Connecting with the Current Events in our Area

This afternoon thanks to a big supporter of our school, Sanfords, Auroa Primary School students were able to view the 'missing' trans Tasman Kayak of Scott Donaldson.   Scott Donaldson attempted to solo Kayak from Australia to New Zealand, however sadly after 83 days at sea he had to abandon his attempt.   Since then he's been looking for his Kayak, including searching for it extensively, but being unable to locate it.  Today it was found, close to Auroa Primary School.  It was recovered today and brought into school for our students to have a look.  These photos of the craft were taken this afternoon.

Kayak2014 - Video Maker

You can read about Room Seven writing about the event here. You can read about Room Eight writing about the event here. You can read about Emily from Room One writing about the event here. The fantastic thing about this post is that Scott Donaldson contacted us directly after we posted it, and mentioned on breakfast TV today that his Kayak was visiting some local Taranaki Schools.

Auroa Room 2 - Kidsedchat

Today Room 2 participated in Kidsedchatnz for the second time.  For more information, go to kidsedchatnz.blogspot.co.nz  It is highly engaging and Room 2 are very enthusiastic tweeters. This week the topic was:  'The Courage to Continue'.  Today Josh, Joe, Jacob, Ben, Danielle, Te Putu, Haze and Caleb answered the following questions:

Question 1:

What sports are offered at your school?

Question 2:

What makes a great sportsman?

Question 3:

Who is your favourite sporting hero? What attributes of theirs standout?

Question 4:

Why is it important to be involved a sport?

Question 5:

What sport do you need the most skill to play?  Persuade the rest of us (try and start a conversation with another class)!

Question 6:

How have you displayed courage while playing a sport?

Question 7:

If you could take 3 sportsmen out for dinner who would they be?

Room 7 Auroa - Basic Facts Ladder

We just got our basic facts ladder up and running today. Most children are working on finger patterns to 10. Parents and Whanau please come in and have a look at what your child's next steps are. 

Room 7 Auroa - Writing

They have been learning to use full stops and capital letters in the correct places. 

Room 8 Auroa - Counting On

The Pentagons maths group is learning to add by counting on from the biggest number. Here is a video Bailey and Siobhan made to explain how to use this strategy. We used the App "Farmyard Make a Scene" to create a problem, then the children took a snapshot of this and imported it into Educreations to solve it. 

Room 8 Auroa - Puppet Pals

In reading at the moment, Isabella is focusing on using expression, and thinking about what is interesting to listen to. Today Isabella used the Ipad app Puppet Pals for the first time. She first read her new book with Miss N, then she created her characters by taking photos from her book. She then went outside onto the deck to create this animation all by herself. You can hear her using her reading strategies when she comes to a tricky word, and using some beautiful expression. Kapai Isabella!

Isabella Reads- Help Me- Using Puppet Pals from Room 8 Auroa on Vimeo.

Room 6 Auroa - Our Passions using Padlet

Padlet

Created with Padlet

Room 6 Auroa - Bio Art

Please watch our 'Bio Poem Art' video where students have written poems about themselves and then used warm and cool coloured oil pastels to create these vibrant works of art. Take a watch and then come in and look in the classroom to see your child’s beautiful poem too!
 
Bio Poem Art from Alidia Ericsson on Vimeo.

Look how well the students blended in the pastels so no white paper could be seen!

Room 3 Auroa - Scary Story

Room 3 are looking at descriptive writing this week and it gave me an idea about how to make it more interactive. Here is a little pick-a-path adventure. Click on the dark blue links to escape the haunted house. But be warned it's scary. This works best with Google chrome. The links may not work with other web browsers

Room 3 Auroa - Making a blog title in comic life

Here are some students from Room 3 demonstrating how to make your own custom blog title in comic life and upload it to your own blog. We hope you enjoy the video. Please leave a comment if you found it helpful.

Room 1 Auroa - Haikudeck

Today in class we looked at using 'Haiku Deck' as a way of displaying information. As part of the Global Blogging Challenge we made a connection from Austin Texas with Mrs Kriese's Classroom. They created a Haikau Deck about their home town and state of Austin, Texas - which inspired us to do the same. Most of our class were unfamiliar with Haiku Deck but we had a tight deadline, which was to plan, complete from scratch and publish a Haiku Deck about our area. These are two examples from the students of Auroa Primary School about our School and area:

This was produced by Tahana from our class:

 
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app

This Haiku Deck about our area was created by Kaiah, Meg and Heavenlee
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app