How to make google forms

A google form is an online survey. We're going to make a survey to collect data on our paper investigation.

Watch this 'how to' video to learn how...

What can WE do about it?

Here's a great animated video that gives us some ideas about what we can do to make a difference for our planet. Watch and fill out the think board - while gathering some of those ideas!



Today we thought of some things we can do at home and mimed them to the class - we had to guess what they were and then think critically about the pros and cons of each action. Can you guess the environmental actions from these photos?

Save the Kiwi!

WALT: recall and retell facts. Think critically and make inferences.

eUpdate Week 7

ASB Maths Challenge!

Are you up for a maths challenge? Click on the image below, register yourself with your parents and get into it!

Some of the prizes include money, bank accounts and even gold medals!

Jibbo Bank accounts!

Today we started our first market day for Jibbo. Here are some pics and an embedded form of our bank accounts.

Brock is getting his nails done at 'The Funky Wunkies.'

This business have designed a tech dec playground for us to buy some time on!

You can see how many snidges we are earning through our businesses!

Red Nose Day!

Do you think we look red? Well done, Aidan W for winning our class competition as the best dressed.

Environmental Issue - 2!

Let's watch this and practise our 'remember facts and information' and 'think critically' WALTs for oral language! - Mrs Kerr will help you complete the think boards in your groups...



What do you think about this issue? What can YOU do about it?

A Great News Show

Watch this example of some kids doing a news show and make a criteria for tomorrow's screening!

Inspiration for Jibboo

Everyone was pretty excited about Jibboo this Friday and we had a great discussion about what we can and can't do for our businesses. I thought this video of a boy called Cain might inspire a few people to create some amazing ideas for their business.

 Remember - these are the basic rules.

 1. No sugar (we have a tax but sugar is ruled out due to the next rule...

 2. No products using things bought with NZ dollars - recycled or free materials (not even bought by your mum). 

 3. Use your imagination and creativity - you products or service will do best if adapted over time, based on what your customers want. 

 Here's the pretty cool story about a boy your age (mostly)

Caine's Arcade from Nirvan Mullick on Vimeo.

Using expression when we read.

Today the Elephants reading group was practising how to use expression and fluency when we read out loud. We had a go at recording our voices on garageband to see the ups and downs in our volume - one part of using expression. You can see Paige's example in this photo.

That was great workshop today, Elephants! You can see more examples of our literacy workshops on the Literacy Modeling Books link at the top of our blog. We would LOVE some more comments and feedback on what you think about what we are learning.

Global Warming!

Today we dug deeper into the issue of global warming. We're getting better at remembering facts and information and we used this video to help us practise.


In groups of 3 or 4 we stopped at intervals and completed these thinking maps. Thomas and Aidan W did a great job at recalling the information and recording it on their map.

Our big idea this for this term's inquiry is, 'We can make a difference to the world around us!' I can see from the comment in the 'How do I feel about this?' section that we have some work to do to convince someone that they CAN influence or make change, no matter how small. I like your honesty, boys.

How do you feel about global warming?

For a challenge - did you know that there are some people who don't believe that global warming is actually happening? You could ask you parents why...

Environmental News

Today we created a criteria for what makes a great news show. This is called 'feed up!' Here are our ideas.

Remember to work on your next steps from your speech in week 2 - that's called 'feed forward!'

Are you ready to Geocache?

Here is what we will use to get us started on our big class Geocache hunt today. We are going to be putting our mapping skills to the test - BIG TIME!

Jibboo Applications!

Congratulations to these successful applicants!  

Bank Manager - Sophie
Bank Teller - Nicole, Daniel, Kahn
Tax Officer - Cassie
Advertising Assistant - Brock

The Lorax! - Original Book

News Show Example

Next Wednesday you'll be presenting your news show about the environmental issue your team is investigating. Here's an example from last year to give you an idea of what you could do.

What could you do to improve it?

Mars Rover Panorama

Have a look at this amazing panorama from the robot on mars! It's amazing to imagine yourself on another planet like this.

Digital Modeling Books

Have you had a chance to look at our digital modeling books? They are another way you can be involved with what we do at school.

The modeling book blogs are linked from our pages at the top of this blog. There is one for maths and one for literacy. Here's an image from our literacy modeling book.

You can have a read of your child's group work by clicking on their tag at the bottom of a post - all of their group posts will come up on the blog (if you ask your child which group they are in they will know.)

Some of our posts are videos, some are photos but most of them are created using an ipad app called 'paper'. I hope they give you a window into what we are up to - you can even comment or ask a question using the link on the right.

I'd love to hear how you find it or even suggestions of how it could be improved or changed!

Football Skills

This term we're doing a mini unit on football skills. We want to get really good so we can 'waste' Kauri in a football match!

We're using this solo matrix to help us work out our next learning step. This is Thomas's self assessment. He thinks he's at level 2 (solo multistructural) because he's mastered three or more strategies but there are some more skills he needs to get better at. His arrow next to today's date says that he needs to get better at dribbling with both feet so that's what he worked on today during our drill circuit.

Here's a video of the 'elimination game' we played after our circuit. We had to 'maintain possession' of the ball or risk having our ball kicked out of the grid and being eliminated.

eUpdate Week 5

Contrasting Lines

There is a line growing across our main room! We've been learning about how to create contrast with lines and colours. Make sure you pop in and see how far across the wall our combined line is getting.

Teacher's College Skype

Today we had a skype session with some trainee teachers from our local teacher's college. They spent 30 minutes asking us about how we use elearning strategies and technology in class to help us learn!

There were some fantastic questions and I was so proud and impressed with their answers. Here are some of the questions they asked;

 - what kinds of technology do we have?
 - how do we think it helps us learn?
 - do we have any ipad apps we could recommend?
 - are there any negatives to having the technology in class?

It was an excellent opportunity to practise our oral language learning goal for the week of 'Using our Social Courtesies!' I was proud of you all for the way you spoke in turns and the polite, detailed answers you gave - here's a screen shot of the comment their lecturer sent on skype afterwards!

Surprise!

Look what came to school after you had all gone home!

See what happens when you visit our blog after school - you get some little rewards... =) 

Should there be a Milford Tunnel?

We'll be using these links to help us decide whether we would allow the Milford Tunnel.

TV3 News - Campbell Live

TVNZ News

eUpdate #3

Our Class Rules!