Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Howick Historical Village

Tomorrow we're visiting Howick Historical Village to learn more about New Zealand history.

Please remember to have a sunhat, packed lunch and comfortable, closed-in walking shoes.
Children will need to be at school in their normal uniform by 8.50am.

Thanks!

Welcome to Rm. 13 2016!

We've had a great start to the year so far in Rm. 13 and have been busy getting back into our learning after a lovely summer holiday!

Here are few snapshots of what we've been up to recently...

On Friday 26th we held a mufti day to raise money for a school rebuild in Fiji. We were really sad to hear of all the damage that's been done and our thoughts go out to all the families with relatives and friends living in Fiji.




Sometimes we're a real bunch of monkeys!

On Fridays we spend our math hour doing problem solving activities. So far this year we've been exploring the strategies we can use to to solving a math problem. Last Friday we looked at a word problem related to logical number patterns and decided to solve it by using both materials and drawing a representation.





In reading we are currently working on using our prior knowledge to make a prediction about a text. Prior this we were learning how to identify and summarise the beginning, middle and end of a story. An activity we really enjoyed was using the POW comic strip design on the iPads to segment the story and add a caption. Check these out!






Tomorrow we are going to visit Howick Historical Village as part of our topic; historical New Zealand. Don't forget to check back for some photos and updates!