The Sun - Friend or Foe

Kia ora Ruma Rima,

We are about to develop our inquiry skills even more and start on a new inquiry.  I hope you have your inquiring minds switched on for this and are going to WONDER about things. 

 Remember:If you are not wondering then you are not inquiring!

Kiwikids News is always a great website to get on to and as I was searching through it I came across something to get you wondering about the BIG Idea for our next focus:

THE SUN - FRIEND or FOE

Click on the link  below to see how NASA has been observing the sun.

NASA Sun Observations

Write a comment about something you like about the sun or something you don't like about it.

Treaty of Waitangi - Our Inquiry Update

Tena koutou Ruma Rima,

We are coming to the end of our inquiry into  'Waitangi Day, what's it all about?'

We are all enjoying the different sorts of presentations you are sharing with the class.  Next week we will get to see the two plays that have been written by Hamish and Joban, and Sybilla and Biba.  They have been working hard.  Make sure you share your work with your families and get them to comment on this blog about them.

 Here is one of our posters:

How did NZ change when the European came

By Ojas and Damar

• The Europeans brought diseases and pipes that made Maori die.
• The Maori offered land for materials.
• More and more Europeans came and there were less and less Maori.
• Maori started to marry the Europeans.
• The Europeans builded more and more buildings
• Maori started to learn how to milk cows.
• The Europeans brought animals including; cows, cats, birds and lots      more.
• lots of the animals scared the native NZ animals.
• Maori started wearing European clothes.
• They started  to have conflict or trouble and a treaty needed to be signed.

You might like to watch  this extra video about theTreaty:

Treaty of Waitangi video

Thank you also for all your questions about Takapuna Primary's visit to Waitangi last week.  I will sort through them and choose a few and we will hopefully skype them on Friday.

I loved Jack D's question: 

What did it feel like to be at the treaty grounds? 

Make a comment on our blog - I am excited to hear your ideas now  about why you think New Zealand/Aotearoa has a special holiday on Waitangi Day. 

Pastel Techniques

Tena koutou Ruma Rima,

Yesterday we watched the you tube clip to learn more about different ways to use pastels.
We learnt that there are different techniques to help us to:

• blend different colours
• blend shades (light and dark) of a colour
• create different textures with pastel

 Please could you watch the  clip again so that you understand these techniques more.                       Click here to watch:

Pastel Techniques

We are about to develop our ideas for our 'Room 5 Bathers' drawings, and you will need to think about which techniques yoou could use with these pictures.

(You could practice if you are at school early, if you have finished your work, or if it is a wet  break time.)

What techniques can you see in this drawing?

Can you share with our class something new that you learnt about drawing with pastel.  How do you think using pastel is different from using paint?  Which technique would you like to practise so you get better at using it?
Write your comment on this post. 

  

Te Reo

Here are some of the sentences and words we have been learning in Te Reo Maori.

You could practise these at home and teach your families something new.

WALHT ask  and answer questions about who is in our family.

Ko wai tō ingoa?

Ko -------------- taku ingoa.

My name is -------------.
or

Ko -------.

Ko wai tō hoa?            

Who is your friend?
Ko wai tō mama?
Who is your mother?
Ko wai tō papa?
Who is your father?
Ko wai tō koroua?
Who is your grandfather?
Ko wai tō kuia?
Who is your grandmother?

Other whanau words to think about :

•  matua keke - uncle
•  whaea keke - aunt
•  kaihana - cousin

Watch the reomation about Taku Whanau (My Family) to learn more words for people in our family.  Click on the link below:

                                            Taku Whanau

Can you write a sentence in Te Reo Maori that tells about who someone is in your whanau?   Write this on your comment.  

Try to spell the Te Reo correctly.

Our Y chart 2

On Friday  afternoon something important happened in our class. We had to sign our names to our class Pegasus Flyer  Y chart. 

Our Y chart tells everyone what children in our room:

1. Look like
2. Sound like
3. Feel and make others feel like

If they are true Pegasus Flyer Learners 



As we have been finding out more about the Treaty of Waitangi this made us understand why we all had to agree to what we  were signing.





If you would like to find out more about the treaty click on the link below:

Treaty of Waitangi

WHAT do you think is the most important  thing on our Y Chart and WHY do you think this?
 (You might like to show our Y chart to your family when they visit Room 5 next).

 Add a comment 

AKO is Happening!

Tena Koutou Ruma Rima

Congratulations to everyone who read our last post.  Thank you to anyone who added a comment about understanding AKO.   Thank you also to  the parents who added  comments.

 The challenge now is to SHOW our understanding.

I am pleased to say that this is already happening in our room.  Here are some pictures of AKO to prove this.

Holly and Biba are reading the Daily Timetable
before school so that they know what is happening on that day.

Partners share ideas

Learning buddies listen attentively to each other.

Learning Buddies speak clearly, and keep focussed on the task
that is helping the learning.

Kip is really listening attentively to Oscar here.

Learners in Room 5 choose a place around the room
where they can best learn.

We make sure that everyone has a learning buddy so no-one feels left out!

We give each other feedback and feed forward.

Learners in Room 5 learn by reading.

We find a place where we can concentrate and go off
into 'BOOK WORLD'.

 Talk to your families about how you could get ready for your day of learning. What sort of things could you do:

  

a)  at home?

b)  at school before the 8.50 bell?

Add a comment about this.  But before you do this read every else's ideas so you don't put the same as them.

Welcome Room 5 2016

Kia ora koutou Ruma Rima, 2016

I really enjoyed meeting up with you all for our goal setting day.  I can tell already, that you are all enthusiastic learners!!  I am really looking forward to helping you learn more this year and also to help you become good at managing yourselves! You need this to be ROLE MODELS for the new Puriri students!

I loved hearing about the goals you have set yourselves to get better at: READING, WRITING and MATHS. We will have to come up with plans and ideas about how to achieve these goals.  Maybe you could talk to your parents about these too.

We are all Pegasus Flyers!

I am so impressed that some of you remembered about:

AKO

Could you also think about how this will work in our room.

How could you SHOW  your understanding?

Write a comment on our blog 

if you have thought of an idea for this!

Click on the link below to get to know about the dreams and hopes we have for this year

Our Dreams/Hopes for 2016