Edgewater Marae

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Get N.Z. Writing 2

Team 15 have opened the special tin that will help us create inspirational word poems!

Here is Step one of the process.

Keep watching our blog to see the amazing poems being crafted and recrafted.

Parts of Speech - Could You Sort Them?

Hey there parents and other adults,

Team 15 have been working hard on learning the difference between Nouns, Verbs and Adjectives. We are pretty sure we can explain it to you at home. Go on... test us!

Check out this vid to see the work we have put into learning about these parts of speech.

We are pretty proud.

Leave us your comments and tell us what you think.

Get N.Z. Writing

Get New Zealand Writing.

Team 15 are part of the Get N.Z writing project. 

We got a special delivery with lots of goodies that are going to help us write an amazing poem

One of the special goodies was a little tin fill with some exciting treasures that are going to inspire our poem writing.

At this stage we don't know what is in there.

We shook it and made a list in our writing books on what we think might be in there. 

Some of the suggestions were;

money

mini statues 

mini instructions

hamburgers

paper clips

nails

gems

Keep looking at our blog to see how we are going with our poem.. and to see what is in the box.

This is the special treasure box

Splish and Splash at Sunnyhills

The Year 3 Team (Rooms 14, 15 and 16)had the best day at Splish and Splash. 

There were three great activities for us to participate in on a hot summery day. 

1. Stuck in the mud under the sprinkler

2. Water challenge against another team to see who could fill the water trough the fastest

3. Being blasted with the hose, and practising our Pause, Breathe and Smile while being sprinkled with rain.

It was such a great afternoon to cool down and have some fun. 

We were so lucky that Mrs Trembath organised this for us to do. 

Thank you to Mrs Trembath, great idea! 

Te Reo on Ratū with Mrs Harding

Let's Talk Math Strategy

In Team 15 we are learning about the importance of explaining our mathematical thinking. Yesterday we were given a word problem to solve. Mrs Turner didn't even care if we got the answer wrong as long as we could explain how we worked it out. 

First we learned how to breakdown a question (Look for the key words and numbers and figure out what it is asking us to do).  We identified that the key word was 'ate'. This meant it was a Subtraction problem. 

Did you know LOT'S of other words mean the same as subtract? - takeaway, minus, loose, lost, ate, gave away! (if you can think of more, post one in the comments section)

For some of us, the problem was REALLY easy. For some of us, it was REALLY hard. Even our best mathematicians though, were in the learning pit for a while trying to think of the best way to explain their thinking.

To solve the problem, some of us drew pictures of cupcakes and crossed them out as we counted. A couple of us spotted a 'magic 10', but most of us just counted backwards from the biggest number. All of these are perfect strategies to use. We are very proud!

These 3 brave, amazing people volunteered to share their strategy on camera. Can you give us some feedback in the comments? We think Chloe did particularly well with her explaining how/why she used the numbers. What do you think?

Tu Meke!