Friday's special visitor

Today we were so lucky to have Katya's dad Sebastian come and talk to us about the cello and play us a few pieces. Check out the vids and pics. Thanks, Sebastian! We are very grateful for you coming in and sharing your talent with us.

Room 14 SVA project

SVA Project
Story tellers
By Kohaya,  Laura  Max & Brooke
11th of Septemper 2017
Today room 14 started working on our SVA projects.Our job as storytellers is to take pictures and post them to the blog. Today everybody is working on their project  first time. Everyone is doing a very awesome job.There are 7 jobs. Community liaison, finance offcer, safety offcer, platoon leader, storyteller, planners and equipment officers.Each group are working hard on their jobs.One of our ideas is setting up pest traps.Here are some photos of the groups working hard

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 we are enjoying it! [: ! and we are good at it!

Art Exhibition

Te wiki o te reo Maori

It is Te wiki o te reo so Brooklyn School kicked things off with a special hui. There was a game show, skits and lots of waiata.

Using connectives in our writing

Today we learned about simple, compound and complex sentences.
A sentence must have a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. We can use special connectives to create compound (FANBOYS) or complex (AAWIBUSS) sentences.

Simple: Daniel eats.
Compound: Daniel eats food and he drinks water.
Complex: While Daniel eats his food, he plays on his computer.

Here are some of our sentences:

Fraction-o-rama

Today we had a fraction-o-rama. Which is just a fancy word for some fraction activities!

We made fairy bread and had to make halves, quarters, eighths, thirds and sixths (then we ate it of course).

Using multi link cubes we had to create structures that had 20 blocks with 1/2 blue, 1/4 green, 15 blocks with 1/3 red, 2/3 green etc.

We had to work out fractions of $ amounts such as 1/4 of $80

We looked at time and had to work out what is 1/5 of a minute and what is 4/12 of an hour. We had stopwatches that we had to try at stop at 12 seconds.

Fraction fish was another activity where they used circles and cut out fractions then arranged them into a fish mural.

 We also looked at measurement and had to work out 1/5 of a metre, 4/5 of a metre and more.  Lots of hands on fraction fun with some good thinking as well.

Architect visit

Today we had Lili's dad Greg give up his time to come and share with us about what he does as an architect.

 It was really interesting to learn about the process of designing buildings. Room 14 then had to design their dream houses.

Here are some of our creations:

Thanks for spending some time with us Greg!