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Loads of online activities here

test your division facts

Sharing Equally

Here are some flash cards... Are you ready?

Our Assembly take two!

Our chance to share with our families and school what we have been learning.

Peace Week

During Peace Week PAKURAKURA read why we are making origami cranes.

This is a famous story called Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

As a class we asked interesting questions as we listened to the first four chapters.

We spoke about how we can stop conflict in our own lives, whether this is at school, at home, with friends or family.  So next time your Mum asks you to tidy your room, don't cause conflict, be peaceful and go and do it!  Mum will love that! :-)

LC 10 goes SOLO

Watching Youtube helped us understand WHAT SOLO is and HOW to use it effectively and the most important WHY we are using SOLO in LC 10.

WALT use SOLO taxonomy to help us talk about our learning.  Using criteria or learning intentions we placed ourselves on the SOLO continuum. After learning what makes a GREAT photo we shared why we were at that stage. 

We are multi structural because we know what makes a GREAT photo, but we don't always take GREAT photos. 

We are relational because we know what makes a GREAT photo and we take GREAT photos. 

We are extended abstract because we know what makes a GREAT photo, we take GREAT photos, but we also can use our newly found skills to edit, email, export into other apps and can take a range of photos, i.e. action shots.

Matariki

Matariki, the Maori New Year is fast approaching and we wanted to learn more about what it means and represents.

During Matariki the moon is what we call a Full Moon.  This video explains the different phases of the moon and how we never get to see all of the moon, only one half.

The full moon is important to Maori people because that is when they traditionally sow seeds getting ready for the upcoming season.

Unsure how to pronounce the constellation that we call Matariki?

What have you learnt from watching these videos?  Tell us below in the comment section.  

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)

Dinosaur Inquiry

Over the past weeks the KIWI team have been learning about dinosaurs.  We have discovered this site that helped us learn if dinosaurs were herbivores or carnivores (or our new names we came up with meat o saurus and plant o saurus).  Come and play Dinosaur appetite

This Dinosaur song was a favourite!  We loved acting out the song using our own moves.

Samantha and Caleb 

George and Isabel

Nikita and Bode playing dinosaur appetite

Brooklyn and George designing their own dinosaur

Asher and Isabel getting a question correct

Harrison and Caleb painting a Jurassic picture 

Jacob and Joe building their own dinosaur

Ask Samantha wether a Triceratops is a meat eater or a plant eater

Foot bone is connected to ...

We will be learning about Dinosaurs soon and I thought it would be fun to learn about our own skeletons.  Here are some stories we wrote about a time we went to hospital and get x -rays.

I went to the hospital to see my Mum and my baby sister Claudia.
By Jacob

I went to the hospital because I hurt my chin on the dogs kennel.
By Nikita

I went to hospital because I had a sore tummy. They put a needle into both my hands.
By Samantha

I went to the hospital to get a stitch in my hand.
By Joe

I went to the hospital and I got a needle in my arm.  It was for a blood test.
By Brooklyn

An xray of the chest

X-rays of a jaw, knee and elbow

An xray of a skull

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

I shared one of my favourite books with the class today, called Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.

This was also our first poem that we learnt.

Our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree