Room 4 Halcombe School: March 2013

Thursday, 28 March 2013

TE REO KORI ROTATION 1

Today the senior school started a te reo kori rotation. This is when each class explores a different activity with one of the senior teachers.
Room 4's first activity was skipping with Miss Humphrey.

A group of children made Paraora Parai - fried bread. The children had to carefully read the recipe, problem solve and use their initiative. Can anyone comment on this post to explain why this group of children did baking today?

Bread on PhotoPeach

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

HONGI PRACTICE

Room 4 learnt how to do the hongi. It was great to see everyone trying their best and showing respect.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

TECH CHALLENGE

Today we completed our very first Technology Challenge. Our task was to work in a team to build the tallest tower we could. The criteria for the tower was:

must be able to be moved around.
must be able to stand up by itself.
use the correct equipment: scissors, 1 newspaper, 1 roll of sellotape and 5 straws.
be a good team member.

The first thing we had to do was plan our tower. We talked about our ideas and drew a plan:

Then we had 30 minutes to build our towers. Most teams managed to make their towers stand up, but there were one or two 'epic fails'. Congratulations to Heath and Sophie, their tower was the tallest! Well done you two!

Sunday, 24 March 2013

GEOMETRY WEEK 9

This week we are going to explore geometry with extra maths sites to help us with our learning.

Day	Website Link
Monday	Symmetry
Tuesday	Rotational Symmetry
Wednesday	Transformations
Thursday	Tessellations

Find each website on the Maths side bar.

Have fun learning!

Friday, 22 March 2013

CIRCLES MATHS LEARNING

Today we were learning about reflection and symmetry.

We found out it is a lot of fun to do play reflection games in pairs.

While learning about symmetry we used our handy Mobi pad to help us show our understanding. We really enjoyed using this tool on the big screen.

The Circles maths group now think they will get 100% correct in their Mathletics symmetry task this weekend. Good luck!

PMI FOR WEEK 8

Room 4 has done a PMI (positive, minus and interesting) about our week.

P	M	I
· We have listened really carefully. · We got our gala writing published. · We have been trying our best. · We have made our teacher proud of us this week by working hard. · We solved the “Guess your number” site. · Most of us meet our deadlines for reading activities and writing this week. · We have completed our hand art. · We can connect our learning of reflection with symmetry. · Senior school singing battle was great fun. · In rainbow reading we now get ourselves organised just before morning tea.	· Three people didn’t quite meet their deadlines. · Miss Campbell started her week off sick with the flu. · The boys in the Halcombe touch team are disappointed that they didn’t make the finals for the season. · Rain has not been in a gentle consistent flow for the farms. · We needed to have a “keep focused” chat on Tuesday. · We miss the pool being open to help us cool down and keep refreshed.	· We are learning names in Te Reo like mokopuna means grandchild. · We now know it is important to write one thing with the best detail. · We now understand the serious concern of the drought. · Logan found it interesting to publish his work in a shape on the computer. · We can find sources of reflection all around the room.

HAND ART

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on this hand art with Miss Simpson.

WALT:

· Blend pastels together eg. dark blue and light blue, or red and pink.

· Take special care with our pastel work eg. don’t go over the vivid lines.

· Choose lovely, bright colours.

First we had to work with a partner to trace around our forearms:

Next we had to create an original design for our hands. After that, we traced around our pencil marks with black vivid. Colouring the designs with pastel was challenging, but we worked hard and are very proud of our finished products. Check it out!