WWI

This great website has an arrange of resources from radio clips, poems, photos and stories what life was like during WWI

WWI resources.

Meeblings

Online Physics Games

Mum you're the BEST

The moment you all have been waiting for, our Mum poems are finally finished.

Here are some lovely photos of us with our Mum's and scrumptious chocolate mug cake

Amelia making something special for her Mum 

Did you make enough for Ethan and Fergus Amelia?

That's my favourite part of baking too!

Looks delish Amelia

Looking cute in your jim jams Lucy, did you leave any for Mum?

Joshua likes his with sprinkles

That looks perfect Joshua

Dance Mat

Typing skills
A fun and interactive site that builds touch typing skills.
dance mat

How did you go?

What makes a GREAT photo?

Today we learnt how to take a photo and what makes a GREAT photo.  Here are some of our photos.  Can you tell us what makes the photo GREAT?  When commenting

• say who is in the photo you are commenting on
• what makes it a GREAT photo?  (refer to our chart in class if you forget)
• what could they do next time to make it a GREAT photo?
• leave your name 

WALT (we are learning to)

In Maths we need the children to learn knowledge and strategy.  Knowledge is about numbers, i.e. counting forwards and backwards, skip counting, ordering numbering, knowing about place value, what comes after and what comes before.

Here are our next steps for each stage that your child is learning.
Addition and Subtraction progressions  (let me know if this link doesn't work)

And the other part of maths is strategy, how your child solves addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems.

This can also be found at the back of your child's test book.
Next steps

Spelling

Here is a great website to practice your weekly spelling. The activities help to reinforce (fancy word for practice) in a fun and interactive way.

You will need your spelling list so you can type the words correctly.

spelling

Bertie the Butterfly

We have a new face in LC 10, his name is Bertie the Butterfly.  He is here to help us understand "What makes a GREAT butterfly garden."  He also has a few friends we might get to meet along the way.

Have you got any questions for Bertie?  Don't forget to leave your name so he can reply to you.

   
Bertie tells us that he is a part of a special group of animals called pollinators.  What do you think Bertie does to be a pollinator and how is he important for our gardens? Do you know any other animals that are pollinators?

Ruby

Thursday May 20/14 my Hollday

1 This is my Granma's dog called Ruby.

2 She kisses me every morning.

3 She is black.

4 Ruby is a Giant Schnauzer.

5 She likes having her ear scratched  

6 Ruby is as tall as my belly button.

7 Her hair is so long you can't see her eyes.

8 Her tall wags a lot.

9 Ruby has a boy friend called Griffon.

By Sam

Walkathon

192 laps was LC 10's combined effort! We had a great time chatting away to our friends, singing songs and of course trying to evade the Zombies on Mrs P's Run Zombie app.  

We were walking up a storm and here are our highlights. 

My highlight was walking with so many children who were trying to walk as many laps as they could, what great self believers you are LC 10!

Mrs P

PS Even though we got caught a few times by those rascally Zombies we collected so many supplies to build our township.  : )

I didn't like the Walkathlon because I got tired legs. I  only did 9 laps. I was happy when it was over.by Leila.

The Walkathlon was so long  my legs where so sore i refused to get out of bed the next morning, but i had  an amazing time. by jennifer

At the walkathon i did 9 laps around Westview Crescent and it was really fun walking with my friends. by Dallas

I liked the walkathon  because my friends were encouraging me. I like the walkathon because my friends were walking with me.

By Jax and Anastasia

What I liked about the walkathon was  Dad was cheering  me on and he kept me going.
By rhys

On Wednesday it was the Walkathlon. People walked passed but LC10 gave me a hi five. I did not do it because I had a broken leg
By Lucy

On Wednesday it was the Walkathlon and it was my first time and I did 9 laps. When it was over  we went to the class and after that we went home.

By James

The Walkathlon was tiring  but it was good to work with my friends.
By Brody

What I liked about the walkathon was walking with my Dad because he kept me going.

By Joshua

On  Wednesday  West Melton school had a walkathon. We did 8 and 9 Lap's
By Liam and Cushlagh.

What I liked about the walkathon was Dad was cheering me on he kept me going.
By rhys

I thought I would only do 5 lap's but I did 11 lap's
By Lilly

Our wonderings

Trying something a little bit different, recording our wonderings about our Butterfly gardens instead of writing them.  We used Youtube as part of our immersion and we got so many ideas and have so many wonderings.  Have you got any wonderings about butterfly gardens?

We are Entomologists

Is this a butterfly or a moth? How can you tell? 

Have a look here to see if it is a butterfly or a moth.

This is a Painted Lady Butterfly.  I just love her eyes, they are so big but still very delicate.  I wonder what flowers she likes to drink nectar from?

Yesterday at Lachlan's building site he found this insect which he thinks is a Katydid or NZ Bush Cricket (thanks Google).  Have you ever seen anything like this before?  

Coming back from our singing we saw this sunbathing out by our class.  Do you know what it could be?  Look at it's bulging eyes!

Hmmm does anyone know what kind of animal this is?

What strange looking animals these are!

ANZAC

This website has a great reenactment of an Australian submarine used to try and capture a vital shipping route for their allies, the Russians.  Share your thoughts in the comments.  Remember about what makes a great blog comment.

Australian submarine Animation

This website has games, activities, songs, videos and reenactments.  It's a great interactive site.
ANZAC videos and photographs

This site blows me away, I feel like I have been transported back in time to Gallipoli in 1915.  The graphics kept me captivated while learning the logistics of the ANZAC's landing.
Hopefully like myself you get to appreciate the how difficult the ANZAC's campaign was and gain a new appreciation of what they did for our countries.
3D reenactment

News from LC 10

Never lose another LC 10 newsletter again.  All the terms happenings in an easy location.
I have used google drive and I have enabled comments.  Let me know if you have trouble viewing the newsletters.

Term 1 newsletter

Term 2 newsletter

Term 3 newsletter

Because we're HAPPPPPY!

ahahahahahahahahahahahaha Having a bit of fun

Check out the video here

Here's another starring an unlikely dancer, can you spot him?

To view another one click here

Our Youtube video we earned for being RESPECTFUL learners 

A cat that swims!! And that loves dogs!! And they are all H A P P Y!!

Here is Cushlagh and her family starring in their very own Happy video as well!

And if the catchy tune hasn't got stuck in your head here are the lyrics (and our future poem)

Our wild selves

After making our Where the Wild things art to go with our If I was King/Queen of the Wild Things pieces of writing we had a go at making and building our own, Where the Wild things are. This neat online activity had a small group of children become experts that taught the rest of the class. Check out our wild ourselves Build yourself Wild on PhotoPeach

3 Kahuku

Popped into school today and found we had 3 Monarchs bathing in the sun. 2 were recently hatched and one was very content hanging onto KC kid pictures. 

I have also recently found out the Maori name for Monarch is Kahuku (u is pronounced like oo) 

I didn't get any photos as Mrs Busch's children Lachie and Kenzie let them go outside after they had fed them. Jessie McKee also helped. 

There's three more chrysalis' hanging about on the plant. 

I'm afraid this one might not hatch. I noticed the 'gold flecks' were down below and not on top like the others. 

You can see them just at the tip. 

Camp Movie

LC 10 helped make a movie about camp, using an app called imovie.  It was our first time using it and we can't wait to use it again.