Team Kereru has had a fantastic learning term.
In writing we have just finished our persuasion topic and we have created tellagamis,
advertisments and many stories. Remember to check out our individual blogs to see
these. We have just started learning about character descriptions. We are trying to move
from, ‘She has grey hair’ to more along a storyline e.g. ‘Her grey hair swayed in the
wind.’ It is hard to write a description like this and we are using lots of examples to help
us.
In reading we are thoroughly enjoying our science and art extras and are also enjoying
learning about words, how they work and what they mean. It is great to see the children
using their blogs to share their work. We are all appreciating using the iPads and their
apps to create and share interesting reading follow ups. It is pleasing to see the children
reading lots at home and enjoying using our library at school.
In maths we are working through addition and subtraction strategies. We are enjoying the
Mathletics site and making the most of our free trial. It is great to see the children
enjoying maths in a competitive and beneficial way.
Our technology topic about McDonalds is proving to be very interesting. We have learnt
that McDonalds uses a lot of local produce. Preservatives are in some of their foods.
We are looking forward to the Life Education Bus, have really enjoyed our
Arts@Edendale this term and the Menzies College Year 13 students (who took us for
cooperative games).
We all are excited about the amazing Term 4
learning that we are going to be doing.
Our app of the week is Tellagami.
Tellagami is an app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video.
Our Website of the week is Map Maker Interactive:
http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/ - a great
website where you can ask to see different layers e.g.
earthquakes, where animals live, climate, surface elevation
and then see them on a world or country map. It has been
great for our earthquakes topic in reading
