Super successful speeches!

Our focus for writing so far this term has been on writing to persuade or argue - which means to state our opinion on a topic and try to make our audience agree with us.  The result of all our hard work in class and at home has been the writing and presenting of persuasive speeches.  Mr Blake was very pleased by the effort put in by the whole class and it was very hard to decide upon the best ones.  

After some consideration two finalists were chosen.  Room 5 was represented by Richard Fallon (Year 2) and Hayley Brown (Year 3) at whole school speech finals.  Richard came first in the Year 2 final and Hayley achieved second place for Year 3.  An outstanding effort from these two that Room 5 can be very proud of.  Well done!

Maths Week!

It's maths week this week.  Take a look at this cool website that's full of games and activities to help us learn: http://www.mathsweek.org.nz/ .  I've created logins and passwords for all of us in Room 5 and will be giving these to you this week.  I encourage all of you to spend some time on here at home this week playing the games and exploring the website.

New pages in our blog.

Hi Room 5, I've uploaded this week's Homefun and have added some new pages to our blog with some practice sheets for basic facts and place value.  I encourage you to practice these in your own time.  So far I have added some stage 4 and 5 problems to practice, I will continue to add to these throughout the term and will also add some stage 6 pages later on.

Welcome back for Term 3

Welcome back students and parents of Room 5.  I hope you've all enjoyed your holidays and are ready for the term ahead.  We have a lot of really exciting learning to do in Room 5 in Term 3.

We will be investigating the Olympic Games and looking at how things have changed from the past to the modern Olympics.

We will be learning about fractions and shapes (geometry) in maths.

We will be writing persuasive speeches and presenting these in week 4.  This means choosing a topic that you feel strongly about and writing a speech that will hopefully make other people agree with your opinion. For example, you might think that you should be allowed to stay up later, or that children should be paid to go to school.  Once you've written your speech you will need to stand in front of an audience and read your speech to them.  This will be a big challenge and some of us might find it a little scary, but I know Room 5 are up to the challenge!

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns.

Mr Blake

davidb@reremoana.school.nz

ANZAC DAY

We read Simpson and the donkey and learned about how Kiwi's helped those in World War One by making ANZAC biscuits to send overseas.


We made biscuits and pretended we were sending them to Jack Simpson and we wrote letters to him explaining what we had done, including FEELING words to make our letters interesting.


We then did some ICT magic - putting ourselves into a field of poppies.  Here are some examples - for more, visit the office at Reremoana School.

Dear Jack

When I smelled the ANZAC cookies, I really wanted to eat them.  They smelled like chocolate.  

It’s sad that I can’t see you.  But you are helping our country.  It makes me feel happy because you are helping my people.

When I made the ANZAC cookies I put love in too. 

Hope you enjoy it.

Love Hayley 

Dear Jack

Today we have made ANZAC biscuits.  When Room 5 made them some of the class wanted to lick their hands.  I hope you're okay in the war saving people.

It was pretty fun making them.  I hope they taste good.

Maybe I can send a cookie to you.  Was the cookie good?  

What did it taste like.

From Rittivong

Baseball Skills

We have been learning to hit a ball with a baseball bat. We know how to:

• hold the bat
• swing the bat
• squash the bug

We also run the correct way around the bases now, catch the ball like a crab when it rolls on the ground, and pass to each other.

Author Study - Dr Seuss