Room 8’s Passion Projects

Room 8 - How can we as students articulate and explain our own understanding of our world?

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged English, Writing, Reading, Languages, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating and Contributing; Posted 4 months ago By Margo Clark

Mathsmatters - Hot Competition

Two Year 5 teams and four Year 6 teams pitted their wits against other students from Taupo schools and beyond

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Posted in Mathsmatters; Tagged Mathematics, Event, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Colleen Green

Wonderful world of writing

Mrs O’Sullivan modelled how we could look at different parts of our dinosaur and use the words “like or as” to create a picture in the reader’s mind.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged English, Writing, Technology, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Tracey O'Sullivan

Visitor from out of Space

While reading this book, Poppy, Jordyn-Lea, Patrick, Jack and Casey were very interested in what a scarecrow is and what they would be like in the real world, they wanted to create their very own scarecrow and find out.

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, Technology, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago By Angel Chauval-Smith and Room 9

Mathematical Shops in Room 13

Many of us are finding it challenging to learn our facts to and within 10 and adding on or subtracting 10 (recalling basic facts help us in other areas of Mathematics).

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Posted in TeHuka; Tagged Mathematics, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating and Contributing; Posted 5 months ago

Passionate Performers

Passion Projects are a project-based learning experience where the group’s interests, strengths and passions are developed with guidance from the teacher.

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Posted in TeHuka; Tagged English, Drama, The Arts, Music, Managing Self, Relating to Others, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Dance, Learning Languages; Posted 5 months ago By 13 & 14, Junior Kapa Haka, Leanne Jackson and Rooms 12

Delectable Dazzling Dinosaurs

We also learnt that dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, before humans even existed! Our minds found it hard to comprehend exactly how long ago this really was.

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Posted in Poihipi; Tagged Science, Mathematics, English, The Arts, Technology, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating Contributing, Thinking; Posted 6 months ago By Shannen Neal

Natural Disaster (Lemon Volcanoes)

Room 5 nearly had a natural disaster on their hands as they did a scientific investigation to create lemon volcanoes. The results were delightfully messy.

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Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Science, Material World, Using Language Symbols Text, Participating and Contributing, Investigating in Science; Posted 6 months ago By Olivia Graham and Room 5

Fingerprints and the Police

Before reading they talked about what they might already know about fingerprints (activating prior knowledge).

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Posted in Aratiatia; Tagged Science, English, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing; Posted 6 months ago

Awesome Real life learning

To further their exploration of this idea we arranged for them to construct and build a kitset desk by themselves without any adult intervention, using the instructions and their own amazing skills.

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Posted in Ohaaki; Tagged Mathematics, English, Managing Self, Using Language Symbols Text, Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Science, Technology; Posted 6 months ago By Angel Chauval-Smith and Room 9