Shared Writing

This week we did some shared writing in partners. We looked at a picture of two teachers at our school and we wrote a description about them. Here is an example of one, written by Asafo, Dakshesh and Soileti.

Making One With Fractions

For the last two days we've been learning how to make one with different fractions. We used the iPads to take pictures of our work. Have a look at what two of our groups did today:

Samoan Language Week Challenge 2

Ordering by Long and Short

On Wednesday the Marvellous Meerkats learned about long and short.

First we each looked for one thing that was long and one thing that was short.

Next we got into our groups.

Then we put the shortest one down and the longest one down. They have to start at the same spot.

Have a look at the pictures we took:

Writing

Here is the writing that we did this week after we had put the pictures in order. Remember, we hadn't read the story before we did this. We hope you enjoy reading them.

By Han & Koringoa

By J-Lynn, Jalais & Dizaliyah

By Ryley, Asafo & Soileti

By Sunday & Paris

Making a Story

Today in writing Mr Davidson gave us some pictures from a story that we haven't read. We had to work in teams to put them in order (it didn't have to be the right order, it just had to make sense). Then we came up with a story for the pictures. At the end of the lesson we started writing our stories on the chromebooks. We haven't finished them yet, but check back later this week to see what we've written.

Healthy and Unhealthy

This afternoon we talked about healthy and unhealthy things. We had to sort lots of pictures into two groups: healthy and unhealthy. We had to work together to cut, sort and glue. Do you agree with the sorting?

Making Thirteen (Part I)

This week we continued making our teen numbers. We're up to 13 now. See all the different ways we made the number. We are getting better at it. We started working as a team and used lots of materials.

Short and Long (and Tall)

Last week we started learning about measurement. On Wednesday we talked about what long and short mean. We all got long and short objects in the class. Then we finished the lesson off by building a tall tower in our groups. We only had a few minutes and we had to work together. The rule was that we could only get one block at a time. Have a look at our winning tower, by Paris, Koringoa and Asafo:

Making Twelve

This week we started looking at the different materials we could use to show numbers. Mr Davidson made 11 for us and we tried twelve this week. Have a look at our tries:

ANZAC Day

This week we were learning about ANZAC day. We looked at some websites and books and found out lots of information. Then we used Google Slides to make some presentations. It was our first try at both things. Have a look at some of the slides we made:

Adding and Subtracting Words

Today we worked in groups to try to sort out which words mean to add and which words mean to subtract. It was VERY hard. We talked a lot with each other and tried to figure it out. Have a look at the work that one of our groups did:

Making Ten (Part I)

We started making our last number with the beans today (don't worry, we're going to do some more fun stuff next term with some numbers that are a bit bigger). Mr Davidson was at a meeting when we started but we were so clever and sensible that we were able to tell Mrs Johnson what we had to do and we got on with it straight away. Mr Davidson said that he was very pleased with us for that.

Stop Motion

Half of the class tried stop motion videos for a second time today. One of the groups made a video of an elephant chasing Spider-man. Have a look:

Making Nine (Part I)

Today we continue with our series of making numbers. We had 9 today. See the incredible work that the Parrots and Toucans did (we're even learning how to make the Pic Collage look nicer):

Making Eight (Part I)

Today the Parrots and Toucans continued our work on making numbers. We made eight in as many ways as we could. After practicing with six and seven, we're really getting the hang of it now. Have a look at all the amazing ways we could make eight. We worked together and we even shared between groups!

Quality Work

By Phoenix

By Asafo