Kakariki's judgement on Karaka.

LC BR KM KP KG CT RR
NO LI NO LI YES NO LI YES NO LI YES
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES
2 1 0 0 0 0 0
NO NO YES NO NO YES YES

Winner: Kristine
We all voted for Kristine because her blog was interesting.

Kahunrangi votes for Kakariki blogs

• Did they talk about the learning intentions?

• Was it interesting?

• How many spelling and grammar errors did you find?

• Did they explain the forces and motion of their marble track?

AB	SK	JK	LMB	PN	CG
1. Yes	No	Away	No	No	No
2. Yes	Yes	Away	Yes	Yes	Yes
3. None	1 to 2	Away	2 to 3	1 to 2	None
4. Yes	Yes	Away	A little bit	No	Yes

Winner : Alex 4 votes

2^nd: Phenoix 2 votes

3^rd: Cara 1 vote

Latana 0 votes

Shweta K 0 votes

James Away

Predicting Patterns

Can you predict what the 20th shape will be?

asked Camilla.

She has created a pattern of vertical and horizontal rectangles.

Blogger of the Week

My Marble Track

Last week, Room 17 were making marble tracks (so is the whole Middle Syndicate) , we still are. I made a marble track with Rebecca and ours is called 'HORROR TRACK' because it is always falling apart and because of the black paint it has and the dull colours.

In our topic, we are talking to a class in the USA. They are kids from Sportsville, Virginia. There school is called Ni River Middle School. They are year 7 students as well. We have sent them letters so they will know a little bit about us. Now we are doing projects in groups about New Zealand, the flag, native birds and the National Anthem and many more. I am in the native birds group and we are writing about the New Zealand native bird, which is the kiwi, we are going to use powerpoint to do it.

For reading, we were studying about snow and hail and how it is formed. I am doing How Hail is Formed. Hail is kind of like snow because it goes up and down in the the clouds becase wind pushes it back up because it is so light, but when it gets heavy enough to drop down from the sky to the ground then it drops and that is how hail is formed.

In maths we are learning about place value and number line.

Amazing Marble Tracks

Intermediate and junior classes have come to admire your science and technology projects, well done. They are creative and made to look fantastic too!

Photos and videos of your marble tracks are on this VoiceThread. There are also photos of when you explained to other classes how you planned, then made them. They show gravity pulling, and tracks pushing as the marbles rolled their way to the lowest point.

Now look at these photos and think about what you have learnt building your own marble track, and how you could have used some of the ideas other kids came up with. Some have even made changes since these photos. Comment using either text or voice on 3 different photos. Remember to use the drawing pencil too.

Taniwha Art

We are exploring Taniwha as the subject for our art unit this term. We started with a story read by Mr Wood, "The Forgotten Taniwha". In groups we explored some readings on taniwha and put the interesting information we found on stickies on the whiteboard to represent the scales of a taniwha. Each of us told the class what we had found. We then drew different features of taniwha afters researching a range of images. Lastly we drew a pencil sketch of a taniwha. Next week we will explore crayon and dye techniques when drawing our taniwha.

Book Image from: http://www.penguin.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9780143520030

Forces and Motion

Our topic this term is Forces and Motion. Today in groups we explored how many different ways we could get a marble to move.

These are our ideas about what forces make marbles move.