Group Work In Maths

For maths in room 10 have been finishing up our transformation topic. The last 2 sessions the students were working in small groups through a task on scale factors and areas of rectangles - and investigating the relationship between the two. Each group worked really well together, there were some great maths discussions happening and through lots of investigation we came up with the generalisation that 'whatever the scale factor you enlarge your rectangle by, the area is enlarged by the square of the scale factor'.

Name Skeleton Art

For art in room 10 we have been making 'Name Skeletons' as part of our inquiry topic 'The Incredible Human Machine'. You'll notice the torso for each skeleton is different - it's their names reflected! Along with a torso, arm bones, hands and skull, they had to include 4 other features, one of which had to be a headpiece or hat. They all turned out great!

Reading in Week 4

This week we are reading a story written by Jack Lasenby from a very OLD School Journal - 1992!!
We are looking at how the author gets us thinking about social issues and how he makes us understand those issues from a certain perspective!

Week 3

This week Room 10 has been

• in Literacy finishing our learning about writing recounts and begun looking at persuasive texts. We have also been practising evaluating the reliability of a text.  One skill we focused on was triangulating our online research by cross-checking with other trusted sites. We found out that not all websites can be trusted - no matter how good they look! Also Mrs Burch had a fun lesson with plays and drama!
• In Maths looking at transformation. Transformation includes, translation, rotation, reflection and enlargement. Mrs Goodwin had us looking at flags of the world that had Rotational symmetry.

• In Inquiry focusing on different body systems - working through their project in pairs. This afternoon we looked into the human body through this BBC website

Body systems jigsaw

We also sat two e-asttle tests this week; one in reading and one in maths!

Getting ready for Camp.

Thank you so much to the parents and students of Room 10 for their efforts getting us all ready for camp next week. Here's to a fun, challenging and successful few days!
I have really enjoyed reading through the comments made by parents on the students' pre-camp responsibility sheet. Here are a few of them:

It was to have my nightly drink made for me.

Could we please have one of these every week? We have had an extremely helpful person at our home this week.

He is very good at making his lunch!

Keep it up! (in reference to a tidy bedroom!)

Bedroom a bit messy but much improved.

Loved my cup of tea:)

It has great seeing ****** practice cleaning up after himself this week.

Thanks for a great week!

Te Reo lesson today

Thinking Ahead to Kotahitanga Week

Room 10 have had a couple of days to think of some designs they would like to use on our 2016 Pou. There ideas were really good and they put a lot of thought and effort into how they would like to be portrayed.

Healthy Canteen Food!

Week 2 in Room 10

This week has flown by! It was great to meet so many parents and caregivers on Wednesday evening.
Here are some photos from Nepia's morning session at the Village pools that same morning.

The Start of a new year !!

Welcome to 2016 and ROOM 10!

Room 10 has 29 awesome students and two teachers! 

Mrs Burch and Mrs Goodwin

This week we have spent time getting to know each other and creating minions of ourselves (amongst other things!) We have also come up with our expectations on how we should get along at school and show respect for HNI and its values.

Room 10 Class Guidelines

Respect the property, environment and community of HNI at all time.

Be positive and supporting in your language and actions.

Aspire and Excel to be the best version of yourself.

Together we achieve more.

Finn and Jack's Video Diary Homework

Careers Expo Day

Maths and 3D shapes!

We all agreed on the title of the "Figure It Out"  books today as we tackled creating some 3D cubes!!

Global Warming Rap

Too many Secrets 2