In writing this week, we have been working on making our writing more interesting to read. We have been discussing WOW words - descriptive words that make our work more interesting. Words like:
enormous instead of big or icy instead of cold.
Below are some videos of our work using the website telescopictext.org - we started with a very simple sentence, then added WOW words and extra detail to make the sentence more interesting.
What do you think of our work?
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Wednesday, 11 February 2015
Kid President
"Kid President" is a boy from the United States who makes funny and inspirational clips. This one is called Pep Talk from Kid President.
How do you feel after watching this clip?
What message will you take away from Kid President?
How do you feel after watching this clip?
What message will you take away from Kid President?
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Maths - Place Value with decimals
Today for maths we were practising converting decimals to whole numbers, such as 3.502 million is the same as 3,502,000. This was quite challenging!
What did you learn from this activity?
We had to order the populations for cities around the world. We wrote the population onto a post-it, then we ordered the populations from smallest to largest. As a class we checked the order. We had to change some because they were in the wrong order. Oops!
What did you learn from this activity?
Sunday, 8 February 2015
Why do we celebrate Waitangi Day?
Room 8 has researched information about the Treaty of Waitangi. It is an important document in our country's history, but what do we know about it?
The students in Room 8 were asked to research about the Treaty and present this information using Google Slideshow.
For some students this was the first time they had used Google Slideshow. I think everyone did an amazing job, especially since they only had just over an hour to research and present their work!
Miss Bolton
Antonio, Phoenix and Fonua: Brier and Ana: Kaleb and Robin: Karll and Tyron: Layton and Tui: Ofa and Luana-Nan: Susana and Destiny: Tara and Miracle:
The students in Room 8 were asked to research about the Treaty and present this information using Google Slideshow.
For some students this was the first time they had used Google Slideshow. I think everyone did an amazing job, especially since they only had just over an hour to research and present their work!
Miss Bolton
Antonio, Phoenix and Fonua: Brier and Ana: Kaleb and Robin: Karll and Tyron: Layton and Tui: Ofa and Luana-Nan: Susana and Destiny: Tara and Miracle:
Sunday, 1 February 2015
2015!
Wow, it's another new year at Paerata School!
This year we have an awesome group of Year 5 and 6s in Room 8. We are going to use our class blog to showcase our fantastic learning.
To start the year, I would like all students in Room 8 to complete this Google Form about what they think about maths.
I am so looking forward to having a brilliant year in Room 8! Miss Bolton
This year we have an awesome group of Year 5 and 6s in Room 8. We are going to use our class blog to showcase our fantastic learning.
To start the year, I would like all students in Room 8 to complete this Google Form about what they think about maths.
I am so looking forward to having a brilliant year in Room 8! Miss Bolton
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