Aonghus's Poem

My bedroom was usual enough. It had a bed a cat, carpet, pillow, lego. My friends and me do stuff that boys do like play with my lego and build amazing things, we played with my cat we played catch my tail and sometimes we do wrestling.I would always win because she is a cat. Doing nothing important.

Teru's Poem

My  House

Was usual enough it has

Lots of awesome things .

Four mini ramps, a pool with a

Slide that goes into it,a big

Rope swing,also a mountain

Bike track ,a drum kit and

Bass guitar a trampoline,new

Tv . when I am there I did what

Most people would do I have

A skate sesh,then we do a few

Flips,play my drums/bass

Guitar and go down the bike

Track then I had a swim

I love my house

Sonny's Poem

The warehouse is usual enough it has games, clothes, furniture, toys, and art stuff. I did what 9 or 10 year olds do. Buy games and clothes, raced down the alley in a shopping cart, knocking over stuff and running off, playing around. And doing stuff that's not important.

By Sonny

Taylor Poem

My bedroom

      

My bedroom was usual enough. It had a quiet creek to it, the walls were almost bear, my stereo was a bit broken, it kept on turning on every 10 minutes, my bed was unmade, the corners had cobwebs on them. I did what all 9 year old boys do. Listen to my music, me and toby build cool stuff with my lego. I can play the darth vader tune. Doing nothing important.

By Taylor

Kiyo's Poem

My house was usual enough. You would see there my bed, my teddies, my ipad, and my tramp, my scooter, my ramp’s and a tv. I did what my family does. I played the playstation, I went on the tramp, I went to the skate park, I climbed the plum tree, I did gardening with mum. Doing stuff important.

By Kiyo

Yellow Submarine

Continuing the ukulele theme, here is a song you can play with your D, G and Aminor chords. 

Rock On,

Mr M

Ukulele Lesson

We've been working away at some ukulele songs in class recently. As all the students are at different levels, I thought a quick video lesson about some of the chords we've been looking at might be useful. If you have a ukulele at home, you could add this into your home leaning extra curricula section of the homework sheet if you like. There is absolutely no pressure to purchase a ukulele - but it is a fun and inexpensive instrument.



Rock On,

Mr M

Brody's Poem

My back lawn was usual enough. It had a creek, wild animals, covered in bush, caves, mud slides. I did what 8 year old boys do. Hunt for sheep, spy on an old lady, try to get lost, find our way back, target practice with sharp sticks , make huts, whittling sticks, not 3 thing more important than this one activity.

By Brody

Rian's Poem

My friends and I

Cambridge was usual enough. It had a road, a bridge, a church and a giant apartment tower. My friends and I do what friends do like. running around playing games, licking ice-cream, eating yummy food, feeding the ducks down by the bridge, and nothing else important.

By Rian

Aliana's Poem

Wellington zoo was usual enough it had cages, aviaries, foot paths, grass and amazing old statues, cafeteria, toy shop and a playful playground. My cousins, aunty and mum did what we always did. We walked through the zoo casually, looked at all the animals and taking photos of everything, had lunch and played on the playground.

IT WAS GREAT!!!!!!!

Home Learning Update

I've had a couple of parents recently enquiring about home learning. I have done blog posts in the past about what I consider to be a solid home learning programme. Homework is of course optional, a decision to make as a family, but there is a homework sheet available if your family participates. It is up to your child to pick up a homework sheet themselves, but I do endeavour to check them weekly and read any comments from parents about what they've been up to at home. Here are my recommendations.

• I feel strongly that students need to be reading a novel daily at home for 20-30 minutes.
• Reading to your child daily is also highly recommended.
• Reading Eggs is a good supplement to novel reading, a few people have let me know that their child tends to guess the questions rather than actually reading properly. This isn't an issue I've run into in the past to be honest, but is something to be mindful of at home. I monitor what the students are up to when they are working on the programme at school.
• Maths Buddy is a super way of getting some maths into the home learning programme. I set tasks weekly and these can be completed at home.
• Daily diary writing or similar is a classic home learning task.
• I do try to suggest home learning tasks related to the class programme via the blog as they occur to me. Keeping up with my weekly updates will give you occasional ideas.

You won't do all of these things all the time (except the reading hopefully), but in my view they are all useful tasks that will help your child learn. 

Rock On,
Mr M

DLO's

Kia Ora All,

The students have spent the best part of Friday learning to do some basic videos using chromebooks and creating a DLO about some statistics we've been working away on over the term. DLO stands for Digital Learning Object. The aim of a DLO is for the students to explain what they've learnt and celebrate and share their success with whanau and their peers. Scroll down the blog page, or click on your child's name, to see if they got a video completed today.

The briefing I gave the students for the DLO was that it needed to include:

• The goal (create a survey and graph the results).
• Show and explain the survey.
• Show and explain the spreadsheet created from the survey.
• Show and explain the features of the graph.
• Talk about what they could tell from the graph including at least: most popular, least popular and difference between them.

When you view and comment on your child's video, it would be a good idea to view the brief and give your child a comment telling them one thing they nailed, something to work on next time and finish with a positive comment.

Rock On,

Mr M

Information Report

Kia Ora All,

This week we've been reading and highlighting the key ideas in information reports about sea creatures related to our Rocky Shore inquiry. Next we've been making notes (hopefully in our own words) in our reading books. In writing time, we are currently in the process of producing our own information reports about the creatures we read about during reading time.

If you want to link your home learning programme to a school activity this week, you could read an article of interest with your child and get them to show you how they take notes. Here is a website with some fish fact files. You will also find others with a quick google search.

Then you could look at the success criteria below (I always have a goal and success criteria for writing time, this is an example from this week's writing programme). You could get your child to use the notes you took in your reading to write their own information report on the animal you researched.

Rock On,

Mr M

Carmyn and Emily's Statistics DLO

Kahu and Kiyo's Statistics DLO

Aonghus, Luca and Aurora's Statistics DLO

Max and Lochie's Statistics DLO

Aliana and Gabriel's Statistics DLO

Jack and Brody's Statistics DLO

Room 5’s Amazing Camp

I woke up for some reason .  My dad was on me and I said get off me dad, you’re so heavy.  He flinged off me like a silver bullet.  He said “good morning Lochie”.  “Good morning Dad, what’s on today?” “Nothing, why”.  “Because you’re going to Bridge Valley!!!!!!!!!!!” Dad said excitedly.  “Oh yeah, I forgot about that!”  “Have you got my bags ready?” “No, I need to pack them!!”   “Ok then get up”.  “Ok Dad.  I will get ready for camp!!!”  

“See you Mum and Dad”.  “Have a good time at camp Lochie!!”.  “I will have lots of fun” I said excitedly.  Woa I was not expecting it to be like that anyway.  It will still be fun”.  I wonder what cabin I am in?  I just have to wait and see. Yay I am in the cabin with Louis, Kahu, Kiyo, Broady, Aonghus and Teru!!!!!

The next morning for breakfast we had toast and cereal with fruit and yoghurt and it was so good!!!  Then we went for a swim and I went on the water slide.  I also went on the hydroslide and it was fun.  There was a person called Georgia who taught us to play Get Fresh.  I wet Logan on the head and it was fun.  I liked camp coze it is awesome!

By Lochie