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.