Mark Sommerset visits NWS

We have been lucky enough to have Mark Somerset visit our school as a guest author for our annual book week. He is the author of the laugh out loud books Baa Baa Smart Sheep and I Love Lemonade.

We listened to Mark read The Boy In A Cherry Tree. We discussed the book, sharing our ideas about what we think the book is about. Mark explained to us this book is about following our dreams and passions.

We laughted along as Mark read I Love Lemonade. We learnt the moral of the story...revenge doesn't pay off.

We had the opportunity to ask Mark questions. We learnt he likes all his books and The Cork in The Ocean was the first book he wrote. The ideas for the book came from a really rough boat trip and the experience he had.

Problem solving

We hosted 6 schools for our cluster today for the student lead Toolkits.

After an amazing day of sharing and growing our digital skills we finished with a problem solving challenge.

Coding Challenge

We hosted the Ski Hilo tool kits today. Well done.to.oyr Room 15 buddies for taking a risk and giving coding a go.for the first time.

Swimming

Room 13 have been making the most of their opportunity to have some swimming lessons with the instructors at Dean Greenwood Swim School.

Dance

Over the last three days the learners in Rooms 11, 12 and 13 have been exploring different forms of dance. In Room 13 they were exploring ti rākau.



We started by understanding the whakapapa and tikanga of  ti rākau. Then explored in pairs, sharing our sequence with one another.

Making Yarn

We are weaving and knitting with wool and other fabrics this term. Today we made our own yarn.

Talk to the learners in Room's 11, 12 and 13, they can explain how will in turned into  yarn.

Rugby Skills

We had our first rugby skills lesson today.

Perimeter

We've been doing some learning about perimeter.

What is perimeter? We now know it is the outside  measurement of a shape.

Today's challenge was to work together to make a shape with the largest possible perimeter first using 6 squares, and then 9 squares.

We noticed a pattern, for every new square we add, we increase our perimeter by 2. Using our pattern we made a prediction about the largest possible perimeter we could make as a class. We tested our prediction and discovered our thinking was right.

Great maths lesson today Room 13!

We are unique

We are building stronger relationships with one another by learning to appreciate our differences.

We created shields using google drawing to communicate what makes us unique as well as our class.

Our Digital Foot Print

Today Mr. V. visited our class to help teach us about what a digital foot print is.

We learnt that we need to have a positive digital foot print - what is a positive digital foot print?

The things that we post online can be there for a very long time. We need to make sure that the things that we do online are appropriate for our audience, because they will be there for a very long time!

Visualisation

We have discovered the into the book website after getting our key codes we started to explore visualisation. We are looking at how carefully selected words help the reader to create a movie in their minds. We want to create movies for our readers with our writing.

Vision testing

Today we had our vision tested by students from Auckland University.

Jump Jam

The weather might be awful outside, but we still get to do our PE thanks to Jump Jam.

Making connections

We start each morning coming together with Room's 11 and 12 to set our goals and build relationships with one another.

Learners have written a pepeha and take turns to share this with Room's 11, 12 and 13. 

Once we have finished we should our appreciation by signing a waiata. 

Maths time

Some learners have been making the most of our modern learning environment furniture - here you can see a student drawing a place value house to work out how to write the digits for the number words on studyladder. 

Exploring colour

We have been exploring colour in preparation for our finished piece of term 1 art.

Using paint, learners blended primary colours to create secondary colours. Learners also learnt about tertiary colours - colour made when mixing a primary colour with a secondary colour.

The colour wheels that you can see being painted here will help the learners to plan which colours they will use in the finished piece of art.

Tuakana teine

We practiced tuakana teine with our buddy class today. Tuakana teine is part of traditional Maori society when an older more expert person helps a younger less experienced person. 

Room 13 learners helped their buddies to create a river highlighting something that they have trouble learning. Room 15 learners talked about what they didn't like about their chosen topic and how they can find a way over their river.

Swimming

As part of our PE learning we've been splashing around our school pool.

Teaching one another

Today our awesome year 6's held student lead workshops to help our year 5's learn their pepeha.

We'll done to those learners brave enough to stand up and deliver their newly learnt pepeha.