School Cross Country 2016

Hello bloggers,

Today was our school cross country, juniors and seniors. We did it after morning tea, we walked to Keith Hay park, where we practiced cross country, and then we had to sit down in front of our class number cone, (it is a cone that has a number that represents each class). After that Hay Park school was ready, the juniors went first. Rm 5 lined up right behind the line that was already prepared, once they heard the wooden clapper hit, they ran as fast as their legs could go.

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Kia Ora bloggers,

This is just a slideshow about the cat door company. Have a nice time reading about the astonishing company and what they did to this school.



Have you ever heard of SureFlap? They are an innovative company that make cat doors and other products. Please look through the slideshow to see how they have supported our school.

I hope you enjoy!

Enrichment Activity

Kia Ora bloggers, 

If you read my previous blog post about the zoo you will notice that the workers have to make sure they really take care of how much fun an animal is having. Something the workers can do is make an enrichment toy, it helps the animals get the skills they need for the future. 

Here is a document that I have put a lot of work into. I designed the enrichment toy using TinkerCad and used a google drawing to explain how the enrichment toy works. One thing I found challenging was to create a great enrichment toy for the Kea. I had a hard time finding out which idea would be best. The Kea is very smart, they are very smart so they might always find out how to do the task easily. I wanted to make sure the task was challenging and hard to do the Kea won't get bored.

My next learning step would be to make a prototype of my enrichment task and test it to see if it is a good task for Keas.

Our Trip to Auckland Zoo

Hello bloggers,

On Monday, the first day of week 6 Morris and Setoga Class went to Auckland Zoo. It was quite a gloomy day, but all of our excitement made us forget the bad weather! As we looked at all of the astonishing animals, we were so excited that it felt like a short time at the zoo. We saw so many animals, including Meerkats, Elephants, (Anjalee and Brema) one Giraffe, and much much more. I was so happy that I feel like going back to the zoo and doing everything over and over again. My 3 favorite animals were the lion, cheetah, and Meerkats.

Thank you for reading
Gargee :)

My Learning Conference

 Kia Ora bloggers,

Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are our conference meetings. We are going to talk to our parents about how well we are doing in school and our next steps in reading, writing and maths. Here is the link to my conference slides. If you are lucky enough and explain your slides clearly and add more info that isn't in the slides, Miss Fortes had 3 yoyo's and she would give one of them to you.
If you would like to see a screencastify on how to embed a document to your blog, click here.

Thank you
Gargee

KWVL Nutrition and Word Cloud

Kia Ora blogging world, 

Today my class and I were learning about nutrition and what we already know about it. Miss Fortes (my teacher) made a document that shows how much we know and how much we don't know. In the document we had to write what we know, what we want to learn, and vocabulary. We didn't really start learning about it, but we just wrote the things that we ALREADY know. After Miss Fortes made a google slides that shows our words. We went on ABCya and it took us to the word cloud, first we had to copy and paste our ideas into the word cloud. Now we press the button at the bottom and after a few seconds it brings the words you pasted in. After if you search for enough time you will find out that you can arrange the words in different ways. I made mine crazy and put them everywhere. You can also change the color and font. 

By the way, KWVL stands for : Knowledge, Want to know, Vocabulary, and Learned

Here is a link to my document

Here is a link to the google slides

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Kind Regards

(Gargee :)

Hola bloogers,

Today I have been doing a filmstrip about the Kawa of Care. The Kawa of Care is taking care of your classroom and all of the digital things that are there. We have been making a filmstrip about our chromebook and how to walk with them. After we decided to make one of the boxes about chargers to make sure people also look after their charger, not just their chromebook.

I hope you enjoy :)
Kind Regards
Gargee