tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60034328701573161352024-02-09T06:51:30.345+13:00Mrs Lashlie's Lively LearnersWelcome to Mrs Lashlie's Lively Learners! We are a fabulous group of Year 4's in room 15 at Elm Park School. We would love for you to take a look around and leave us comments!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-13331347057707377562013-12-10T11:59:00.001+13:002013-12-10T12:08:10.336+13:00Christmas in AmericaWe are very proud to have finished some of our Christmas projects!<br />
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You can't hear it but we also read along with our slides!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-43008478628901080732013-12-10T11:43:00.000+13:002013-12-10T11:43:17.334+13:00Christmas Projects<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"There are many ways to celebrate Christmas and people in different countries blend their cultural traditions with more universal Christmas celebrations. It is common for many households to have decorated Christmas trees, either real or fake. Many homes are also decorated to fit the Christmas theme prior to and on Christmas Day. Many workplaces hold Christmas parties in the weeks leading to Christmas Day.
Many people have a day off work and spend time with their families and loved ones on Christmas Day. Festive activities include exchanging Christmas presents, joining in Christmas feasts, and listening to Christmas-themed music or movies. For some cultures, Christmas is an exclusive family affair that sees relatives travel from different geographic regions to unite at this time of the year. Other people may choose to openly invite friends to a Christmas buffet or pot luck lunch or dinner.
Christmas Day is a special day for children who receive gifts that they have been longing for. Many children believe in Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, a figure who is believed to provide Christmas presents to children. Some children write “letters to Santa” a few weeks before Christmas Day, asking for a gift that they desire most. Christmas cards are also exchanged among adults and children prior to Christmas Day.
Many churches have special Christmas Day services, some of which include choirs, joyous singing, and meet-and-greet opportunities after the church services. Many churches are beautifully decorated and may include a crèche or miniature Nativity scene. Some large-scale Christmas church services are televised for those who do cannot attend a church service."</blockquote>
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So we decided to use our e-learning and literacy skills to find out more about christmas in different countries around the world!!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-22637485909495374832013-09-18T14:11:00.002+12:002013-09-18T16:27:31.286+12:00East Tamaki Sequencing / Recount ActivityIn writing we are learning to sequence our ideas in our plan and use these words to help us with our recount story.
Check out some of our completed work, we used Padlet to create our work in a digital format!
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-50338381158044530292013-09-14T19:47:00.003+12:002013-09-14T19:47:45.973+12:00Trip to East Tamaki School (Garden 2 Table)On Wednesday we were VERY lucky to take our class trip to East Tamaki School to check out their amazing Garden to Table programme. We have been learning about Enterprise, with a focus on food so this was excellent opportunity to see some very clever entrepreneurs in action and also get a chance to ask them about some of our focus questions in our inquiry.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i>"In the past three years we have increased the size of our vegetable gardens. We also have many more dedicated volunteers. This increase has allowed us to offer this amazing experience to more of our students. The students continue to enjoy planting, harvesting, cooking and eating the fruits and vegetables we grow in our gardens. They are becoming experts at indentifying different types of vegetables which they may not have been exposed to at home and really appreciate the opportunity to try something new. Children willingly give up their lunchtime to sow seeds, thin out seedlings, weed the vegetable garden or just wander through to see what is growing.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i>Our disused swimming pool was removed and the hole that once was the pool filled up with soil. This very large garden has been split up into smaller gardens with paths in between and has as distinct Pasifika theme to it with banana trees and taro being planted in the middle. The old changin sheds have had a makeover and now serve as a potting shed and extra storage space.</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i>The vegetable garden has become even more attractive with the addition of some garden themed murals. We are always very willing to show our gardens and kitchen to others. The Garden to Table Programme is a significant part of the school and we are very proud of it." - East Tamaki School</i></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-12696445825212110502013-09-14T19:11:00.001+12:002013-09-14T19:11:29.424+12:00BNZ Closed for GoodWe were very lucky to have one of the BNZ staff members come to EPS during their annual 'Closed for Good' day. Viktoria Morgan who is a fabulous dance teacher (and even teaches Mrs Lashlie) came in to take us for a dance lesson. We had an amazing time and were all practicing our 'Cha-cha-cha's for the rest of the day!! We can't wait for another dance lesson with Mrs Lashlie soon! Check out some photos.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-89447734100259544722013-09-14T18:42:00.001+12:002013-09-14T18:42:27.645+12:00Madame ButterflyOn Friday the 2nd August we were lucky enough to have Madame Butterfly to come in and teach us about butterflies. Check out what we learnt.<br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="background-color: red;">One very sunny morning, a bright one too, I went to my dad’s in the afternoon. It was for 6 day’s. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">On the first day, Kelly told me next time I came here it will be my little brother Jayden’s birthday. The next thing I did was read a story to my little sister, half way. </span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="s1">My little sister fell sleep which was very unusual. On the 5th day my dad ad kelly organised to go hose riding. So we got in the car and headed dawn the road...When we got to the barn no one was there was there, so we went to there house. No one was there either, so we went back to the barn and waited. Finally someone came, so we went to wake up my little sister.Then we went to see the horses.The one I rode was the naughty one. 2 hours later, when we got to the rodeo </span><span class="s2">(the rodeo is a place where people ride hoses and bull’s)</span><span class="s1"> I got told it was April’s birth day. April got on the hose she was on it for 2 an a half hours I got on after. I got scared because I was afraid of him bucking me off h</span><span class="s2">im (buck means a horse picks up it’s back legs when you’re on it). </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="background-color: yellow;">April hopped back on him and Freeway bucked her off. Her dad kicked Freeway. I didn’t go back on Freeway but I did go on the biggest horse called chocolate didn’t buck. Oh yeah I forgot Mr love, he is not broken in yet (he can not be ridden yet). 1 more horse, the most friendly horse of all, Cody, you can stand behind him and he won’t buck. The next thing we did was go back to the barn. We watched a movie and I said “I’m tired it is time to go home”. I read a story to my little sister Tayla and we watched Charlotte’s Web, Mickey Mouse and then Over the Hedge. We all went to sleep after that. The next day I woke up. I was tired as a sleepy lion and as slow as a sloth. I remembered I was going home. Tayla asked me if I can play the song Taylor Swift We are never ever getting back together again on my iphone. I said “Yes you can”. “Tayla what do you say?” “Please Summer!” “Here you go.” Kelly said “It’s time to change into your kindergarden clothes Tayla.” “No play time.” “Get changed.” “Okay Mummy.” “Five minutes to pack up or you won’t get to see your boyfriend Kaile!” We dropped Tayla at kindergarden. Then we went for a two hour walk but we took one hour because we were very fast. Then I went home.</span><span style="background-color: blue;"> I love going to my Dad’s house!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">- SE.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">"In writing we have been learning to structure our recounts. We need to have an introduction that says who, what, when and where, a body that has two events, with a little but more detail and a conclusion that has a feeling" - KB.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6003432870157316135.post-15909510259982770532013-05-08T09:58:00.002+12:002013-05-08T09:58:35.723+12:00Te TuhiMy class and I went on an adventure to Te Tuhi.<br />
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We had no idea what was ahead of us. We had to walk because it was not far from school. Most of us were tired when we were nearly there. When we got there everyone was so tired so we sat on the mat at Te Tuhi.<br />
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Then a man lead us through the building to an ond looking art room. We saw real tapa and we got to feel it. It was soft and a little hard.<br />
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There was a piece of paper in front of us, I wondered what we were doing on it. There were some pastels, paint and dye.<br />
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We shaded with the pastels, dyed with the dye and painted with the paint. "Ta da!" We had just created something which looked like tapa and felt like tapa.<br />
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I felt so good that I made something I never thought I could make before.<br />
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In Room 15 we have been thinking about what makes learning easier. To understand how to make a complex task easier we decided to use our knowledge of success criteria to make something challenging... like balloon dogs!<br />
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Mrs Lashlie first let us have a go without any success criteria... Boy was that a laugh, we all tried to blow up the balloons with our mouths but we soon realised that wasn't going to happen!<br />
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So Mrs Lashlie modelled how to make a balloon dog and we worked to co-construct the success criteria for making our balloon dogs. The success criteria we cam up with was:<br />
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<li>Tie a knot in the end of our balloon, this knot becomes the nose.</li>
<li>Squeeze the balloon a little way down and twist to make a little head.</li>
<li>Hold the head and squeeze and twist another section of balloon to make an ear.</li>
<li>Bend the balloon down so it is the same size as the other ear and squeeze and twist the second ear.</li>
<li>Hold the ears together and <i>twist</i> at the narrow part to join the ears together securely.</li>
<li>Squeeze and twist a section for the neck and repeat with two bigger sections, bending the balloon down to make sure they are the same size, to make the front legs.</li>
<li>Hold the legs and <i>twist</i> at the narrow part to join the two legs together securely.</li>
<li>Squeeze and twist after a large section to make the body, repeat for the two back legs, ensuring they are roughly the same size as the front legs but remember to leave a little for the tail.</li>
<li>Hold the legs and <i>twist</i> at the narrow part to join the last two legs together securely.</li>
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As we discussed our learning goals, we discovered that we needed a way to ensure that we were each on track to achieve our learning goals.<br />
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We looked at ways in which other groups of people ensure that each person is working together and helping others with working towards their learning goals. When Waitangi day came around on the 6th of February we talked about the Treaty of Waitangi, the purpose of this treaty and how it was implemented. Lots of brainstorming and discussion took place in the following days.<br />
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After thinking about the information included on the Treaty of Waitangi we decided that in our class we wanted to include two other key items missing from the Treaty of Waitangi; celebrations (for abiding by our treaty) and celebrations (for abiding by our treaty).<br />
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<b>Article the First: Our Purpose</b></div>
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We the members of Room 15, agree that the main purpose for coming to school is to learn; we want to learn not only to read and write but to make the right decisions. We think that making the right decisions means not only thinking about our learning but also about our health. We can help each other by giving feedback and this will help our learning, helping each other is one of our main learning goals. We would like our learning to be fun. We think we need to develop our listening ad research skills and do lots of discovering.</div>
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We believe that the most important values in our learning community are <b><i>respect</i></b> and <i style="font-weight: bold;">tolerance</i>. If we remember to show respect we will get really good at <b>relating to others.</b> If we can get on positively, this will help our <b>learning.</b> </div>
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We agree that if we are 'caught out' as an individual displaying these values within the classroom, we will be celebrated with 'behaviour bucks'. These can be redeemed every 6 weeks for an item at our Room 15 celebrations auction. If we as a whole class are consistently displaying these values throughout a period of time, a marble will be placed into our celebrations jar which, once full, results in a class agreed reward such as; a whole block of art, a block of outside activities or ice blocks for the whole class.</div>
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<b>Article the Fifth: Consequences</b></div>
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We agree that everyone in Room 15 has the right to make an "I" statement if the classroom treaty is broken or to ask for the assistance of a peer mediator . People who stop learning will need to reset their goals. If interruption affects learning, a first warning (yellow card) will be given to the time waster. Persistant time wasters will get a second (orange) or third (red) warning. If this happens, they will spend time in the Thinking Room with Mrs Johnston and will need to fill out a thinking sheet to explain how they have <span style="text-align: left;">interrupted learning and this sheet will go home to parents. Physical harm to others will result instantly in the red card warning.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">If third warning happen three times, parents will be asked ti come to a parent conference at school to discuss the disruption to learning. The loss of 'behaviour bucks' will happen if the agreed rules are broken.</span></div>
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In addition to this, for our safety, swinging on chair will result in two warning before our chair is removed from us for a period of 5 minutes.</div>
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We agree to review our class agreement and re-sign it at the beginning of each new term.</div>
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Signed this 11th day of February 2012, by all the learners in Room 15, EPS.</div>
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In the next few days each of us will sign our name on a piece of paper which will be placed on the wall to show our agreement to the treaty.<br />
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In addition to this we also have our "Baa Baa Baa Ram" who sings and dances for us when it is time to pack up. We must be sitting on the mat by the time he finishes singing. In this picture is also our marble jar which already has 4 marbles in it!<br />
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If we are VERY good we also get to take home PJ bear for the night!</div>
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We were all very excited to set up our 'Wise Helpers' job chart too. We brainstormed all the jobs that need to be taken care of in our classroom and volunteered for the jobs we thought we would like to take care of.</div>
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In Room 15, we feel that with each of these processes in place we are now ready to focus on our learning!!<br />
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Kia ora kouto and welcome to Room 15's blog for 2013!<br />
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It is very exciting to be starting the new year with such a wonderful group of learners!<br />
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Over the past few weeks we have been working together to learn about one another; our variety of cultures and beliefs, to enable us to relate to one another in a way that creates a positive and supportive learning environment.<br />
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Our focus has been on our learning; what learning is, what learning looks like, what learning sound like, what learning feels like, what helps our learning, what stops our learning and what our purpose is here at Elm Park School.<br />
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We used our ideas to create a display on our wall which helps to remind us of how we can get the most out of our day together as learners.<br />
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As a classroom, we decided on a set of learning criteria for room 15 to include in our display;<br />
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<li>Help each other.</li>
<li>Try our best at each task.</li>
<li>Listening skills displayed.</li>
<li>Discussion on topic, otherwise we are silent.</li>
<li>Focus on our learning.</li>
<li>Ignore distractions.</li>
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We also set a whole class goal to enable learning within room 15;</div>
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<b>Our learning goal is to help others whenever they ask!</b></div>
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We then each set our own individual learning goals for term 1, the things that would help us to best learn each day.</div>
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"My goal for learning is to focus on my work and learning. My goal for learning is no talking to my friends when I am doing my work" - ST</div>
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"My goal for learning is to ignore distractions and get on with my work" - SE</div>
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"My goal for learning is to try my best, be focused on my learning and to finish my work on time" - KB</div>
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As the year progresses we will continue to update our learning journey through our blog. We hope that our visitors will feel free to make comments and ask questions to help us reflect on our journey.</div>
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Welcome once again and keep coming back!</div>
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