Some addition homework

Here is some horrible work for the class to have as homework for the coming week. I'd like to see them challenging themselves and trying harder levels than they are comfortable with.

The more you risk the greater the sense of satisfaction when you achieve guys!

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REACH Values

The class was tasked with coming up with some presentations to show the REACH values that help define our school.

The class all decided to make videos for it. They made them on iMovie and had loads of fun. They show aspects of the values really well. Filming and editing was all completed within an hour and a half so they did very well! WOOHOOGLES!!

Resilience


Engagement



Accountability

Courtesy
Honesty

Kiwiana work

Part of our work about Turangawaewae is looking into some of our favourite NZ music. Some of the girls in the class came up with a dance to a song by Stan Walker.

REACH values

Here at HNI we try to live by the values of REACH. These stand for: resilience, engagement, accountability, courtesy and honesty.

Today the class was set the task in groups to come up with some sort of presentation to show these values. Every group decided to present their's as some sort of film.

Here are some shots of what they were doing.

Nice photography Mr Billings showing half your thumb.

Over the next few days they should have these fully made. Today was mostly for planning out how they wanted to present this as planning is an integral part to success.

Stay tuned for the final videos!

Journey through the Stars - Fotobabble

Yesterday the class read the poem, Journey through the Stars, by Alan Bagnall.
The class then drew a picture about what they thought was happening in the poem. This was to help them with their visualisation skills which is one of the many different skills that good readers exhibit.
After this the class took a photo on the iPads. They uploaded it to fotobabble and narrated the poem over the top of the image.
Here is a great example by Tobey.

Sheppard swimming

Last week we had some swimming trials to see who our team would be for the inter house competition. After the children competed in the various different strokes we then had some time for some fun games and a free swim.

First art activity

Our first class art activity was for the class to create a collage of themselves showing all their interests for the rest of the class to view.

The students had to show a face on the page along with their name and room number.

Children had to ensure that all the white space was covered up so that they had to really work hard locating and representing all of their interests on the page.

Everyone was really engaged in the task and they all showed off their artistic talents to the best of their abilities.

Well done on some great work Room 9

Class Expectations

Today the class came up with some expectations for the year.The defined some expectations for other students in the class and also expectations for teachers. A lot of sports was wanted and many of the students also set their expectations that I give them free food from the canteen, KFC and many other places (that's not going to happen)
It was great to see the class collaborating on this work.
We also practiced blogging today. The children in the class all have a similar post to what you see below. It would be great if you could access their blog and comment on them.

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