Sasa Practice

We have been practising the School Sasa everyday in Room 8. Today we started learning the last part, check out these clever, coordinated cookies! We need to fix up some of our kupu (words) but our beat is nearly spot on!

We are all very excited for Polyfest in Week 6!

Ko Pokatu mātou - AUE!

Writing in Room 8

Wow! I am so impressed with all of our descriptive writing! All of us have been working on a moment in time piece and we finally got to publish them yesterday.

Earlier in the term we were learning about the rule of thirds in photography. We each chose something to photograph using this photography rule. We all chose something non-living/non-human to photograph, which meant we had to use lots of personification in our writing.

When you are reading our booklets, open one tab at a time and see if you can guess what we are. Maecy shared her published writing with her mum yesterday and she was able to guess what Maecy was while reading the second tab! Well done Maecy! Our photos are in the middle of our booklets so you can see them as you open up the last tab (some of our photos went missing after we were given new iPads so we have used photos from google images).


Personification: giving human or human-like characteristics to something non-human e.g. The autumn leaves danced across the damp grass.

Below are photos of some outstanding examples produced by: Connor, Logan, Maecy and Jackson. Ka pai koutou! 

Compound Sentences

WALT use conjunctions to join two simple sentences together. This is called a compound sentence! Ask us about our action/word combination we have made up to help us remember.

Today we worked in groups to identify the verb and subject in each simple sentence and then joined them together to make compound sentences.

Check us out!

Connor, Cody and Brooke wrote a really cool compound sentence that had the conjunction at the beginning. Clever cookies! The sentence isn't shown in the picture below but this is what it said:
As the mud stuck to his face, the boy laughed because it flew everywhere.

Outstanding Work 18/2/16

Check out this amazing work! Well done Connor, you worked so well and put in lots of effort! RERE would be so proud!

We were learning the Māori names for:
Mountain: Maunga
Hill: Puke
River: Awa
Lake: Roto
Ocean/Sea: Moana
Canoe: Waka
Tribe: Iwi
Sub-tribe: Hapū

We have already talked to our families about landmarks and water sources that are important to us and we will use this information to write our pēpehā (a way to introduce ourselves in Māori). This will link in to our 'take a dot for a walk' art.

*Excuse my lack of macron in tō (your)

WALT make 10

For homework this week, we are learning to make 10 in as many ways as possible. Today we learnt how to play the game Make 10. So far, three cards is the largest number of cards used to make 10. I wonder who will beat the record by the end of the week?

Check out some of our mathematicians learning to play this fun and competitive number knowledge game: