Our Exciting Journey

Wow, what a journey we have had this year. We have now moved into our new classes and its very exciting!

Our learning environment has many new features and we love it!

We are learning to Elaborate our Writing (Narratives)

This week we have been working with workshops and helping develop our Narratives. Check out our workshops SO if you can't remember OR are looking for ideas, come and check these out!

Monday 
1. Click this powerpoint to help you write interesting ideas
2. Click here for different types of sentences

Tuesday 
1. Need some help with organising paragraphs?

Our Pick a Path Adventures

This term we have been learning about narratives and what an awesome time we had creating a class Pick a Path adventure. Miss M was able to show us how to start and then we were OFF!! We had a ball and we hope you like it too!

And the challenge begins!

Structure building with marshmallows and sticks! Who will get the tallest?

Measurement

Over the next three week we will be working with measurement (temperature, time, different standards of measurement, volume, money etc etc.

Here are some great activities that could help with your understanding. Remember to use your IXL account to help support your measurement knowledge.

We use a variety of techniques in measurement to problem solve.

1. Beat the Clock Interactive time game
2. Gamequarium: Math Games-Measurement
3. Math 5 Live - Lessons> Area, Perimeter, Volume (Grade 5)
4. Measurement Equivalents - Match game with standard equivalent measurements, such as pounds, ounces, pints, cups, etc.
5. Measurement Game - Practice using a ruler, in inches and centimeters. FunBrain
6. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Measurement Manipulatives (Grades 3-5)
7. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives Measurement Manipulatives (Grades 6-8)
8. Spy Guys Interactive - Lessons>Area, Perimeter, Volume
9. The Ruler Game Use this game to improve how you read a ruler.
10. What Time Will It Be? -

Gymnastics

We have just started our Gymnastics programme. What have you enjoyed about Gymnastics? 

Persuasive speeches!

This afternoon rakino 1/2 have been writing speeches about what they think of having money as reward in the class for doing good things to spend it on many things like free time. We made the class vote for who they thought did the best speech. By Alex