This week we have been using SOLO hexagons to look at the topic of RESPECTING OUR ENVIRONMENT and our thinking about it at different levels.
Friday, 24 August 2018
Friday, 3 August 2018
Web Conference
Here is the Web Conference we were involved in on Tuesday morning. The video is password protected. Ask someone from Totara 1 for the code.
Map my waahi
This week we are flying from Kerikeri in the far north, to New Plymouth (via Auckland). Then we will drive to Puniho pa for our virtual field trip. You will learn how to use Google Mymaps to add content to a map.
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Ballast - Maths Pickle
Today was a lot of fun. In maths, we have been investigating problems which are open-ended and don't have an immediate solution. These require a bit of perseverance and resilience.
The objective of the puzzle is to balance the ship...but first of all the students had to learn the rules...not easy when the teacher won't tell them! Letting the class slowly learn by making mistakes was fun!!!
Keep your eyes on the students' blogs to follow how the puzzles are progressing
The objective of the puzzle is to balance the ship...but first of all the students had to learn the rules...not easy when the teacher won't tell them! Letting the class slowly learn by making mistakes was fun!!!
Keep your eyes on the students' blogs to follow how the puzzles are progressing
Friday, 16 March 2018
Assembly
Welcome to our whole school Assembly
(Karakia)
This week we have been working on a beautiful maths puzzle. Dutch artist Pieter Mondrian is famous for creating abstract artwork based on geometric shapes.
Our goal was to 'paint' an artwork just like Mondrian, but every rectangle had to be different. Each rectangle also had a score-the value of its area. The goal was to make the smallest total possible for each sized canvas. We did this by subtracting the smallest value away from the largest.
In writing this week we have been writing Found Poems. These are a lot like a word collage. To create a found poem you can find words anywhere and rearrange them...we took our words from last week's school newsletter... here are some examples
Richard's
Rata's
Summer's
Griffen's Acrostic Poem
We have just finished reading Theodore Taylor's book The Cay. Here are some of the artifacts we have created.
(Karakia)
This week we have been working on a beautiful maths puzzle. Dutch artist Pieter Mondrian is famous for creating abstract artwork based on geometric shapes.
Our goal was to 'paint' an artwork just like Mondrian, but every rectangle had to be different. Each rectangle also had a score-the value of its area. The goal was to make the smallest total possible for each sized canvas. We did this by subtracting the smallest value away from the largest.
In writing this week we have been writing Found Poems. These are a lot like a word collage. To create a found poem you can find words anywhere and rearrange them...we took our words from last week's school newsletter... here are some examples
Richard's
Rata's
Summer's
Griffen's Acrostic Poem
We have just finished reading Theodore Taylor's book The Cay. Here are some of the artifacts we have created.
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