Duffy Show

On Friday the 3rd of March the duffy show came to Blaketown School.  The whole school went to the  pavilion after interval.

So the whole school sat down and waited for the show to start then only two people came out but… there were three people ( we knew as we watched them unpack). The third one was behind the set and she didn’t come out until it was her part in the show.She was Globe Girl who was trying to change the world into a greener world, a better world. The moral behind the story was that we should take better care of this planet .

It is always very interesting to ask questions after Duffy Shows as we learn about the actors, their reading habits, where they are from etc. We are very lucky to have Duffy Shows and Duffy Books in our school and we really enjoy choosing our books. It is soooo exciting when they arrive and we see which book we actually get. (by Tasman)

Name Art

We have been doing some work with colours and zentangles to make our name in a creative way. It has been relly interesting working on an effective layout.

Learning Styles

We have been discussing how it is easiest for us to learn. 

We have identified our learning style and are going to try to use this knowledge to help us learn better.

We worked through some questions and analysed our answers to work our learning styles. This happened because some of us are having problems learning our basic facts. We decided whether we were Visual, Auditory or kinaesthetic learners.

Auditory people learn best by:

·       Putting/ summarising things into our own words

·       Reading things out loud

·       Using tapes and CDs

·       Explaining things to other people

Visual people learn best by:

·       Writing down the key facts and making cards

·       Visualising what they are learning. They might sit back, look up etc. to try and get a picture in their head.

·       Writing notes and sticking them around the place.

·       Using mind maps, pictures, cartoon story boards, photo stories and diagrams

Kinaesthetic people learn best by:

·       Moving about while they learn

·       Using actions to imprint the information (waving, tapping hands fingers etc)

·       Using different actions for different ideas.

We all found ti fascinating and researched on the internet to find out more about ourselves. It was scarily true

We have each made a poster that we are going to to put on our blog.

Learning About Our Classmates and Ourselves.

We wrote portrait poems using metaphors. They describe our looks. We finished these off with a couple of lines about ourselves or a message to others. Once complete we did a character mask.

Memoirs

In Room Two we have been busy writing our Memoirs. Memoirs are factual stories about someone's life. 'Memoir' is from the French word mémoire, which means 'reminiscence' or 'memory.' They are a part of the nonfiction literary genre and are usually told in the first person.

You write memoirs to share with others and interesting event that has happened to you or the you have seen. To make sure your memories don’t disappear and you can share them in the future with your family and friends.

Check out our individual blogs to see our memoirs.

Christmas Art
This is a sample of some of the Christmas art we have been working on.

 

 

Water Fight

We had a water fight with Runanga School. You could bring water guns, bottles, balloons or anything else you could find. We put flags out for an area that you could go and be safe to refill. It was an awesome time and I hope we do it again soon.