Oktapodi

A little while ago we watch a really cool short film called 'Oktapodi'. We talked about how exciting the film was and decided to retell the story. We tried to use lots of descriptive language to keep our audience interested. You can check out the video and our stories below:

Oktapodi Stories

Search Engines for Kids

Here are a few search engines that we use in class. They are designed for kids so sometimes they gives us slightly better results than google. Check them out!

KidsClick

Kidrex

Maths Week - Top 100 Books

This week is maths week at KNS. Each day we have a different picture that we use to stimulate discussion. We've taken our first "picture" home so that we can discuss it at home as well. Take a look and see how you compare to your child - leave a comment below if you like as well!

Top 100 Books

* This was found on TES and isn't our list - please let me know if the link doesn't work.

Question: Olympics

This week we've begun our new Inquiry topic. I've named it "The Olympics and Me" because although we'll be looking at the olympics, we'll also be looking inwards as well. We'll be looking at what it means to be from Karori, from Wellington and New Zealand. Towards the end, we'll be comparing some of the traditions, symbols and other important aspects of our culture to another country.

First though...we know a bit about the Olympic games. But there are some other "games" that are countries take part in. Do you know what they are? Who are they for? Why are they important?

EDIT:

Well done Miles! Miles told us that there is a Paralympics, Special Olympics, Winter Olympics, Student Games, Masters Games.

There is one more "games" that Mr Mcintosh knows about...can you find it?

We also watched a video called "Yes I can - Superhumans". We only managed a quick discussion on it today - but it would be great if you could continue this at home. What amazing feats are these athletes completing? Why is it important to have a paralympics too?

Maths Questions

Maths Link

Te Reo Maori

Every week (or fortnight) we'll be focusing on a new Te Reo goal. Our first goal is to make sure everybody in Room 17 (including the adults) can count up to twenty. I've linked a quick game that can help us do this.

Te Reo Game

I've also included a quick image from the NZ maths website that can help remind you. If you're stuck, then have a quick google search - there is plenty of pictures and activities to help you learn.

Bake Sale!

We were really lucky today! Some of the Year 7/8 classes put on a bake sale for us. There was loads of yummy food. It also a great lesson for us in budgeting our money.

Afterwards we had a big chat about who we were raising money for. We talked about what a refugee was and how hard it must to have to leave your home.

Dream House

We're still looking at measurement at the moment and this week we begun designing our dream house.

We created a floor plan using squares and rectangles. We were only allowed to use these shapes as these were easy for us to calculate the perimeter and area later.

We labeled and coloured them in. Next we replicated our plan using numicon. After this we calculated the perimeter and area. This was slightly more difficult as some of our rooms were really big. We also weren't allowed to count each individual square - we had to either add or use our multiplication skills (Mr Mcintosh was really happy & surprised with how many of us could use multiplication to calculate area).

Here's a couple of finished ones below:

Daniel's Dream House

Leo's Dream House

Alex's Pokemon inspired house: