Lego Rugby World Cup Clip!

Fractions - Pizza

Pizza Fractions party! Do the quiz at the end of the slideshow...

As an end to our Fractions unit, we made pizza with Room 2 on Friday. We cut the pizza into halves first, then as we had 6 people in each group, we cut the pizza into sixths - an equal share for everyone. Each person got 1/6 of the pizza that their group made. They were delicious!

Check out some of these links that have activities with fractions:

Pizza Fractions

Pizza Party

Rugby World Cup Clips - How the World Cup Balls are Made

Skype with Extreme11

We had a Skype chat with Extreme11 from Hokowhitu School on Friday.

We asked several questions and then we got asked some questions. By listening well, we found that there were some similarities and differences between Extreme11 and Room 1:

Similarities:
- We both have year 3 and 4 students in our class;
- Both classes experienced the recent snowfall;
- Our classes both do Art;

Differences:
- Room 1 has year 2 students in it;
- Extreme11 has a pirate ship to play on!
- Room 1 has a fort to play on!
- Room 1 has a teacher that likes to dance to 'Firework';
- Extreme11 has 26 students and Room 1 has 20

Are there any other similarities and differences you can think of?

Leave a comment if you can think of some...

Our morning in the snow at Tokomaru!

Our morning in the snow at Tokomaru! on PhotoPeach

Snow at School!

We were all a bit shocked to find snow at school this morning.  It was all over the bark areas, our shade area, and our slide!  Some of us made some snowballs out of it, but unfortunately the sun came out and melted it all before morning tea.

Do you know how snow is made?

Where else did snow fall in New Zealand?

School Speech Competition

We have been writing and practicing our speech for a number of weeks and after all of this we shared our speeches in our class competition yesterday.  There were so many excellent speeches and some students really challenged themselves to get up and share their speech with confidence.

Six students were selected to go into the school competition on Monday.  A big congratulations to: Annabelle, Charlotte, Corey, Lukaz, Meghana, and Ryan.

Our parents and community are welcome to come and support these students on Monday at 11am in the school library.  Best of luck to you all!

Extreme Eleven - comments

A few of us left a comment for our blogging buddies in Extreme 11 at Hokowhitu School as part of our writing. We have got a couple of replies with questions we can reply to:

Hi, Extreme 11. Cool conversations. It is fun seeing you making conversations with animals. The bird looked like a hawk! I liked the bird and hawk one. It was a crack – up! Cool blog. I like it. Our class has 20 people. How many people do you have in your class? We have 3 classes in our school. How many do you have? I live in Tokomaru. We have lots of farms. I am 7. How old are you guys? I love going to India! It is really fun for me. You get to watch TV in the aeroplane!

Can’t wait for a reply!
Yours sincerely,
Meghana

Hi Meghana
Hi I’m Ethan in room 11 at Hokowhitu schoolWe have twenty four people in our class.We have 14 classes at our school but one is a music and japanese class.Our class has year 3′s and 4′s so our class has 7 year olds and 8 year olds but only a few are 9 and I am 8 years old.Meghana do you know how many people live in Tokomaru .

hi my name is Lukaz I am from Tokomaru School. i like your movie it’s COOL!!!!!!!!

Hi Lukaz
Hi I’m Ethan thanks so much for all your comments we liked them so much !!!!!

Nice dress up’s Extreme 11. My favourite thing to dress up in is my witch costume. It is black all over it is cool. What is your favourite thing to dress up in? Good bye for now .

Hi i am Domonic From Tokomaru school. Do you do art? We do art.

Hi Domonic
Hi I’m Ethan we do art because once we did one about a myth .Are you in the same class as Meghana?

We now need to think of some questions to ask them for our Skype session coming up next week. 

Leave a question that you would like to ask the students of Extreme 11 in the comments section below...

Think about open-ended questions that will give us more information (not just yes/no answers)

Vowel Bat!

Today we did a spelling activity where we had to write our spelling words without the consonants in them. To do this we needed to know the vowels. Check out this cool Vowel Bat video to help you remember your vowels!

A Thank You from 2D at Yugumbir State School, Australia

After reading 'It's Lovely When You Smile' (the book 2D sent us) we created some pictures inspired by the story on ArtPad.  We thought about what makes us smile and then drew that using the online tool.  Then we sent the links to the pictures so they could watch them appear before their eyes!

Here is a link to the thank you on 2D's class blog.

Share the Joy

We watched and listened to Share the Joy' today. The best thing about it is that it is made up of sounds from New Zealand like water at the beach and a tui singing. 

What do you think about the song? 

What sounds can you hear? 

What sounds would you include if you were making up a song like this?

Extreme Eleven @ Hokowhitu School

Today I went to Central Normal School to help run a couple of workshops about ICT. Each teacher was given a buddy teacher from another school so that our classes can share ideas and learn new things. Our newest blogging buddies are Extreme Eleven at Hokowhitu School. You can check out their blog under our 'Blogging Buddies' on the right hand toolbar or just click on this link.

We look forward to getting to know our new ICT buddies!

Winter Wonderland Disco 2011

What a great disco! Tokomaru School has some of the grooviest dancers I have ever seen! Cool costumes too! Check out the slideshows of our Winter Wonderland Disco:

Winter Wonderland Disco 2011 on PhotoPeach

Happy Feet - Live Feed to the Penguin who is a bit lost!

Happy Feet live

Check out this live stream to Happy Feet the penguin.  The stream says: "Most of the time this picture will be black and white, as we are using an infrared light and camera. This is because the penguin is actually kept in darkness to simulate current conditions in Antarctica, where it is constant night during winter."
Check throughout the day for fresh snow being brought in and feeding times.

I wonder how far Happy Feet has travelled?  I wonder what he has seen?  I wonder what he is feeling?

Thanks 2D at Yugumbir State School!

Today we received a real surprise in the mail. There was a giant envelope with some special gifts from our buddies in 2D.

The first thing we pulled out was a boomerang! We wanted to have a go with it straight away! Then we pulled out letters for each one of us with lots of questions. Finally we found a book called 'It's Lovely When You Smile'. Mrs Bismark is going to read it to us during reading time so we can find out what it is about.

Thank you so much 2D - it was a great surprise for a Monday morning!