Animal Mascots of World War 1

Karaka reading group have read an article about animal mascots of World War 1. Here is a link to some more information about particular mascots and colouring in pages of some of the most famous ones.
Click here to go find out more about these amazing animals.

Jade's Narrated Story - "Watercress"

Class Novel

This term we are reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio - we are about a quarter of the way through and really enjoying this story about a boy called August.

What are YOU reading at the moment?

Lighting Up The Dark - Descriptive Writing

Watch this video of the highlights of the Dunedin Midwinter Carnival - can you see any similarities to your reading book "Lighting Up The Dark"?



Write a short descriptive piece on this video, using the writing in the book as a guide. Brainstorm descriptive words and similes before you begin.

Class Novel

Have you ever read any of Willard Price's books? They have been around for a long time! This term we are reading "Lion Adventure" - it's pretty exciting!

What are you reading?

Last term our class novel was Bear Grylls's "Tracks of the Tiger" ...this term it's Lauren Child's "Ruby Redfort - Take Your Last Breath". What are YOU reading?

More Than A Box - by Dave Armstrong

Over the last two days in maths and reading we completed a challenge. First we read "More Than A Box" by Dave Armstrong which was about the construction of the Wellington Indoor Sports Centre.

In maths we have been looking at 3D shapes and the special properties they have. We knew that triangles are the strongest shape and that you can make other shapes (like rectangles or squares) stronger by using bracing that creates triangular shapes within the original shape.
The first challenge today was to use a shape clue to find a QR code. When the code was scanned with a tablet it led to a Google Doc with the instructions on it. A web address from the Doc led to a shapes lab that helped remind us of the things we had been learning in maths and reading.
Then we had to complete the challenge by creating a structure using only newspaper and masking tape. The winning structure was the one that held the heaviest object - the winning pairs were Libby & Stuart and Charlotte & Jade!

 

Sam's wheelchair

In reading we have been learning how to use Groupboard, an app on our tablets.
This time we used it for sharing our ideas aboout a boy called Sam who has brittle bone disease. Our groupboard is some of the things he might like on his wheelchair. Sam was also an inventor, the wheelchairs the hospital gave him didn't work as well as he wanted so he made one that could do mostly anything.

Bees

Today we made a video explaining our questions and answers from our reading book about bees.
We wrote our questions in our reading book. We took photos of our favourite pages in the book.
Then we went into the staff room and recorded ourselves. We hope you enjoy our video!