Our Pattern Work

As a cumulative task, we used the ipad app pic collage to take photos of our pattern artwork and inquiry. We wrote about how pattern helps us make sense of the world, how animals use pattern and what the world would be like without pattern.

Our Myths

As part of our concept pattern, we have been writing myths about the animal we studied for our inquiry. We then made the myth into a podcast or used photo babble on the ipad to retell our myth.
Unfortunately we are having trouble uploading our photo babble stories. Here are a few of our podcasts.

Turbo touch

Today we did turbo touch. One of the players from the starting team stood behind the touchdown zone with the ball. They tapped it with their foot then passed it out to a player. Almost everything was counted in twos. Each team could have two touches. The opposition team had to be two metres back from the person who had been touched. And how long did the opposition have to wait before they could touch them (the person who got touched). That's right! Two seconds. You're not allowed to drop the ball if you do the opposition team gets the ball. If you score a try and you're standing in the touchdown zone it will not count. We all had loads of fun.





By Ben.M and Callum.

The Rope Swing at Health Camp

The rope swing is 27 feet tall. The super swing goes super fast. We hang on as tight as we can. It was awesome!

Tyson Cook
29/5/12

Dj and joecarl

Dj and joecarl demonstrated kata for us today.

Dj and joecarl

Kata demonstration

The Gymnastics Competition

At school we showed our news which were our gymnastics ribbons and medals(awards). For our gymnastics competition we had six routines. The routines were pommel,high bar,vault,floor,rings and Parallel bars. The colours of the ribbons are green,blue,red and gold.The red and gold ribbons are the ones we are aiming for. After lunch we showed the class our routines, well most of them anyway. We showed them the parallel bar routine, then the high bar routine.After that we showed them our floor routine. And last, but not least, our pommel routine. Last of all the teacher took a photo of us together holding up our medals,ribbons and certificates.
By Thomas Robinson and Ben Murray.

Thomas and Ben

Thomas and ben will be reporting on their gymnastics. Here is a slideshow of their demonstration that they put on for the class.

Room 13 news

Each week in pairs children from our class are going to be reporters and write a news story about something that is happening in our class, school, or home life. We will be using the app blog press to send it straight to our blog so watch this space.
We will also be writing stories on our sfx authors blog.

Fun Brain

In Maths we have been using this new interactive Maths website called Fun Brain to explore number. It is fun!. Click on the picture and it will take you to the website.

http://www.funbrain.com/brain/MathBrain/MathBrain.html

Pattern Search

As an immersion activity Mrs Pene took photos of patterns found within our school. Armed with a camera or ipod and with a selection of photos we had to find the object the pattern was a part of. We took a photo of the object as evidence and Mrs Wendt checked that we had correctly identified the objects. Some of the patterns were hard to find and we needed clues.

ipads in the classroom

We are lucky to have ipads to integrate into our classroom programme. We have had iplay sessions as part of an immersion rotation where we have been able to use any app and find our way around an ipad.
We will be using them within our maths and literacy programmes and looking at new creative ways to present our learning

Business Cards

As a culminating task for Our Story/ Our Culture we designed our own business cards. We have used QR codes to link people to our authors blog where you can read a little bit about our name, family and culture. You will have to scan the QR codes to see where the other code takes you!

Go on a hunt to see what other things use QR codes.

Cultural diversity

Using the photographs from the culture dress up day we used the alpha key to alpha out the background and put ourselves in a landscape that depicts our culture.

Culture Day

Today was our school cultural day. Some of our class dressed up in a cultural dress from another country. We had a school parade and all danced to the makarena. Can you guess what country we are from?

Te Ao Marama

On Friday we had the most wonderful experience at Te Ao Marama in Te Hana. We visited a pa based on one you would have found in the 17th century. Matua Ben and his team greeted us with a powhiri and we were also greeted in the village by a wero. (challenge)

I would highly recommend Te Ao Marama to any class, we learnt so much.

QR Codes

This is a QR code. If you have an iphone, ipod touch or ipad, you can download a QR scanner to read this code and take you to our link for our sfx13 Authors Blog. We are making business cards with these codes on so you can read what we have written about ourselves.

You can go to QR generator sites where you can imput urls (links for internet sites) and create a code that takes you straight to that site.

Swimming Lessons

These are some photos of our swimming lessons.

We think we have made great progress.

All About Me

We are making booklets about Our Story. These are our Comic Life stories

All About Me on PhotoPeach

Wordles

Using a programme called Wordle, we created a wordle using words to describe ourselves.