Talk About IT!

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Mr Max Jacobsen wrote this song to help us all remember to look after each other and to make sure that we always know someone is there for us to talk to.
Room 13 loves his song so much we made a few animations in Hyperstudio to go along with it.

Using Speech Marks

We have been working hard on when to use speech marks in our writing. We watched the final scene from Back to the Future 1 and described the scene, making sure to add in speech.

Here's Gloria's very cool story.

Screeching wheels were heard as the Delorean backed out from the drive way. Crammed inside was Marty and his girlfriend Jennifer, plus the mad scientist-Doc. “Hey Doc, we better back up, we don’t have enough road to get to 88” said Marty who was frightened. Jennifer just sat there frozen no clue of what had happened, she was really confused. Adjusting his shiny sliver glasses, Doc argued “Roads, where we’re going we don’t need roads”. Flying off in a big burst of fire, taking them to another adventure.

Taking off in a big ball of fire, Jennifer begged “YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY!!!! I WANT TO GO HOME!”. She felt very unsafe and frightened. Marty listened to Jennifer and tried to comfort her. Doc gave out a big mysterious laugh and said “Don’t worry, I have never failed before”. Landing, Jennifer was relieved that they had survived the return to the future.

Don't Forget Your Roots

Sentence Beginnings

In our classroom we are learning about the features of an effective paragraph. One of the most important features is making sure that your sentences have a variety of beginnings.
We read Toreka's story called "What an Ambush" and then highlighted all the beginnings of her sentences. We have put those beginnings into Wordle.net to give us an idea of the variety that she used.

Games with a Thousands Board

Have you ever wondered how to practice adding 10s and 1s up to 1000? In our class we play a game to try and trick our friends. See if you can figure out how to play?

Building Straw Towers

75 straws and a roll of tape, do you think you could build a tall tower with those materials? This was our challenge for our first morning of Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger. Our new topic is all about improving things and making them even more awesome.
We started off quite unsure of where things would head, but with communication, thought and creativity we managed to make, well, something at least.

The World's Greatest

We love singing R-Kelly's song - "World's Greatest" at our school. Many many years ago we even had some school actions to match.

Miss King decided that the new crew of Pt Englanders needed to learn the moves too.

Glee Performance

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Last Friday our amazing Glee group performed for our school assembly. They had been practicing for the last 8 weeks after school on a Thursday, and we could tell that so much effort and energy had gone into this performance. Thanks Miss M and Miss Lavakula for some awesome entertainment!

How Many to Add to 10?

We are the Triangles group and we have been learning to add to 10. We have gotten so good at it that we even made this movie to show you how proud we are of what we can do now!

Cool Maths Strategy

Today we decided to experiment with I Can Animate and show off a really cool subtraction strategy called Equal Addition. Making movies like this one helps us think a bit more about each strategy and when we might use it. Stay tuned for more just like it.