Sculptures - Our reflections

By Hayven

By Harry

By Dylan

By Charley

By Alannah

By Alex

Sculpture Art Based on the picture book - Only one You by Linda Kranz

The Story of our Sculpture Art

Here you can find out how we made our sculpture. There are plenty of photos showing the different stages of our designs. 

AG Day 2018

Here is a short photo summary of our AG Day adventures for 2018. 

Abstract art

Amazing Machines

We have been reading the big book:

 'The Amazing Machines' by Jill Eggleton. 

In reading, we are using inference to help us understand the hidden messages and our inquiry focus is to express our ideas creatively. We have combined these two focus areas into one by designing our own machines. 

Vocabulary Building

It is important to understand the words we read. We have been focusing on different types of words this term by learning new words, their meanings, compound words, synonyms,  antonyms, onomatopoeia as well as using the words in sentences and in our daily speaking and writing. 

Here are a couple of ideas about our learning

We have been learning these words and we have practiced by completing the task on the right.

Poems help us learn too. 

Compound words

Prefixes and Suffixes

We are building our knowledge of words that can help us understand the text better when we read or that can help us make our writing more interesting. We have been learning more about prefixes and suffixes. Here is a song we have been singing to help us learn.

Here are the lyrics for the song:

Prefix or suffix

Can you hear what fits...

before a root of a word, before the word is heard

That’s a prefix there it sits...

Once it becomes applied, the word is modified

Like dis- discover,

tri- triangle

sub- submarine, subterranean and subway.

Now that the word has changed

there will be something new for us to say.

Can you hear what fits

after a root of a word, after the word is heard

That’s a suffix there it sits

Once it becomes applied, the word is modified

Like -ful eventful,

-ing beginning,

-ness happiness, thoughtfulness goodness and kindness.

Now that the word has changed

there will be something new for us to say.

Here are a few prefixes just for you

anti-, counter-, extra-, hyper-, ultra-, semi-

Just to name a few

Now that we know what suffixes do

-ation, -ary, -able, -ate, -ize

will help you too.

And it’s true some words have two,

Reconstruction, disagreement, unlikely, reaction,

Now that the word has changed

there will be something new for us to say. (X3)

Writing with the help of Creativity

Some examples of student work. There are more on our writing blog. 

Inquiry - Communities use natural resources in a variety of ways

We are learning to collaborate:
Success Criteria

• brainstorm ideas together

• listen to each other 

• respond in a positive manner to the ideas from team members 

• contribute to the discussion

• decide as a team on a way to best use the natural resource

This is our space to work on. 

Pohutukawa Team 

Small groups discussions and sharing of ideas.

Everyone sharing exciting ideas.

Will our ideas work? How much will it cost?

More discussions and wonderings.

Planning on going back to class to put the ideas down on paper. 

Learning Collaboratively

We were working collaboratively on our learning about ANZAC Day. We had to find and share information, agree with our answers and create our responses together on the slides.

 

Vocabulary Building

We have celebrated ANZAC day on the 25th of April. In class, we have also been learning more about this special day. First, we read the book 'Dawn Parade' together. One of the goals we are working on is to expand our vocabulary. We have found a number of tricky words and looked at their meanings and also at the synonyms for these. Here are some examples of this activity. 

By Kate and Keanu

By Charley and Luke

By Dylan and Carmen

House Spirit Day 2018

WHEN? Friday, 5 April

WHERE? Clevedon School

WHO? All students

Lining up before the march started. 

Kaka House performs their skit and chant. 

Kiwi house performing on stage. 

Tui performing their skit and chant. 

Weka house performing their winning skit and chant. 

We still had the energy for a silly photo and that was after completing the parade, skit and all the chanting. 

ASB Getwise

Last week Marlon came to teach us about money. We have learnt that we need to make careful choices when we buy items. It is important to look for good buys and to keep an eye open for a special deal. We spoke about 'magic' money and the different cards we get i.e. credit cards, eftpos cards and debit cards. We earned our four ribbons so we all received a wrist band. Thank you for teaching us, Marlon. It was fun having you as a teacher. 

      

More Acorns

There are 12 acorns on the classroom floor. These acorns make up a quarter (¼) of all the acorns that fell out of Walter’s acorn bag.  How many acorns fell out altogether?

We used these steps to help us give the problem a go. We used different resources to help us. 

 

Maths with acorns

We have had so many acorns in and around the school grounds that they just couldn't be ignored. They became the ideal resource for maths. 

First, we had to estimate how many acorns were collected by Walter. 

Then we had to count them all. The students agreed that counting in tens would be a good way to get through the pile so every child took 10 acorns at a time. 

Lastly, we had to count the groups of ten...290, 300, 310, 320!

Yes, we counted 320 acorns!

Communication - one of the 6 Learner Dispositions

See what we have been learning about  Communication. 

Our last lesson with the Community Swimming coaches

Floating for as long as we can. 

Jumping in - different ways. 

Winter Olympics

We have used the medal table from the Winter Olympics to complete some maths activities. We had to calculate how many medals were won by the different countries. Look at some of the strategies we have used.