Using educreations to show our maths strategies

Wacky Hair and Odd Shoe Day

A massive thank you to everyone who supported our fundraiser. We reached our target and can now buy recycling bins for another classroom.

Look at Caitlin's hair! Thanks for making such a huge effort Caitlin

Maddy and Estelle count the money raised today and last Tuesday. We raised $163. Good counting girls.

Wacky hair!

Having fun and learning with sky view app

Look at our astronomers using sky view on the i pads to look at the stars, planets, and satellites.

Maths (Geometry) and Art

The work of Pablo Picasso
In 1909, Picasso broke away from traditional art form and developed a style of painting called Analytic Cubism. The aim of this style was to break down subject matter into a number of geometric shapes and then reorganize and overlap these shapes to show several angles at the same time. Shapes are reconstructed in a mathematical way, using straight lines and right angles.

Cubism Art on PhotoPeach

We used a Monochromatic colour scheme i.e. one colour only, mixed with black (shade) and white (tint)

Using our ipads to finds geometric shapes in our environment

Self directed learning, we are researching the journey of our rubbish

This is Room 1 on a Tuesday morning working on our inquiry. Action makes a difference. Children have choice in their learning. Along with choice comes responsibility.

Phoebe has chosen to write a letter requesting permission to fund-raise for our new recycling bins. Later she works with Molly to work out how much money we need to raise. Some children have chosen to work alone, other have decided to work with a buddy. Some children have chosen to complete their project on a computer and others want to create a poster. Lucy has decided to make a movie.

Inquiry - Maths-Writing-Science

Molly and Phoebe are busy calculating how much money we need to fund-raise to buy our new recycling bins, they are writing a letter to Mrs Brooks explaining why we want to fund raise.

A busy day at school today

We had athletics training with Sport Otago.

Harrison and Katana are busy working on their project, discussing the best way to dispose of a glass bottle.

Molly and Phoebe are busy writing a letter to Mrs Brooks asking permission to fundraise for new recycling bins for our class.

Lachie and Anthony are discussing the journey that our rubbish takes, what happens if we put rubbish in the recycling bin? what happens to it if it goes to the landfill?

Austin and Sophie are experimenting making movies about recycling on our ipads.

Science observations, recording changes to organic and inorganic matter

Using our new ipads

Today we used the popplet app on our new ipads to record everything we already know about recycling

Paired writing

Austin and Harrison co writing their picture book

Skiing at Cardrona

More Spring artwork

Spring inspired by Jackson pollock
Spring on PhotoPeach

A popular shoe in room 1!

Look at what we noticed whilst sitting in the kiva today

How we feel about the new layout of our classroom

The good, the bad and the interesting after two weeks of our new classroom. (ditching the desks and allowing more choice and responsibility about our learning)
We discussed our ideas in groups and took turns to record them into a PMI chart. We typed all our ideas onto one whole class PMI chart.

Writing arguments

Should we have nude food at school?

I strongly disagree that food should be nude. Just look at it. All this hard work and one piece of litter dropped we all get told off.

You can’t get a whole school of some naughty people and some bad people to come along and not drop litter. It would be unbelievable if that could happen.

How about you look at the children too? They get told off for litter that isn’t even theirs. All the teachers do is tell us children off for dropping litter. Then look at the parents of the children. Every day they have to unwrap the food. It still goes to waste. They just throw it away and it goes to the same place all the rubbish goes to. A big hole.

How about now you look at what the children are eating. It all gets mushed up together in their lunch box. They have to eat a new thing every day. Maybe for Monday a mushed banana with a cookie or orange with some chips. It tastes horrible.

There is that you can save the earth but I believe that we just can’t do it.
So are you convinced now? I bet you are.
Jacob

Irish dancing

Hi this is Sophie Frazer and Hannah Bisset speaking.Today we were practising Irish dancing with room two, musicians, singers and dancers. We are great performers and we are doing a big show at the end of the term.These are the foot steps,1234567 123 123. This is a photo of us after practise. We all said "DI DI DIDDLE" although we wanted to say cheese.

Spring has arrived in room 1

Artwork inspired by Jackson Pollock and Spring

Daffodils by Katana

Spring
Spring is in the air spring is everywhere
Blooming blossoms on the trees
Swaying daffodils growing out of the earth like gold appearing out of the ground
That lovely smell in the air
All types of flowers, red ones, yellow ones, purple ones, pink ones,
all the colours you could imagine
by Francis

Spring flowers by Lucy

Teaching each other how to use prezi

Today we were all (most of us)starting prezi.We made prezis about the goldrush. My group (group1)are going pretty good.I hope it turns out awesome.We were learning about being digital citizens that means not stealing images from the internet when your not supposed to. We really like prezi now. By Hannah
Bisset.

End of week thoughts

Hi I'm Sophie and these are some of the reflections we have about our new awesome classroom.

I thought it was a great idea to turn the class into a 21st century classroom. I am making good choices about where I sit so I can get my work done. Zoe

This is my opinion.
I like the opportunity of choosing where to sit because I can sit by myself or with other people. Most of us have buckets so we can move them around lots. We have a kneeler and nobody has been fighting over it yet. The way the classroom is at the moment is awesome. We are even allowed to sit on the couch and work. WOW. - Sophie

I think this is WOW. It has made a huge difference! It has made a big change to my learning. It feels a lot calmer. I can only work well calmly. - HANNAH!

I love our new class. It lets me have a choice where I sit. I love to sit by my friends. It makes me feel responsible. - Katelyn

I think it's great because it looks much cleaner and also I love to sit by my friends.It has improved my learning because I'm able to move away from my friends to get work done. Jack

I think this is the best formation. I feel so free and like I can move away from distractions. Lincoln

I absolutely love the ideas of turning our classroom into a 21st century classroom because we get choice firstly. Secondly we get to sit by the kneeler and that is my learning style. Jacob

I think that it is better because it is quieter and not as noisy, and you can get more work done and learn. Lachlann

Room 1 Goldrush movie

We finally finished our movie today, see if you can spot Lachlann's real gold


A TEAM EFFORT

Metal facts

This is a slide show that me (Baillie) and Hannah made on powerpoint and then we put it on prezi which Mrs Fitz helped us with and then we got Mrs Fitz to help us put it on the classroom blog. Now for the ultimate question: did you like it?

Strike percussion

Yummy fractions

Red nose day

Arrowtown Museum

Maths - Problem of the week

Pirate Swords
On the pirate ship there are 24 pirate swords. Each pirate
has 2 swords.If half the pirates lost a sword in battle and a
quarter of the pirates each gained a new sword, how many
swords would there now be on the pirate ship?
If a third of the swords were then lost how many would
there be left?

Learning Time

We made a classroom clock today and used our new "swipe pads" to convert analogue to digital time. We are making our own individual clocks tomorrow.




Time Measurement
End of Year 3
Measure the duration of events, using linear whole number scales and applying basic addition facts to standard units

End of year 4
Measure the duration of events, reading scales to the nearest whole number, and applying addition, subtraction, and simple multiplication to standard units

Level 2
1. Use digital and analogue time - ½ past and O’Clock times
2. use a calendar to find information
3. Convert between both analogue and digital clocks

Level 3
4. Read minutes past and minutes to ( digital and analogue)
5. Compare and convert 24 hour ( digital and analogue )
6. Add and subtract times

Maths strategies

These are an example of some of the strategies we have been using to solve addition and subtraction problems


At the end of year 3 children should be able to use these strategies to solve problems




At the end of year 4 children should be able to mentally partition numbers to make tidy numbers



By the end of year 5 children should be able to use efficient part whole strategies to solve subtraction problems

Interactive Cludeo

Last day of term room 1 and 2 playing Cromwell Detective

Self directed learning

What are alloys? Jacob, Michael and Lincoln worked together to research and present their findings all about alloys, still a page to come they tell me. They chose their topic and decided themselves to use publisher to communicate their findings. Well done boys, you have done very well going further independently in your inquiry about gold.