Friday 24 February 2017

Phew...Week 4 flew by!

Phew what a week!  Week 4 flew by.  
We started off our week by heading to the pool. Year 4 headed to the leisure centre and the year 3s stayed and swam in the school pool. Both years enjoyed the swimming and it was a great way to cool off! 



The use of our devices has been successful.  The students are learning to log on independently and onto studyladder (www.studyladder.co.nz) and sumdog (www.sumdog.com). This has required the use of a few usernames and passwords and learning to read what our device is asking us to do. At times this has been challenging for some students but after a week of practice we are well on our way to being experts!



We have been using our devices to practise our maths - basic facts and statistics, watching videos that support our inquiry learning and reading a variety of stories.

In amongst learning to create a statistical investigation, reading, writing and our inquiry we managed to have time to get on our bikes! The use of school bikes and the bike track has made teaching the students important skills on their bikes easier. Some were learning to ride for the first time, some were gaining confidence again and some were practising new skills like hand signalling and keeping control through a small confidence course.  At the end of the session it was great seeing the students using the bike track.








Saturday 18 February 2017


Last week (week 3) L5 started looking at what a community is and the children came up with their own definition. We will continue our inquiry through the next few weeks. 


Our maths programme is well under way and we are focussing on statistics.  The children completed their first statistical investigation last week on the number of siblings children in L5 have. Children were asking questions, collecting data, creating tally charts and will move into creating bar charts and drawing conclusions from this data.

Our reading and writing programme begins this week also. 

Our school has a new challenge - we are to learn a new dance and song from the movie "Moana".  We have been practising all week and the children dance and sing amazingly! Click on the link to see the moves we are learning :)


I've also attached the link to the song we are learning!



Some of the children also enjoyed swimming in the pool on Friday lunchtime.

Saturday 11 February 2017

What a great start!

L5 - Week 1 and 2

We have had a great start to 2017!  It has been great getting to know everyone and we have been building relationships through PE, sharing, brainstorming, discussions and games. Last week we started building our fitness and we challenged B6 to scatterball! We have looked at our school motto and values and have created our L5 treaty. 

We have also started art - our silhouette pictures with all the things  we like or love to do cut out and glued. On Friday we got to share our "all about me" bags.  It was awesome as we found out things we didn't know about our class community.