Have a look at this!

Emilie and Tayla made this great Powtoon about their learning - great work girls!

Under the Wanaka wharf

Have a look at this great video made by Max B. He used a Go-Pro to film under the Wanaka wharf - there are lots of interesting things down there! A few that need to be cleaned up too!

Healthy Lunch...

Have a look at this great poem Tayla D wrote - she used Kenn Nesbitt's poem "A Funny Food Poem" as a model.

Healthy lunch poem

An orange nectarine

A muesli bar

A bright red apple

A brown banana will rot by far

A big juicy orange

A berry milkshake

A little baby pear

Totally not steak

Some fresh OJ

A fun avocado

Some juicy jam

A tasty tomato

A pointy pear

A banana for brunch

That's something not to share

I slept in while Mum made lunch

By Tayla D

Campbell's Rubbery Egg

Have a look at this Google Slide presentation that Campbell made for his Rubber Egg experiment.

Rubber Egg!

We have been looking at a few science experiments for our Home Learning.

Check out the Bouncing Egg experiment that Harry did - he took it a bit further to see if there was a difference between water and vinegar and their effect on the egg.

Have a look at this awesome video that he made!

Egg-citing science!!

Today we tried out a science eggsperiment  - floating eggs! We are learning to write explanations and draw scientific diagrams to explain our thinking about WHY or HOW we think something happened.
Check back later to see our labelled diagrams to find out what the eggsperiment actually was - can you work it out from our photos?

Daily 5 - Read to Someone

Read to someone is another way for us to improve our reading. Reading out loud is a great way for us to improve our fluency - the flow and expression of our reading.

We read with a biddy and our buddy is there to be our coach - help us if we get stuck! But our buddy isn't just allowed to give us the answer - they have to help by giving us time to work out the word on our own and then suggesting ways that we could use to work out our words.

We are getting really good at reading to our buddies - we make sure we are in our own space and that we can both read the book. We also make sure we take turns and listen carefully to our buddy so that we can help them if we need to.

Daily 5 - Read to Self

In reading time we are using the Daily 5 programme to help us improve our reading skills.

One part of Daily 5 is Read To Self. We know it is important to read to ourselves regularly and to use our read to self time to practise our reading.

Check out how we do read to self - can you see us:

Choosing a good spot to read in

Using our book boxes so we don't have to move around

Staying focussed

Reading!

 

Exploring our world - Local Heroes

Today we started looking at our new topic - Exploring our world - our community.

We are looking at the people we think are heroes in our community.

First we had a think about what we think heroes are...



Then we read a story about Sir Edmund Hillary and discovered that he wasn't a hero for climbing Mt Everest but because of all the other things he did to help the sherpas and their community.

We came up with these things to help us decide who is a hero then we thought about the people in our community that are heroes.

We think heroes - help people and animals, make things better, see a need and do something about it, are role models.

Tayla's Healthy Food Review

Tayla has made a form for us all to think about what we thought of our healthy food topic! She made this independently at home - what a great thinker! She is really showing what a self-managing learner is!

Fill in your answers below.

Our Writing

Have a look at some of the great writing that has been going on in Room 20 this term - we have chosen some of our favourite pieces to share with you. We hope you enjoy them! Please leave us a comment :)
Check back later in the week for some more of our fantastic writing!

Autumn

Autumn feels like the air going through

the breeze.

I feel the hot air.

Autumn smells like the fresh air from

the rivers. I feel the clover moving against

the grass.

Autumn looks like the trees blowing

together. I look at the future.

Autumn sounds like the loud footsteps of

people running around the playground.

I hear the airplanes.

By Archie O

      Summer

Have you ever felt summer?

Sure you have

Remember that time…

When you were  jumping on the tramp with the sprinklers on and you lost your breath and ran to get some water then you ran back and lay down on the tramp.

Remember how the water dripping on you felt?

That was summer.

Remember that time…       

When you were doing cartwheels and fell over. Remember how the grass felt?

That was summer.

Remember that time…

when you were so tired and just had to go inside and tuck up with a good book.

Remember how the sun glowing on you felt?

That was summer.

By Tayla D

 Sharkicorn

Sharkicorn is a shark mixed with a unicorn. You may think this will be a peaceful animal but it is an angry animal, it could kill you in one bite so don’t go near it. It could bite 100 bits of metal in one go.  The sharkicorn has rainbow coloured skin, its teeth are as sharp as a knife. It has smooth soggy wet skin. It has 10000 lives.The creature could sniff something 10000 kilometres  away.It smells like a rotten banana. The Sharkicorn lives in Greenland it comes out at night.It’s favourite food is chops. The Sharkicorn could run faster than a cheetah but it is color blind.It’s claws are so sharp it could rip through a sheet of steel. Its magical unicorn horn shoots rainbow lasers which could evaporate any thing. It can breath underwater.

By Henry B

Our End of Term Reflection

Important Information Week 11

Exciting Events this week:

Tuesday - Total lunar eclipse! Hopefully the weather lets us see this! Keep your eyes fixed on the moon from 7pm-8pm for the best view!

Wednesday - don't forget our lunchtime trip to Domini Park for our pod trip to celebrate our Healthy Eating topic. Remember to pack an extra healthy lunch for this.

Thursday - Easter Hands on Homework challenge - bring your egg to school.
40 Book challenge cake! Have you completed 10 books in our challenge this term?

Library Books are all due back this week! Please have a good look at home for them.

Super Snack Challenge Round 1

Today is the first round of our super snack challenge! We are looking at how to make healthy snacks then we are sharing our snack with a small group.
 Check out these videos that Zavier and Emilie made to show how they made their healthy snacks.

Zavier's Healthy Snack from Ben Taylor on Vimeo.

Week 10 Writing - Hybrid Animals

This week we are going to use our descriptive writing skills to write about some very unusual animals!

Have a look at this website.... Hybrid Animals
What do you think about these animals? How would you describe them?

Then have a look at how this class have described them. What sort of writing will you do? Choose an animal and in your writing book, draft a description of your animal - remember to include: What it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, how it moves etc.

ANZAC KidsEdChat

Today a group of Room 20 children took part in the ANZAC Kidsedchat. The tweets came through really quickly - 668 of them in one hour -  and the kids were amazing at keeping track of the questions and conversations.

Below are some of the fantastic answers our students contributed to the following questions:

Q1. How does your country/school/family celebrate ANZAC Day?

Q2. What does ANZAC day mean to you personally?

Q3. Do you have any extended family that fought in Gallipoli? What stories can you tell us?

Q4. Do you have any extended family that have fought in any other conflicts?

Q5. Do you think ANZAC day is important? Should we celebrate the day? How else could ANZAC Day be celebrated?

Q6. During Gallipoli, Australia and NZ fought side by side. Do you think the relationship between the 2 countries is important?

Q7. Why are poppies sold before and on Anzac Day? Why was the poppy chosen and what does it represent?

Q8. How did the Anzac biscuit originate? Do you have a favourite Anzac biscuit recipe that you would like to share?

Q9. Have you ever been to an ANZAC Day celebration? What happened and how did it make you feel?

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A9 At the celebration I watched people put flowers on the statue and had 1 minute of quiet went to the cemetery and put flowers on the grave

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A8.The ANZAC biscuit was originated cause it was the only food that au & nz solders ate that would not go mouldy

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A5: yes I think it is important because we need to remember the people who died of us

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A7.The poppy was chosen cause it was the only flower that grew after the war at cemetery nearby a hospital

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A6.Yes it is important that the southern hemisphere has a bond

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A5: Yes we need to remember family, they fought for us.Yes we should celebrate the day. We Make new versions of Flanders fields

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A2: We remember people who died for us:(

KidsedchatNZ

Today we joined in on our first KidsEdChatNZ - we had an awesome time and learnt a lot about digital citizenship - how to be respectful online - Jennie was really proud of the way we knew what the appropriate things to say online are. Have a look at all of us hard at work keeping up with all of the tweets.

 

Room 20 - what did you think about our first KidsEdChatNZ session? Think carefully about what went well, what surprised you and what you think we should do differently. Post your answer on the Padlet below.

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KidsEdChatNZ

Today we are learning about KidsEdChatNZ - we are looking forward to joining in the chat and finding out about other schools from around New Zealand. Have a look at this blog to find out more about KidsEdChatNZ

We can only join in KidsEdChatNZ if we know how to be respectful and safe on the internet - you will need to show Jennie that you understand and can do this if you want to be part of the chat.

The topic today is all about sport - these are the questions we need to think about:

Question 1:

What sports are offered at your school?

Question 2:

What makes a great sportsman?

Question 3:

Who is your favourite sporting hero? What attributes of theirs standout?

Question 4:

Why is it important to be involved a sport?

Question 5:

What sport do you need the most skill to play?  Persuade the rest of us (try and start a conversation with another class)!

Question 6:

How have you displayed courage while playing a sport?

Question 7:

If you could take 3 sportsmen out for dinner who would they be?

Quality Comments

One of the first things we are learning about with our blog is how to make Quality Comments.
Quality comments are positive, respectful comments on a blog post. If we are lucky we can start a conversation through our comments.

Here are some more places to go to learn about making a quality comment:
  Mrs Yollis' Blog
Springston Team Endeavour
Being considerate and caring when commenting

Here are some examples of good comments - why do you think they are great comments?
Post about Minecraft
Post about Toothless the dragon


Watch this video to learn all about Quality Comments.

Plants

Life Cycles

Non Flowering Plants

AudioBoo

One of your reading tasks for George's Marvellous Medicine is to record your reading of a page, using expression.

You are going to use AudioBoo to create your recording. Follow the instructions on the AudioBoo card to create your recording and upload it on to the blog.

Here is my one...

listen to ‘Introduction to Audioboo’ on Audioboo

Welcome!

Welcome to the Room 20 blog!

We are busy getting to know each other and setting our classroom up for the year. Check back here regularly to see what we are doing!

Our first big post is coming soon...