Mathletics

This week Room-5 as been competeing in mathletics. You can vs countries like: Korea, Austraila, India, Usa, England, United Kingdom and Newzealand. Khan is in action on mathletics he is vs people from other people and schools.

A Special Message

Just to update Room 5 with some new features on our blog. In our efforts to get 500 visitors on our blog this week I have talked to other teachers in other schools and as a result I have added "Our Favourite Blog's". This list of blogs are classes from around Hamilton. Have a look at them and please leave comments because they in turn will come visit us :-) Tell me what you think!!!

Indoor Netball

We have been learning to play indoor netball so that we can beat Berkley Middle School in our annual interschool challenge.

The Tinkering School

Check this out - just watched it and I am amazed!!!

Sharing our Learning

Just in the middle of a session at Southwell today and guess what?? This guy Ewan McIntosh was talking all about how important it is to 'share our learning' - 'share our mistakes' so others can learn from our mistakes. This guy is from Scotland and has come all the way to NZ to share his ideas with NZ teachers so that we can become better teachers.

He was making a point about taking 15min at the end of each lesson to reflect on our learning, to see:

What have we learnt?

How do we now?

What do we need to do next? How will we do that?

I was thinking - cool we are already doing that!!!!! Then I was thinking - does this really help you as a learner? and if so how?

Place a comment against this post to let me know what you think :-)

Complication in Narratives

Today we learnt that in narrative writing there is an orientation, complication and resolution. The orientation comes first then the complication/problem and the resolution/solution.

Written by Shaolin, Aaron, Liam, Paul, Brock and Maria.PowerPoint on Narrative

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Writing an Orientation

Today we are focused on Writing an Orientation – the orientation is always at the beginning of a narrative and tells us about the setting and characters. An orientation hooks the reader while letting the audience know about setting and main characters. Usually answers who? when? where? eg. Mr Wolf went out hunting in the forest one dark gloomy night. Success criteria – - Describe the setting - Describe the Main Characters - Similie/metaphor - Consider First/third person - use Adjectives to help our description

Annotate our Writing Samples

Today we are going to Annotate the sample using rubrics. Annotate means to find specific features in our text/writing and to highlight it and write out to the side 'what the work shows'.

Today we will be looking for the following:

Rubrics is here

Through annotating our work we can become better writers!!!

Narrative Writing Sample

We have been exploring narratives for the past 5 weeks. Today we have had a quick look at what we have learnt so far. Our Learning Logs or blogs now have these samples:

1. Brainstorm on 'What we have learnt so far about narratives…..'
2. Writing sample which we have annotated.

Writing Sample Scenario

People and things are not always what they seem to be. Sometimes there is a sense of mystery behind people and their lives. Write an imaginative story about a family who are not quite what they seem, and how their secret is discovered. Don't be limited by your own experiences. Write the story so that young people in secondary school will enjoy reading it.

Hints

Plan your story before you write.

Include an interesting title for your story.

Write a beginning which attracts attention and an ending which is satisfying for the reader.

Use an interesting and logical structure in which story elements are introduced and developed.

Use descriptive words and images so the reader can imagine the characters and places in your story.

Make use of the time at the end of the task to edit your writing, paying attention to grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Maths Week Success

Last week we had Maths week and it was really challenging. The whole school ran a competition to see who could get highest points on the Mathsweek website. Room 5 took all the PRIZES!!!!

1st Place - Storm Tupuailei
2nd Place - Pavithra Reddy
3rd Place - Cheyanne Henry

We were so proud of our classes efforts!!! Go Room 5!

Waimaths Success for SAMS

Last night we had a number of students participate in the regional Waimaths competition. Our Year 7 Team came 3rd and we won 1st, 3rd and 4th Place in the poster competitions. Our Year 8 team performed well on the night but did not place.

Year 7 Team

Joyce Guo

Nathan Cleaver

Horim Choi

Year 8 Team

Panpan Seehamart

Abigail Wallace

Dylan Roberts

1st Place for the Waimaths Poster

Horim Choi

3rd Place for the Waimaths Poster

Susan Rangi

4th Place for the Waimaths Poster

Darshni Moodley

Design Features

We have been looking at design features so that we can make our narratives more interesting to read. We need to consider these when we make our own picture books.

Poetic Devices

We have been looking at poetic devices in class so that we can make our narratives better and more interesting to read.

Maths Week!!! 9th - 15th August

Join in the fun for maths week next week on the maths week website...........heaps of fun games, quizes and prizes to be won. Check out the maths quizes held in the library each day at lunchtime and be in to win heaps of prizes aswell!

Fractions! Fractions! Fractions!

Click on the link to practice your fractions on this fun maths website:-)

Spelling City

Practise and test your spelling skills....

International Childrens Library

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/


A fantastic website with hundreds of online books for you to read and enjoy:-)