Term+3

This term is shaping up to be busy and exciting. We are going to be exploring more Web2 Tools to help with presentation, movie making, animation and...well anything else that comes our way.

 For maths, we are starting with a focus on multiplication and division - not just basic facts, but using a variety of strategies to help us solve problems. Of course basic facts are always an important part of our learning.

 We are learning to write expositions, also known as arguments or persuasive writing.  media type="custom" key="6619977"//Borrowed from J Munro via Mrs Stevens and Fabulous14 wikispace.//  We have already looked at how advertisements are persuasive and how Letters to the Editor of newspapers are designed to put the writer's point of view across. media type="custom" key="6619215" We've used CREAZA to make amazing cartoons. We chose who we thought was the //Bad Guy// in Little Red Riding Hood and used the cartoon to 'persuade' the audience of our opinion. (best watched in full screen). ENJOY!

Our topic is called 'It's a clever idea Mr Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you'. We're looking at how communication technologies have changed, how they are used, how things are communicated differently and how things might change in the future. We ha ve already been on a walk to Greytown to take photos of 'communication icons' and will put these into presentations on our wikis.

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__24 August - Hip Hop Group - Nubian Gents and Feminine Fire__

What a fantastic performance - If you're happy and you know it ....



[|Fonterra Science Roadshow] On Wednesday 1 September, we celebrated the first day of Spring with a quick walk in the sunshine down to Kuranui College for the Science Roadshow. We learnt how forces work, about the air we breath and all sorts of other cool stuff. We really enjoyed the explosions! One was helium exploding...and the other was a bottle rocket blasting off. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Roadshow has all kinds of interactive things for us to explore, and we even saw a real horse's heart - it was enormous!