Captain Shmook and His Chook

                                  We were gobsmacking!

Last week we were part of an amazing production called Captain Shmook and His Chook. We were wonderful dancing, singing and rapping animals.
Post a comment on the blog to reflect on what the experience was like for you.

                                                            What did you love? 

                                                        What wasn't so good? 

                                                   What were your challenges? 

                                                  What are you most proud of?

                                    What does it mean for you, for next time?

Mad about Hats!

Room 6 are reading Alice in Wonderland and we are mad about hats.
We are also learning to use the Thinking Hats to develop our thinking. The green thinking hat relates to new ideas. Post a comment on the blog about your dream hat.
What would it look like? What are it's special features? Describe your dream hat.

Lots and Lots of Letters!

This week we are inspired by Alice in Wonderland to write letters ... lots and lots of letters.
Here is the the Fish-Footman delivering a great letter from the Queen of Hearts to the Duchess. 

Our challenge this week is to write a letter and post it to someone. Once you have written your letter and sent it off in the mail, post a  comment about it on the blog. I could say I'm Mrs. Palfrey and I wrote to Isla and Ava to say I am looking forward to seeing them at the weekend.
Who will you write to? I'll give you a hint ... nanas love letters!

Hurray for Arrays!

As part of our maths we are learning about multiplication. To help us we are looking at arrays because they set the equal groups into rows.

Post a comment on the blog to say the multiplication equation that goes with this picture.

Find your own array to share on the blog. Take a photo or describe your array for others to say as a multiplication equation.

Skip Counting Patterns

This morning at Maths time Cantor group began with a scatter sort activity.
They noticed numbers that belong to skip counting patterns.
Here they are busily working together to create the patterns.

Write your own skip counting pattern in a blog post for others to name.
Your pattern can be forwards or backwards and can start from a number other than 0. 
Here is my pattern   12, 10, 8, 6 ...

Alice in Wonderland Thinker's Keys

Poor Alice! She keeps shrinking and then growing. What will happen next?
Today we used the B.A.R. Thinker's Key to unlock our thinking about Alice in Wonderland.
We drew a picture of ourselves and made part of ourselves bigger, added something or removed something. We had to explain how our changes would affect what we could do.
Here is Rivah's picture.
 

Post a comment to say how you could change part of yourself 

and explain what difference it would make.

Adventures in Wonderland

This term our Inquiry is based around Alice in Wonderland. The story is 150 years old this year so it's a great time to celebrate this famous and much-loved story.
We will be investigating Alice and the other wonderful characters as we wander through Wonderland.
Our first challenge is the Alphabet Thinker's Key. We need to compile a list of words from the story for each letter of the alphabet.
Post a comment on the blog by saying your Alice in Wonderland word and the letter.

I'll start ... A  Alice

  

Leadership Week is here!

This week is Leadership Week at Tauriko School and we will be celebrating all sorts of leaders in all sorts of ways.

Your challenge this week is to post a comment about someone at our school who shows leadership. Tell us their first name and say how they show leadership.
I'll start ...
Charlotte, in our class, shows leadership by being responsible for setting up Jump Jam on Friday for the junior classes. She is also a milk monitor who helps out in Room 4. Charlotte always remembers to do the jobs, she does them without being asked, and she always does them to a high standard. Charlotte volunteers to help and I know I can rely on her to do a great job.
Thanks for being a Room 6 leader Charlotte ... you rock! 

Welcome Word Wizards!

As part of our on-going quest to unlock the mysteries of words and discover the magic of language we are learning about groups of words. This week we are looking at words that begin with the prefix under. A prefix is a word or group of letters that can be added to the front of a work to add a new meaning.

My word of the week is ... underground, which means under the ground.

This week's blog challenge is to find your own word that starts with under, write the word and then write it in a sentence to show its meaning.

This is definitely a challenge you should undertake.

Matariki Week

What an exciting week we have ahead of us at school ... celebrating Matariki, our hangi and activity day on Thursday.
As part of our learning we are going to share our questions and answers in a question chain.
I will start with a question about Matariki and the person who answers my question will pose the next question for someone else to answer.
Remember to read over what other people have said so we have new questions being asked.
You need to write your question and answer down before you publish on the blog because the world is watching and we want to show our best work.

Matariki Question Chain

What is another name for Matariki?

Six Sentence Superheroes

Room 6's target writers have been working on six sentence narratives based on their own superhero.
This was the criteria for their writing:

Here are some of the finished stories. Read the stories and then post a comment on the blog to give them feedback on the writing.

Remember to refer to the criteria in your feedback or comment on any other language features that you noticed. 

Six Sentence Superhero by Taylor

Once upon a time there was a mysterious superhero called Night Wing, who could breathe under water.

Night Wing lived in a cave in the depths of the tropical ocean and to get there you needed to give a magic password.

He could glide off buildings and shapeshift other objects, including people.

One day his underwater cave was burgled by two super villains and they stole his freeze ray, his prized possession.

He was furious and heartbroken at the same time.

So he rang his friend Night Rider who came as quick as he could so they searched until they found them and then bashed them and got the freeze ray back.

Six Sentence Superhero by Minnie

Once upon a time there was a night-out superhero who flew around at night looking for children who couldn’t sleep so that she could sprinkle diamond spray over them and send them off to sleep.

She lived far, far away in a diamond castle where no one would find her.

Her name was Starry but you could not see her during the day because she only came out at night.

Her problem was that if she went out in the sunlight she would go blind.

She felt unincluded so she was a lonely superhero.

Starry invited people when she went out and then every Saturday night they had a party so she was never alone again.

Six Sentence Superhero by Joshua

Once upon a time there lived an invisible superhero called Night Rider, who was good at fighting.

Night Rider lived in an underwater cave in the Antarctic Ocean.

Night Rider was famous for fighting bad people and catching robbers.

He was sad because he was lonely in his underwater cave.

Night Rider was the saddest superhero in the world and the loneliest.

He thought and thought and then decided to use his super power to get whatever he wanted and he was never lonely again.

                                            

Let's celebrate Matariki!

Here are the seven stars of Matariki.

It is nearly Matariki - the Maori New Year and time to celebrate.
What do you know about Matariki that you can share with others?
Have you see the Matariki stars in the sky?

This week we will be revisiting the legend of Rangi and Paptuanuku and seeing how that ties in with Matariki. 
Next week is our big Matariki celebration at school.

Music Around the World

As part of our cultures and festivals inquiry topic - Celebrate Good Times, we are looking at musical instruments from around the world.
Here is one that comes from Africa. How do you think it makes sounds?
What is it made of?
How could you make a similar instrument? What would you use to make it?

Head Students Blog

Head on over to the Hannah and Sophie's Head Students Blog. Click here.

They are running a competition at the moment based on leaders who inspire you. This fits perfectly with what we are looking at in class.  I don't know about you, but I can think of two leaders who inspire me - Hannah and Sophie!

Thanks girls for being the amazing leaders that you are.

Flat Stanley's Holiday Adventures

The end of Term 1 is nearly here and we are all excited about the holidays. We have a special friend to keep us company over the holiday ... Flat Stanley. 

Flat Stanley is a children's book character who was squashed by a bulletin board that fell off the wall. He discovered that there are lots of things you can do when you are flat, and it's very easy to go on holiday. We are going to be writing about his adventures, taking photos and developing our literacy in all sorts of ways.

Here is my Flat Stanley ...

Here we all are with our Flat Stanleys ... ready for the holidays. 
I can't wait to see what Flat Stanley gets up to!  Happy Easter and happy adventures.

Counting in Te Reo

2 Digit Numbers In Te Reo

Last week we were busy learning about 2 digit numbers in Te Reo. We even played Whare! to test our knowledge.
This week the challenge is to post a comment with a 2 digit number for your classmates to work out.
Here is my one ... who can work it out?

waru tekau ma waru

Camp Fun

Aongatete Lodge Camp

Last week we went to camp at Aongatete Lodge. We were there for Thursday and Friday.

Post a comment on the blog about your favourite part of camp and why you loved it.

We all faced challenges on camp ... what was your challenge and how did you manage it?

Welcome to Room 6 2015