The Colour Poem Project is On Again!

We were excited when Mrs McK received a tweet from her friend Mrs Yollis in California, 

inviting us to join the Colour Poem project again this year.

Join our Collaborative Poetry Twitter Project!

Details: https://t.co/AV2KURb3RA@NZWaikato @judykmck @Michelle_Colte @mauilibrarian2

— Linda Yollis (@lindayollis) April 4, 2016

Read our posts and poems from last year's project.

This year the project kicked off with poems about 

black and white.

Our class wrote this poem, using the Måori words 

Må (white) 

and Pango (black).

We tweeted our poem, using the #clrpoem hashtag. 

By using the hashtag, we get to read all of the poems, from all around the world, even if we don't follow the classes on Twitter.

Each week, the poems will be about a colour on the visible spectrum - the colours of the rainbow - 

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

Here is an easy way to remember the order:

R O Y G B I V 

This week, the colour is RED.

What do you like about the colour red?

Global Maths Twitter Task Challenge

The Global Maths Twitter Task Challenge is a 

great idea from 

Beverley Ladd and Heidi Samuelson.

Classes from around the world can join in. The project will continue for the rest of 2015, and into 2016.  

Questions are tweeted out using the #gmttc hashtag 

(with the grade level added to the end). 

Some classes have signed up to host the questions for their class level for a week, while other classes are just choosing to join in by answering the questions.

We were one of two classes hosting the questions for the week 21-25 September, using the tag #gmttc1

In B4 we like open-ended questions, where there might be more than one solution, 
and we started the week with this tweet:

Here is the problem for Sept. 21 #gmttc1 pic.twitter.com/bhI5DyMVVy

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 20, 2015

There was a lot of excitement when some classes answered our first question!

@opendoorb4 Here are some of our answers for the #gmttc1 week 1 challenge: see all at: http://t.co/f7ScgSfvdf pic.twitter.com/j8XSQkeu4M

— Michael Davidson (@michaelteacher) September 22, 2015

@opendoorb4 more answers to #gmttc1 week 1 challenge pic.twitter.com/JlRnZ9oBfM

— Michael Davidson (@michaelteacher) September 22, 2015

We tried out our question too:

Here are some of our answers for the Sept. 21 question #gmttc1 pic.twitter.com/CTYEvOyGJy

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 21, 2015

Our second problem:

This is our Sept. 22 task for #gmtcc1 pic.twitter.com/blaa5Ybbyr

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 21, 2015

and an answer from Mrs Pennell's class:

Here are a few of our answers for the Sept 22! #GMTTC1 pic.twitter.com/imBKHIyE4F

— Mrs. Pennell's Class (@pennellspeeps) September 23, 2015

Question 3:

Here is the problem for Sept. 23 #gmttc1 pic.twitter.com/juViLWce4A

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 22, 2015

Question 4:

Here is the problem for Thursday Sept. 24 #gmttc1 pic.twitter.com/snZL5bMpjE

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 23, 2015

and an answer 

@opendoorb4 Here is the work we did to solve the Sept 24 #gmttc1 problem. It was difficult but we figured it out. pic.twitter.com/Pv7s6aI4uO

— Michael Davidson (@michaelteacher) September 24, 2015

Our final question:

Here is our final task for this week:Sept. 25 #gmttc1 We have enjoyed this week. Now we have spring break fr 2 weeks pic.twitter.com/H26rSSKSfn

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 24, 2015

and some ideas from B4:

@opendoorb4 Here are some of our ideas #gmttc1 pic.twitter.com/QWQJKqKn9V

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 25, 2015

We also answered some questions on the #gmttc2 tag, tweeted out by
@missmacsowls

@missmacsowls We have some answers #gmttc2 pic.twitter.com/55qYP97OHY

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 23, 2015

and problems tweeted out by
@linkedlearners

My shapes have a total of 18 sides. What shapes do you think I have? #gmttc2

— Mrs. Stoufer's Class (@LinkedLearners) September 21, 2015

@LinkedLearners We did this today :) #gmttc2 pic.twitter.com/ZTt1qKwhRV

— OpenDoorB4 (@opendoorb4) September 23, 2015

It has been a lot of fun and we've enjoyed seeing how everyone works out the problems.

Do you have a problem we could solve?

A Song to Finish the Colour Poem Project

The colour poem project has come to an end. 

For our final contribution we would like to sing a song about the colour names in Måori.

Mā is white,

whero is red,

kākāriki green

Pango is black,

Mangu is too,

A. E. I. O. U.

Kōwhai yellow,

parauri brown,

kikorangi blue

Mawhero pink

Karaka orange,

A. E. I. O. U.

Some of us are wearing pink for Pink Shirt Day - a day where people stand up against bullying.

Do you know some colour words in another language?

Blue

The colour poem project continues.

As we worked on our 'blue' poems we were learning that good writers 'show' not 'tell' - letting the words create pictures for the reader.

We started our poems by writing what blue tastes, feels, sounds and looks like.

We thought carefully about our words.

We were pleased with what we wrote.

We were surprised when Mrs McK suggested that now we should take out any word that said 'blue' and any phrase that said 'looks like' 'tastes like' etc.

We gave it a try, and we think our poems sound even better now! What do you think?

What do you think - did we manage to create word pictures for you?

Our Colour Poems

A few weeks ago we were invited to take part 

in a colour poem project. 

Each week a new colour from the visible spectrum is showcased:

R O Y G B I V

The poems are shared with other classes via Twitter, using the hashtag #clrpoem

We missed the Red week, but here are some of our poems for Orange, Yellow and Green weeks.

The next colour is Blue.

Do you have a poem to share with us?

Let's Colour Our World

We have been invited to take part in a global project, where classes create poems about a colour. 

Each week there will be a new colour to write about.

You can read about the project here on 

Mrs Yollis' class blog in California.

The poems will be shared via Twitter, under the hashtag

#clrpoem.

We have created a class Twitter account so we can take part - our Twitter name is @opendoorb4

Does your class use Twitter as part of your learning?

Let us know your username.