Christmas Around the World

We have been researching how Christmas is celebrated around the world.  We chose countries that we were interested in and produced some posters and Google Presentations to share our learning.

We have some here to share with you:

Enterprise Showcase

Recently at EPS we had an Enterprise Showcase to show what we have learnt and done during our Inquiry this year. Room 16 have worked hard to plan and create a butterfly house to protect monarch caterpillars from predators and encourage monarch butterflies to our school. Here are the results:

BEFORE

AFTER

                                        

Our LEARNZ field trip

This term we are taking a virtual field trip to Rakiura otherwise known as Stewart Island.  We will be learning about The Great Walk on Stewart Island and how they are working to save the Kiwi.

Here is the link to the LEARNZ field trip

Before we start our learning we had a discussion about what we already know about Stewart Island and our National Parks, and what we want to find out.

Here are the results:

Day 3 NZ Maths Week

Today we looked at attributes of shapes.  

We learnt about faces, vertices (corners) and edges of 3D shapes.  We know how to describe a 3D shape using geometry terms.

We also practised counting in te reo Māori.  

Here is a cool game we played and a fun 3D shapes video we watched.  

Enjoy!

Day one - Maths Weeks

Day one of Maths week.  

We focused on Quadrilaterals today.  

Do you know what a quadrilateral is?

Here are some cool videos and a game we played to help us remember. 

New Zealand Maths Week 2013

This week is NZ Maths Week.  

There are lots of exciting activities and events happening over the week!   

The Maths Olympiad (students and teachers!), maths videos, games and lots more. 

Our Butterfly Creek Trip 2013

Madame Butterfly Visit

Today we were lucky to have Madame Butterfly visit us at school.  She spoke to the Year 3 and 4 students all about butterflies.  We learnt so much, it was really interesting!  Mrs Dane even dressed up as a butterfly and we learnt all the different parts of a butterfly.  Have a look at our padlet about what we learnt!

Te Wiki ō te Reo Māori - Māori Langauge Week

This week is Te Wiki ō te Reo Māori!  

The focus this year is Ngā Ingoa Māori - Māori names.  

It is important to say place names and people's names correctly.  

How would you feel if people pronounced your name wrong?

Here are some short videos we have been watching this week.  

They have been teaching us how some places in Aotearoa got their names.  

What is Te Wiki ō te Reo Māori?

Rotorua

Hokianga

Otago

TeWaiPounamu

Ngauruhoe

Waikaremoana

Otari

Create a Te Reo story book on-line

Today we created a Te Reo Māori story book in class.  It was so much fun that we decided we wanted to try this at home too, so here is the link!  Have fun creating your books!

Te Reo Māori story book creator

Quad Blogging Week 4

Check out these blogs...leave some comments! This is the last week of quad blogging...

Room 2 Morningside Primary

Room 10 Tamaki Primary

Plurals learning

This week our spelling focus has been spelling plurals of nouns that end in f.  We also reviewed our plural knowledge.  

We played a fun game on the laptops to practise.  

Here is the link:

Our trip to Te Tuhi!

On Friday we went on a trip to Te Tuhi. 

We always love going there because we learn about different art styles and techniques, have fun practising them and create an amazing piece of art work. 

On Friday, Jeremy, the Te Tuhi Educator, got us to think about the place we live in Aotearoa NewZealand, and our own cultural heritage. We then created a self-portrait and combined this with a landscape to visually tell our personal story of the place we live in and our cultural identity. We used a combination of art materials, including pencil, vivids, dye and paint. 

 Check out our fantastic day:

Matariki Workshops

On Friday 14th June we spent the afternoon doing some workshops to celebrate Matariki.  We learnt how to weave whetu (stars) with Mrs Graham, we learnt how to play and sing Twinkle, Twinkle Little star in Māori on the Boomwhackers and set some goals for the rest of the years on some glittery stars.  we had a great afternoon...take a look:


Matariki Workshops on PhotoPeach

Tree Planting Fun

On Wednesday 12th June the Year 4's planted trees in the Elm Park Reserve with the NZ Landcare Trust.  This was part of the Volcano to Sea project.  You can find out more about this project by clicking here.  We really enjoyed planting the trees and helping our environment!  We created a PMI organiser as part of our reflections.  Here it is:

It's MATARIKI! Time to celebrate...

Check out these links to learn about what Matariki is all about:

Quad Blogging - Room 7 Henderson North School

Last week we were the focus for Quad Blogging week, this week it is time to focus on Room 7 Henderson North Primary School's blog!

Click on the link and check out their blog.  Don't forget to leave them a comment:

Super Room 16!!

During assembly on Friday Room 16 were awarded thress special awards!  We were very excited!

First we won Zero Waste Wally for being such a great Enviro class and then we won the Mathletics Award (with Rm20) for getting the most certificates in the last two weeks!  

CB won the Mathletics Award for getting the most points in the whole school!  Go CB!  What a great assesmbly!

Have you ever heard a Boomwhacker boom?...have a listen

Today we had a music session with Mrs Taljaard.  She taught us how to play the boomwhackers.  We learnt all sorts of things like how to hold one properly and how to make a clear noise.  We also played a short piece of music.  We had so much fun and can't wait to try them in our own class!

Hook, Line and Sing-a-Long

We had a fantastic afternoon of singing today... 

 Here is one of our favourite songs: