help from Nicola). Through our student and Tautoru Gmail accounts we followed links in an email related to our group focus for the week to "Learn It", "Practise It" and "Prove It".

First we watched a video that gave us a lesson on our strategy for the week.

   

Then we played some games that helped us practise the strategy.

Once we felt confident using the strategy we had to PROVE we understood it by solving some problems on Seesaw.

We saw some great problem solving and enjoyed seeing all the strategies people came up with to solve each problem.

Remember if you are in Shona and Susie's math group and you feel like keeping up the practise at home, you can access lessons and games via your student email.

Keep your eyes on Seesaw to see all the great strategies we will be learning and sharing with you at home :)  

Muscles

As part of our inquiry into the power of the body we have been learning about muscles.



We drew outlines of our bodies and then labeled the different muscles groups.

Body Riddles

We have been learning to write riddles. During literacy today we shared our riddles with Shona's literacy group. They were awesome at guessing!



Here are some examples

What Am I?

I was in a train when this was what I thought.
How do you think?
How do you write?
How do you do things like drink up sprite!?





What Am I?

I live near your spleen
and spray your food with green
I'm connected to your oesophagus
but not exactly seen.


What am I?

These organs come in two
They're like your intestines
But they make you do wee
But you can never have nine.





What Am I?

I help you think
I help you to move
I help you to blink
I help you to groove.



What Am I?

Sometimes it's a pain
(when it hurts)
It helps you to grow
If you don't have it you couldn't
taste, smell, write or think.

Epic Week of Dress Up.

HELLO!

We have the EPIC WEEK OF DRESS UP coming up next week (Week 6) from Tuesday - Friday.

The different dress ups are....

Come dressed up next week:

Tuesday - SUPERHEROES

Wednesday - ANIMALS

Thursday - FAMOUS PEOPLE

Friday - PYJAMAS (and ORANGE DAY for Year 5/6s!)

This is optional. We are doing this because it is fun, it makes us feel free, and we love dressing up! It also helps our Wellbeing because it gives us an option to have fun and dress up together.

      By Evie, Caitlyn and Kate.

TUESDAY - SUPERHERO

WEDNESDAY - ANIMALS

THURSDAY - FAMOUS PEOPLE

FRIDAY - PYJAMAS (or ORANGE DAY for Y5/6s)

Wellbeing workshop

Wellbeing Workshop.

Thanks so much to all the parents who came to the Wellbeing Workshop and participated with such enthusiasm and energy. What a buzz there was in the room with all the character strength discussions, the breathing exercises to enhance positive emotions, looking at Kaizen steps to break down the goals for a positive purpose, recognising the benefits of positive relationships when solving maths problems, being positively engaged by working collaboratively to construct a house, understanding the schooldocs, recognising the advantages of exercise and meditation for positive health and accepting the challenges involved in positive accomplishment when using chop sticks to move around a range of strangely shaped objects. Plus all the motivational speakers and discussions.

It sure took a while to unwind from the excitement and get off to sleep that night, but so positive to be realising the message is reaching the children from both home and school.

Thanks for coming!

Kei te pehea te ahua o te rangi?

We are learning this phrase about the weather in Te Reo ...

Kei te pehea te ahua o te 

rangi? 

(How's the weather?)

Here are some videos of some keen Te reo speakers modelling to us how we can ask and answer this question.

Kei te hauahu (windy) ...can you tell?

 

Kei te makariri (cold)

We know lots of other terms to describe the weather. Ask us at home. We'd love to teach you some :) 

More news from Emelie in Singapore.

Here is an awesome story of Emelie diving and swimming in Singapore.