this weeks national day is about fishing and it was fun to research fishing.what do you think about my slide show. yayyyy

Today in my class I have made a slideshow about the symbols of hearts. It’s very interesting how hearts originated. I enjoyed adding pictures it was hard finding the words I missed. Have you ever taken some time in your life just to think about where they were from or how they originated if so tell me what you thought? and also make sure to get good at maths.

Today I made a fact of the day research about crabs, A fact of the day research is when you make a slide and then you get to my Room 3 Morning Routines and pick one, I picked one about crabs. We do this because we can expand our knowledge in all sorts of things. I find it pretty cool to do, Do you like crabs?

Hello, today I am going to show you a slide show on Pakistan—which is a very fascinating country.

We learnt this because we needed to choose a country from the common wealth games and study it, we also had to pick one we have never heard of before—which for me was Pakistan.

I found it challenging to find the right images for some of the slides.

Do you know any facts about the common wealth games? What are they?

All of the Year 4s went to Ōtaki College on Tuesday.  We watched a play about Matariki.  They were singing about Matariki.  They had stars on them and the Principal was yelling at the big kids in the play.  I thought it was fun because there was an explosion.  We got back to school safely. By Kaizah

In Room 6 we are learning about rounding in Maths, it was  on Wednesday in my class.

Numbers that go down the slide are 1 2 3 4 and the numbers that go up the branch are 5, 6 ,7, 8 and 9. So if you have 44 it would be 40 and if you have 56 it goes to 60.

I found this learning fun because I like learn something new.

By James

Yesterday, Waitohu School went to the Haruatai Park, to do a soccer tournament. First, we walked down to  Haruatai Park. It was my team’s turn to play first, we versed WRM boys. We lost  by 1 point and  they got 3 points. Next, we played against WRM Girls. After that, we had a break. I bought some lollies. Next, we versed Manakau School. They were very good players and we got 3 points and they got 2. Next we played against Waitohu School Girls (us)! Then we played against WRM boys again! Then we won we all got so excited. I bought a sausage sizzle and a lollipop to celebrate! Then we walked back to school.

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Hi, I made a a research of the day about chickens. This one wasn’t that hard, and it was one of my favorites. I hope you now know more about chickens like I do, BYE!



In room 3, we got to make a free choice, writing here’s mine.  We were supposed to focus on writing paragraphs and adding rich language.  What part do you think I did well?

Hi everyone!  This week, I have made an audio slide of 3 aliens trying to steal candy and it was fun making it.  There was no bad parts and it has 3 chapter.  We were practising using rich language in our stories.  What is your favourite line that you heard?

In Room 4 we’ve been doing pixel art. We chose our animal and copied it by doing pixels. It was so fun! This is my animal – it is a cheetah.

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This is my Diamante about the sun.  Check out this video on how to write a Diamante.  Have you written one before?

sun

bright, gas

scorching, floating, thriving

burning, yellow,  dark,  white, cold

shining, impacting, freezing

cool, light

Moon.

In Room 6 we are learning how to count in Japanese to ten. Ichi is one, ni is two, san is three, yon is four, go is five, roku is six ,nana is seven ,hachi is eight ,kyuu is nine ,juu is ten. It was really hard to learn but I have the hang of it now and I think I can do it by myself at school and home. I found this learning fun and difficult to learn because it’s really forgetful and confusing.  And I hope I can learn more numbers in Japanese.  By Chevy

Session today has been really good in respects to actual activities I can see myself being able to use to support important vocabulary development with my crew.

The first thing that struck me was that studies show that vocabulary knowledge accounts for 80% variance in reading comprehension scores. This shows to me that I pay important part and I’m skilling those that are far below where they need to be, and reinforcing for those that already do have a good vocabulary base.

One good idea I did like was a word knowledge organiser. At the start of a unit introducing those key concepts that you may need to cover in a table format where they can tick box and say whether they A – never seen a word, B – no a little bit about it, C – a pretty comfortable using it. Or D – can describe it with confidence.

I had no idea but there are three things you need to know about words. Number one there is aspects to knowing about words. Number two words meanings shift in context. And number three our knowledge around words grows incrementally the more we experienced them.

I was reminded again that they’re a digital tools with multimodal support ( can hear words being pronounced). Mote being a good nz example of this.

The big Christian was asked here was implicit versus explicit instruction. Which one do I do the most of? This is something I think I need a far more explicit instruction in my classrooms for. I do take kids for granted quite often that they know what I’m on about when instead I should treat them as beginners like they are and actually show them what is asked of them more.

We recovered some of the Key approaches to developing vocabulary. The first part of this was word consciousness. This is interest in awareness of words and their meaning. The benefit of this is it shows learners that words matter in that words have subtle meanings attached to them. It reminds us that words have power – alternative meaning – histories – job/roles.

The best thing I think I heard today was the idea that ‘ we think in words.’ this means that my vocabulary is limited than my thinking is incredibly limited. Something that terrifies me for our kids growing up these days.

In respect to enacting consciousness there were different ways to do this one really easy way I thought I could do was to pause in express interest in words as I’m reading to the class. In the newest and more primary perspective like word walls weird wizards or watching out for words being read.

In regards to deliberate robust interactive teaching of words. The main thing to look at was focusing on rich meanings not just boring dictionary definitions. Emphasising connection to other words. Promoting active word usage. Providing strategic review of the words and repeating them. And then making sure there is student involvement/agency in the vocabulary they are covering.

I like the reminder about tier one words, tier two words, tier three words. One being most common language. To being less common but really good expensive vocabulary words. And in three being proper scientific or topic specific language.

I’m wondering if there’s any anyway that I could potentially set up a word wall in my class. It is a bit tricky in my shared learning space I don’t know if it would takeoff fully or just be a distraction to the rest of the class. We think lots of develop a couple of vocabulary and word association documents which I can see as easy use option options at the start of units in my BPL class.

Lots to think about and always lots to do I’ll take the good bits and hopefully be able to put them into practice over the next couple of weeks. I’m also reminded I’m a bit behind on my homework so need to get in touch with my coach and work out a observation on what I’m doing!

In Room 6 we have learning how to be Cybersmart.  We learnt what we should and shouldn’t put online.  So like what is private and public.  Our full name is private and our favourite movie is public, our favourite food is public too. I found this learning easy now I know what I can and can’t put online.  By Amaiyah

In Room 6 I have been learning about chopsticks with Saika.  Saiha has been helping us to use chopsticks.  We have been practising to use chopsticks using pieces of sponge.  I found this learning fun because we are lucky that we get to use chopsticks.  By Freeman

In Room 6 we have learning about Wow Sentences.  A wow sentence has a capital letter and a fullstop.  It has a noun, verb, adjective and adverb.  I found this learning hard because I had not done it before.

Last night the grey mice were fighting roughly at the bad train station.  By Nina