BYOD Meeting Tuesday 26th of November

To parents,
We are holding a parent evening on 26th November in the school hall at 7p.m., aimed at the parents of Years 5 and 6 about BYOD in Senior School next year.
It’s your choice – your child could bring a device from home and/or continue to use the school devices. There are lots of questions about what this means to students, families, and learning at Sunnyhills School. At this parent evening we aim to address all questions and we will cover:
 Rationale behind ‘bring your own device’.
 How does it link to learning?
 What 21st Century Learning looks like?
 Bring your own device myths.
 Questions and Answer time
We have set up an online “post-it note” wall where you can ask any questions you may have, prior to the meeting. All questions are welcome. Use the link below to add a question.

http://padlet.com/wall/BYOBQuestions

Brainy Books

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wyz7eo7GpZvKxClOjKT3hE5tNn0JXeUUp8JiJ8-jgBw/edit

Fun Maths Games

Hello my wonderful class, here are some great maths games you can play to support your basic facts!
 Miss Coffer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikares.html
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters1/gbcd.html

Narratives

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nG9Ess362iV2Cc3fFCpyM3-9fLYTwtDPXA-7XST2LJo/edit

Brainy Books Webquest

http://hpwebquest.blogspot.co.nz/p/process.html

How many legs does the elephant have?

A huge congratulations to Lucy Rose

Well done to Lucy Rose who won the year five Rainbows End award. We are so proud of you. You rock Lucy Rose!

Here are some great Maths websites to play over the holidays!

Multiplication and division:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/multiplication/play/
http://freerice.com/#/multiplication-table/17508

Addition and subtraction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/addition_and_subtraction/play/
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/SpeedGrid/Addition/urikares.html
http://freerice.com/#/basic-math-pre-algebra/16893

Fractions:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/number/fractions_basic/play/
http://www.softschools.com/math/fractions/games/

Check out these awesome people!

Henry moved up to black belt in his taekwondo. And Brayden got player of year in his soccer team. Room 1 just full of amazing people. Go Henry and Brayden!

Metaphors/Similes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zIj5CKEtYSnsxQ3GGHKOg9WQjv9fTvvGYTL3t0R91lM/edit

A great way to remember Onomatopoeia....

Watch this youtube clip and it is a great way to remind us of what an onomatopoeia is!
http://youtu.be/f1b5kCvVBo8

BFR's

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lizQviMla3iyoUSf-9USIGQsfKfgSJ0o1upSkGZ0vhU/edit

Maths problem....can you figure it out?! (1,000 house points if you do!)

In front of a classroom there is a concrete square pad with a concrete walkway leading to it.
The total area of the pad is 151m squared
 The width of the concrete  walkway is 4meters less than the length of the concrete square pad.
The concrete walkway is 5meters longer that the length of the concrete square pad.
What is the length of the concrete square pad?

Link to NZ maths from maths curriculum evening

Here is a link to the NZ maths website of great maths games and activities to play at home with your children:
http://nzmaths.co.nz/node/1390

Cross Country

Today we had Cross Country. It was such a beautiful day for it. We all gave it hundred percent and tried our best.

It was great!

Inquiry

We have been working really hard on our inquiry about "Native New Zealand is...".What does Native New Zealand mean to you? 

Gordon and Thom rock!

Well done to Gordon Mei and Thom Stranaghan who both won awards in their sports team...watch out All Whites and All Blacks! 

Novel time

Room one are going to start reading No Safe Harbour. Can you predict what this novel is going to be about? 

Character description - Snow White

In room one we are looking at narratives. We looked at the story of Snow White and discussed how if we changed the adjectives we could give characters new descriptions/traits. Have a read - its quite funny!

BFR - Sniffer Dog

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKE7PV_e6L_DRYjYeob5LvLcDna1jRyO_rQ77xqeFXY/edit?usp=sharing