WALT share our talents

Lucas and Jack are music pupils of Mrs Soper and she asked if they could come in and show us their keyboard skills.  Some people had some wonderings such as Mat, "What inspired you to learn the keyboard?"

How about posting some questions here that we could ask these students in class?

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

Middle Team Food Experiment (Alana)

We made a pyramid on our floor and all the middle team filled it with food in the three areas of the food pyramid.

1. Eat lots
2. Eat some
3. Eat less

We had lots of wonderings about where each food should go and applied some of the new knowledge that Mrs Joblin had shared with us.
Lucas said he wondered how such a small packet of peanuts could have so much sugar and salt in them.

Big Question: How Do your food choices impact on your body and health?

WAL about our first deep understanding which is:

How do food choices help our bodies to develop and grow in a healthy way?

• Mrs Joblin is a health nurse and she came to help us find out which foods are healthy. Arahi
• Healthy food gives us strength and energy.  Cain
• Vegetables and fruits are good for us.  Erika
• We only get energy from food.  Anneliese
• Bright coloured food makes us want to eat it.  Diego
• Mrs Joblin helped us inquire how many caloires are in some food.  Mekaela
• A small packet of salted peanuts has the same amount of salt as a large bag of chips.  Mat
• Coke can help stop diahorrea. Ella
• 
  Food with only natural sugars such as apples are healthy.  Lucas
• We learnt that without healthy food our muscles wouldn't be strong and our brains wouldn't develop well.  Dominic

Rapunzel Retell.

 This morning we worked in five groups to retell the events from the u tube clip we watched called Rapunzel.

We used the thinking hats to think about how our learning went.

• Yellow hat: Joshua liked seeing the clip.  Anneliese's group worked in unity.  Erika liked sharing ideas with others.
• Black hat: Our group didn't listen to each other and all wanted to talk at the same time.  I heard a lot of arguing. Ella.  We could have thought of better words to put in our sentences.  Dominic.
• Green hat:   Make a table group s we don't have to move around. Gabi. Split our writing book into a storyboard and write the series of events on our own. Zavier. Use the storyboard for an animation.Jack. We could do a donnut.Mekaela.

Class Learning Goals

This week we decided to brainstorm six goals that would help improve our listening and learning.  These are the ones we voted to focus on;

1. get ready for learning
2. don't talk when the teacher is talking
3. show respect to adults in the class
4. don't distract others from their learning
5. don't be distracted by others
6. look for ways to help other students in class time

Our next step is to link these to the key competencies and our SUPER Gospel values.
Watch this space.

How has Maori culture helped form our kiwi culture?

WAL how Maori culture has helped form our kiwi culture?

During tuning in, we watched a clip of the haka on you tube.

Next we organised our thoughts about the haka using a graphic organiser called Think Boxes.

See it:

• We drew an image of the haka

Feel it:

• It makes me feel excited because it makes me want to watch the game and do the haka too.  Alyssa
• It makes me feel prickly.  Jordan
• It makes me shout with excitement.  Elizabeth

Ask it:

• Why can’t girls do the haka? Arahi, Ella, Katie, Joshua.
• Who invented the haka? Mat, Thomas, Gabi, Lucas
• Where would be the most suitable place to do a haka and why?Zavier
• Why was the haka invented?
• What do the actions mean in the haka? Jack, Joshua
• Are there any other types of haka? Jacob, Fletcher

Show it:

• We drew symbols like the koru, kiwi, silver fern, rugby ball, rugby world cup trophy, All Blacks top.

Plus Minus Interesting

We are reflecting about our inquiry into energy:
Plus:

• We now know how we can save energy.-Anneliese
• We know which forms of energy are renewable.-Alyssa
• We know that we should do something about saving electricity such as turning off the light when we finish reading. Gabi
• We know which elements can generate electricity.-Mat
• We used our prior knowledge to begin our sorting out.-Alana
• We now know how we can make a difference.-Mekaela
• We should try to use only renewable energy.-Joshua
• We now know how the energy sources make electricity.-Diego
• We made a paper windmill that is a symbol of wind power.-Jordan
• We learnt how important energy is to us and that the sun is the most valuable energy source for us.-James
• Solar energy will nevenr run out.  Elizabeth
• You can cook food on solar dishes.  Dominic
• Hydro electric power is a highly effiecent example of a renewable energy.  Mat

Minus

• If windturbines are in too many places they can disturb the animals and birds. Joshua
• When will people stop trying to use fossil fuels?  Zavier
• Some types of electricity harm the environment.  Ella

Interesting:

• How can we save energy? Cain
• There can be wind turbines in the sea-Arahi
• Why is wind a source of energy? Jack
• Why do the solar panels trap the sun's energy source? Fletcher
• Why are the wind turbines blades 4 buses long? Jacob
• The first solar panel was made in 1860.  Lucas
• Solar panels were first made by mistake.  Anneliese
• The first person to invent the solar panel waas Willoughby Smith.  Clementine and Lucas.

Elizabeth is reporting about Learning Star 1s pea experiment.

Mat read his pea experiment report.

Our Day Without Electricity

Journal

9.00am: Today I walked into Room 1 and there wasn't any power and I felt confused.  Dominic

One school day I was freezing.  We went to do prayer.  next we went to the hall to do Jump Jam.  anneliese.

9.30am: We went to the hall to do Jump Jam to warm our bodies up. After that I felt toasty warm. Mekaela.

When I got to school there was no power on and I was feeling frozen but at least I got warm at Jump Jam. Fletcher.

11.30am: I feel very happy that we are saving electricity but I am not very happy because I am not very warm. Ala.

There is still no electricity but at Tech Kids there is.  I taught Kaleb and one of his friends how to do use power point.  James

I found out that having no electricity was actually quite fun.  Alyssa

12.45pm:  I'm going home now to get warm!!

2.30pm: Yeah I survived.  I  never thought I could make it without heatrs or computers.  Alana

Our Bio Gas Experiment

On Monday we began our experiment about bio gas.  We dropped 30 peas that had soaked in water, in a plastic bag. Next we put these peas in the sun. We're wondering:                           Anneliese: What will the peas look like after a week?   Mekaela: What will the bag look like after a week?Gabi: Will the peas rot and why?        Dominic: Will the bag dehydrate?                  James:  Does it matter whether the bags are in the sun or shade?                                                  James and Lucas have put their bags in the cupboard to get shade.   The other bags are in the full sun.

Tuesday: Zavier noticed condensation inside the bags.

Wednesday: Hoani observed that some of the peas are splitting and sprouting.

Pentencost

What happened ?: The disciples were all together in a room feeling very confused. There was a big gust of wind in the room and fire appeared on their heads.  The disciples suddenly started speaking different languages from about nine different countries. 

Who was there? The Holy Spirit Jesus' followers and friends.

Why did it happen? Jesus had ascended into Heaven and God sent the Holy Spirit to give the disciples strength and courage to spread the good news so others could believe in Him.

When did it happen? At Pentencost after Jesus had ascended into Heaven.

Where did it happen? In Jerusalem up stairs in a house.