Weekend Homework

Friday the 28th of February..(Week 4)

For Inquiry today, we found useful information from the internet and printed it off. 

Our job, is to skim and scan for important information and key facts and highlight these. We can then use this information to help write our information reports. 

This weekend, children will need to highlight their information ready to start crafting our sentences and paragraphs for Monday morning. 

Tweet of the Week..

Who won Tweet of the week?

WE DID!

Ruma Iwa ARE Unstoppable and here is another example!
Well done to Grace for a thoughtful, positive answer. 

Well done to all of our Ruma Iwa for participating in our first kidedchatnz! 

We were safe, smart, and engaged in our learning. 

To learn more visit,

http://kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz

Thinglink for sharing adaption ideas!

Move the mouse over the image above to see some of the interesting adaptation facts we learnt!

And then, swipe over the icons. 

Love Ruma Iwa Scientists!

Animal Adaptions Game

Here's a link to a game we have been learning about

Animal Adaptations

Adaptation

Some examples we have already found:

- Jess says, "Flounders are camouflaged to blend into their surroundings."

- Sophie D says, "Cheetahs have amazing hearing to make it easier to catch their prey."

- Milly says, "A shark has a long, skinny body to move easier through the ocean."

- Josh C-N says, "A polar bear has fat so that it can stay extra warm in the cold."

- Neha says, "Cheetahs are fast so that they can catch their prey more easily."

- Sam says, "A hawk has special sight to catch it's prey."

- Zena says, "Polar bears have larger paws so they don't get frostbite."

- Jorden says, "Turtles has flippers to swim in the ocean more easily."

- Noah says, "Stone fish has a stone like body to blend in with the stone surroundings."

And Josh C-N added, "They have shells for protection."

We are smart, colourful cookies!

Research Begins

Today we were learning how to research because we are writing information reports about animal's associated with water. 

We learnt:

- to skim and scan to see if there is any useful information

- how to find trustworthy websites. 

- How to start our references and bibliography

- How to write information in our own words

- We have to be clear what we are searching for. The more specific you are in the search bar, the better information you get.

- Some of us learnt how to group our information into headings

- We learnt that advertisements pop up on our screens, we learnt to click out of them or ignore them. 

By Romana, Grace, Noah, Tino, Eliana, Sam and Al, and Sophie.D

Week 4 Maths Challenges

Answers:

1) Five corners (Depending on how you cut it) 

2) 36 elephants

Today during maths time, we had some perimeter and area challenges on the courts. 

Some of the challenger were:

- draw a octagon with a 8m perimeter

- draw a pentagon with a 5m perimeter

- draw a 12cm2 area rectangle

- draw a 25cm2 area square

Documentary Watching.

Some fabulous thoughts and ideas to think about in here. I love the focus on creativity. 

Children are naturally curious, so as teachers, we have to facilitate creativity and curiosity.

End of Week 3

Kiaora koutou,

Yesterday, we estimated how many meters it would take to walk to Benedicts. 

And then we actually figured it out! It’s approximately 215m. 

By the end of year 6, children must have an idea of how far a kilometre is.

This is a tricky idea! 

It would be a great idea to use the odometer in your car this weekend if you are driving anywhere to talk about how far you are travelling.

It’s always a good option to make an estimate first. 

Next week, we will be continuing with measurement and report writing. We will be continuing to skim and scan for important information and summarise main ideas.

We’ve had a great afternoon looking at interesting sea creatures and brainstorming information report ideas!

Enjoy measuring,

Have a safe and happy weekend,

Miss Matich

Here are some of our learning photos from this week! They feature some of our buddies, some discovery group time, measurement and Inquiry learning. 

Enjoy!

Twitter-Thursday

Yesterday, in class, we shared some of our Inquiry knowledge with other classes. We tweeted some of our favourite facts. 

We also tweeted Mrs Cavanagh so we can start to see how Twitter works. We have been having a lot of discussions around if you need to tweet someone you see and also is there is point to what we are saying. We have been looking at other classes on Twitter and following their learning journeys as well. It was awesome to see some children at Koraunui school being Maths pirates. We are hoping to join them in a maths challenge one day.

Miss Matich 

Measuring pace and distance.

Over the past two days we have been measuring our pace. We had to walk and run 10 steps and then we had to measure our distance. Before we measured our pace we estimated what our answer might be.

By Al and Soph.D

Maths Problems

Doing maths problems with words is a lot harder than solving maths problems with just numbers. So, we do two a week to practice! These are apart of our homework programme. These are handed out on a Monday (sometimes a Tuesday if Miss Matich is sleepy, or we have too much work on a Monday) and come back the following Monday. An awesome way to solve the problems is working together as a family and asking our parents to solve them with us. I wonder who is smarter than their parents? Maths problems are a great homework challenge. 

Enjoy...

Answers:

Milly figured out that every 6th lantern would be yellow. Therefore, because 6x6 equal 36, the 36th lantern would be yellow, so the 40th would be blue!! 

Zach figured out that 7 and 2 make 9, 6 and 3 make 9 and 5 and 4 make 9. Therefore if the middle number is 1, the other numbers make 10 together!

Mammals

We have been learning about classifying animals. We made some posters all about mammals with Mr Kay last week. A mammal is one type of classification that scientists use. Come into Room 9 to check our posters out. 

Interesting facts about mammals:

-     A platypus lays eggs even though it’s a mammal.

-     Male Platypus’s are venomous.

-     A common wombat baby weighs 1 gram, which is the same as two peanuts.

-     Wolf pups are born blind and deaf. They are also born with blue eyes but they change.

-     Koalas use to be killed for food in Australia.

-     A bat can have babies from 1 years of age.

-     A baby panda can be 4cm – 6cm when it’s born.
-    Cheetahs can weigh up to 36 - 64kg. Their top speed is 114km per hour. WOW! 

-     A newborn red kangaroo is 2cm long, the size of a jellybean.

We are Scientists who classify!

This week, we have been learning to classify animals. We have been scientists! We have learnt that classify means to group similar items. 

Some groups of animals we were classifying were Echnoderms, Mammals, Birds, Mollusc, Crustacean and Fish. 

Next week we will be learning more about their features and what specific characteristics they classify by. 

Our Introductions

We are writing to V3 at Island bay school. They are going to be our pen pals :) Their teacher's name is Caitlin and she is Miss Matich's friend. They learnt how to be teachers together!

 V3 are also a bunch of 26 year 5/6 students. How cool!

We're a perfect match. 

Hi, my name is Zena and I am 9 years old. I like drawing, touch rugby, swimming, Hello Kitty. I love playing Minecraft and animal jam on the computer.

Hi, my name is Sophie and I am 10 years old. I love drawing and dancing, also singing. I also like going on the computer and I am the youngest in my family. I have one big brother.

Hi, my name is Josh and I am 10 years old. I am tall, I like sports such a rugby, football and basketball. I am the youngest in my family, I have phone and I also love hiking.

Hi, my name is Zach. I am 10 and I have two brothers and two sisters. I am the middle child. I like jogging, playing with my lego, maths, cycling and kapahaka.

Kiaora, my name is Tino. I’m 10 and I have two pet fish and as amphibian. My hobbies are kapahaka, running, biking, karate, free running, and swimming. I am a year 6 and above all I love singing.

Hi, My name is Eliana. I’m 9 and I have a really big family. I am the youngest and I love archery, netball, cooking, swimming and drawing. I am a year 5 and I love singing too.

Hi, my name is Noah and I’m 9 years old. I like swimming, sprinting, high jump and I’m great at athletics, maths and reading. I also like playing on my iPod touch.

Kiaora, my name is Tauvaga and I am 9 years old. I have a family of 7. My hobbies are swimming, rugby, soccer, basketball and running. I’m good at minecraft and I’m a year 5.

Kiaora, I am Sharna and I am turning 10 soon. I am good at kapahaka. I make earrings. I like netball and my favourite colour is blue. I have 1 brother. I am a fast running and I’m fun to be around. I am caring to others. I am a year 5 and I cannot wait to meet V3.

Hi, my name is Prishanti. I am a girl in a family of 8. I am 10 and I’m very sporty. I love sprints, netball, swimming, cycling and heaps more. I also love drawing, shopping and scootering. Also cartwheels. My favourite food is butter chicken and I hate dresses. I am a year 6 and I’m very excited to be your penpal.

Hi, I’m Milly and I am a 10 year old year 6 girl. I have one little brother. My hobbies are cross country running, writing, doing cartwheels, netball and any sport. My favourite is cross country running. My favourite thing in the world is my family, friends and my cute dog Fern.

Kiaora, My name is Sophie and I am 9 years old, which is a year 5. My family says I’m tall for a 9 year old. My thing is sport! I basically like all sports, but I don’t get to play all of the sports because my family say I can only play a certain amount. I think I am good at sport. My favourite colour is orange. My hobbies are netball, cooking, bike riding, swimming, soccer, drawing, surfing, tramping, running and I’m so excited to get a penpal.

Kiaora, my name is Ashleigh and I’m 10. I have two families; I have a 7 year old sister. I love netball, tennis and karate. I love reading and writing. I spend most of my time writing stories and songs. I have been on a plane, lots of time and I have travelled all over New Zealand. I love ipads and ipods. I love nature and animals and playing lots of sports. I play guitar and I like to play minecraft. I also do ballet and jazz. I cannot wait to be your penpal.

Hi, my name is Romana. I am 9 years old. In my family I have five people. My hobbies are reading, writing, and drawing. I started playing tennis last year.

Kiaora, my name is Daniel. I am 9 and I am sporty. My hobbies are basketball, swimming, baking, and soccer.

Kiaora, my name is Aleezio and I am 10 years old. I am the oldest kid in my family. I like soccer and minecraft, sports, lollies, maths and baking.

Kiaora, my name is Al. I am a year 6 student who is 10 years old. I love playing netball and tennis. I love school and I never want to miss a single day. I love every single subject but I love Literacy the most. My favourite hobbies are swimming, playing board games and writing in my spare time. My favourite type of food is raw onion by itself, not cooked.

Kiaora, my name is Neha and I am a year 6 student. I am 10 years old and I am the only child in my family. I was born in America and have been in New Zealand for three years. My hobbies are running, basketball, tennis, and lots more sports!

I am not good at my studies that much. I love to do lots of art and karate and I love nature.

Hi, I’m Grace and I love music, reading, writing and daydreaming. I am 10 years old and a year 6. My thing is baking. In fact, I can make cupcakes with blue icing. I love drawing comics J

My name is Egan and I am ten years old. I love minecraft. I am a year 6. I love sports and lollies.

Hello, my name is Jessica and I love animals. My hobbies are feeding all 5 of my pets, three chickens and two cats. Tapping my heel is one of habits. Another thing I am awesome at are Maths and Spelling, and I love playing Terraria.

Hello! My name is Joshua and I am 9 years old. My hobbies are science, tech and music. I’ve never really liked sport. Technology is my thing. That’s the thing I like best!

Kiaora! My name is Samantha and I am a 10 year old year 6 student. I am the middle child in my family, and one of the smallest in the class. In school I look forward to reading, maths and Inquiry. When I have free time I draw, play minecraft or read a long chapter book. It’s exciting that you guys are our pen pals J

Hi, my name is Max and I am 9 years old. I am the oldest child in my family and I love every sport. My hobbies are sports, tech and I like Maths. I am very competitive and I am a year 5.

Kiaora! My name is Jorden and I am a girl! I’m 8 and the middle child. My hobbies are karate, watching TV, and reading, writing, horse riding, spending time with my older sister.

Kiaora! My name is Jiya. I am 8 years old and I am a year 5. I have a family of 7 and I am the oldest child. My hobbies are sports, art, playing on my dad’s ipad, buying clothes with my little sister and watching TV and reading. I have heaps of hobbies!