New Quote and Challenge

"If you are always trying to be normal you will never

know how amazing you can be."   Dr Maya Angelou 

Challenge - Can you find out some information about Maya Angelou?

Click on the link below to add your findings. If what you found is already there, your next challenge is to find something new.

Maya Angelou Padlet

Finding Fractions of a Set

LZ354

Is the code you can put into Learn Zillion to watch the video we watched earlier about finding fractions of a set.

This video is the next step. We watched this in the class today with the second group.

Another really good video to help you understand fractions of a set.

We are signed up for Google Apps!

Introduction to Google Apps in Education for Room Nine

 In class we are starting to use the Google Apps in Education Suite. This is a collection of applications that allow a huge range of learning experiences, all using the @huttcentral.school.nz domain.

In the class this enables us to log into our own accounts.

 We can:
-create documents, forms, spreadsheets, presentations etc. collaborate on documents, commenting on our own and others work.
 -upload documents, images etc to our drive accounts access our information / learning from anywhere that we log into our account

 It also allows me to share information with the students in a safe and effective manner. Here is a link to a presentation I created to help assist the children in their understanding of the tools.

 Google Apps Presentation this is a link to Room Two's blog which has an excellent presentation on Google Apps. Have a look!

 As we progress further, please ask your children to show you what we are doing and how this helps their learning. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me - leannem@huttcentral.school.nz or Mrs Campbell (who is better at explaining these things) campbells@huttcentral.school.nz

Comparing and Ordering Fractions

Today we looked at comparing and ordering fractions.

This is the video we looked at

If you go to this link Khan Academy Comparing Fractions you can look at more videos that are of a higher level.

If you go to this link  Khan Academy Practise  you can practise comparing fractions like we did in class together.

If you go to this link Fraction Tiles you can see the fraction tiles we worked with today and play around with them.

Who is this Artist? A challenge from Mrs Andis.

Hello Miss Mahoney and room 9!

       Firstly thank you so much for having me in your class, I had a great time and each one of you made it an awesome experience in so many different ways.  It was great to see all the effort you put into your work.  I am back working making picture frames today and I came across this picture.  I was wondering if any of you might know who the artist is?

Hoping your day is awesome,

Mrs Andis.

Jump Jam Leadership Course.

Today 10 students from our senior syndicate got the chance to go on a course to learn how to become really good Jump Jam leaders. We found out the leaders aren't just people who stand up on stage and do Jump Jam in front of others.

Good Jump Jam leaders are confident, know all the moves, have good posture, have good timing, use hand signals, and use words to help others do the correct moves.

You will be able to see them up on our stage on Friday mornings practising their skills.

Mrs Andis' last day.

It was Mrs Andis' last day on Friday. She challenged us to win best class and we did!

Mrs Andis' also challenged us in other ways during her time in our class. She particularly challenged us during our Photo Art project. We really appreciated her sharing all of her knowledge with us.

Thanks Mrs Andis!

Photography - Fractions

As part of our photography unit we needed to investigate 'The rule of thirds' in the composition of the photo.

                     

With this grid in mind the ‘rule of thirds’ now identifies four important parts of the image, that you should consider placing points of interest in, as you frame your image.

Fractions

The rule of thirds got us thinking about fractions. Here are topics we are looking at a the moment.

 

A video on how to find fractions of a shape.

Click on this link to take you to Khan Acadamy. Here you can find more videos and exercises to practice your fractions. There is lots of stuff on http://www.mathletics.co.nz/ too. I have set tasks for every student to do on mathletics to practice fractions. They can also explore fractions further on there as well.

Other things we will be looking at are; fractions of a set, comparing fractions -which fraction is bigger, which one is smaller, ordering fractions and equivalent fractions. 

We had an author visit!

Phillipa Werry came to visit us today as part of the NZ Post Book Awards festival week.

http://www.philippawerry.co.nz/

We heard lots about her books and her visit to Gallipoli. What did you get out of Phillipa's visit? Feel free to write a comment.

Road Safety Week

It is road safety week this week.


This afternoon our class got the chance to use speed radars to track the speed of the traffic outside our school.

We also used the speed radar to check how fast we run. We had 2 goes. One go to get our first speed then we had to beat that speed on our second run.

Some of us wore some signs to remind everybody to not use Ipods, Cell Phones etc... when driving as it can distract us from keeping our eye on the road.

Friday is Bright day. We need to wear bright coloured clothing. We are having bright day to remind everyone to be visible when we are around roadways.

Art Challenge

Mr Dowman has given us an art challenge. We will be working on this over the next week or so. 

Art Challenge

Dear Room 9

I need some new artwork up in my office and so does the main office. We would like something a bit different. I was hoping you could make some artwork using photographs. I would love it if you could use our new tablets so others can see how they can be used.

So your challenge is to create an artwork using portrait photography.

For this challenge you will need to take good portrait photos.

You need to decide on what photos you will use and say why you used them.

You need to decide on the type of app you will use.

You will need to produce a piece of artwork using the app and your portrait photos.

Are you up for the challenge?

Kind Regards

Mr Dowman.

We will be working on these to help us complete the challenge.

What will we need to know?

About portraits.

Composition of good photos.
Fractions- Understanding the rule of thirds. 

How lighting works in a photo.

Backgrounds of photos.

Subject – Who will be in the photo, how many people?

How to use the camera on the tablets.

How to use Apps to put filters onto photos. 

New Quotes

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet.

Sheila Tobias

Sharing our homework

Today we shared our 'Place' homework with the rest of the class.

Here are some photo's of our work and our presentations. We really enjoyed listening and looking at everybody's projects. We saw some very creative posters and brochures. We also learnt a lot about different places around New Zealand. Thanks for sharing your work Room 9!

How to search on Google

This video shows you how to search effectively on the internet.

New homework assignment.

Find out about a Place in New Zealand Assignment.

Place Assignment.

Due on Monday 12^th May - Ready to share in class.

Present this in poster or brochure form.

¨   Where is it?  Include a map.
* include 1 piece of interesting information about the history of the area. 

¨   Population.

¨   Free things to do.

¨   Things to do that cost.

¨   Key features:

Buildings

Parks

Event centres

Walks

Natural features

Beaches

¨   Did you know?  Some interesting facts.

Places you can choose from:

Hamilton             Raglan                       Taupo                                    Rotorua

Whanganui        Napier/Hastings      Tauranga                  Gisborne

Nelson                 Christchurch                        Queenstown            Oamaru

Invercargill         Dunedin                    Greytown                 New Plymouth

Tiki Tour Topic - Places

Old Cuba Street, Wellington 1883

This afternoon we looked at a book about Auckland.

We found out some interesting facts about it, things you can do in Auckland, interesting places etc...

Tomorrow we will be looking at the Wellington area. It would be great, if you could tonight, discuss Wellington. Why do you like living here, what do you like to do, what interesting places are there, what would you tell visitors to do here?

Welcome back to Term Two!

Welcome back!

Great to see everyone again.

Here are some photo's of us working in class today.

William, Luca and James, doing mathletics during Maths time today.

Mrs Andis taking a reading group - working on chunking words. Breaking words up into little words and/or patterns. 

Daily 5 in action.
Tyler and Lucian are reading to self, Tobey working on writing, Amisha working on word work, Jiteesh and Kaden reading to someone.