Drawing Taniwha with Explain Everything

Today we have been practicing using the drawing tools on Explain Everything. We drew a Taniwha because we have been learning about them in class for cultures around the world.

Here are some of our drawings.

Ezekia's taniwha

Johnny's & Bubble's taniwha

Kieran's taniwha

Dragon Maths using Shapes

In math's today we were learning about how shapes can make things.

We were practicing our cutting skills and trying to work as a team to complete our mission.

We put on our math's eyes to see what we noticed about two pictures that Whaea Jaime put on the board.

There we circles and triangles some in orange yellow red and white. We found a new shape. A semi circle. 

We made up some basic fact equations using the shapes and colors, Like 2 red circles and 2 orange circles make 4 circles all together (2+2=4). 6  white triangles and 6 yellow triangles make 12 triangles.

Now for the fun part.

First we cut out the shapes

Next we arranged our shapes to match our dragon picture.

Then we glued them in place.

Our mission was to see which group could get their dragon as close to the example as possible. The Judge of our pictures was Whaea Deb.

Kayne's group looked like they had a tooth shaped nostril. 

Ezekai's group looked close but their nostrils were slightly off center.

This group had all the components.

And this group here had some teeth missing and we thought maybe it was a baby dragon.

It was decided that the winning team was Skyla and Liliani. 

This was a lot of fun. It was a very engaging activity and encouraged the groups to organize who would do what and how it would be done.

We are learning to build resilience through group work and this was definitely a challenge.

Kia whawhai tonu matou.

Which one do you like the most????????

Shapes are everywhere.

Today in math's we used blocks to make trains. Some blocks cubes and some where cylinders. Some of us made big trains and that meant we had to use lots of blocks. 

Another group used smaller blocks with different shapes to make patterns. These patterns were in groups of two and three.

 And another group used coloured rods to make patterns. Pounamu used yellow and green. He notice that by making the pattern go from end to end he could only go so far. So then Daniel used his orange and yellow rods side by side.

We are having fun learning about shapes and patterns and that they are everywhere and in everything around us including right outside our classroom windows.

SMART Footprint

We were learning about our digital footprint and about what information we can share. We learned we can only share our first name, not our whole name. We know not to share our street address but we can say we live in Kawakawa. We can share our interests and the things we like to do. 

Our Cyber smart journey.

We have been learning how to use the camera app, how to take photo's and how to use cyber smart.

We have been learning a little bit about Media.

We have learned how to take a photo of a book we are reading and how to record ourselves reading a page from that story.

We learned how to make an avatar on explain everything. We had to learn how to move our avatar's while we were reading.

Kia Ora koutou katoa.

Last term our school did a Celebration day honoring our grandparents.

Some of our granparents came in and told us stories of what it was like growing up in their day.

We had a couple of grandparents who grew up in the 1930's 40's 50's and 60's.

We really enjpoyed listening to what they told us especially Mrs Whippy who told us that the Ice creams use to cost 25cents.

Here is the link to the photo montage that we made up of Kawakawa 50 years ago compared to now and pics of us with our grandparents who visited.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4irbmFvmlQ

Kia Ora Mai I te Maara.

"Today we picked some of the silver beet from our garden. I don't really eat silver beet at home. Whaea Jaime said that we are going to be making a really yummy dish with it. I don't think that I will like it"- Haylin Ngawati.

"It has been so long waiting for our veggies to grow in the garden. I was so excited that we were going to be eating our first meal out of it. I could smell the onions. They were so strong. The can of corned beef smelt like pet food. I got to taste the coconut cream. It was so nice" - Aubree Cook.

"Yum that smells so nice" - Shynshala.

"Oh my God! It tastes was better then I thought. It does look kind of ugly" - Skylah Rose.

With the Silver beet that we picked from our Maara, the class got to experience making Palusami. It is a Samoan dish that traditionally uses taro leaves and coconut milk with your own choice of meat.
Most of the class had already told me that they didn't like silver beet and that they didn't think it would taste very nice.
Well, well, well. What do you know? They actually loved it.
One of the many lessons that room 17 will have is experiencing that there are many different and very yummy ways to cook veggies so that you will enjoy eating them.

Kai Ora.