Arrays

We have been making our own creative arrays!

We think it was the Olympics training day.

On Tuesday we had a day to grow our muscles and use our growth mindset.

This is part of our Inquiry to experience being active and ways to make our body stronger.

Here are some comments from Tautoru:

Nye: It was super because of all the new sports we learnt!

Cameron: It was fantastic because I got to learn how to play floorball.

Otto: It was unbelievable because we get to do so many cool sports.

Zac: I cried because I tripped over a hockey stick and landed on my face, but I got up.

Scott: I found tip-tapping in futsal difficult because I kept tapping it too hard. It’s a skill!  

Cooper and Coco: I learnt that a futsal ball and a football is different, futsal balls are heavier because of the the futsal court is smaller and it doesn’t need to go as far.

September Disco

In September we are having an ‘80’s disco at the Salvation Army Hall in Miramar.

The disco will be full of crazy dress ups of 80’s singers, stuff that was made in the 80’s, and much more!

The crazy disco is in Week 8 on Friday 15th of September.

Remember to show up in your most epic and craziest 80’s costume!

But always remember, this disco is optional so you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to.

COSTUME IDEAS:

Disco dancer

Record

Rubik's cube

Fluro or Highlighter coloured clothes

Glitter clothes

Afros or big hairstyles

Anything crazy!!!!

Also remember to have fun at this crazy party!

Teach us something!

What do you know really well? What are you good at? Can you show us?
Soccer, tennis, ukulele, Kong Fu, animals, basketball, cricket, ballet .... The list went on and on!

On Thursday we spent a morning learning about what are the ways to show and celebrate our learning.
Part of our inquiry model "I am celebrating", that means we show and reflect on our learning. And of course thinking about where next?




Here are some video of us showing and teaching:

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.