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.