Aspire- Follow Your Dreams

One of our school values is 

ASPIRE, 

which means to work for or work towards something you want; to pursue something you dream about.

We had a visitor today who talked to the children about following their dreams. 

Our visitor, John Bougen decided a few years ago he would like to visit every one of the 247 nations and territories of the world. 

To date, he has been to 230 of them!

John talked to us today about his travels, and taught us some geography at the same time.

What is your dream?

What will you need to do to achieve it?

Can you name the continents of the world?

Taking Part in 'Shake Out'.

We live in an earthquake-prone country (that means we get lots of earthquakes), so everyone needs to know how to keep safe during a big shake.

On October 15, communities, businesses and schools around New Zealand took part in International 'Shake Out' Day.

We watched this video to help ourselves get prepared.

We know to 'drop' 'cover' and 'hold' during a shake.

When the all-clear went, we walked outside for a roll-call.

Have you ever been in an earthquake?

Why is it important to practise what to do?

What do you have in your emergency kit? 

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?

Year 2's Play - The Pirate and the Clever Parrot

Year 2 presented their play at the final assembly for Term 3.

Body Percussion

In Music with Mrs W. the B4 students had to create a 
body percussion/movement sequence.

We used this video as inspiration.

Here are some of our ideas:

Teach the Teacher - The Final Week

In our final week of Teach the Teacher, 

we learn to tie a reef knot, do French knitting, make words using the numbers on a calculator, feed a calf, find out about trains, and fossils, and draw a 3D S, a rabbit, a Landrover and a cow.

What is your skill or hobby?

"Can We Play?' - Repertory for Kids

Last night was our annual 'Repertory for Kids' night at school.

The Year 3s have worked hard over the term to learn their words and decide on their actions.

Our play is called 'Can We Play?'

Did you enjoy our play?

What do you think we did well?