Enviro with Mrs Daniel

Team 15 at Enviro

Swimming

Here are some pics from Swimming today. 

Mrs Turner is very proud of the way Team 15 shined with their manners and their self belief. We have some very good swimmers in our class, and EVERYONE tried their best!

Swimming is funded by the John Walker Foundation, Field of Dreams foundation.

Maths Talk

Today, the Squares Group were working on sharing their Maths strategies. 

They started by trying to work out the multiplication or division problem given to them with a buddy. Some of them used materials (fingers and beans) and some tried to do it in their mind (jedi powers). 

After that, they had to write down their strategy (the way they worked it out). The hardest part about the whole thing was using their words to describe in detail HOW they had come to that conclusion. The actual answer's were 'easy' (according to them).

Here are two videos of them sharing their strategy. 

Mrs Turner thinks they did pretty well considering this video app was new and it was strange sharing to a screen. 

Do you have any tips for us to improve? If you do please leave them in the comments below. (Remember to be nice - we are still learning!)

Carlos and Sophie

James and Simeng

Wheel-a-thon

Today Team 15 participated in the Sunnyhills PTA Wheel-a-thon. 

Some of us brought our bikes and some of us brought our scooters. Here are two pictures of us getting ready to go:

At morning tea we had a special visit from Simon and the Skate School. We were "WOWED" with the cool tricks! Check out the video!

Finally it was our turn to do our 'laps'. Mrs Turner tried really hard to get a picture of everyone! Some of us were just too fast for the camera! 

Jessie must have been going REALLY fast as the wheel fell off! Don't worry though, Mrs Turner and Mr Leslie managed to fix it!

Here us a video if us riding our scooters:

How many laps could you do?

xx

WALT - Use speech marks

Last week we had some special guests come into Team 15. 

Gnomeo and Doug.

Gnomeo and Doug are two gnomes that the Sunnyhills teachers have been taking on adventures.

When they came to Team 15, the children used them to help us write some conversations between 2 or more people using correct punctuation.

We were super successful in creating conversations. It was a little tricky to put the punctuation in the correct places. We are learning fast though!

See Chloe's writing below.

Gnomeo & Doug

By Chloe

It all began on a sunny Sunday morning when a delivery truck rumbled down past my house, when suddenly…The doorbell rang and it was ear-splitting, it never stopped! I finally was able to dash to the door and outside stood Doug and Gnomeo!

“Hey there Chloe!” cried Doug.

“Um hi” I replied confused. After a while I suddenly realised! “Now, I  know what you want to do, you want to play at the park!” I exclaimed.

“Let’s go!” cried Gnomeo. When we got there we had a picnic and played until we were exhausted.

Happy Mothers Day

Here is Team 15 signing 'Happy Mothers Day' in New Zealand Sign Language:

Hope you all have an awesome day on Sunday!

xxx

Sunnyhills GEMS

 Sunnyhills GEMS Learning Power - Self Belief

Last week we started to look at and discuss the Term 2 GEMS learning power of Self Belief. 

Mrs Grant told us this was the learning power for this term. We worked in groups to brainstorm what we thought this learning power might look like, feel like and sound like. If we saw or heard someone using this learning power what might they look like or sound like.

Here a a few pictures sharing us collaborating and brainstorming these ideas. 

Make sure you check our blog again soon to see more about this wonderful Sunnyhills GEM learning power!