African Elephants

The gold girls learnt about african elephants.
Holly learnt that they eat wood and bark.
Lucy learnt that baby elephants hold there mothers tail. Jasmin learnt that elephants

What I have learned in Mathes

We have learned the 5s 1os times tables.
ten times ten=100.
ten times three=30.

five times five=25.
five times three=15.

two times two=4.
two times three=5.

And we have been lerning +s in times tables.
We have been using stuff for our +s in times tables too.

Elephants.

If elephants are hungry they will eat bark and even wood. When all the food has gone, the elephants have to move on. A grandmother elephant leads the herd. Elephants can
lift their trunks up high to get at leaves and branches. African elephants are larger
than asian elephants. African elephants live in the wild.Asian elephants are smaller than african
elephants.Elephants roll about in the mud.

African Elephants

Lucy learnt that elephants favourite food is long grass.
Jasmine learnt that baby elephants suck milk out off there trunks.
Payton learnt that african Elephant ears are biger than ashan Elephant's.

Maths This Week

This week toru maths group has been learning with play money seeing the tens in like 1 million dollars. This week we have been breaking numbers to find the anwser.

Nick, Zach, Jack

Cindy the Lamb Visits School

On Friday the 14th of August Cindy the lamb came to see the children of Team 20. When we went out to see it by the Village Cinday had escaped and Deb had to chase her to Waiwetu St!

We made up a bottle of milk for Cindy.

Recipe for Milk
- how to make milk for a pet

You need:
- warm water
- special milk powder
- a bottle with a teat
- a scoop
- a bowl
- a measuring jug
- a whisk

Method
1. Pour 150mls of water into the bowl
2. Add 1 level scoop of milk powder to the bowl
3. Stir until mixed
4. Pour carefully into the animal's bottle
5. Give it to the lamb

Clara was the lucky person to feed the lamb. We all got to pat it.


Other things we learned today

• To check if a lamb is hungry, put your finger in its mouth. It will suck if it is hungry -Payton
• Farmers count their sheep iin 3's. They need to know their 3 x tables. Flynn
• Farmers use a 'crook' to catch sheep around the leg or neck. Hamish
• There is more sheep than people in NZ. There are 4 million people but 40million sheep! Nick
• Sheep have wool to keep them warm - we wear clother. Zach
• Sheep go under trees to keep warm on cold or windy days. - Isabella
• Lambs snuggle under their Mum' to keep warm - Josh
• Mother sheep can only look after two lambs, if there are triplets one is taken away. Austin
• If a lamb is bottle fed it gets fed 4x a day. Clara

Goal Setting

Today we shared great ideas about goal setting.

What is a goal?

• Something to help us. Will T.
• Something you need to work on. Yusuf
• Something you are trying to achieve. Flynn
• A dream that you really want to do. Holly
• A wish
• There might be people that can help us. Eden

How do goals help us?

• They help you get better at the things in the class and your learning. Charlotte
• They help us to keep on trying. Yusuf
• They might help us work on what we wnt to be in the future. Lucy

We talk about what makes a great goal and Mrs Howison (Claire) told it that it is important that our goal is SMART.

Specific ( smallish and focussed)
Measurable ( so you know when you have reached it)
Achievable ( so it is worth working towards and you will get there)
Realistic ( it good for you and you are able to achieve it)
Timeframe ( so you know when you want to do it by)

A goal without a timeframe is merely a dream!

Last term when we set our goals we feel we didn't look at them often enough so this time we are going to blog them, put them in our Learning Reports and put them on the wall! We are going to publish them in the shape of a ball and move them towards a goal post.

Look out for them soon!

Keeping warm - humans and animals

Today we used venn diagrams to compare how humans and animals keep warm and cool. We had lots of ideas.
Click on the photo and then you will be able to read our ideas, we were very proud of our thinking.

Learning About Keeping Warm

Here are our intial ideas about keeping warm.

What is warm?
- bed and the bath W.T.
- cuddles A.L.
- blankets Y.G.
- puppies C.I. and kittens E.S.
- jackets J.K.
- the fire or the heater L.C.E.
- Gas pump H.B. or Heat Pump N.C.
- playing with toys C.V.
- a hottie H.A.
- hot air balloon F.E.
- sweat F.B.
- the sun I.H.
- sheep P.A.
- wool I.H.
- cushions W.B.
- running makes you hot W.B.
- the desert F.E.
- spa pools N.C.

Ideas for reading at home

Here is a presentation from our recent Parent Talk Time "Reading at home with early readers", led by Jennifer Doak and Sandra Howat:

For further information as well as downloads, please check: www.fendalton.school.nz/parenteducation

The Purple People Eaters in reading today read the book "the Disappearing Sharks". Zach, Holly, Nicholas and Will learnt about Non-Fiction books>

We learnt that there are real photos, they are true stories, there are captions attached to photos, there is an index, contents page and we found out why sharks are disappearing.

Will discovered that the Megalodon Shark is the size of two buses. A diagram showed us this fact.
Nicholas found out that there aren't as many sharks in the world. 100 million sharks were killed in the world last year.
Holly learnt that people cut their jaws out for trophies.
Zach discovered that sharks can go as fast as 60 kilometres an hour.

We had fun learning these facts.

Love by Lucy

Love is yellow.
Love smells like honey.
Love looks like a beautiful child and mum cuddling.
It tastes like cherries.
Love feels like bubbles on your tongue.
It sounds like cheerful laughter.

Excitement

Excitement is yellow.
It feels like having Christmas.
It smells like candyfloss is in your present.
Excitement sounds like kids playing with toys.
It looks like me playing with a friend.
It tastes like lollies.

By Zach

Excited

Excited is yellow.
It looks like Pooh Bear.
Excited sounds like planes.
It tastes like chocolate.
Excited looks like playing.
It smells like water.
It feels like fur.

By Nicholas

Sad

Sad is blue.
It tastes like lemons.
People are lonely.
It feels cold.
It smells like apples.

By Will B

Happy by Isabella

Happy is gold.
It tastes like honey.
Happy looks like two kittens.
Happy feels like you
have just won a game.
Happy smells like
a fresh rose from the
garden.
Happy sounds like a beautiful
bird chirping.

Afraid

Afraid is black .
Afraid is like someone chased by witches.
Afraid smells like very dark ink.

afraid tastes like red blood in your mouth.

Joy by charlotte

Joy is pink.
It feels like your friend is
massaging your back.
Joy tastes like chocolate.
It sounds like shouting stars
whizzing across the sky.
Joy looks like a
ballerina dancing on the stage.
It smells like blue berries.
Joy.