Our First Few Weeks of School

We've had a great time during our first weeks at school. We've read "The Hole in the King's Sock" by Dot Meharry and "Is That An Earthquake" by Jennifer Cooper.

We have learnt a new place value game called "Traffic Light". It's fun and it helps us to learn about 3 digit numbers. Today we learnt a new place value game "Close to 100" but we find that one a bit tricky at the moment.

We have been learning about the Treaty of Waitangi and Mrs McGhie read us a really cool book about the Treaty House - the house in the book could talk!!! But, we know that it doesn't in real life.

We've written a recount about what we did in the holidays. We had to use the 5 W and 1 H questions to organise our thinking.

We are going to be learning all about New Zealand this term. Please keep visiting our blog to hear all about our exciting learning.

Preparing for the New School Year

The new school year starts in New Zealand in just a few weeks time. There will be a new bunch of friends joining Mrs McGhie and we are lucky enough to be moving into a brand new classroom. Our cluster map has reset itself and Mrs McGhie has made changes to the appearance of the blog in preparation for her new class. Please pop back in a few weeks time when we will resume or regular blogging.

Some of us go to French classes at lunchtime. We are learning to sing Jingle Bells in French.

The Cool Microphone

Mrs Mac brought a cool microphone. The new microphone is cool. We had a good time sharing our news with the microphone. The microphone can record our news while we are talking. It has a data stick so Mrs Mac can put it on her computer . We can also listen to our news when we are finshed because we recorded it. We sit on the mat in a circle and share our news. The best bit is listening to our news. We can't see anything.
By AF

Fighting Fit

This term we have been learning about skeletons, hearts and brains. We have been doing skeletons reports. These are some facts we have learnt- your ear bone is the bone that keeps you balance. Your brain is the most important part in your body.
By NMc

Our Pirate Maps

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Last term we were learning all about writing instructions. We got to create our own islands and design pirate maps to go with them. Then we wrote instructions to help the pirates find the treasure buried on our islands. The little booklet has pictures of some of our maps.

Polar Bear Animation

I made a slide show with 16 photos. the polar bear was very full after he ate the seal. I was very excited because I remembered how to rotate & flip the polar bear so that it would change direction. The polar bear heard something so he turned around. Mrs Mac showed some of the other teachers - they were very impressed. She also showed me how to add sound effects to my movie in Movie Maker. You can hear the sound effect when you play the video.
By KH

Learning to Animate Part 2

Today K.H. completed his own animation. He made this without any help from Mrs Mc and used Movie Maker to put it all together. Now K.H. has started to teach M.B. to make animated movies so we have her movie to look forward to. Check out K.H's animation below.

Learning to Animate

Mrs Mc taught K.H and some other children how to use Paint and Power Point to make animations. We thought it was really cool and we all want to learn how to make our own animations. Mrs Mc started off by creating 5 pictures to show us how to do it. Then K.H. got to use Mrs Mc's pictures to create 3 more pictures to add to the animation. The animation in this post was created by Mrs Mc and K.H.together.
K.H. then got to start working on his own animation and has had a very busy day creating graphics for his animation. He's going to finish it next week to share with us all. K.H. is also going to become the class expert and teach some more of us how to make animations. This means we get to be experts too and teach other children in our class.
Make sure you check back regularly to see our animations as we add them.

Cross Country Practice

This year the cross country is very long. The cross country goes out of school and down the
road. Along the way we saw a beautiful house and a huge pool on the deck. The bottom of my shoe was broken. I showed my teacher my broken shoe. After the practice it was lunch time.

J.B