Kauri Wheel relay Day

To help us get together and work together as a Hub we had a Wheel relay day. Miss Hill designed the relays of hoop, over and under, egg and spoon, sack race, roll and run, and splat. It was hot but we kept going and participated with alot of P.R.I.D.E.

Flip, Turn and Slide

Flip, Turn, Slide

Otherwise known as reflection, rotation and translation. 

In Room 10 as part of our Geometry unit we are learning about the above.

Here are some highlights of what we have done/learned so far

We explored, looking around the school grounds, all the time thinking about reflection and symmetry. We took some some photos of both natural and human made objects.

Here are just a few: 

  

    

I wonder which ones have lines of symmetry?

We practised using Google Draw to draw shapes, we reflected these shapes, rotated, translated and drew lines of reflective symmetry, so that we would be able to do the same with our photos.

and some Google Draw shapes, this is what we thought:

    

Join us on our learning journey .....

What Kauri Hub is about

Kauri Pride Award Winners!

Congratulations to our first three recipients!

Tiaana Rolls for using your superpowers of taking on responsibilities and getting the job done well.

Ruby Langford for showing super Parkvale PRIDE with her fabulous self management skills.

Tylor Johnson for showing your powers of Respect to others.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Boston Dixon, Ruby Hansen, 

Kalae Proctor and Lachlan Abraham-Smith for having an outstanding week in Room 12.  They have been wonderful examples of Parkvale Pride by working hard on their blogs, following instructions carefully and contributing their thoughts and ideas in our classroom discussions.  Ka pai!

Working Together Collabratively

Our learning is all about collaboration LEARN, CREATE, SHARE here are some pics and video of us problem solving cooperatively 

Reflective Symmetry

Solving Tangrams and learning  about FLIP, SLIDE, TURN

Room 12's getting ready for Camp Omatua!

Saturday 7th Feb 2015 - Room 12

We have been learning about working together.  Room 12 identified that we need to listen, look and respect each other's ideas to solve problems.  As we start thinking about going to Camp Omatua these skills will help us with the activities.  Check out some of our photos that show Room 12 working together.  Each group had to work out their total height. 

Room 10 Google Slides

5 Things our teacher needs to know about Me.

This week we explored using Google slides.  Here's a snapshot of our learning in class. Take a look at our work in our Google drives.

Summer Highlight

On my first day I was feeling pretty nervous about my new class and then I thought about all the Super hero things we will be doing and so I became brave again. We started off sharing a highlight from our holidays and it was great to hear all the cool stuff you super heroes have been doing. I showed the class a Google Slideshow of photos from my highlight.

Seaweek Poetry Competition

2015 SEAWEEK POETRY COMPETITION

Calling all budding Super hero poets! Enter the 2015 Seaweek Poetry Competition.

Write a poem that reflects the theme of Seaweek 2015, “Look beneath the surface – Papatai o Roto. Papatai o Raro” and send it to the aquarium.

There are five categories; three school categories (Primary, Intermediate and Secondary), an adult category and a Te Reo category.  All entries must be 400 words or less.
Awesome prizes for all categories!

Entries due:   4pm Thursday 19 February 2015

Winners notified:  Friday 27 February 2015

Poetry Reading evening: Winners in each category will be asked to read their poem at the National Aquarium of New Zealand at 7pm on Thursday 5 March 2015.

Download or collect an entry form for more details

National Aquarium of New Zealand, Napier
www.nationalaquarium.co.nz