Tupou

The Flood

On Saturday the 20th of June we had lots of rain. I stayed home Mum took a video of the river on her phone. Mum said "Stay in the house!"

I thought the flood was scary because I thought our house might flood.

As part of our writing programme we have been learning how to ask open questions to use question marks correctly.  We thought buddy class would be the perfect opportunity to practise asking open questions, so we got together and asked 10 open questions to get to know our buddy better.  Some of us learnt that we had quite a lot in common with our buddy.  We also found that by asking open questions we talk a lot more then when we ask or answer closed questions.  

Afterwards we introduced Room 10 to Gonoodle!  We had some funky moves going on!!!

Brody has been learning to use doubles and halves to help him solve addition problems.  It is great to see Brody reading and applying feedback given to him.  Ka pai Brody - you've got this now!  

Shirley was asked to create a fact file based on a planet of her choice using the text from her reading group.  I am proud of Shirley for picking out key facts and using key words to summarise the information.  Tino pai Shirley - keep up the great work.

Congratulations to Mercedes who received Leeroy (Purapurawhetu's supreme award) for consistently displaying the values of REACH and many other values.  Mrs Morris had so many super things to say about Mercedes she had to write a super long blurb on the back of her certificate! 

 We have been learning about Matariki.  We learnt that Matariki is when seven stars can be seen in the night sky, this signifies Maori New Year.  During Matariki people celebrate by coming together to celebrate by singing waiata and dancing, sharing stories, kai and much more.  We were lucky to have Tracy come in to share the myth of Matariki with us.  We also made stars our of harakeke.  We have been learning a variety of waiata, made poi and will be learning some tradtional rakau games this week.

Reading Strategies

WALT - make inferences.

We have been learning how to 'read between the lines'.  To make an inference we know that we have to use our prior knowledge and the clues that are given in the text.  We used the book "No David" by David Shannon to help us understand this.  Check out our learning below.