Using Google Slides to Show What We Read

This week, the Chimpanzees were reading the book, Wolves. They did lots of activities about the book. One of the activities was to make a slideshow about wolves. Here is the work that Sunday and J-Lynn did:

100th Day of School

Every day, we've been counting how many days it has been since the start of school. We add one popsicle stick every day and we count. When we have ten in the ones' cup, we have to make a bundle of ten and put it in the tens' cup. Today we finally had 10 tens and we had to make a bundle of 100. Can you believe we've been together for that long? Wow!

Before

Sunday with the bundle of 100

After (and the abacus showing 100)

Fluency Practice

We've had some more children practice their reading. Have a look and listen to five of our students who have filmed each other reading so far this week:

Flight in Nature

This week we began learning about Flight. We talked about all the different things in nature that could fly. We came up with lots of different thing using Padlet. Have a look at what we wrote. Have a go and add something that you think we missed (put your name on it though, so we know who it was from). We're going to do some more learning about these things in the next two weeks so come back and check to see what we've learned.

Click here to open it in a new page.

Created with Padlet

The Amazing Adventures of Ngeru: Part VII - Another Hamilton (and my Journey back to New Zealand)

Dear Marvellous Meerkats,

I am so tired right now. I have just been on an airplane for 13 hours! But I am very happy to be back home and I'm very excited to see you tomorrow!

But before I see you, I want to share the last few days of my trip. I got to visit with your teacher in the place where he lived when he was little. It's a city called Hamilton. No, not the one you can drive to from Auckland. This Hamilton is in Canada. It's got lots of trees and a mountain. Well, they say it's a mountain, but it looks like a really big hill. I got to climb to the top and look at the city. It was very beautiful. I even got to see the school that your teacher went to when he was your age. It looks very different from your school.

On the way back, I got to stop in Vancouver again. There were some pretty neat statues and carvings in the terminal. I also got to see some big mountains outside. I even spotted the plane I would travel on for that very long journey.

It's been a fun journey, but I'm glad to be back home. And I can't wait to see all of you tomorrow! I wonder what adventures we can get up to this term?