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Tree Diagrams

Out Comes using Tree Diagram

Waikato Inter-Intermediate and Middle Schools Rugby Tournament

Vs. Maeroa Intermediate 20/8/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Thanks Room 9 from Melville for sharing this with us! Dallas was the student who attended from our class.
Room 9, which students do you recognize ?

Primary Pad - What are the elements (agents ) that change the Earth's Surface?

Time Lapse

Can you identify the changes in the landscape?

5 Minutes a Day to Change the World

S0... what are YOU going to do?  BE the CHANGE!

Word Detective

Word Detectives: click on the icon which will take you to an article titled, "Water is Life".  Read the article and then in your Reading Book answer the, 'Thinking Questions'.
What other questions do you have about the world's water supply?

Te Tira

Planet Warriors

Maths Statistics Learning

In class we have been learning about statistics. We have learned what a histogram is and what it is used for. A histogram records data in groups, it also has no spaces between the bars and numbers instead of words along the x axis.

BBC KS2 Bitesize English

Click on the image and have a go at this activity!

Persuasion Map

We can use this site to plan and write a fantastic piece of persuasive writing.

101 Word Story Challenge!

101 Word Story Competition

The theme of the story is to be, ‘I Made a Difference’.

Students and parents are invited to submit your entries for this to Mrs Bain before August 26^th at 3.00pm.  Please hand your story into the office.

Criteria:

·         Entries may be written either by hand or computer.

·         They must be handed in by the due date and time.

·         Each story must be exactly 101 words long (not one word more or less!)

·         You are writing to communicate an idea to the reader so it needs to make sense to the reader.

·         Each essay must also contain all the following words, used without suffixes or prefixes e.g. ready must be used as ready – not readiness, readily or similar variations of the word family.  The 10 words MUST be highlighted in the text.

determined                                        sudden

                   challenged                                         humbly

deflated                                             bowed

cross                                                  stretched

uncertain                                          definite

Persuasive Writing -

Room 9 has started to learn about persuasive writing.  On Monday our thoughts were collected.  Following are the main points:

Persuasive Writing- What we thought:

Persuasive writing is when you talk someone into doing something for you.

Persuasive writing is when you try to convince someone that your point of view is better.

Persuasive writing is to blackmail someone by making something sound exciting.

It is when you are trying to change someone’s opinion with facts that support your argument.

Persuasive writing starts with an introduction and finishes with a conclusion.  You can use a “fish hook “at the start to grab the reader’s interest.

It contains expression, adjectives and rhetorical questions

It contains proper grammar, descriptive language, interesting facts which are paragraphed.

It needs to be punctuated correctly

Use facts to make the writing easy to understand.

Each sentence needs to make sense.

It will have several main ideas.

It could contain technical language.

The ideas are ordered.

Which points do you agree with and which ones do you think are not really related to persuasive writing?

Word Detectives - Reading

This article relates to the book, "Frindle" and how new words are added to the dictionary as they become common usage.
Once you have read the article on the site; KiwiKids News, then go to the recall question section and complete this work in your Reading Book.
Would your new word eventually get entered into the Oxford Dictionary?
What would you have to do to ensure that it did become common usage?