Term 2 Week 3

This week Wonderous One has been making paper planes. For maths we have been measuring how far our paper planes have gone. We have been learning about metres and centimetres. Wonderous One has been learning about space. Our big questions is, HOW IS THE EARTH DIFFERENT FROM THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE? For PE we have been learning about basketball. We were learning how to dribble.

H.A and A.F

Term2 Week2

You would have smelt the delicious aroma of choclate if you visited us on Monday. We followed the instructions for making milo that we wrote as part of our procedural writing unit. They were all delicious with a few interesting additions like grated chocolate and mini marshmellows.We realised that instructions have to be clear and specific! A couple of groups couldn't stir their milos because it wasn't in the instructions.

We have been working hard on inquiry and have chosen our bir question;

How is the earth different from the rest of the universe?
First we have to find ourt what is in the universe. We'll keep you posted.

Great weather on Friday so we could have our winter sports rotation. groups played soccer, hockey, basketball and netball.
We've had a great week

Term 2 Week 1

This week Wonderous One started to learn about space and wrote what we wanted to learn on a piece of paper. After that we cut out the questions and glued them onto a blank white piece of paper to organise them under headings. We started doing dear diary writing to write our own stories in our own books. Also we started to do some new Te reo. We are learning to ask the days of the week.

Ko te aha tenei ra?

Ko Ramere tenei ra.

At first only about 2 or 3 people said it but now nearly everyone wants to do it. It was a very busy week of spelling lists, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 of them but some people wanted to do list 8! But that's not all Mrs Hill decided to write the ingredients for how to make a milo because we are doing procedural writing. Some did really good. Some didn't do enough on the piece of paper. Next week we are going to use our instructions to make real milos. Last of all we started to do soccer skills for P.E.

S.J. A.H.

The end of term one

It is the last day of term one and we have been remembering some of the things we have done this term; new friends , class picnic, school council speeches, collage, young leaders, triathlon, duathlon, swimming sports, lido swim, wonder wall, The Iron Man novel,The Iron giant movie, assemblies, Hoopla, ripper rugby, Mascot challenge, Miss Mcleay, RE assembly, making bread, tabloid sports, Mrs Eccles art, the blog, new computer programmes, cultural celebration performance, red and black day, chopstick challenge, WISE, our square visit, sir Peter Blake award speeches... Wow! what a busy term we've had. We can't wait for term 2.

Splash ! All the year 5 girls have hit the water. That was the beginning of a fabulous swimming sports today. The seniors from CNS all went to the Lido today for our swimming sports and an afternoon of fun swimming. We even had the sumo king up for a bit of water wrestling. It was heaps of fun.

Week 6 Term 1

This week we have been writing stories describing monsters. During the week we went on "build yourwildself.com' and created our own personsal monster. We have just started writing about what would happen if we met them.

On Friday we went into the hall for a red and black parade for the Christchurch earthquake. One person in our class won a best dressed prize. Our class raised $33.10 for the earthquake appeal. Well done room 1.

We had some special visitors in our class this week from the Ministry of education. We think they must have been very impresseed with our learning. They really enjoyed speaking to us about our learning.

Term 1 Weeks 4 and 5

Wonderous One has had an excellent last couple of weeks. We scored the most points in the school on World Maths Day 3400.
JL scored the most of any individual in the school with over 1300 points.
We also won the Principals award at assembly last Tuesday and got the large box of WISE games for the week!
We have spent a lot of time unpacking what WISE means in our classroom and around the school.

Childrens spelling lists are now also on this blog page. If you look down the right hand side of the page you will see the link. Just click on this and it will take you to the site where the spelling list for this week is. It also links to games and activities that use the spelling words.

It is great to see that we have now had more than 200 visits to our blogpage. We are still waiting for our first overseas visitor!
Please remember that you can also visit
www.matanginui.wikispaces.com to access links to a whole range of Maths and literacy resources.