Room 11 @ Opunake: 2014

Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Dark Horse persuasive text

Dear Mr. Sefton,

Music Video,

For the Moa Awards we would like to do the music video. The music video would be really fun for people who love dancing, wrapping and singing because would give them a chance to do those things. We know that most boys like rapping and girls like dancing & singing. We're really good at making up dance moves because Lorin has been dancing for 5 years and Jaunte has been dancing for 5 years as we'll. so it would be fun for everyone. The people that don't like dancing, rapping and singing can watch and maybe even film. So it would be good for people who like to film to. It would also give other people a chance to do what they love for once. The song will be Katy Perry dark horse Because it's got a lots of wrapping in it also Jaunte has a book with the words in it so she could photo copy that. We could dress up like Egyptian because in the video they did and Lorin has lots of dress up Egyptian clothes for the girls. Plus the boys can were skinny jeans and a plane top. We are going to film on the junior court. The people in the video will be Lorin, Jaunte, Brody and Pharrell and Caleb. The back-up dancers are Lexus and Miriama. This is going to be a comedy music video.

Tuesday, 24 June 2014

A sneak peek at our work for open day.

Here are a few pictures of our work we are producing for open day next week. We are very excited to show all our families our work. Below us are our background Matariki stars.

Our Matariki kites starting to be made ready for our display. These are tricky as they take lots of patience.

More angles

After guessing each other's hand drawn angles, we checked to see how close our estimates were.

We then began to understand that the total angles on a flat line had to add to 180 degrees. By understanding this we could start to work out what angle was left on the other side. Some of us used our number lines to work this out. A few of us later went on to work out the full 360 degrees.

Sunday, 15 June 2014

Angles

Angles cont.... We then designed our own angle measure, working with fractions and equal partitioning. We could then begin to estimate very closely what angles were, using our 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees angles. We worked these out using fractions. Below are pictures of the class working out each other's hand drawn angles on orange card.

Monday, 9 June 2014

Matariki enquiry continues

This post is a shared reading lesson room 11 completed last week.

I went through the story before the lesson began and wrote the difficult words on orange pieces of paper. The students got one each and they became the expert on this word by looking it up in a dictionary or using their prior knowledge. When we read the story, once we came to the difficult words the expert had their turn to tell the class what the word meant.

The below pictures are of the Sheena Cameron story pyramid template enlarged and done in pairs. This re tells the story of Iratumoana and the Taniwha Tarakura.