Inquiry - Popcorn

We have begun our unit on Popcorn with a KWHL Chart (What we Know, What we Want to Know, How we are going to Find Out).  We will fill out the last part of the chart (What we have Learnt) at the end of the unit.
We are now looking at the life cycle of popcorn.  We will add some of these when they are completed.

Some of our Friendship Recipe's

My Friendship Recipe  -  By Will

Ingredients
1 level cup of love
1 raised teaspoon of kindness
3 cups of thoughtfulness
1 bucket of smiles
10 scoops of laughter
3 tablespoons of respect
3 pinches of finely chopped arguments
Method
1. Add the love and kindness into a bowl
2. Mix together
3. Add the arguments
4. Toss in the thoughtfulness, smiles, laughter and respect
5. Serve on a platter of trust

My Friendship Recipe - By Layton

Ingredients

2 generous scoops of respect

3 cups of laughter

1 cup of caring

3 tablespoons of sharing

4 tablespoons of responsibility

2 cups of helpfulness

1 cup of trust

Dash of bad attitude and sadness

Method

1. Add the respect into a bowl
2. Stir in the laughter, sharing and caring
3. Mix together with responsibility, trust and helpfulness
4. Add bad attitude and sadness
5. Marinate overnight and serve

Square Dancing

We have been practicing a square dance with Room 16 to the "Popcorn" music.  It has been a lot of fun because this music has a great beat.  It is quite bouncy like popcorn popping.  It has been a bit tricky to pick up the steps  and all keep in time, but we think we have just about mastered it.

Maths

In class we have been focusing on basic facts, trying to get them up to speed.  We are trying to have them instantly rather than working them out.

Games help with this.  Try some of these.

Modigliani

Today we started looking at the artist "Modigliani". He was an Italian painter and sculptor, who worked mostly in France. He became known for his modern style. His graceful paintings are known for their elongated heads and necks, some of the faces have the look of masks.
We sketched our pictures onto black paper and will complete with pastels. Once finished we will attached some to our blog to let you see the results.

Here is some of our artwork. We think they are fantastic  -  What do you think?

By Holly

By Olivia

 

By Liam

By Emily

Graphs

In Room 15 we have been learning about graphing.
Pictographs
First we looked at Pictographs - This is a way of showing information using pictures
We looked at the different eye colours in our room and which way we all travel to school.
To gather the information we used a tally chart, then we put this information on to our pictograph.
We then came up with statements that explained our graph.

Bar Graphs
We then moved on to bar or column graphs. These show the information in bars or columns.
We still use the tally chart and explain our graph using statements. We are looking at coming up with our own question, then following through the same process.
We are all enjoying this and are looking forward to the learning more.

Quad Bloggging

This term we will begin quad blogging with two schools in the UK and one school in USA.  We will all take turns at reading each others blogs and leaving comments on them.  This is very exciting and we are looking forward to contacting the other schools now that we are back at school.  The schools are:
Crowcroft Park Primary School, United Kingdom - Teacher: Helen Jackson
Huntingtower Primary, United Kingdom - Teacher: Dina Lord
Mossman Elemengary, United States - Teacher: Peggy Shoemaker
Maybe you would like to look up these schools and see what they are up to

Respect

Our value for this term is 'Respect'.  This is about respecting ourselves, each other and our school.  For others to respect us, we have to respect them.

Welcome to 2012

Welcome back to Room 15's blog for the beginning of 2012. We have all come back fresh and ready to learn after a great summer break and are all looking forward to a fun and exciting year.

Visit by John Timu

John Timu came and talked to Pod 4 last Thursday about being an All Black.  He first became an All Black at the age of 20 when he replaced John Kirwan while they were on tour.  John played 50 matches for the All Blacks, 25 of these were test matches.  He played for the All Blacks for 5 years and then changed codes,  playing Rugby League for New Zealand.  John brought in a French, South African, Australian and All Black jersey, and a hat that all players are given when they first become an All Black.  He told us a couple of funny stories, one how he had his shorts pulled down as he was going over the line for a try.
Thank you for coming in John - we really enjoyed listening to you and learnt a lot.

Fraction Games

Try some of these fraction games - go on give it a go!

Melvin's Make A Match Fraction Game





Try this Equivalent Fractions game - it is a bit tricky though

  

                                   

Ruggerland

Go onto this site and play some fun games relating to rugby.

New Zealand Culture

To begin our Rugby World Cup unit we have been looking at Culture - and what we think of when we talk about the culture of New Zealand.  We looked at things like: jandals, fish and chips, warm summers, paua, koru, wine,rugby, All Blacks, sport, gumboots and the buzzy bee etc.  After much discussion we came to the conclusion that this was all Kiwiana.
We then looked at what could be the culture of Wanaka.  We came up with things like the mountains, fun, skiing, swimming, lake, clear skies etc. We decided to design a flag that could represent the culture of Wanaka. 
Here are a couple of ideas that we came up with:

Upper Clutha Cross Country

Today, Thursday, 11 August was the Upper Clutha Primary School Cross Country.  It was held at Hawea camping ground on a beautiful sunny day.
Room 15 did extremely well in both the Year 4 races. 
Results
Year 4 Girls:  2nd Ines
                      3rd  Annie 
                      4th Annabel
Year 4 Boys: 1st Fergus
                      2nd Jack

Well Done Guys - You Did Us Proud

Space

For inquiry this term we are looking at the planets.  Our Pod are busy making trading cards at the moment.  The front has a picture and the name of the planet and on the back there are at least five facts about that planet.  Included in those five facts is a 'Fun Fact'.  The 'Fun Fact' is something that we found interesting about the planet.
Some are making a few special cards.  These will be highly sort after to make a whole set.  To get these we will need to be able to answer questions to see if we have knowledge on these topics.
It will be interesting to see who gets them.
Some examples of some of our trading cards.

Measurement Game - Converting m, cm and mm

See if you can make these conversion and build the shed

Plural Fishing Game

How are you with plurals? Try this game and find out.

Winners for Nude Food Day - Thursday, 2 June 2011

After surveying all classes on Nude Food Day, Rooms 2 and 23 came out as the winners. Both of them only had four wrappers in their lunch boxes in total.  Here they are enjoying their prize of a platter of fresh fresh.

WELL DONE GUYS - WE ARE PROUD OF YOU

Social Action

Our inquiry topic last term was Zero Waste. Once we finished, we decided that one way we could take action would be to hold a Nude Food Day at Wanaka Primary School. This was held on Thursday, 2 June 2011.
“What is Nude Food?”
Nude Food is bringing a lunch along to school in your lunch box, completely wrapper free.
Why hold Nude Food Day?
This was to encourage less waste in our school environment and hopefully this will also encourage people to begin to use less waste at home as well.
This is a great way to celebrate us all taking responsibility for the health of our planet.
Rooms 2 and 23 both had the least number of wrappers (four in total for each class) and they won a fresh fruit platter each to share among their class. The fresh fruit was donated by Mediterranean Wholesale Market, Wanaka to whom we would like to say thank you very much.

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