Week 3 Term 4

This week we have continuing to look at measurement in maths.  We have even been drawing pirate ships outside on the concrete to practice using the skills we have been practicing.  This week we have also been looking at a famous abstract artist “Kandinsky” and have been re-creating our own pieces of work based on this.  We are also looking forward to creating some recycled can art.  Some of us still need to bring in cans for this.  

This week we have all been working on our school devices.  This is helping us to practice skills we have been working on with Mrs Gardiner and many of us have got certificates up in our room.  We have also been looking at our class website which Mrs G has set up for us with useful links and which tells us what our tasks are in Maths and Reading.  In writing we have been re-looking at including gems in our stories.

By Freedom, Lani, TeAorangi & Mrs G

I'm SOOOOO Excited!!!

Wow ... What a great day we have had together today.  That's not to say it didn't have its challenges.  It certainly did, but we overcame them together.  But here is a little background to these comments...

In the holidays all the computers at Ohaeawai Primary were given an overhaul.  Old programs were removed and the new windows eight program was uploaded onto all - THIS INCLUDED ALL OUR NET-BOOKS !!! and what makes it even better is ... before the holidays, we had about 15 computers that were working reliably.  Now we can each have our own device to work on !!! HOW COOL IS THAT !!!

Sorry for the over use of exclamation marks, I know it is grammatically not correct but it is just ... brilliant.

We are having a few teething problems with this however, especially when the usernames and passwords get changed on us and we aren't told what the new ones are, but here to hoping that it is now sorted and we just get clean sailing.  Here are a few photos of our kids working.  Using the same resources as before but being able to collaborate even more and help each other.

Take a look and see what you think.

I can't wait for tomorrow.  Lets try Kahoot again for wordworks ... but this time those who want to compete on their own will be able to.   OOOOHHHHH its just soooo exciting.  Watch this space!

Newsletter notes week 2 Term 4

We had a great assembly last week.  This week we have finally been given our duffy books from term 3.  This was super exciting.  In the mornings we have been doing 3 minutes madness for maths which helps us practice our basic facts.  We have been enjoying using Maths buddy and Read eggxpress.  These help us practice things we have been working on in class.  Mrs G says we should use these at home as well as they are great resources that normally cost allot of money.

by Jayden Mia & Antonio

Greats and grans day!!!

All I can say is WHAT A GREAT DAY!

Here is a slide show of a few photos of our kids on the day.  I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Letter posting video

Here is the video we showed on Friday at our assembly of the children posting their Kereru letters to their pen friends.  We have had such fantastic feed back and feed forward for this project.

I am looking forward to finding ways to share some of this with you.

Week 1 Term 4 Weekly update

This Friday it”s Greats and Grans Day the Juniors are doing some folk dancing.  Room 4/7 have been doing some foot prints for Greats and Grans Day.  We have been writing some our stories about our Grandparents.  Bridget has been Teaching us some amazing things about bodies with Harold.  We got some Harold Books from Bridget that have lots of fun activities.  

Gina taught us some amazing things about running and we played some games with her.  One of the game was about airplanes and you had to fly around with your arms dragging out behind you.  There were people that were in and they had soft balls to hit you in the legs.  We also had a Duffy assembly.  They did a play about Uncle Bingo learning to love reading.

                                  

                                             By Lani’ Lilly’ Kate and Amelia.