Pop-up Area Animals

Let's try another way to experiment with area an perimeter.  Check out these cool pop up animals.  What NET or pattern would you use to create one?  What would the area be and the perimeter?

think carefully about how to fold your animal so that it stands and looks cool!  We are expecting to see an Explain Everything showing how you calculated the perimeter and area of your animal.

Vote for our school

Click on this link and vote for our school.  We could win $1000 of Tui vouchers for the Secret Garden if we win out of all the school. You need an e-mail address so get your family to help.  All teachers and Room 7 - we need you!

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Spud in a Bucket

Have you been to the office to get your very own spud and bucket?  Get it planted as soon as possible to gain the most growth.  We will be checking out the spuds on Picnic Day.

There will be prizes for the most spuds, the biggest spud and the ugliest spud.

Make sure you get yours growing and all the money raised goes to The Secret Garden so we can begin some more cool projects.

Tui Garden Challenge - vote for us!

Check out the blog posts from schools in the Tui Challenge.  Make sure you write us comments and vote for our posts.  Is there any other learning in the garden that you would like to post a blog about in the comepetition?

Remember - vote for us using the big tick!
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Maths: Area & Perimeter What's in your name?

We are looking at the perimeter and area of spaces.
That is:
Perimeter:  how far around the outside  - cm
Area: how much to cover the surface  - cm squared

1.  Make the letters of your name using blocks on the maths sheet.
     (Try to use whole blocks & straight lines.)
2.  Colour in the letters so it is clear how many squares are used.
3.  Count how many edges of the blocks around the outside of each letter = perimeter
4.  Count how many blocks used up in total to cover the letter = areayhu

Kidsedchat topic - Term Reflection

What are we Tweeting about this week?

Make sure you prepare a couple of answers on the Tweet Sheets so we are ready to win Tweet of the Week again this week.  Don't forget that all the other Tweeting Kids are reading your responses and you need to have it RIGHT!

Kids Lit quiz

Last night Lucy and I went to a Lit quiz at Opawa school. Springston A team came 4th and the other Springston team came 7th. Opawa won again so it will be at Opawa school again. It was really fun and I hope I get choose for the team next year aswell. We got a prize each even if we didn't win. Six schools got invited and each school had two teams. There was also a reserves team for the people who were reserves. I would vote the Lit Quiz 9/10.

Morris Lessmore

I was siting down reading my book when all of a sudden the wind, which had started as a light breeze,  started blowning violently.  I pretended that nothing  was happening  but as quick as a boulder falling,  pages were blowing past me.  I woundered if I was heavy enough then suddenly I was hovering and then-blown away.  It felt like a dream and I was clinging onto a street post in the middle of a tornado.  Bicycles flew past.  Would I ever survive to see if I could rescue my books?

Tweet of the Week - it was us!

On Wednesdays we join in the Kidsedchat Twitter sessions with kids from all over New Zealand.  This week we tweeted about what makes a good teacher.  We makde lots of great tweets and shared our KidsAKO workshops.  Check out who won 'Tweet of the Week'!

Morris Lessmore

Morris was sitting on his veranda all of a sudden it started blowing.

Loudly the wind horribly threw Morris accross the veranda as he anxiously gets scared.

Howling, the wind sucked up Morris' books high into the sky.

Before long even the house was gone.

MORRIS was sad.

Will he survive this drama?

Morris Lessmore

Books are stacked surrounding Morris Lessmore.

He looks up in surprise as his chair suddenly moves along the veranda. He is worried. He is scared.

Violently books and pages flew past him as he was thrown into the air.

Morris is swept up into the tornado.

HOWLING, WIND, CRASHING!

He can live or can’t he?

Morris Lessmore

Morris Lessmore sat amongst piles of books like crooked towers getting lost in a story when the sky suddnenly turned black.  An angry howling wind whipped up the colourful books like they were a flock of flapping birds.

Dangerously caught by the wind, Morris’ hat danced merrily on his head.  While he was clutching his chair, the wind skidded him accross the deck making his eyes widen in fear.  Sucked right up!

Swirling around amongst books and houses, Morris wondered when or if the winds would ever let him go.