Term1

 This term for topic we are looking at ourselves, our community and citizenship. We have made collages about ourselves and things that are important about us. We are also each making a Keynote presentation (remember we have Apple laptops) about an aspect of citizenship and the we will present it to the class. April: Some of our topics were:
 * Who immigrates to NZ and why?
 * How difficult is it to immigrate to NZ?
 * What is the difference between being an immigrant and a refugee? [[image:t1a.jpg width="200" height="152" align="right"]]
 * What happens to refugees when they arrive in NZ
 * How much does it cost to immigrate to NZ?
 * How long does it take to apply to immigrate?
 * What does it mean to be a 'citizen' of NZ?
 * What happens in a citizenship ceremony?

At the beginning of this term we looked at place value and we learnt how many hundredths and thousandths are in a number. We also learnt how to say huge numbers and things like that. Now we are doing geometry and we are learning about properties of 2D and 3D shapes and how to measure angles.

Reading, writing and spelling are a big part of our day. In term one, we learnt how to write a discussion. We found out that we needed to put both sides of an argument or question together and write an introduction and conclusion. Our final topic was really hard because it was "Women in Ancient China Were Unfairly Treated". We found out lots of ways they were not well treated, but found it hard to come up with the opposite point of view. You could look at our own wikis to see the results.

For reading, we work in small groups. We have been looking at using the text to find the answers to questions...literal, evaluative, and inferential. Ms F uses Bloom's Taxonomy to design a variety of questions for us to answer. We've also used a cool website [|ABCteach Reading Comprehension] that had lots of different types of stories and questions to answer.

We also learnt how to make tricky words into plurals. We found out that English is a very complicated language. A really good website to learn about and practise plurals is [|BBC Skillwise - Spelling]