Arahi's Wow Moment

WALT use language features

Yesterday Arahi had a wow moment when he discovered onomatopoeia in his guided reading book Owls in the Garden.  It was, "whoo,whoo," and "Tu-whit, tu-whoo."

Elizabeth conencted this to her writing and made up these sentences using onomatopoeia:
"Tu whit ti whoo," the tui chirped.The monster went, "chomp, chomp, chomp."

"Slurp, slurp, slurp," said the pig while eating.
'Sh sh sh shhhh," said Mum
My gumboots went squish, squish.
The rain maker shook, SSSS   SSSSSS
"Ioow! " I said when I stepped in cow poo.

Questions to help us with our inquiry.

We sent some of our wonderings to Massey University for our visiting nutritionist, Angela to speak about.

Our wonderings to help us sort out the knowledge we already have about food choices.

·       Can you give me an example of an unhealthy dairy product and why it is unhealthy?

·       Can you tell us about a dairy product that doesn’t have milk?

·       Can you tell us how cheese is made?

·       Could you tell us about how you produce some of the products at Fonterra?

·       What would happen if dairy food ran out and how would it affect our growth?

·       Could you tell us something about calcium?

·       What happens if the power goes off at Fonterra?

·       Why is milk so important for our bones and muscles?

·       Could you tell us something about food colours?

·       How do mammals produce milk?

·       Can you tell us how ice cream is made?

Into the Book

During  reading we decided to go into this site to help us with our comprehension strategies.  We went through the strategy called asking questions.  It helped us delve deeply into the meaning of the story we shared.

Try this link at home.

http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html

Skyping with St James Aranui

St. James School Aranui

Today Room1 reporters, Ella, Lucas, Jacob and Mekaela, skyped St James Aranui in Christchurch. We asked St James Aranui some questions taking turns asking and answering questions about our schools and ourselves.

 E.g.Ella asked “When you felt the earthquake, what did you think?” and Esther said it was scary and shaky.

At the end the four reporters from St James Aranui who were called Esther, Jonathan, Henry and Caitlin screamed a big THANK YOU!

By Jacob, Ella, Mekaela, Lucas E                            

Joshua used the u tube clip to list these ideas to help his hurdling skills.



How to do the Hurdles

* Use arms to force yourself over the hurdle                   

*use your right leg all time

*split your legs in the air

*leap for distance

*stay focused at all times

Joshua Evans

         

WALT throw the discus

This is a u tube clip that we viewed in our Middle team. It helped us to look at the skills we need for a standing discus throw. We shared and wrote two things we noticed about the video that we could practise during skills sessions.

WALT throw the discus