The "Musical" Seven Stars of Matariki

This term Mrs Jones' group have been working with musical instruments to create music to accompany a story about Matariki.

We then recorded our musical section for our part of the book and illustrated the section to go with it.

Pick-a-Path stories

Mrs Jones' writing class have been working very hard over the last 3 weeks to create pick-a-path stories where you (the reader) choose the path to take in the story.

Click the student's name and you will be directed to their blog post of their pick-a-path story.

Please leave a comment for them.

Hub Assembly

Today we had our hub assembly and we videoed it again.

Congratulations to all our Hero certificate students - Shukria, Erin and An

Congratulations to our special award recipients

Congratulations to our PB4L wrist band winners - they have reached 50 Thank You tickets each!

Our Thank you ticket draw winners who will choose a prize from Mrs Huriwai's prize box - Zyon, Sophie and Zara.

Congratulations to our Weka of the Week students - Tovie, Jahnaleigh and Enzo.

Having fun learning how to use Jamboard

Mrs Jones' Reading class have been learning how to use a new Google Drive app called Jamboard.  Jamboard is a little bit like padlet and it is so easy to use.  You click on the sticky note, write your text and then you can change the colour of your note.

In Reading we used Jamboard to write down all our prior knowledge about cat's whiskers.  We did this all at the same time on the same Jamboard.  We had a few issues with people deleting other people's notes but it was mainly because we were learning how it all worked.

This is our prior knowledge about cat's whiskers.  You can see we knew quite a lot to start with.

Then after we read our text about cat's whiskers we worked in small groups to record all the things we had learnt about cat's whiskers. 

Here are our group Jamboards.  You can see we learnt a lot of new things about cat's whiskers after reading our first text.

Pick-a-Path Teaser

Mrs Jones' writing class have been working hard over the past 2 weeks on Pick-a-Path stories where the reader chooses the direction of the story.

We will share them all with you when they are finished but here is a teaser.....Jordan has posted her finished Pick-a-Path on her blog.

Check it out here and leave Jordan a comment.

Can't wait to share the rest with you!