Taradale Room 9

Back from Camp

2009-05-25T00:40:00.000-07:00

Hi Room 9. Maybe those Year 6 pupils who went on camp could comment on their camp experience.

Mr H

Camp Tutira

2009-04-27T18:49:00.000-07:00

If you want some infomation on Camp Tutira go to www.taraprim.school.nz.

Room 10/9 Camp is on 11-15 of May and Room 8/9 is on 18-22 of May.
Half of Room 9 is going with Room 10 and the other half with Room 8.

Some of the activities we are looking forward to are the Flying kiwi, rafting, Caseys clamber and the Night trial.

At Tutira there is a lake. In the lake there is trout, on top of the lake there is swans and geese.

We will be saying a big cabin on the hill over looking the lake.

We are very nervous and excited.

Check out our blog after camp for more news and pictures.

Student Led Conferences

2009-03-30T17:49:00.000-07:00

We had to prepare our Learning Sample Folders to share with our parents at the conference.
Some of the samples were: the Year 6 children had to write about Optimist Yachting and the Year 5 children had to write about Taradale Primary School (TPS), Math, PE, My Learning and Learning I am proud of and Learning we had to improve.

We also included some self assessments. We use Managing Self arrows to learn how to manage our own learning. If we have time we can show our parents some learning that we choose.

We practiced with our learning friends and we got to choose a friend to practice with as well.

We come to the conference with our parents and share this learning. We felt confident and a little nervous.

Some of our learning this Term

2009-03-23T17:48:00.001-07:00

We have been learning to add impact to our writing.

We are using managing self arrows to keep track of how well we manage ourselves with our learning. We try to advance through the steps. (different coloured arrows)

For our mathmatics we have a knowledge ladder. We have 53 steps of different numercy knowledge that we have to learn. We also have a big 100 test in each of the 4 maths operation (+ - x / ). We have to get 98/100 or higher in 5 minutes to pass and go up a step. For the big 150 we get 7 1/2 minutes to complete it.

In our art we have produced some art called 'Taking a dot for a Walk.' We start with our eyes closed and our pencil in the middle of the sheet of paper, then we put the index finger on our nose and travel around our head. We were learning to cooordinate colours when we coloured it in. Check out our photos of this art.