Unisys Kidz Connect

In May,I was lucky enough to receive a Unisys Kidz Connect grant. We are going to use it to help us make daily news reports. Keep visiting to see our progress. If you look at the labels you will find some posts to show some of the things we have learned about news already.

Paper Mache Bowls

Here are some of our paper mache bowls. Leave a comment to let us know what you think.
Come in to school to see the rest.

Hi Abigail,

How are you? It is great to hear from you. It sounds like it is really hot over there. That is 36 degrees celsius. Today we are expecting a high of 7!! It is also meant to snow!
What other things have you been doing?
We have been learning about voice threads and for art we have been making some paper mache bowls. We will put some photos on the blog when they are finished.
Did you see the photos of the snow we had a few weeks ago? It was really cold.
We are still doing our kiwiphonics and maths cross grouping. We had cross country and Maddie has made a cardboard Abigail!
We have been learning about news because we are going to make our own news broadcasts.
Last week we had auditions for our musical next term. We haven't decided on the main parts yet though. Room 2 are running assembly on Friday. We are looking forward to it.
Keep in touch.
We miss you!

Maths Voice Thread

Maths Challenge

Complete a family of facts for these problems:

5 x 6 =

7 x 4 =

If 3 x 6 = 18

What does

3 x 60 =
3 x 61 =

News Voice Thread

News

Mr O'Neill gave us some story ideas. We had to decide which would be the most interesting to our audience. We brainstormed some ideas for news and places to get news from.

News

In the weekend I got a Rabit.The Rabits name is Bunny it is. We got from the Pet Shop. We got it some food it eats Musle and vegbuls.
He livesin the dog kenil it dose. we got it a water bottle that go's
on the kenil.Bunny it a Shan pain color . It is a bright soret of color that is a good one. At thepet shop he keped Juping heps he did.
We got a toy for hem. He is only 12 weeks old that is three mothes old. He is a good boy. I got to hold Bunny it was fun it was indid
We made a litte house of cubored.

In the weekend we put up our keep out tent and our doggy tent. Next we played in them for ten minutes. Later we painted the garge dark blue and then we fed the ducks. After that we had bacan and egg pie for tea. The next day we went to pacen save and bought fruit.

Our first voice thread attempt

Reminder

Don't forget to bring back the blog questionnaire on Monday!

Shadow Forest

Room 2 have just finished reading Shadow Forest. It was a great book!!
Visit the Shadow Forest website here.

Post a comment to share your favourite part of the book.

Wetland Questions

1. What do New Zealand coastal birds like to eat? (What are some NZ coastal birds that live in our local area and what do they eat
2. What native plants grow well in wetland conditions?

3. What can we do to keep wildlife safe in our local wetlands?

Brooke's Snow Photo

Today was the cross country at Ashbury Park. Post a comment to let us know how you thought the cross country was.

The school with snow.

Snow

Daniel's snow picture. Post a comment Daniel to tell us about it.

Family of Facts

Make a family of facts with the following problems:
3 x 4 =

5 x 3 =

6 x 3 =

Tessellations

Hamish, Ke-arn, Kees made a tessellating pattern.
What shapes will not tessellate?

Questions

Room 2 have been learning about asking good questions.

We are thinking about questions we could ask to help us increase the amount of wildlife at the Washdyke Lagoon.

Post some of your questions below Room 2.

Snow

Hi Room 2,isn't the snow exciting!!!
I hope you are all warm inside. Aidan, good to see you tried the Ecan site to learn about the wetlands. Today would be a great day to sit some lexile tests. Email me if you need your username and password. If you email me any photos or poems about the snow, I will post them on the blog. sk@waimataitai.school.nz.

Have fun!

Daniel and Emily A, great to see you have visit the ECan link I posted below to learn about the wetlands. There is lots of information there.

I hope you have all be training for the Cross Country on Tuesday.
It would be great if there are some parents available to walk to and from Ashbury Park with us. Let me know if you can.

we have traning for cross cuntry.At math we have been doing crossgroping today we had the cow.Today first we did SSR then we did reading and handwring.Now we are doing topic and after we are doing bloging.

we have been training for cross country. I have been coming first and I have had lots of fun. In coss grouping math today in room15 we played on the cows and we went on learning caves. It was fun bye bye.

go the crusaders!!!!!

On Saturday the 30th of may the Crusaders had a hard game against the Waratahs at AMI Stadium. There was more turnovers than tries which was annoying. The final score was 20-12 to the crusaders and bye to Robbie Deans.
GO THE CRUSADERS

Leah it sounds like you are having a great weekend. I enjoyed watching some of the girls in the class play netball on Saturday. You are all playing really well together as a team. Does anyone know when Queen's birthday really is?