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This week’s hands-on homework task is to design and make a healthy Smoothie! Since we are focusing of healthy living this term I thought this would be a fun task to do. To complete the task you will need to record on your blog the ingredients and also include photos of you making the smoothie. So what are you waiting for! Get creating cool, yummy, smoothies!
Yesterday Bella, Hannah and Georgia took part in our first ever #kidsedchatnz on our class twitter account. What is #kidsedchatnz? Well it is where kids from around New Zealand get together on Thursday afternoon’s to discuss relevant topics via twitter. Yesterday’s topics were about term’s 2 learning and the holidays. We think it is a great way for kids to connect with other classes and helps improve thinking and literacy skills. Yesterday our blog buddies from Vardon School were tweeting as well! If you want to check out what the kids were tweeting about go to @palmykids or look at the widget on the sidebar.
In reading time the Crusaders reading group had to research Africa and create a Haiku Deck about it. Check out this awesome effort by Georgia! Over the last week R5 have been setting goals and making goal posters to display them. Check out some of the early finishers! I wonder how we made them? Does anyone know?
Today in class we did an activity where we compared what we had in our lunch boxes with the food pyramid. It was interesting to see the different types of foods everyone was eating and later in the term we are going to repeat the activity to see if we have improved. Below is a picture of my lunch box. Have I got a healthy or unhealthy lunch?
This week’s hands-on homework task is to download, play and create your own 4 pictures, 1 word puzzle. 4 pictures 1 word is a puzzle based game that you can download for free at the app store. The puzzle contains 4 pictures that have something in common and you have to figure out what it is! I want you to have a go at the game and then create your very own puzzle. You can create your own one using any app you like (Comic Life, Educreation, frame magic etc..). Make sure you don’t answer the puzzle as we will try and answer them in class. When you have finished make sure you put it on your blog So what are you waiting for? Get downloading and get creating!
Today RSS was part of a world record attempt for the most apples bitten into at one time! What happened was there were schools all around New Zealand taking part and at 2.13pm we all had to take a bite of an apple. How many children took part all together? Well they were hoping for 15,000 kids! Every child had to bring a gold coin and the proceeds went to kidsCan!
Check out this little time lapse video I made of the school powhiri on Wednesday! Time Lapse is a cool I-Pad app that allows you to compress video clips into a shorter time frame. I wonder what else we could use it for? Look what arrived in the mail this week, some awesome postcards from Point View School in Auckland. Point View School have been hosting the snail and whale and sent them back with some cool postcards. Thanks Point View, we enjoyed reading them in class and are glad the snail and whale made it back safe and sound!
This term our topic is based around Healthy food and fitness. To make it a bit more exciting we have decided to form a company with R3 and R6 and we will be making our own cereal to sell to the community. R6 are making the product, R3 are packaging it and our class are marketing it. Sounds like fun? You bet, watch this space to see what our company gets up to! Below is a picture of the 3 classes talking about how the company is going to work!
This year’s Senior Cross Country is on Tuesday, W4 at Skoglund Park. Below is a picture of the Senior course if you are keen to go down and have a practice. Come on everyone lets get running!
This week’s hands-on homework task is to create a Haiku Deck about all the things you have learnt from your Mum! Since this Sunday is Mother’s Day I thought this would be a great task. Also Haiku Deck are running a contest where the best Haiku Deck about things they have learnt from their mum wins an iPad Mini! How cool is that! Create a cool Haiku Deck and win mum an iPad Mini! If you want to learn more about the contest just click on the picture below. So what are you waiting for? Get creating!
Today was the last day of term 1 and R5 now have a 2 week holiday. It has been a busy term and I think everyone deserves a well earned break! Check out this photo taken from today’s last flags game against R3. Who came out on top? Yes you guessed it, 4.5!
Check out a few more of R5′s fish art. I think they turned out great and a special thanks must go out to Carolyn for teaching the kids!
Check out this cool art that R5 did with Carolyn while Stephen was on release. I think they turned out fab!
Check out this fun brain game R5 like to play in class. It is called ‘The Dice of Death’! Last week R5 went on an over night trip to a Marae in Woodville. Check out a couple of photos from the trip!
This week’s hands-on homework task is an ANZAC Day assignment. What I want you to do is research ANZAC day and present your findings in a poster. Your poster could include information about when and what happened, maps of locations, photos and general facts about ANZAC day. Where are you going to find your information? Well there are tonnes of fantastic websites on the internet that you can use. Below I have include my favourite ANZAC website. Make sure you check it out, it is brilliant! When is your mini assignment due? Well because this is the last week of the term I am going to give you until the end of the holidays to hand in your assignment. When you have finished you can e-mail me your assignment so I can mark it. So what are you waiting for? Grab mum and dad and start finding out all about ANZAC day!
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