Wednesday 4th May 2016

Today we made a glossary on the words we will be using during our sustainability focus. We worked together to come up with our own meanings. 

Here is the list we came up with..aren't we amazing :) 

Curiosity: When you are interested in something or wonder about something. Wonderings: When you wonder about how something works or have thoughts about different things. Connections: When we link things together that are similar. Experiences: Something that we have done. Prior knowledge: What we already know about something. Questioning: When we ask questions about what we want to know. Who, What, Where, When, Why, How. Exploring: Looking for information about things we don’t know. Finding clues and information. Explanation: Explaining information to people. Decisions: Making choices. Actions: Doing something to make a difference.

Thinking: When there are ideas in our heads and we are wondering about them. Critical thinking: When there is hard or important information that we need to work out. Inquiry: When we think about what we already know, what we want to know and what we need to do to find our answers. Ask questions, research and do something with our information. Problem solving: When we think of ways to solve tasks or things that happen. When we use different ways to solve a problem. Research: When we look for information. We can use devices, Google, Internet, books, Newspapers, TV, the news, magazines. Responsibility: Caring for your belongings, looking after others, being responsible for ourselves, taking ownership of our work, be honest and own up to our mistakes. Investigation: When we want to find something out. Collaboration: Bring all our ideas together. Share our ideas. Key words: The most important words from our information. We then had maths - we were working on different maths activities :)  We started a new shared reading book 'Rubbish!' by Joy Cowley.  We made predictions about the book and wrote them in our books.  Hemi, Jason and Marcus had guided reading with Mrs Farrow. They learnt about keywords and made flip charts to show the keywords from their books.  Finn, Madyson, Kourtneay and Jack had guided reading with Mrs Farrow. They have special comprehension books to work through to make sure they understand the texts they are reading :)  This afternoon we had a powhiri practice.