Spooky Story, By Faith

Faith has written a spooky narrative.  She practiced reading it with a scary voice and then recorded herself.  Beware, you may be very afraid after listening to this. 

Spooky Story - By Faith from Kirsty Macfarlane on Vimeo.

What we know about friendship

The Tigers have been learning to activate their prior knowledge to help them read and understand new texts.  This week they used popplet to think of all the things they knew about friendship before they read a journal story called 'Friends'.

Poetry Readings

We have been practicing poetry readings this term.  We are trying to make our reading interesting by using expression and changing our tone and pace while we are reading. Here are four recordings by Faith, Elizabeth, Cornelius and Jadaleigh.  We hope you enjoy them.

listen to ‘Push Power, by Faith’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Push Power, by Elizabeth’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Push Power, by Cornelius’ on Audioboo

listen to ‘Ice Cream, by Jadaleigh’ on Audioboo

Making Porotaka

We have been reading and learning about Matariki this week.  As part of our reading programme we read and followed instructions (with the help of Nana) to make a porotaka.  It was a little tricky but also a lot of fun. Here is a Jadaleigh explaining how to make a porotaka.  She used educreate on the ipad to make her video.  

Here is a video showing us as we made our porotaka.

Netbook Learning

Last week was our first week with our new netbooks.  It was a lot of fun using them and we have learnt a lot.  Here are some of the Room 10 children sharing what they have learned so far.

The Netbooks Have Arrived!

On Friday last week Mrs Kelly popped into our classroom with a mysterious black container.  At first we thought it might be filled with shoes or lollies but it was something even better - five new netbooks!  Today we started learning how to sign into google apps and it won't be long before we are google  experts.   

Here is Faith reading a story she wrote about our new netbooks.

Playing with Numbers

The Tapawha maths group have been learning to show two digit numbers on place value material.  As an independent activity they worked with a partner to create ty numbers using blocks.  Here are some pictures they took of their work.  Well done! 

Study Ladder Maths. By Faith

I am learning to add lots of tens.

My Dog, by Faith

Faith has written about her dog.  Listen to the story and leave her a comment to let her know what you think.