Shake Out 9.26am

JH said " An earthquake is when the ground starts shaking really really fast and everything

falls down, and things break". 

This morning along with the rest of our school and New Zealand, we took part in the

Big Shake Out.  We all talked about what to do if an earthquake happened while we were at

school.  We know what to do because we practise often.  We need to -

• Drop
• Cover
• Hold

JC said "Cover yourself, be a turtle".

Special Terrific Person and Values Person for Term 3

We can't let this term go by without mentioning some very special terrific people and those who have earned a values leaf.

For week 2, JH received his certificate for fantastic effort with his reading as well as being a great help with the computers.  Well done JH.  Our value this week has been Consideration.  LD has show consideration to her fellow class mates by being an awesome worker and a help to others in her group.

For week 3, JL deserves the Special Terrific award for a super effort with all her work and settling into school routines.  Go JL!

Our week 4 stars are LG and JH.  LG for great progress with her reading and writing.  Keep it up LG!  JH received the Values Leaf this week.

                             

For week 5, our stars are BL for super work with his counting and adding skills.  You rock BL!  KS received the Values Leaf this week.

Week 6 reminds us how hard MB-H has been working on her reading.  Go MB-H!!  You're a star!  JW received the Values Leaf this week for Co-operation.

 

Our stars for week 7 are RA for giving her best effort with everything she does in the classroom.  Go RA!  Our Values person this week was JC!  You girls rock!

Our week 8 stars are HG and TH.  HG gets his Special Terrific Persons award for sounding out the words when he reads and for also trying very hard with his writing.  You're awesome HG.  Our Values Leaf holder this week went to TH.  You boys are awesome!!

 

For week 9, JW receives our Special Terrific Person's award for super work with her writing and reading.  Keep up the great work JW!  HG gets the Values Leaf this week.  You deserve it HG, you have showed the class our co-operatively you can work.  You two are awesome!

Week 10 sees BH receive the Special Terrific Person's award for working very hard with his reading.  You rock BH!  LD gets the Values Leaf for showing great co-operation with her class mates.  We are so proud of you both!

Maths Week 2012

We were excited about doing the math activities Graham had organised for us during Maths Week 2012.

We set off in our small groups while some senior students helped us with the puzzles and games.  We loved thinking about how to work them out.

                                    

Back in our class we had plenty of Maths activities planned during the week.

Firstly, we looked at shapes.  We looked at 2D and 3D shapes. 

 VC said that 3D shapes were "when you look at something and it looks like real life"

 Then, we made a shape from a net.  We had to guess what the shape could be before we put it together.

 Almost there.  "I think it's a triangle". HG

We learnt how you can fold paper to make different shapes.  What do you think of our origami puppies?



We also learnt about a dutch artist called Piet Mondrian who was born in 1872 (that's over 100 years ago!) At one time, Mondrian painted realistic landscapes, but as he painted more and more, his style began to change. He started to create abstract images ... much like the Mondrian-style paintings you see here.   How did he come to paint this way? Well, the more Mondrian looked at trees, buildings and vases, the more he saw their basic shapes and colors. You can try this too ... just squint your eyes while you are looking at something and all the details will start to disappear. You will see only shapes and color ... no real objects. This is what Mondrian did. Eventually, Mondrian's style consisted of geometric shapes and primary colors. After all, every shape can be created from the basic geometric shapes and every color can be created from the primaries - red, yellow and blue.
.  Using his style of painting we made our own Mondrian art. 

We used rulers to draw 4 vertical lines and 6 horizontal lines.  Using the primary colours red, yellow and blue we coloured in our shapes...