Animal Classification

This week we have been learning about different groups of animals. We have learnt that scientists have rules for these groups.

We worked collaboratively to create a presentation. Each group of students had to design one slide for each animal group.  We used some new techniques:

• using an image for the background (see the birds page)
• using the crop and mask tool to make an image into a shape (see the mammals and reptiles page)
• matching our colours to the image (see the fish page)
• rotating images and text boxes (see the birds page)
• changing the colour of the border around a text box (see the amphibians page)

Auckland Museum at the Panmure Library

We were lucky to be invited to the Panmure Library for a special session with the GEMs (Guest Educator Maori) from the Auckland Museum.  They told us a legend about how Maungarei came about (our local mountain).  See below to read some of the recounts our class wrote following this trip.

You can see others by visiting the links on the side of our blog.



Today Room 7 went walking to the Panmure Library. Pare, Juanita, Ole, and Kare came from the Auckland Museum and told a story and we, had to act it. We learnt about our local mountain, Maungarei. We had to spilt into two groups of fairy  tribes. The two fairy tribes were learning a dance with the Patu (club) and the rakau ( sticks ) for our fight against the other group. We had our two fishers fishing in the water and they met each other and started to get married. The other group got angry because we took there princess and started to do there dance with there Patu and then we both started to make lots of noise and suddenly the floor started to shake and it was the owner of the Maungarei (Mountain). He got really angry and we made our two groups together nosier and we were all back to friends. After that we made an matau out of clay. Here are our photo's of our listening skills and doing our dance moves.                                                

By Nesi

The Panmure Library 

Today room 7 went to the Panmure Library. We walked all the way there. When we got to the Library we had to go and sit on mat. Half the class sat on a white and black mat and the other half sat on a red and black mat. We were fairy tribes. Our teachers names were Pare, Juanita, Ole and Kare . The half of the class that sat on the black and red mat had a club (patu) and the other half that sat on the black and white mat had a stick (rakau). We enjoyed practicing with the weapons with our teachers. After that we made a matau out of clay. To make the matau we had to get a necklace and push it in the clay. When it was finally time to go back to school I was really sad we had really great time there. I hope we do it again some time.

By Daniel

Today Room 7 went to the Panmure Library. We walked all the way. When we got there it had a nice cold air freshener. There were 4 people there and their names were  Pare, Juanita , Ole and Kare. Juanita took half of us outside and she gave us our Patu and we practiced some strikes. After she said tahi to toru we went inside to have a battle with the other group.

After that some people set out some tables , some paper towels and some felt pens. Pare gave us some clay they after we had to roll it into a big ball. Next we  had to squash it. Pare gave us a matau to share. We had to push down the matau on top of the clay so it makes a shape on the clay. After we wrapped the paper towel around the clay and we went back to school. I felt  happy to be there.By Zahra

Today Room 7 went to the Panmure Library. Our class walked to the Panmure Library. When we were there I had to practice doing a weapon called a patu. We acted to a story. I had fun at the library.

By Sa Kae

Dance

In Dance we have been learning about air pathways and floor pathways. We used kowhaiwhai patterns to give us ideas of different pathways we could use in our dance. We had to put our movements and pathways together to create a dance. Here are some photos of us working today.  Perhaps next week we will try and take a video of our dances to post on our blog.

Class Dojo

Oops!  We had some students who forgot to stick to the class rules this week.  However, look at all those points for homework - way to go.  I challenge you to be more helpful next week Room 7.

Class Dojo Week 7

Here are our Dojo Points for Week 7.  You can see we have been really focussed on our learning and we have lots of Super Students doing wonderful things in our class:

Class Dojo

Way to go Room 7!  What an awesome class you are!

Counting to Ten in Different Languages

We have been learning to count in different languages.  We recorded our learning using google draw and voicethread.

Class Dojo Week 5

Congratulations Room 7, you have improved your positive behaviour by 2% this week.  There is a big chunk of homework points which is fabulous and look at how focussed you have been on your learning!

Please comment below and tell me one thing that you did to be a Super Learner in Week 5.

Kiwisport Baseball

We have been enjoying learning how to play baseball with Nick.  We have learnt that it is similar to softball.  The two differences are:

• the ball is smaller in baseball
• the pitching is overarm in baseball

Please enjoy looking at our photos.

Week 4 Dojo Points

Well, it's the end of the week and time to look at our Class Dojo points.  How did we do?

Look at all those points for being Super Students!  Also, a lot of people completing their homework too. I am very proud of you Room 7.  Let's try and shrink our negative points next week.

Super Learners

We have decided on some rules to help us become Super Learners in Room 7.

We will be rewarded for following these rules by collecting 

Class Dojo points.  Keep visiting our blog to see our progress on Class Dojo.

All About Us

Room 7 decided to investigate our favourite things as part of our topic: All About Us. We had to ask a question, collect information and present it on a graph. We had a big discussion about how to pronounce "graph"! 

 Here are some of our findings:

This is my graph on the favorite animal.

The people Must liked the leopard.

 The less people liked the monkey and the horse and the kiwi 

This is my Graph everyone made one and I did room 7s favorite sport we did this for maths.We found out that most of the girls like
netball.And we found out that rugby is boys favorite sport.Then we found out that basketball,tines,cricket and soccer are the lowest.      

This is our graph that me and Eta have decided for 2014. On our graph purple and red has the same amount of numbers. The other thing is that pink,green and yellow has the least amount on the graph. Also blue is the only one that has the number 4 on it

Please visit our individual blogs to see other investigations. You will find these at the side of our blog.