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Friday, 29 August 2014

ZOOM

We looked at the book Zoom by Istvan Banyai.  It is a book with no words were each picture 'ZOOM's' out from the one before.  We then had a go at making our own Zoom books, check out Noah's below.  The are on display in the corridor outside of our classroom, come in and take a look.







Cross Country Fun Run

We had a great afternoon running at our School Cross-Country Fun Run.  Next our fast runners are off to the inter school cross country to represent Opunake Primary School.


Friday, 22 August 2014

Curtis our Marvellous Caretaker!!





For writing this term we have been working towards writing Narratives (fiction stories).  To lead up to this we have been learning to write character descriptions.  We have been learning to not only describe what a character looks like but give detail about their sayings, actions and where they can be found. One of the descriptions we wrote was about our great friend Curtis, our school caretaker.  The photos show the process we have gone through to not only write our wonderful descriptions but also how we presenting them on a 'Shelf Diorama.'  Add a comment, let us know what you think of our descriptions!






"Where can you found Curtis on a summer day? On his lawnmower, mowing the field for a rugby game."
- Charlie

"When I walk by Curtis he always and I mean always greets me with a “Hey Daragh, how are you doing?” and I always say “I’m good, yourself?” Then he smiles at me, that brightens up my day.
- Daragh

"Curtis is as tall as when I get a shoulder ride on my brothers shoulders.  Those old brown work boots of his scurry around wherever they can while those wrinkly stained hands carry something heavy and dirty."
- Dinah




"Curtis is our caretaker at our school.  His hands are so wrinkly, it’s like he's been in the swimming pool for hours!  His eyes are like big brown puppy dog eyes, that shine in the sunlight."
- Jonah

"Curtis has a hairy face and wrinkly hands. His hands are dirty from working hard 
around the school. He wears gum boots. We can here his lawnmower; chop, chop, 
chop, chop! The grass flies out of the chopper, he has his ear muffs on his head 
and has a big smile on his face."

- Kaiden









Monday, 11 August 2014

Storyboards




Today we explored plays from school journals.  After choosing a play that we like we set about creating story boards, maybe these will turn into a movie that we will enter into the MOA Awards.







Sunday, 27 July 2014

Homework

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone had a great weekend, it was good to get outside into the sunshine on Sunday afternoon and do a few jobs outside.  New homework for the week is up on the homework page.  Please keep checking in on our Blog site.  Have a great week.

Regards,
Andrew 

Thursday, 24 July 2014

Ki-o-Rahi Rm 11 v Rm 14

Last term, as part of Room 11's Inquiry into Matariki they had been learning to play the traditional Maori game of Ki-o-Rahi based on the story of Rahi and the Patupaiarehe.  Room 11 taught us the game, unfortunately they were too good for us this time, but now we know how to play the game I am sure we will give them a better run for their money next time we play, because 'Everything is awesome
Everything is cool when you're part of a team!'


We have started a new topic for Mathematics about Fractions.  
Today we talked about because we knew... 

1/2 of 10=5 we also knew...

1/2 of 30=15     1/2 of 6=3     1/2 of 12=6     1/2 of 18=9     


   1/2 of 20 = 10                      1/2 of 100 = 50
   1/2 of 40 = 20                      1/2 of 1 000 = 500
   1/2 of 80 = 40                      1/2 of 10 000 = 5 000
 1/2 of 160 = 80                      1/2 of 100 000 = 50 000
 1/2 of 320 = 160                    1/2 of 1 000 000 = 500 000...
 1/2 of 640 = 320
1/2 of 1 280 = 640
1/2 of 2 560 = 1 280...

1/4 of 10 = 2.5     1/2 of 10 = 5     3/4 of 10 = 7.5 so...

1/4 of 1 = 0.25     1/2 of 1 = 0.5     3/4 of 1 = 0.75

Sunday, 20 July 2014

Welcome back to Term 3

Hi everyone, welcome back to Term 3.  As always we have a lot planned for this term.  We will be hitting the ground running with Fractions, Decimals and Percentages for Mathematics.  We will be doing some creative writing pieces, looking forward in time to what we think we will be like in 30, 50 years time.  

Homework for Week 1 is on the page above.

Monday, 14 July 2014

Open Day

I hope everyone is having a great holiday.  I have uploaded 
a lot of our work from Open Day onto a new page.  Click on 
the page link above: 'Open Day Term 2 2014' to have a 
good look at the work we created.  

Again a special thanks to Anita who helped us a lot with our work during the term.



 

Have a look at our video of our 'Open Day' work!

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Welcome to Opunake Primary School Open Day.

Room 14 Inquiry Project

During our Reading and Inquiry activities we looked through a lot of information about the ANZAC’s and their campaign at Gallipoli.  

Click on the link below to not only take a look at all of the information that we discovered, but how we went about finding, sorting and presenting information.