Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Talking About Our Capital E Trip

Here are some (unscripted) students talking about our Capital E trip last Thursday.
Jimmy, Keith and Jamie talk about Kaput
Krishaan and Frederik talk about Like It Or Loop It

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Basic Facts Ladder

Your Basic Facts ladder will be coming home this week in your home learning books. You can use this link to help explain each 'rung' of the ladder, and to give you some practice activities.

Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Made in ?????

Today we watched a video from Campbell Live video about where our food comes from.

We also looked at the food packets that we had brought to class.

Why don't we make all our food in New Zealand?

It's not hot or cold enough to grow the food - James G
Nuts like peanuts we can grow but we can't grow enough to make peanut butter - Elanor
The dirt isn't the right temperature to grow nuts and other things - Patrick
The temperature is too cold to grow coconuts - Ava
Some plants you just can't grow in New Zealand, like the cocoa bean - Jamie
New Zealand isn't a big enough country to grow all the different foods we want or we can't grow enough - Jimmy
It is cheaper to get food from other countries - Sam
It is cheaper to make or grow some foods in other countries than it is to make it in New Zealand.

Monday, 18 March 2013

Reflecting

Our latest key competency is Reflecting.
No -  not this sort of reflecting!

We are talking about reflecting on our learning.
We think about our learning goals when we look at our work.

We decide what have we done well.
We look for what we have to work on next - our next steps.

Explain to your family why those last two sentences are in pink and green.

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Assembly

Congratulations Room 1 on a great assembly. You all did so well and should be proud of yourselves.
Here is the Water Fun Day slideshow we shared on Friday.