Kidsedchatnz twitter chat

Wednesday afternoons are Room 8's "tech" time. We work in groups on different technology challenges. Two of the groups participate in the weekly @Kidsedchatnz twitter chat. This week the topic was "10 Random Questions". The questions were very thought-provoking. First we watched a clip (at the bottom of the post), then we answered as many questions as we could. Have a read of our responses. What would you have written?

"The Week that Was" reflection for Term 4 Week 2

Room 8 has been busy this year!

As part of our classroom displays for Art, Craft & Market Day, Miss Bolton has made a slideshow of what we have been doing this year (so far). Enjoy the show!

Tapa Art

Room 8 has begun to look at the art of Tapa cloth.  We have learned that tapa has different names depending on which Pacific nation you are from:
 
   Cook Islands/Tahiti - Tapa
   Samoa - Siapo
   Niue - Hiapo
   Tonga - Ngatu
   Fiji - Masi
   Hawai'i - Kapa

First we talked about what we already knew about tapa.  Then we looked at images of tapa cloths and wrote down what we noticed and what we wondered.  Click here to see what we noticed and wondered.

We also watched this clip about tapa from the programme "Tangata Pasifika"

We will be designing and creating our own digital tapa cloths.

Keep checking back to see photos of our work!

Algebra

This week's maths focus has been Algebra, in particular finding rules for sequential patterns.  It has been quite challenging, but there have been a lot of great discussions happening around the class.

Here are a few shots of the what our board has been looking like at the end of our maths session:

Today (20 August)

Yesterday (19 August)

Here are some clips of our discussions and work:

AVAILLL

Room 8 has begun a new reading programme called AVAILLL.  It stands for Audio Visual Achievement In Literacy, Language, and Learning.

We "ReadWatch" a movie.  This means that while the movie is playing, we have to also read the subtitles.  Throughout the movie there are activities we have to complete, and we also read parts of the book that the movie is based on.  We have to pay a lot of attention to the subtitles to complete the activities correctly!

The first movie we have studied is "Meet the Robinsons", which is based on the book "A Day with Wilbur Robinson".

Below are a few photos and videos of Room 8 during our AVAILLL time.

 ReadWatching "Meet the Robinsons".  You can see that everyone is on task, and if you watch carefully you can see people reading the subtitles!

This activity is called Spellfast.  You can see (and hear!) that every one is on task and engaged in the activity.

The Week that was - week 4