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.

Sharing games with room 7

Co operative fun
Thank you room 7 for inviting us to play games with you today

Zumba with Sarah

Thank you Sarah for teaching us zumba

Thank you Rotary Club Cromwell

Rm 2 year 4's work with Rm 1 year 4's to organise a card to send their thanks to The Rotary Club Cromwell for gifting them with dictionaries.

More worms leave to find a new home

Jack gets some help finding worms for his own worm farm

Problem of the week

Holes in the roof

Lisa has just moved into a new house. The first night it rained she discovered 16 holes in the roof.

Buckets cost $1.50 each

1. How much will it cost Lisa to buy buckets to place under each hole?

2. How much water did Lisa collect altogether if each bucket collected half a litre of water?

Problem Solving Rubric

We created this rubric so we can mark our own problem solving

Ti Rakau

We are all waiting patiently for Jack to lead us

An excerpt from a story inspired by THE CITY HOTEL GOLD RUSH PANELS by Russell Clark

Bill and Johnny were in the town when they heard the news that a rumour was around. They saw a man with shiny bags of gold. Everyone scrambled away to find shovels from anywhere they could.

All the men scrambled to find gold, while the ladies supported them with food for their journey. On their journey they had to cross fresh, cold rivers. When they got there they dug day and night, winter, summer and autumn. By that time they had run out of food.

Bill and Johnny, they were full of courage and bravery, so they followed the angel that came. They followed him to the end of the rainbow where there was a pot of shimmering gold, “eureka” they yelled, they felt great and happy.

When they got home they were as warm as the sun. Everyone crowded them like when someone wins a race. They were as happy as they could be, and there were heaps of juicy bones for Bill the dog, “woof woof” he went.

Jessica(year 4)learning goals - (grouping ideas into paragraphs, using adjectives, and using similes to make writing more interesting)

Problem Solving

Who Plays What problem no 1

Jason, Emma and Rangi are talking about their favourite sports that are soccer, swimming and hockey. Jason says, "It’s impossible for me to ever be off-side."
Emma says, "It’s certain that I will use a stick to hit the
ball." Rangi says, "It’s possible that I might become an All White
What sports do each of them play?






PROBLEM FOR EXPERTS
Counting Cubes Problem no 2
Kelsey loves to count. One day Ms Martin put a pile of
cubes on Kelsey’s desk. Kelsey began to count the cubes.
She told Ms Martin the following facts about the cubes:
When I count the cubes by two I have one left over.
When I count the cubes by three I have one left over.
When I count the cubes by five I have none left over.

From this information can Ms Martin work out how many cubes Kelsey has.

Trip to Central Stories museum

Yesterday room 1 and room 9 went on a school trip to the Central Stories museum, we completed a treasure hunt, there were some challenging questions, thank goodness we were in small groups and some wonderful parent helpers came to support us.

We learnt many new tricky and interesting facts about gold. We saw models of the paddle dredges and learnt how they worked, we saw real samples of gold, and we saw a display representing the amount of gold that was dredged from the Clutha river, between Alexandra and Clyde from 1895-1923. Today it would be worth $324,000,000.

We realised that it was a hard life for the goldminers. We recommend that if you haven't been, that you go down and check it out for yourself.






These gold ingots represent the 6.5 tonnes of gold taken from the Clutha river by dredging companies between Alexandra and Clyde during 1895-1923. These guys are calculating the current value of the gold. Each bar would be worth about $900,000. In total this amount of gold would be worth $324,000,000





Gillian Grant reads her poem inspired by the exhibitions of a 28-panel mural, painted in 1962 by Russell Clark