Technology Challenge: A Tent Made with Paper and masking tape.

This Term we have been learning about Technology. One of the challenges was to make a liveable tent using paper and masking tape. We decided to make a tent with 9 sides. It is called a nonagon because it has 9 sides. It has a pyramid at the top. The sides of the nonagon have triangular walls. We had to plan to make a strong base so that it could hold the weight of the walls and the roofs. To make the walls strong we provided support of cardboard on the joints. We provided a pillar in the centre to support the roof. It took us more than a week to complete our tents.
It can occupy at least 5 people from our class. We love to read books in our tent.

Maths

Learning spelling

Why sea is so important to us

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Maui's Fish

Once  there  was  a  man  named Maui.He  was  born  with  magical  powers  because  he  can  pull  earth  out of  the water. He  was  his  dad’s  favorite  son  because  he  had  strange powers. Maui said to his brothers we must go far out to sea to the great fishing grounds. By the time they got there all sight of land was lost. Maui pulled out his fish hook. He made the fish hook from his grandmother’s jaw. Maui tied a rope to his fish hook and he chucked the fish hook into the deep blue sea. A few minutes later Maui felt a pull on the string. Then Maui pulled and and he pulled the enormous fish. Maui woke up and he saw land. He stepped onto the land and there was this magical thing that happened. Trees were growing, grass was too and flowers started to bloom. That’s how life started on the North Island.

Kanye

Starfish

Tamure and The Taniwha

This week we read lots of Maori traditional tales. Each Reading group had to read the story and then share it with the class using a medium of their choice. Jeridton, Daena and Kanye shared their tale through a puppet show. Click on the play button to watch 'Tamure and the Taniwha'.




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Inventions and their impact on lives

Aeroplanes are an amazing invention. We can get to far off places faster. I can visit my relatives in Samoa. Planes are super fast. They reach places quickly.

Life cycle of a Frog

Explanation: Life cycle of a frog

Frogs like to live in ponds and swamps. Frogs are very interesting creatures. Some frogs are very poisonous and some frogs are fine to play with. Did you know frogs can lay as many as 4000 eggs in one time. People who study frogs and toads are called herpetologists. The golden frog is the most poisonous frog on earth and the poison of one such frog can kill up to 1000 people. There are over 4700 species of frogs.

A life cycle of a frog goes like this.

First the father frog jumps on the mother frogs back and pushes it down and out come the eggs. After a couple of days the eggs hatch and out come the tadpoles. After that the tadpoles grow bigger. Then the tadpole grows small legs. After that the tail shortens. Next the little froglet is ready to hop on the land and when it gets older it can start all over again.

Kanye

Water cycle

This is our first attempt at Google drawings. We really enjoyed using google drawing to support or explanation with a diagram.

Google drawing by: Kanye and Stephney

How caterpillars turn into butterflies: By Kanye

Character sketch of Sarah, the Baby Owl

                                   

 We in Room 10 read a shared book 'The Owl Babies' by Martin Waddle. We all liked the story very much and out of all the characters we liked 'Sarah' the most. We decided to write Sarah's character sketch. We listed her 'Inside' and 'Outside' characteristics to write about her. Read some of stories about Sarah.

Sarah lived in a tree in a forest. her hole was full of twigs and leaves. She had two little baby brothers. Sarah had brown eye and they looked golden when the sun shone on them. She had soft yellow feathers. Sarah was a responsible owl because she looked after her little brothers when Mummy owl had gone to look for food.
By: Jeridton


Sarah lived in a trunk of a tree with her brother and sister. She had beautiful brown eyes and she had white fluffy feathers. She was a brave owl because she looked after her baby brothers, Percy and Bill.

By: Suave. Sarah had beautiful brown eyes

Sarah lived in a trunk of a tree with her two baby brothers and her mother. Sarah was the oldest in the family. Sarah had beautiful brown eyes. She had soft feathers and she looked beautiful in them. She was a very brave owl. She looked after her baby brothers when Mummy Owl was way.

By: Kanye

Sir Edmund Hillary

Today Rimus Reading group read a book about Mt. Everest, the highest peak in the world. Everyone in the group was curious to know who climbed the Everest first. So we researched about it from the books and the net.  We used poppet App on the iPads to present our information.

Getting to know the names of people in my class

Buzz Buzz This is a game to help students learn each others' names. Play this game outside with a large bouncing ball. Gather students in a circle and explain that there are four sets of words permissible in this game. Buzz buzz, Ooh Ooh, Eee Eee and Aye Aye. Begin the game by starting your name followed by one of the nonsense phrases, and then bounce the ball to another person in the group. This player must say his or her name and then one of the nonsense phrases and then bounce the ball back to another person. The game continues in this manner, moving as quickly as possible from one player to another.

Welcome back to school

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Hello everyone,

Welcome to Room 10, 2014.
I look forward to meet all of you on 28th January 2014.
Remember school starts on Tuesday next week.
See you then!

Mrs. Sharma