Congratulations to Atanda Kiwara this weeks Champion!!

Our most recent Champion Leader award goes to Atanda Kiwara for always getting involved and helping others.  What a great end to the school year, Atanda.  Well done and keep up the good work!!

This weeks champion recipient

Congratulations to Ngaire Cassidy for being such an independent learner.  Well done Ngaire!!!!

Our learning site!

Kia ora everyone,

We now have a learning site to support the learning in class. This site has been created as a resource to support Room five students with their learning tasks. It will also help parents and caregivers to gain a better understanding of what is happening at school so you can help to reinforce the learning at home.

Here is the link:

https://sites.google.com/a/edmundhillary.school.nz/moira-s-site/

Learning goals for term 4 set

Kia ora whanau, Room 5 have reset their learning goals for term 4. Some students have found they are working on similar goals others have changed their goals completely. Here is an example. For more information on what your child is working on at school there are learning goals on display in our class. An electronic version will be sent to your child's email which they can also share with you at home.

Our inquiry topic this term is 'Culture'

What we have done so far.....we viewed a range of different Pacific and Maori art to incorporate into our pacific flower petals. This is how we are getting on so far. We used pencil to draw our patterns with a focus on detail. We then went over the patterns with black vivid. We photocopied our pattern 4 times and started dying the flower petals to inject some colour. We are in the final stages of arranging the flower and decorating it so it is 3 dimensional and stands out from the wall. Keep an eye out for our updates.

 

This weeks champion recipient

Our Champion this week is Amanda Fatai for always being self motivated to learn. Well done, Amanda!!!

Can we solve it?

Hi Room 5.

I have your drawing pins and I am holding them to Ransom.

You can have them back if you can estimate how many there are in the bag?

Oh and you have to tell me how you worked out your solution.

Here are two pictures to help your thinking.

Sorry Moira but I'm light fingered.

Roseena is our Champion this Week!

Well done to Roseena Fatai who has received this weeks Champion certificate for being caring and positive.

Counties Manukau Steelers Visit

Thanks Carol Goldsmith for organising the Counties Manukau Steelers to visit and we even had a game of tag with them! What a great start to a Monday!!

We are proud of our learning!

Champion Award Recipient for Week 5

Congratulations to this weeks Champion Leader in Room 5 'Fetuli Leone' for always working at his learning and refusing to give up. Thank you for being such a wonderful role model.

Champion Leader certificate!

The big idea we are incorporating into our learning is 'champions'. What does it mean to be a champion leader. This is a special certificate that will be awarded every fortnight to 1 special child in each class. A child who has not necessarily shown exemplary skills academically but has demonstrated a positive attitude or possesses a special set of qualities and values. We will be posting the lucky recipient online next Friday. Thank you to the wonderful people at KPMG for helping to design this certificate!!!

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Our learning goals for Term 3 are ready for class display!

These are some of the goals your child has set for themselves :-) You can extend the slide screen to read them.

Room 5 are learning to use sensory language in our writing!

Getting Ready to make our Term 3 Learning Goals!!!

Room 5 are getting ready to prepare their learning goals for Term 3 ! Heres an example !! We will add more goals, so keep a look out! Kia kaha tamariki ma !!!

We are learning about blogs

We are learning about what people put in their blogs.

We wrote some questions we have about blogging.
We looked at some blogs to get more information about what people blog about.

Us	What the post about and our Questions
Journey	I saw a  game poster and it was about how you can make things  in many different ways. My question How do you make blogs?  Are you suppose to like blogs? Do we know how to make a blog? Why is a blog a website? Can we make blogs with learning in it? Is blogging fun? Can people produce things in their own way? How can blogs have different types of things?
Rasheed	I saw a poster where a school were creating there own games and they had to choose a character and a pet for the game My questions about blogging are How would you make a blog  without help? Did you enjoy making a blog? Did everybody have fun creating a blog post Did dave winter teach you how to make a blog?
Amanda and  Susan	I saw how to pronounce colors in samoan. My questions are Why is blogging  named blogging? Why does blogging have to be perfect? How are blogs meant to be used? What are blogs for?
Anturane and Emanuel	I saw  a picture of a kapa haka. My question are    Why are blogs important?How blog can we?

Getting ready to blog!!

We will be using the internet to view other blogs and get some ideas for our own. We will be learning about how to write a good comment for blogging. Finally, we will tag our posts so people can find them later.

Treasure Hunt

Visit 3 class blogs
WALT - to find out what people blog about

What was the blog post about?

What are some of the features of a good post?

What are 3 questions you have about blogging?

Blog 1	Blog 2
Blog 3	Blog 4
Blog 5	Blog 6
Blog 7	Blog 8 Secondary