We have a few things brewing to put on the blog, including some math videos and some neat pieces of writing.  We are also about to head off to a performance at Auroa school as part of our own preparations for our production (which is going to be fantastic!!!). In the meantime, here is a [...]

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I have added a couple of new pages to the sidebar on the left. The mean…median…mode…range page is where I have put a test for you all to complete that involves you solving problems like we have been doing in class. The word wizard page is where you are to put interesting words you find [...]

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Here is the poll to see what Occy’s legs represent in our class. Remember, you only have eight votes!

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Today in writing we talked about not using cliches in our formal writing. Here are a few examples of what a cliche is… blind as a bat, bite your tongue, bite the dust, clear as a bell, cut to the chase, beats me, behind the eight ball… Your task is to come up with at [...]

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This is to test your knowledge about formal and informal words that we talked about today in writing. You have to get them all right to pass!!! Good luck! Formal words and informal words » exam maker

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In writing we are looking at writing Expositions.  We are making sure that our writing is formal when writing expositions and are talking about formal writing.  Today we discussed the difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, knowing that most formal writing is in 3rd person. 1st person is when the writer is speaking about [...]

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Here is a selection of some great pieces of writing from Room 1.  Our focus for these was to include descriptive detail from our five senses, to include our thoughts and feelings and to use descriptive adjectives and verbs so it makes it more interesting to read.  I think these three girls have done a [...]

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We have been calculating probability in class this week. This is one of the groups explaining how to calculate probability to solve a problem.

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A while ago we all took a vote on what our classroom mascot should be.  A mascot being something that represented our class and something that we could throw around and take photos of in different places.  Occy the Octopus was the Champion.  BUT we have forgotten what things the legs represented.  SO, can you [...]

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We have just had a great write-up in the Stratford Press about the stuff we are doing at Matapu.  Here is a snippet…        

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    We have recently held a Hangi for a fundraiser for our school camp and to help with other school expenses.  The stones were piping hot when we put the food down and the steam from the wet towels and sacks was really, really…steamy!       We had to make a LOT of [...]

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  One thing we seem to do a lot of is tree planting!!!  We have just planted another 100 trees along our fence line in the hopes of creating a bit more shelter.  Now we just have to wait for them to grow…

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As part of our World Theme we had a few special visitors.  Can you guess where they are from?

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At the moment we are looking at different things to do with other countries.  If you look in our theme page you can see just what things we are investigating.  Part of our learning involved reflecting back on things we can improve on.  One of those things was to improve our organisation, so we tried [...]

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This is one of our projects about NZ Heritage we finished last term. Check out others on our Theme page on this blog!!!

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