Kiwiana Shape Poems

We created these shape poems using Comic Life on the computers.  We had to brainstorm kiwiana language and then use the words to create a picture of a New Zealand icon.  Here are some of the finished poems.  We think they are CHOICE!

KIWI By Bella

 

 

NEW ZEALAND By Izaak

GUMBOOT By Jayla

KIWI By Lexus

RUGBY By Luke

 

 

NEW ZEALAND By Thinuka

 

NEW ZEALAND By Wilson

KIWI By Zoey

 

 

 

Watch this space for the rest of them!

Room 20 Goes Swimming!

Room20 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

Hexagons and Squares Maths

WALT: add more than 3 numbers together by first making pairs to 10 Here are Luke and Thinuka demonstrating the strategy they have been learning in class this week. Can you practice this at home? Post a comment with a new equation that you practiced at home and expalain how you solved it... e.g. 16 + 14 + 2 = I took the 4 off the 14 and made 16 into 20. So now I have 20 + 10 + 2 = 12

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Learning the Ukulele

Room 20 and 17 have begun learning the Ukulele this term. So far we have learnt 2 chords - C and C7. Here we are rocking out a number called Lime in da Coconut! Half of us are doing actions while the rest jam on the ukuleles. This is our first song and we are pretty stoked!

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Here are the boys...

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Writing

In Writing we are learning to RETELL. We have begun by reading familiar stories and retellng them. Here is Caitlyn's introduction to Maui and the Sun. What do you think she has done well?
MOV01833 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.

Writing

In Writing we are learning to RETELL.  We have begun by reading familiar stories and retellng them.  Here is Bella's introduction to Maui and the Sun.  What do you think she has done well?

MOV01832 from Kristin Mason on Vimeo.