Defining 'ecosystem'

Today LH3 put their thinking caps on and investigated the meaning of 'ecosystem' - this is some of the information we found from the internet which we're now going to combine with our other findings and write our own definitions.  Have a look at our 'comment's below.

...in the hub we Built Knowledge = Found Out and Brainstormed.
At home we're Making Meaning = Considering and Knitting Together.
Then we're going to Apply Understandings together.

(We haven't yet discussed the importance of referencing our work so please excuse us this once!)

Did You Know? (I didn't!)

Don't believe it?  Visit Google Maps, type in North Korea and see what happens...


Thanks to The Skinny (student blog) and Learn Something Every Day - Visit Learn Something Everyday for more fun facts!

Maori Language Week is on it's way

As some of you may be aware, Maori Language week isn't too far away.

We've been very lucky to have some students from Melville Intermediate offer to teach us (thanks Hayze and Mackenzie, we think you're awesome!!)  Their blog comes up on the first page on Google when you search 'Maori mihi' (which is a special Maori greeting, giving info of where your ancestors are from) so they're obviously very knowledgeable - nothing like learning from the experts.

LH3, please have a go at loading on all the Maori words you're already familiar with (and the English version of it) below - I'm interested to see how we get on!

Also, feel free to use this space to communicate with Hayze, Mackenzie and any other Melville Int. students in the comments section.



These are some Maori words/phrases we know (Maori = English)... at AnswerGarden.ch.

The 'Wonderful Readers' look at Inferencing

Today everyone in the hub learned about Inferencing when we read.

The Wonderful Reading group - that's us, Courtney, Ruby, Meg, Damien P and Albert worked together with Miss Holland.

We worked together to find out the right meanings. To start with, we didn't really know what inferencing meant, so we used dictionaries and the internet to find out what it meant. Some of the meanings were confusing so we talked about what it could mean and helped each other.

Today we were in Building Knowledge - We Found out, Brought what we know, Brainstormed, Guessed and...

We were in Making Meaning - We Organized and Knitted together.

Tearno and I have decided that the next thing we will do is Apply Understandings. We need to collaborate and work as a team to have the same understanding. We will decide on one meaning together.

Here's some of what we think and know (we made it in Popplet):

We hope you liked our post and catch you later!

From Hossain and Tearno (from the Wonderful Readers)

Presentation Day for Shade

As you can see this is our Tagxedo.

 

On Friday, Mark, Debi and Kaela Rush came to our school to meet the year 7's and 8. We showed them our presentation and we talked to them about our school and how they can help us to create shade over our playground.  Here's our Prezi presentation.

We felt our presentation went good because they agreed with us most of the time.  We thought the pikelets were a nice touch and we enjoyed making them to calm down our nerves.  

They were really kind and were a great audience.  We did pretty well in representing our school and really enjoyed the experience.  It was exciting to be able to talk with such successful business people!

(Click photo to enlarge:  Here's us giving the presentation and taking everyone on a tour of the school.  We were so proud and even popped some sparkling grape juice to celebrate!)

By Fatima and Hana

Swimming Lesson Wrap Up

Swimming lessons for our year 5 and 6 students have wrapped up now but what fun these leaders had!

Take a look at the last of our photos...

Untitled from Sarah Holland on Vimeo.

Swimmers - it's time to reflect.  Why don't we have another go at using the thinking hats to structure our reflection?  Please use the yellow hat (positives), black hat (negatives) and red hat (emotions and feelings) to share with us your experience.  What do you think about the hats now that you've had a chance to think about them - do they help structure your reflection or do you find them confusing? 

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