M&M Challenge

Last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we did the M&M challenge. The class got into groups with one leader in each group. Miss Down gave us some M&M’s and  we had to count how many we had and next figured how much M&M’s our group had. After we found out how many M&M’s we all had many people realized that some people had a very small amount of M&M’s while others had about 50. The next thing we did was counting how much of red we had then blue then yellow until we had finished all the colors we had. When we did everything Miss Down told us to share all the M&M’s equally with our group and everyone in the class got 41 M&M’s each!  We have put our information on a poster.

Online Proflile

In our digital lessons we have been learning what is private and public information. We have created a personal profile for our blogs using this new knowledge. On our blogs there are people we know, and people we don’t know, who can view our profiles. We decided to share personal information that we wanted to share about ourselves. Making sure we didn’t share information that was not for public use.

St Mary Mackillop's Feast Day

St Mary Mackillop’s Feast Day

Yesterday was the St Mary Mackillop Feast Day. We started our day attending our parish mass to celebrate her feast day as whole community.  All the students came back from mass to continue the celebrations by joining our buddy class. Room 4 and 6 together came together to work on paper dolls of ourselves.  We know St Mary of the Cross always supported and helped all the children in need. We made a large St Mary MacKillop and we placed all out paper dolls of ourselves around her. Then we were all very lucky to receive a free sausage sizzle from the PTA to continue the celebrations at lunch.  In the afternoon we then got to go and play a range of fun games with our buddy class. This was such a fun day working along each other but most of all having fun. Happy Saint Mary MacKillop Feast Day.  Here is our  Mural....

Whakatauki

In Maori we have been learning about a Whakatauki

A Whakatauki is a proverb, what is truly valued in the Maori Culture.

The Whakatauki that we have been learning about is if we all shared then no one would go without.

We would be able to provide for all that come to us.

There are also Proverbs in the Bible that encourage us to share.

Read these proverbs : Proverbs 19:17; 22:9; 31:20.

Jesus also showed us the teachings of God when he feed the multitudes of people with the fish and the loaves. Read more about this in the Gospel of John: 6 or the Gospel of Matthew: 14.

Vertebrates

• In Room 6 we have been learning to classify animals scientists classify animals and plants into groups in order to easily classify identity, sort and name them

•  Classify=Sort There are many ways to group organisms 

                                         

                 You can classify animals in two main groups, Vertebrate or Invertebrate


               All Vertebrates have

• Covering of skin to protect them 
• Skeleton inside their body 
• Muscles that help them move
• Blood move through tubes
• lungs or gills for breathing                

• 90% of all animals are invertebrates!
• Tend to be small because they do not have a backbone
• Many live in the ocean because the water helps support their weight 
• some have hard covering or shell on the outside of their bodies for protection

- Insects, Spiders,Crabs,Snails, Clams

Private and Public Imformations

Figurative Language

Idiom, hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, similes and personification. These are all

language features which we call figurative language. In reading we have been learning about these language features and how authors used them in their writing to make their work engaging definitions of the language feature.Here is our figurative language poster.  And add interest for their audience.