Week 7 - Statistical Investigations

The children worked in teams of 4 to conduct a statistical investigation. 

They followed these steps…

1. Pose a question.

2. Gather the data by asking each person in the class their question.

3. Change the answer into a tally mark.

4. Analyse the data and use the tally marks to create graphs. 

5. Form conclusions and use the data from the graphs to make a statement.

Here they are presenting their findings to the class.

Week 6 - The Ugly Duckling

This week during Literacy we listened to the story of the Ugly Duckling.  Here is a version of the story you might like to listen to again. 

For drama we practiced how it would feel to be an duckling breaking out of our egg and then moving in the world for the first time.  

On Friday Mrs Massey shared with a clip of 2 people from the Royal New Zealand ballet.  They taught us the dance of the Ugly Duckling.  We then practiced and practiced.  It took us half and hour to learn the moves to a 1 1/2 minute performance.

 Here we are performing the dance. After this we watched the real performance of the Ugly Duckling.

What did you think?  Mrs Massey thought we were amazing!

 

Week 6 - St Patricks Day

 Click on this link to go to the St. Patricks Day Slideshow.

Week 5 and 6 - Valley KIDS

We have finally finished our Valley KIDS inquiry.  

The last part of the inquiry was where the children worked in their 

house groups to colour the 

Valley KIDS sign that stays 

in Room 11 for the rest of the year.

Week 5 - Fingerprint Art

 When I was away Mrs Bretz-Malcom did some 

fantastic fingerprint art.  

It is so unique and individual just like the children in 

Room 11.

Week 5 - Giraffes Can't Dance

 We read the book Giraffes Can’t Dance and Mrs Massey thought

drawing a giraffe was a great idea.  

We followed an artist as he drew a giraffe. 

It was challenging!

Just like Gerald in the story we learnt that there are things we can’t do,

but actually we can’t do them YET! 

We learnt it is ok to make mistakes if we learn from them.

We also learnt that working on challenging things

will keep our brain growing.

Our giraffes are individuals just like us!

Week 5 - The jet in the sky!

At morning tea today we saw a jet fly over and then it started circling.  The children were fascinated so we looked up on the world aeroplane tracker.

Flight Radar

We saw it was a NZ defence force plane.  It was fascinating to watch it outside in flying in circles and then come inside and watch it live on the flight radar. 

Here is an article about it...

1 News Report

Week 4 - Remember Poems

 The children have finished publishing some Summer Holiday Remember poems.  Here they are displayed on the wall.  

Here are some of the poems...

Remember tasting the yummy chocolate.

Remember hearing the ball bouncing on the table tennis table.

Remember seeing the ball fly out the window.

Remember saying no stop!

That was Summer.

By Karandeep

Remember tasting sweet victory in Minecraft.

Remember hearing the dragon roaring.

Remember seeing the stupid dragon.

Remember saying, kill him!

That was Summer.

By Kai

Remember tasting the delicious popcorn at the movies.

Remember hearing the characters talking and shouting.

Remember seeing Encanto. 

Remember saying this movie is awesome.

That was Summer.

By Etta

Remember tasting the ice cream as it dripped down my arm.

Remember hearing splashing in the crowded pool.

Remember seeing the loud people.

Remember saying I want to come back here.

That was Summer.

By Kaeli

Week 4 - I can't do this YET!

 We have been watching the Mojo videos.  Look in the pages and you will see the Growth Mindset videos.

We learnt about the saying "we can't do this YET!"  

Mrs Massey gave Room 11 the challenge of making a card tower.  Man it was challenging and frustrating and annoying.  

Some of us could do it and other people struggled.  We learnt to say "We can't do this YET!"

Click on this Link to see the slideshow...

Week 4 - Our Valley KIDS Wall

 Look at how beautiful our Valley KIDS wall is looking.

Week 3 - Learning Valley School

Our first inquiry for the year is learning about being a Valley KID. Each week we look at a different part of the KIDS.  Did you notice that each letter of KIDS relates to a colour of the houses?  It is such an integral part of the beginning of the year in Middle School.

As part of this inquiry the children learnt about the symbols of Valley School.  They even had a go at making the hands join and saying "Go Valley!"