Jadaleigh worked with Joan during Tuakana Teina day to create this book review.  Hopefully you'll want to read the book after reading it. 

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.

Study Ladder Maths. By Jadaleigh

I  am learning to take away the number 10.