Scrabble!

In reading today Hortons had great fun in learning how to play Scrabble. They created some fantastic words and they were beginning to see how you can extend previous words to make a new word.

Scrabble!

In reading today Hortons had great fun in learning how to play Scrabble. They created some fantastic words and they were beginning to see how you can extend previous words to make a new word.

Retelling the story!

Here the fantastic Hortons are acting out their story called The Lonely Giant. They were excellent at using different voices to show characters and using their face to show different emotions.

Fractions

We were learning fractions of a shape by cutting our paper into equal pieces. Each child had one piece of paper to represent our whole. We then had to cut this in half to share with our neighbor. We then had to cut into quarters so everyone at our table could have a piece.

Three Little Pigs

WALT: write a narrative. 

This week we have been learning what a narrative must include. so far we have been looking at the beginning. 

Beginning must include:

Who

Where 

When 

We read the three little pigs and the students wrote their own beginning. 

Fine 

A long long time ago in a dark dark forest there was a wolf that was making a cake for his granny. He only had a little bit of sugar so he hummed. "where can I get some sugar?"

Suki

Once upon a time a wolf was making an attractive birthday cake at his house for his grandma! But he was out of sweet sugar. 

Vivian

One day the lovely wolf was making a cake for his grandma but he needed some sugar. So he went to his neighbours house.

Viliame

One sunny day an evil wolf was making a cake for his granny at home.

Athletics Day!

What an amazing day! We had so much fun participating in all the activities. They were all so excited to take part! Our relay team was fantastic and came in 3rd :)

Kahoot!

This week in room 19 we have been learning how to use a tool called Kahoot! This is a great online site with millions of quizzes on all topics. Today we were seeing how much we knew about seeds and plants by taking a quiz. The students were so engaged and absolutely loved the quiz! We will also be trialing it as a maths warm up to help us with our basic facts.