Finding Fractions of Shapes

The Cubes and Pyramids have been learning to find fractions of shapes...

Daffodil Day

Today Room 14 was filled with lots of bright yellow daffodils in support of daffodil day. Thank you to all those families who helped support this wonderful cause :)

Daffodil Day

Just a reminder that it is daffodil day tomorrow. There will be bears (limited numbers), pens, windmills, stickers and daffodils available for sale outside the school hall.

Please help support this wonderful cause!

Pizza Lunch

Last term Room 14 worked really hard to raise money for the school in the spellathon. We were the class that raised the most money! For our prize the school provided us with a pizza lunch! 

Foam Painting

Last week we did foam painting to learn about the primary and secondary colours. We loved feeling the squishy foam and twirling the primary colours together to see what other colours we could make. 

We wrote some wonderful recounts about our foam painting experience. We have been working really hard to use lots of descriptive language. We are also using paragraphs to help organise our ideas. We are such wonderful writers! Here are a few of our fantastic foam painting recounts...

Cross Country

On Friday we had the school cross country. We had perfect weather for it and had lots of fun dressing up in our house colours. We spent weeks training for this event and all our hard work and dedication paid off. We all ran a great race and persevered right to the end! Well done to Bambi, Angel, Caitlin and Zayden who placed in the top 5!

Here are some photos from the day...

Fractions of Numbers

The Spheres have been learning how to find fractions of numbers using multiplication and division.
Here is Deshan, Ronak, Avinash and Rudra's strategy...

Down On The Farm

Today the Polkadots read a poem from their junior journal called 'Down on the Farm'. They then had a go at writing their own version of the poem. They tried really hard to use rhyming words and the correct poem structure. They published their poems on pic collage. 

Have a read of their awesome poems...

Homes Through Time

The Polkadots wrote a comparison comparing the first homes with homes today. They used google drawings to collaborate and share ideas. Here is their compare and contrast map and summary.

We are comparing the first homes with homes today. The first houses were like tents and were easy to take apart. Their houses were not very warm or comfortable. In the first homes there was no electricity and people had to learn to grow crops. Houses now have more windows to let light in. There are more rooms and the houses are bigger. Many people live in cities and we have electricity. We can see that although homes have changed over time there are still some similarities. Both the first homes and homes today give shelter. They both use materials to make them. People still live together in groups and in houses that are close together. We think that houses in the future will become crowded and will be built close together because the world is getting more and more people. We think that houses in the future will have more technology to make the houses more comfortable and user friendly. It will become easier to build houses because there will be lots of new machinery and technology.

We are at extended abstract because we made a prediction.

What's In Our School Bag?

Today Room 14 investigated what's in our school bags and where these items come from.

Have a look at what we found and the different places that they are made. We were surprised to find that not everything is made in China!! 

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Cats

Today during reading the Swirls learnt lots of interesting facts about cats. They decided to create a quizz sharing their new learning. How many of the questions can you get right?

Views on the News

The Stripes read the reader Views on the News. They decided to evaluate the statement "Sky cars are the answer to all traffic problems." They used google drawings to collaborate and share their ideas coming up with reasons for and against. Here is their thinking map and summary...

We strongly disagree with the statement that sky cars are the answer to traffic problems. Here are the reasons why we think sky cars are a bad idea. If we had sky cars they would scare away the birds and butterflies. Sky cars would create a lot of noise and would fill our air with pollution. Air cars would be very dangerous as they would get in the way of airplanes and helicopters. There would be a lot of crashes because there would be no travel lanes, traffic lights or road rules. Air cars would eventually create the same problems as on the road, as cars would soon begin to fill up the sky. When people look up at the sky all they would see is under cars. Overall we think sky cars aren't the answer to traffic problems because they would still create a lot of traffic problems - just not on the road. We think a better solution would be getting people to use their cars less by walking, riding their bike or taking the bus.

Our evaluation is extended abstract because we generalised.

Rosie The Pirate Parrot

The Polkadots have been learning how to answer comprehension questions with evidence from the text. They used Explain Everything to answer their questions. Here is Rudra's and Deshan's for you to watch...

Th Family Tree

Last Week the Polka Dots read the reader 'The Family Tree.'

A Family tree is a chart or diagram that shows your family history. For homework some of the Polkadots went home and had a go at making their own family tree.

Aly managed to go back 14 generations!

Cross Country Training

Just a reminder that we will be practicing the cross country course every Tuesday and Thursday for the next two weeks. Please ensure your child comes to school with suitable running clothes.

How News Travels

Today the Checks read the reader How News Travels.
This reader was very relevant to our inquiry topic globalisation. Have a look at these popplets they made brainstorming the different ways that news travels...

Adhvika

Zayden and Bryan

Ice-cream

Today the Polkadots read a reader about ice-cream!

They then created an advertisement for their own flavour of ice-cream. I don't know about you but I would love to try some of these exciting flavours!!

Solar Power Competition

Halsey Drive has been entered into a competition to win solar panels and power for 10 years. It is a voting competition so we need your votes! Please click on the picture below to vote for us.  All you need to do is click on 'vote' and search 'Halsey Drive School.' Thank you for your support :)

I Want To Fly

Look at these comic strips the Zig Zags created today for their reading follow up...

They did a fantastic job at inferring what rabbit might be thinking!

Becky's Blue Butterfly

Today the Polkadots worked collaboratively together on google slides to analyse the text Becky's Blue Butterfly. They did a wonderful job sharing and contributing ideas to each of the slides.

Calendar Art

For those parents who didn't have a chance to come in and see our amazing calendar art, here is a sneak peak of some of our wonderful artwork...

A Job For a Clown

Today the Zig Zags read the reader 'A Job For a Clown'. 

They decided to help Clown out by creating advertisements for jobs that would be better suited for him. Have a look at their awesome adverts!

Globalisation

WALT Define Globalisation.

Have a read of our wonderful ideas about Globalisation...

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We are defining Globalisation. Globalisation is being connected to the world. There are lots of different cultures and languages in the world. We can travel to other countries by airplane or boat and sometimes even by car. Globalisation is about experiencing other people’s cultures by speaking their language, trying their food and practicing their traditions. Here in New Zealand we buy things from other countries such as food, clothes, toys and electronics. We can hear about and see what’s happening in the world through watching the news and reading the newspaper. We can communicate with our family and friends in other countries by phone, skype, email, text and social media. Overall we think Globalisation is important because it allows us to keep in touch with family and friends, it keeps us up to date with what’s happening in the world and allows us to share and sell things with other countries. If we didn’t have Globalisation we wouldn’t know what’s happening in other parts of the world, we wouldn’t be able to communicate with people in other countries and we wouldn’t have such a variety of clothes, food and toys.

Giant Soup

Yesterday the Checks created a recipe for Giant Soup...