Our Assembly

Today our assembly is all about camp.

 Here are the books we made on book creator to share with everyone. 

On the first day of camp we stayed at school and completed five different activities. Our first book tells you all about them.

On the second day of camp we went to TOPEC. We hadn't been there before. We learnt about water safety in rivers, we went into the bush and cooked damper and marshmallows and we challenged ourselves on a ropes course. These books explain what we got up to in more detail.

We had a fabulous time at camp. Thank you to everyone that helped.

Mackenzie's Visit

We were lucky today to get a visit from Mackenzie. She's just been to Christchurch to have an operation to get her second cochlear implant. At the moment she can't hear anything at all because her wounds from the operations need to heal. Then she will go back to Christchurch and get 'switched on'. This means they'll attach the rest of the implant and Mackenzie will be able to hear again - and hopefully she;ll be able to hear better than before! Because she can't hear anything we had to write down messages and use facial and sign language.  Mackenzie was her usual happy smiling self and it was lovely to see her. We can't wait until she's back at school and back with all of us in Room 4.

Camp Writing

We've been doing some great brain storming and thinking about our camp. We're creating some writing that we will turn into a book creator and share in our assembly this week. Look at all our thinking......

We Have a Problem

Our chooks are really into the laying business now and we're getting lots of eggs each day. The problem is that some of them have holes in them! We think the hens are pecking them or breaking them accidentally.  So we did a bit of research.....
Emma and Isabel found that if an eggs shell is too thin it is easy to break. It could be too thin because the hens are missing something in their diet.
Liam and Jordan found that if a chook is missing something in their diet, they can start to peck their eggs to try and get some calcium.
Pascoe and Heidi discovered that we need to make sure there is lots of hay in the nesting boxes so it is soft and to make sure not too many hens have to use one nesting box.
We are now looking into what nutritional needs a chook has so we can make sure we provide them with everything they need.

Emma also found this video for us......

Maths Problem Solving

Today we entered the "ZONE OF CONFUSION". This means we were prepared to feel a bit uncertain and confused in order to learn something new.  We worked our way through the problems below, talking with our buddies and sharing our learning. You might like to get your child to share how they solved these problems.

Tom and Ben are collecting crabs. They put their crabs into one bucket. Altogether they have 10 crabs. How many crabs could each boy have put in the bucket?

Pippa and Porsche did this:

 Charlotte has crabs and starfish in her bucket. She counted all the legs in her bucket - each crab has 8 legs and each starfish 5 legs. Altogether there were 60 legs. How many crabs and starfish are in the bucket? 

Thomas, Charlie and Jordan did this:

James built a sandcastle and decorated it with shells. Each shell is about 4cm long. He used 78 shells placed next to each other in a wavy line all around his castle. How many metres is the wavy line of shells?

Heidi Mackenzie and  Pascoe did this:

4x7=28 and 4x8=32 and then we plused them.   When we discussed this as a class we found that there was an error because 78 is not a 7 and an 8 it is a 70 and an 8. Therefore we should have done 4x70=280 and 4x8=32 so 280+32=312cm. Now we need to turn it into metres so the answer is 3metres and 12cm.

Taitania, Georgia and Porsche did this:

 In my bucket were 5 more shells than starfish. There were twice as many starfish as crabs. Altogether there were 45 items in my bucket. How many shells, starfish and crabs are in the bucket? 

We are still finding an answer to the last question.....

Day One Of Camp

A beautiful day for day one of camp. The kids are enjoying a range of rotational activities.

Riskometer

We used our Riskometer today for the first time. The kids placed their names along the riskometer either at high, medium or low depending on how much of a risk they were prepared to take with their writing today. Taking a risk means pushing themselves to try new things or including tricky parts of writing in their work. After we have written we check whether we actually did take the risk we thought we were going to.