Growing Patterns

We have been learning about and creating growing patterns.

We know that a growing pattern gets bigger at each step. A growing pattern has a rule. The rule is like a key - it tells us how much the pattern grows each step.

Check out the great work by some clever Room 14 mathematicians....

Harlem and Cahlia's growing pattern

Hannah and Jasmine's growing pattern

Riley and Keagan

Volleyball Skills

WAL how to strike a volley ball.

We know that a strike in volley ball is when we tap the ball with our fingertips to push it through the air.

When we strike a volley ball above our head we

• bend our fingers slightly to form a diamond shape
• use our fingertips to push the ball
• leave a gap between the ball and our palm (the middle of our hand)

To practice this skill we used balloons. It was too windy outside so we practiced inside the classroom. It was HEAPS of fun.

Caitlin

Jasmine

Charlie and Balin

Keagan and Harlem

Caitlin and Cahlia

Our wonderful Room 14 learning whanau

Buddy Reading

Today, the Gruffalo's reading group read the book Dinosaur Chase to some children, who are five, from Room 22.  

You did a great job Janice, Jack and Ethan - what clever readers you are becoming!

Jack reading to Malachi

Janice reading to Shiloh

Ethan reading to Elijah

The Wind Hound

Today, the Highway Rats reading group read the poem called The Wind Hound. Check out how they shared their learning using fotobabble.

Pirate Hooks

We are learning to start our stories with a hook.

When we hook the reader in they really want to keep reading our stories to find out what happens.

When we start our stories with a hook we can use

• speech
• wow words
• a question

Check out how these clever authors started their pirate stories with a hook..... Click on the arrow to play the recording.

Do you want to read their stories to find out what happens?

PRIDE Recipient

This weeks PRIDE recipient is Gwen. Gwen received her PRIDE award for being an amazing risk taker and showing perseverance and determination to do her personal best in the Nga Rakau Iti fun run!

Calendar Art

We have worked very hard creating our calendar art. We chose to base our art around the play we did for our assembly item, 'Giraffes Can't Dance'.

Hannah

Jordan

Dom

Caitlin

Whetu

International Talk Like A Pirate Day

Today, everyone at school dressed up as Pirates. We sang a chant with our buddy class at assembly. We got second prize. Well done Room 14 and Room 11.

Discovery Options

On Friday's, all of the junior classes in Nga Rakau Iti have been getting together for discovery time. Some children chose to do options where they worked on a project for 6 weeks.

Check out what the Kapa Haka group have been learning .....



Kapa Haka from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Check out what the glockenspiel group have been learning...



Glokenspiel from tracey hill on Vimeo.

Jack chose to do paper mache craft. Check out his amazing bee creation

Greater than less than

We are learning about the sign for greater than less than. Today we worked in groups to solve some addition problems then put them into number sentences using the greater than less than signs.

Nate, Angus, Karamea, Janice

Hannah, Ekrose, Gwen

Fun Run Fun

A funtastic way to end the week with Nga Rakau Iti fun run day.

Congratulations to Rebekah (1st), Karamea (2nd) and Balin (2nd). Tino pai all of Room 14 tamariki for showing determination and commitment to doing your personal best in the fun run.

Skipping

We have been learning how to skip.

We know that the skipping rope has to be the right length for us to skip properly. The rope should reach up to our armpits. If it goes past our armpits then the rope is too long. We can fold over the handles to make the rope shorter. Karamea showed us how she checks to make sure the rope is the right length.

Nga Rakau Iti Dancing Stars

What a funtastic night!

We have been practicing really hard with Room 4 to learn the dancing steps for Virgina Reel and creating our own dance moves for The Best Day of Our Life in preparation for the dance evening.

Room 4 and 14 you made me feel so very proud the way you shared your learning with the audience. What wonderful role models of Parkvale PRIDE you all are.

Thank you parents, caregivers, family and whanau for attending our dance evening. It was wonderful for the children to be able to share their learning with their community.

Otherwise

We watched a short film about a chameleon called Otherwise, by Anders Artig. The chameleons exclude and bully Otherwise because he looks and behaves differently. This makes Otherwise feel very sad and lonely.



We are learning to start our stories with a hook so the reader wants to keep reading and find out what happens.

We are also learning about ending our story with a question or wondering to leave the reader with something to think about.

Check out some of the great stories we wrote about Otherwise.

Author Charlie wrote:

ZZZZZZZZZ as Otherwise chainsawed the triangle egg with his sharp horn. Otherwise is a red, leaf eating chameleon so he is a herbivore. He is different than the others because he has a short tongue. He also has a triangle head and his toes and back are spiky like a chainsaw chain. Splish splash splish splash, "This is fun," said Otherwise as he swam around. "Grrrrrrrrrr," grunted the other chameleons. "Haha haha, you're gonna get eaten, haha haha." But, the eagle dived to one of the bullies and flew away with him. The other chameleons started chasing Otherwise and he started climbing a rocky mountain until he reached the eagles nest. Then, the birds fell out of the nest because it was rocking. Otherwise made a new friend with another chameleon. I wonder if the other chameleons will be mean to Otherwise again?

Author Janice wrote:

Pop went the chameleons triangle egg. Otherwise likes to eat leaves and he brushes his teeth with a reed. He can’t change colours. He is brown. He likes to swim in the blue lake. Otherwise has a pointy head and his back is pointy too. The green chameleons growled at him and they made him cry. When he got to the top of the nest he found a blue chameleon in the top of the nest and he saved him. Otherwise gave him a handshake then they became friends. I wonder if they will play hide and seek with the other chameleons.

Author Payton wrote:

Pop goes the egg as he cracks his triangle egg with his sharp pointy mohawk. He wobbled to his family and he said, “Do you want to handshake?” But, guess what? The other chameleons just crawled away. Poor Otherwise was sad because he can’t change colour like his family. He brushes his teeth with a reed after he eats shiny green crunchy leaves. The other chameleons suck up insects with their long stretchy tongues but Otherwise has a short tongue. When they climbed up the tree, Otherwise climbed too high and his plant fell down. The other chameleons were always running away from Otherwise and they were always mean to him. Otherwise likes swimming in the shiny, relaxing, blue lake. Suddenly, an eagle swooped down from behind the clouds. “You don’t know that if you go into the lake the eagle can see you,” said the other chameleons. The chameleons chased Otherwise up the steep rocky mountain to the eagles nest. Otherwise saved the little chameleon so they became friends. I wonder if the other chameleons will be nice to Otherwise now.

Author Zack wrote:

Pop goes the chameleon. Otherwise popped out of his triangle egg and crawled over to this family. He wanted to handshake but they left him hanging and walked away so Otherwise followed them. He couldn't change colour like his brothers so he hid under a flower, he was really good at that ! He had a curly tail that always stays up but the other chameleon tails stay down. The other chameleons walked away again. This time, they went to catch bugs and one caught a caterpillar, one caught a ladybug and one caught a butterfly but Otherwise ate a leaf because his tongue wasn’t long enough. The other chameleons bullied Otherwise by snickering at him and glaring at him. Then, Otherwise took a swim in the calm, refreshing lake. Suddenly, an eagle swooped down from the clouds and took one of the chameleons. The other chameleons chased Otherwise up a rocky peak and into the eagles nest and Otherwise scared the eagle away. Otherwise was a hero ! Have you ever been a hero?

Author Cloe wrote:

Pop went the chameleon’s triangle egg. Otherwise is a brown chameleon. He likes to eat leaves and he brushes his teeth with a reed. Otherwise likes going swimming but the other chameleons don’t like swimming. Otherwise has a pointy head and he can’t change colour like the other ones. One day, he got chased by the other chameleons and he got blamed because the eagle took one of the friends. Otherwise climbed up a steep hill and found the blue chameleon. Otherwise saved the chameleon. I wonder if they stay best friends with each other.

Author Payton wrote:

Crack ! went the triangle egg. He was brown and spiky. The other chameleons were mean because when he popped out he tried to shake the other’s hands but they said, “No !” Otherwise likes to brush his teeth with a reed and he likes to swim in the blue calm lake. He can’t climb well and he eats leaves. He can’t change colour. One day when he was swimming an eagle popped out of the clouds. Then, the other chameleons smiled because they thought the eagle was going to get Otherwise but he took one of the blue chameleons up to the nest on the top of the rocks. The chameleons were angry and started to chase Otherwise and that’s when he started to climb the rocks. When he got to the top he helped one of the chameleons get away from the eagle. The other chameleons pulled him down and they went back home and the friendly one came back. I wonder if they will be friends for ever.

Fraction Problems

We have been working hard on some fractions problems.
Check out our repeating patterns on our fraction snakes.
We wrote addition and multiplication equations to show our fractions.

Fraction snakes:
The snake has 28 diamonds on its skin.
1/4 are red - whero
1/4 are blue - kikorangi
What could a repeating pattern look like?

Jordan

Cloe

Truck Problem:
The truck is taking 16 bricks to the brick shop.
1/4 of the bricks are blue-kikorangi
1/4 are white-ma
The bricks stack on the truck in a repeated pattern. What could this look like?

Fraction Caterpillars:

The caterpillar has 12 humps.

1/4 are orange-karaka

1/4 are green-kakariki

The humps are in a repeated pattern. What could this look like?

Payton

Harlem

Fraction clown belts:

The clown has 24 spots on his belt.

1/4 are red - whero

1/4 are yellow-kowhai

The spots are in a repeated pattern. What could this look like?

Hannah

Hannah

Gwen

Gwen

PRIDE Recipient

This weeks PRIDE recipient is Dom. Dom earned his PRIDE award for his amazing efforts in writing and reading. Dom you work very hard to be the best reader you can be! Keep up the great work.

Baa Baa Smart Sheep

Today, we were very lucky and listened to Karamea read a story from home called Baa Baa Smart Sheep. It was a very funny story! Karamea read with beautiful expression so we really enjoyed the story.
Here is a small snippet of her reading.

Random Act of Kindness

Today was Random Act of Kindness day. We made bookmarks with a message about the different ways we can be kind. Room 18 were visiting the library this afternoon so we hand delivered our kindness bookmarks to them in the library.

Thank you Room 18 for accepting our kindness. Tino pai Room 14 for being so kind and generous.

Some of our messages

Caitlin and Pippa

Jodi and Rebekah

Jordan and Camden

Fractions

Today in maths the Fraction Frogs group worked on making a fraction of a set or group. Check out this great work by Charlie and Cloe.