Xmas Art

Take a look at our Xmas book - full of interesting Tagxedo art that we are busily turning into xmas cards.

How to make a pop-up card!

Recently we have been learning how to write instructions and recipes.  We have also been reading lots of instructions and taking care to follow the steps exactly as they are written.  We also watched a few 'How To..' videos on youtube and thought, 'We could do that!'.  So here are a few of our efforts.  All the camerawork, preparation, music and video editing was completed by us.  We think they're not too shabby!









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SPEECH FINALS DAY!

Today we had our syndicate speech finals.  Una and Charlotte represented Room11.  We think they did amazing, but don't take our word for it, watch the videos below!

Mini ME!

This week we finished off Room11 speech finals.  It was a fantastic to hear everyone's speech and everybody learned so much.  Well done to Una and Charlotte who will share their speech in front of the Syndicate on this Thursday.
We have also been busy creating 'mini-me's.  Each person measured the length of the arms, legs, body and head and divided each number by 2.  Then we cut strips of paper at those lengths and glued them together to make a scaled down version of ourselves.  We added loops and layers of paper to make it look more 3d and we stuck the finished models onto pictures we had drawn of famous NZ places.  We think the end result looks awesome.

For homework this week, we are learning the names of some towns and cities in NZ.  For each sentence we need to write an interesting fact that we know or found out about that place.  For example, 'In Rotorua you can find oozing, bubbling mud pools.'  You can find the list of place names we are using for spelling at the bottom of the page.

Auckland Christchurch Dunedin Wellington Nelson Palmerston North Timaru  Rotorua

Hamilton Queenstown Taupo Invercargill Mt Maunganui Whangarei Coromandel Town Napier

Tauranga Greymouth Russell Stewart Island Ohakune Gisborne HastingsNew New Plymouth

Finally, Mr Miller is OK with Room 11 being noisy!

Today we used a website called 'LoopLabs' (you can link to it on the side of this page).  We had a go at creating pieces of music.  Some of us made as much noise as possible but some of us tried to build layers of sound and have instruments start and stop to create different effects in the song.
Have a listen to a few of the pieces we came up with today...

Check out my Mix

Check out my Mix

Check out my Mix

Writing Challenge 2!

Our first attempt at class collaboration in writing was a lot of fun.  At first it was hard because it was a big muddle of other people's writing.  So we thought about it and made a table, then everybody knew where they should do their writing.  We actually ended up with some interesting ideas.
Now we are going to really show off!  
Click here to open another google document.  There is a big table with lots of places to write. Today we are learning to write better sentences.  Start by writing a few sentences in a box on the left side.  Then look at each others work - you have to do one of the following 4 jobs -->

1) Punctuation Pirates - leave comments for people if they have missed full stops, capital letters or speech marks.

2) Thesauri Masters, leave comments for people if you have thought of another word they could use to make their sentence better

3) Opinionators - Leave a comment to say why you like their sentences.

4) Tense Terminators - Look for problems in the tense of people's writing.  Did they start writing in the past and then switch to present tense?  Maybe they wrote a a word that isn't a real word (like 'swimmed' instead of 'swam')  
Leave a comment if you spot any mistakes.

Finally, go back to your own sentence and see what comments people left.  Then write your sentence again in the box on the right side

Writing Challenge...

Click here to visit a Google Document with a picture of a Kiwi and a Lion.  Look carefully at the picture and write a paragraph underneath.  Maybe you could describe what you think is happening, what you think will happen next or maybe write a story or a poem about it.  You could even just write a conversation between the kiwi and the lion.  You will only have 5 minutes, then we will stop, read and comment on other people's work.  Finally we will read the comments other people have left us and try to make our sentences better.
Working together to make something as good as possible is called 'Collaboration!'

Maths Game

Click here to practice turning fractions to decimals

Spelling Week 8

CLICK HERE to visit 'Quizlet' and learn what some of these words mean and practice spelling them.  You can also play some games at spelling city. You do not have to write them into sentences this week but spend some time learning them and we will have a test on Friday of 20 random words from the list.  Good luck!

Kiwiana

Marae                  Whanau            Maori      Silver Ferns          
All Blacks         Horses        Rugby ball             Mud pools    
 Kauri tree           Kiwi                         Tiki                    Sheep

Skiing                   Pukeko                  Golf                     Cricket               
Sky tower          Kiwi fruit          Dolphins                  Tui        
Mt Ruapehu       Sailing                      Sea                Rangitoto

Rotorua                 Fantail            Wellington        Queenstown  
Mt Wellington        Parnell Taupo          Auckland Domain    Hamilton              Russell              Tane Mahuta   Christchurch

Fishing             Fish n chips      Pohutukawa       Tauranga           Auckland       Coronet peak         Black                Beehive                Mt Cook         Queen Street       Swimming            Napier

Botanical Gardens     Museum             Honey      Waitangi          Rose gardens             Rainbow Warrior             GreenPeace

Medieval Day Tomorrow!

Today we have been practicing how numbers can be swapped for shapes and you can still make number sentences with them.  So if a circle = 1 then O + O = 2!
We used a website called 'Weigh it up' - the questions get harder and harder - see how far you can get...

.. we have also been thinking about tomorrow.  Tomorrow is our special Medieval Day!  We need to come dressed like a medieval person - maybe a wizard or a knight or a princess.  We can even just wear a long shirt with a belt around our middle and some plain trousers.  Girls could just wear a long dress and have their hair tied in plaits or in a bun.

Finally, after an extra long assembly we didn't all get a chance to copy our homework words down.  We looked at the prefix 'under' and 'over' - these are the words we thought of and found in a dictionary...

under	over
Underground Underpants Underwear Underwater Undersea Underhand Underarm Understatement Underfoot Undercover Understudy Undergrowth Underprivileged Underdog Underpass Undercut Underline Underweight Underestimate Undermine	Overtime Overnight Overarm Overdrawn Overlay Overland Overpower Oversleep Overlap Overtake Overweight Overbite Overseas Overfish Overwork Overland Overused Overdue Overflow Overturn Overjoy