Seesaw Photos

Please find 1-2 photos from our trip.  Post them to your seesaw.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-cQTVPph5TfUHpQVHpDOTEyR0E?usp=sharing

Make sure you add information to explain:

• where you were 
• what you were doing
• what you have learnt

Hutt Central 150 Years - Have a look!

Hutt Central School 150 Years

There is a site especially for our 150 Year Jubilee

https://heritage.huttcitylibraries.co.nz/2016/10/09/hutt-central-school-150-years-old/

There has always been some uncertainty as to when Hutt Central School started...

Similes and Metaphors

Here are some of our ideas...

As playful as a cat

I am talkative like a chimp

I’m an aggressive lion

My smile lights up the whole universe

I am sporty like Hanna

Sleepy like a sloth

I am a fast cheetah

I’m as slow as a turtle

I’m a loud lion

I’m as weird as a rhombicosidodecahedron

I am a creative artist

I’m a strong rhino

I am as flexible as a worm

I love my family as much as a spider and all its legs

I am a curious cat

I’m brainy like an elephant

I’m a brainy elephant

I’m as intelligent as a velociraptor

I am a sporty

I’m tall like Nikan

I am a rock

I am a chimpanzee

My head is as confused as a psyduck

I’m as hungry as a hungarian

As lazy as a hyena

I am as hungry as a hippo

I’m as smart as a dog

I’m a confused cat

I’m as bored as a starfish

I’m a happy emoji

I am as sleepy as a sloth

I’m as sweet as sugar

I’m a light feather

I’m a flexible spider

I’m smart like an elephant

I’m a smart elephant

I am as fast as a scooter

I’m lazy like a sloth

I’m as fun as a ferret

I’m a skinny stick

Brown chocolate skin

I’m resilient like a turtle

I’m a small bat

I am as tired as a turtle

I'm as busy as a bee

He Aha Te Wa?

He aha te wa?      or     He aha te taima?

Kua rima karaka. It’s five o’clock.
Koata pāhi i te ono karaka. It’s quarter past six.
Hāwhe pāhi i te waru karaka. It’s half past eight.
Hāpāhi i te toru karaka. It’s half past three.
Tekau meneti ki te iwa karaka. It’s ten minutes to nine o’clock.
Rima meneti pāhi i te toru karaka. It’s five minutes past three o’clock.

Numbers in Te Reo Maori

Counting in maori- Use this to help you with our game of 21

Jump Jam for Star Jam

Jumpjam 4 Star Jam

Remember a gold coin tomorrow to receive your coloured band.

Let’s support young people with disabilities, while promoting health, wellness and inclusiveness within our school communities.  All funds raised support StarJam’s programmes throughout New Zealand to support young people living with disabilities.

Thanks Isabelle for this great poster

Great questions to ask at the dinner table, and at other times...

Great questions to ask

Persuasive Speech

The Fairest of Them All Production

The NZ Playhouse Company came to our school today to perform "The Fairest of Them All". Their message about social media, and how to use it appropriately was informative and very entertaining.

100 Word Challenge Holiday Challenge Week 1

100 Word Challenge for this week.

Sunshine,   Ice,    Frightened,    Purple,    Flew

Give it a go and remember to share it with me... 

Dragons Den/Shark Tank - Holiday homework

Dragons Den/Shark Tank Project

Your goal is to create an invention to solve a problem or create a product. 

During the holidays you will need to work on your ideas, do some research, choose your best idea, and start making a model or a drawing of your invention. Ask people to give you some feedback about your product or invention.

Before your presentation... 

You will need a name for your product and a name for your company.

You will need a drawing or a model to show.

Get ready for your presentation... It will really help to practise in front of your family and write up what you want to say.

Below is what a normal design process looks like... don't expect everything to go smoothly. 

"If you care, cover your hair" Bring a gold coin this Tuesday!

"If you care, cover your hair" Bring a gold coin! This Tuesday

Let's get behind this Hutt Central!

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

Te Wiki o te Reo Māori

The aim of the week is to get as many New Zealanders as possible using more phrases in their everyday lives. By phrase, we mean a full sentence – be it long or short

How many of these phrases can you use?

Challenge yourself!

http://www.tetaurawhiri.govt.nz/what-we-do/events-and-promotions/maori-language-week/2016-maori-language-week/2016-phrases-of-the-week/

Prefix and Suffix Interactives

Try out these games to learn more about prefixes and suffixes...


http://www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/demo/suffix.htm

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=english/spelling

http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/fishtanks1/fishtanks1.htm

Paragraphs

Click on the video and start it at 1:31 and finish at 6:19

Then share with your group the movements for the paragraph so you can share it with others. 



Hamburger Slide Share

Can you create a wave of kindness?

Prefixes and Suffixes Games - Expand Vocab

Start with this one

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y6/activity4.shtml

then play this game, you can change cards when you get the first lot correct. 

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/match/dragflip.asp?filename=jwildeprefix

100 Word Challenge Tommy

Attack on silent airfield

The most dangerous and biggest airfield has to defend an attack, will they survive?

With the Russian generals ready to strike, silent airfield was just a yellow airfield with black airplanes, violins and eaten away airplanes that swept across the sky in the past, but now they don't. The attack made loads of noise with the Russian Bears dropping bombs on the airfield, every plane was in the sky, but one, the V-749. A Russian plane that could blow the battlefield away. When the plane was launched, the sky got so bright, that it went black...

By Tommy

100 Word Challenge - Keira H

100 word challenge                                                                                                     Did you know I'm bright yellow like the simpson family. Well. I wasn't born yellow my family isn't even yellow. It’s because of my weird school!!! Slowly I turned yellow .I was playing with my toy airplane . I swept it across the room  then… I let go and CRASH strat into the yellow gunge filled villon. Gunge came crashing out all over me the teacher came in with a “ROAR”!!!. “Go outside and eat your lunch “said my teacher. But I've already eaten my lunch. Then mop this floor  like a maid would!!!!why? Because I want this floor tidy.

If I was the teacher I would of just tell me to get the cleaner to tidy this gunge.    

           The End

                         By Keira.h    

100 Word Challenge - Jessica

                            100  word   challenge

She  had  just  eaten  a  whole  big  bag  of  yellow  chips  and  then  swept  up  her Violin and started  playing.

Then  she  heard an  airplane   in   the   sky  so  she  looked  up,  blinded by the sun she trips up  and falls  on the road. The driver didn’t see her.

 She   broke  her   leg  very  badly  from  top  to  bottom.   10  stitches  in  her  leg , a yellow  cast  that  had pictures of airplanes  and violins  on the  cast.  

She felt  very  sorry  for  herself because   she couldn't  do   any  of  her sports like netball,swimming,dance,running club,soccer, and AFL. A few weeks later she went to get her cast off so it could  be  xrayed. It  had  healed so she was free of being stuck inside.

                                                                           THE END

By Jessica

100 Word Challenge - Ellie

    

100   word challenge

There, stuck in a big room,no doors,no windows.I then say”am I ever  going to get out of here?

All of a sudden a bucket of yellow paint with  an  airplane  on  it  appears,so… I pick it up and splash a little on the wall. there was a message on the wall that said “the air is going to get thinner  and thinner and thinner”I then think what does that mean, will it really happen??

I   hear a soothing sound of the violin and get swept into a dream...I woke up and couldn't move at all?I then feel the air pressure getting less  and less and less.Then...it goes BLACK…                     

 By  ellie :)

How you can be good at maths...

Everybody should see this...

Chromebook tips

We now have some chromebooks in our class, yay! 

Mrs Campbell took a chromebook session yesterday so we have some kids working on becoming chromebook experts. Here are some tips for everybody. 

Finding Patterns In Multiplication - And Other Handy Mulitplication Videos

We have talked before about maths being full of patterns, here is a link to a video about patterns in the multiplication tables. 

https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/8456-identify-patterns-on-a-multiplication-chart - Multiplication Patterns


http://www.teachertube.com/video/the-multiplication-song-learn-your-facts-faster-400681  - Multiplication Song

http://www.teachertube.com/video/factivation-for-multiplication-46655

Trick for the 7 x table

Trick for the 8 times table

 Fingers for 6,7,8,9 x table

Line Multiplication

Multiplying 2 numbers together

Multiplying 2 Numbers Bowtie Method

Greatest common factor

New Zealand Sign Language week this week check out the videos

One new video a day, this week, to check out... lets learn some sign!

May the 4th be with you!

The dark side and the light side together - The forces aligned

Dog safety visit today.

Today we had a dog, Amber, visit our school today. Amber is a very calm golden retriever and is also a pet therapy dog.

She was teaching us about dog safety.

Us practicing the turtle, we can do this if we feel threatened by a dog.

Taylor learnt that if a dog is on its own, leave it alone.

Jayden learnt that if there is a dog behind a gate, don't tease it, it could bite you.

Jessica learnt that if you want to meet a dog, ask the owner, then put your hand out and let it sniff you, then you can pat it.

Moriah learnt that how to pick up poo properly.

Faith I learnt that if you want to pat a dog you don't just go up to it and pat it, you have to ask the owner first.

Some of our art is up in the Hutt Library!

Everyone can be good at maths!

Kanji/Calligraphy Art with Miss Sickels

Today for our art lesson Miss Sickels taught us how to write Kanji in traditional Japanese fashion. 

Here are some of the calligraphy we worked on so carefully. Half of the class did it today and the other half will be doing it next week. 

We are really lucky to have Miss Sickels in here with us to do this. As well as teaching us Kanji, she is fluent in Japanese too. This meant we could ask her how to do lots of different Kanji... Thanks Miss Sickels!