Camp Highlights 2012

Here's a slideshow of some of the highlights from this year's Year 6 Camp! Can you tell how much fun we all had?

Maths Whizz Trial!

This week the student's have all completed their maths assessments and are well under way with their tutorials and activities. the feedback so far is great - 'It's really fun!', 'I can see my improvement already.' and 'I really like learning things that are my next steps!' are just some of the comments so far.

Here's a video of a presentation about Maths Whizz at a recent teaching conference. There is also a parent info letter I've sent home for you to have a look at. Please have a look at your student's account at home. They would love to show you around the programme - if they haven't already!

Maths Whizz!

This week the Matai maths class is starting a trial on a new maths site! We have to complete an assessment first, to help us start at the right place.

Go to this login page and use your logins details (on a small sheet I'll give you) and try to complete the activities before the end of the week. 1 small tip - don't click 'I don't know!' Try to answer every question.

Have fun!

3D Shapes Activities!

WALT: sort, name and create 3D shapes and nets!

Use this Pinterest boards to choose your activity for today. You can do as many as you like!

How to 'Elaborate!'

Today the Pencils had a go at this website to show them how to add more detail to their writing. You can see the words 'unfold' as the story gets bigger.

Have a go! You can create your own by clicking on create.

Sketch Drawings and Pitch!

Paper for trees!

As a follow on from our inquiry into reducing paper use at school, from last term, we received our four trees to plant. Every skip of paper we recycle equals a certain number of plants for the school under the 'Paper for trees' scheme set up by a non profit organisation.

This week we 'bedded' them in to keep them growing until we find a good place for them in the school grounds. Great work, team!

3D Nets / Art!

WALT: create and identify 3D nets - shapes.

 Can you name these 3d shapes we've made?

Research Write up!

The Pens and Quills writing groups will be using this interactive to help guide your writing about your passion project research. Great design starts with great research!

How we like to learn.

Last week's question of the week asked what we do that helps them learn in our class. It was also a chance for them to suggest things we could do better or different.

Here is a brainstorm I'm collating of all their answers. It makes for great reading.



Create your own mind maps at MindMeister I am often impressed with the creativity of our students. Here's Gabby explaining through a video about the idea of 'Kaizan' which is an idea about improvement. Thanks for doing sush a good job at explaining it, Gabby!

3D Nets!

Today we are going to start learning about 3D Nets - their shapes, vertices, faces, edges and how they can be categorised. Work through this interactive series to gain a better understanding before we start our activity.

What is Empathy?

Watch this video and brainstorm ways we can listen with integrity. How can having empathy helps us?

Embeding a flickr image into your blog.

Here's a challenge for your question of the week - embed a picture from flick into your post. You can watch this tutorial I made to help remind you of the steps.

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Writing Masterpieces

I'm writing some comments on everyone's blogs and I thought, Wow! There has been some amazing progress last term with your writing!

Here are some highlights from two great posts... What do you think makes these posts great?

This is by Gabby (her name is no shown at the top).

Cardboard Challenge!

Today we ripped into making our cardboard challenge designs - here's a slideshow of some highlights. It was a great way to have a go at the design process for the first time and we really understood the importance of 're-design' to fix up and make our ideas better.

Great work, everyone!

Cardboard Challenge on PhotoPeach

The Design Process in 1 hour!

The Design Process - Quirky

Sometimes the design process can be tricky and you may need to redraw your design. Here's a video that show how many drawings or concepts a designer can go through before they get to their successful idea.

Using a number line!

Ben W lead a group to make this showme - they are explaining how to use a number line when adding 2 and 3 digit numbers! Nice work, team.

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Global Cardboard Challange

What do you think about this? Should we take part (a little late)?

Imagination.is website