Making 10

Today in maths we had to try and think of all the possible combinations that make 10. There were some amazing answers and everyone's brains were working very hard! 

Brianna and Friday

Brianna and Friday have been working very hard with Keri, it is great to see them taking turns and being respectful of one another. 

Working Hard

Truby and Connor S have been doing a fantastic job on their collage.

Collages

To finish the week we have been practicing our group work and co-operation by working on a collage in pairs. We are still working on these and will show you our finished product.

Sports Group Research

Today, the group who are presenting their research on Powerpoint were working together collaboratively to form sentences, find information on Google and type their information onto PowerPoint. Miss D was very impressed with the great engagement, focus and communication happening in her class.

Rory and Corbyn  finding an image of Sir Flinders Petrie and copying down the link. 

Sean, Mattisin, Anthony, and Ethan rewriting facts in their own words and reading them out to be typed into PowerPoint.

Buddy Time on Friday

What an amazing time we had for buddy time on Friday. It was fantastic to hear the quiet bubble of conversation and see such focused work.

In buddies we started to design our on soccer uniform.

This is Sharlisa's and Tiana's:

Jared's Uniform Design

My uniform is for a rugby team. I used the koru designs and coloured it light brown. I worked with my Ako Ngatahi buddy, Aisa, to design my uniform.

Personal Best

Lucas, from Ako Nga Tahi, demonstrates to us what a great job can be made of task when you are willing to put in your personal best.

Designing uniforms

Today, with our buddy class, we have been designing sports uniforms. This fits with the topic both classes are doing.

Sports Research again

Today we have continued finding information about sports.   We have used written information, the computers and the i-pads to answer our questions. We have also been working on presenting our work in a variety of ways.  Some of us chose to do posters, some are making videos and others are making a slide show.  We will show you how great they are when we finish them.

Sport Research

We are still learning to work in groups. We are also learning to pose questions and find answers.  We have all chosen our sports and written our questions.   Here we are finding some of the answers.

Well done to Miss D's writing class for putting on an amazing assembly.

Buddy Class

This week we went to Ako Nga Tahi for our buddy class time.

Independent Reading in Room 6

We are starting to develop our choice of reading material and sustain longer periods of reading independently in our Room 6 reading class. 

We get to choose from a range of picture books or chapter books and can read our group journals too. At the moment we are still practicing staying focused and settled for 5 minutes.

Continents and Countries

We are learning about countries and continents. We needed to find countries in an atlas then we needed to find and label them on our own world map.

Kody and Lennox working very hard on their reading. Some great decoding boys!

Writing time

Jamie, Tom and Nicolas are working hard to complete a factual piece of writing about trees! We have been learning the difference between a fact and an opinion. Keep up the great work! 

Map labelling

Another group working really hard to get all the countries labelled correctly. Good work girls!

Sophia and Ella

Sophia and Ella working hard to find all kinds of different countries in the atlas! 

Continents of the World

We are matching the continents on the world map to their names in our poem. We have our awesome Ako Ngatahi buddies to help us.