Homefun Free Week

Week 6 is our home funfree week.

Continue to read each night

Please use this time to catch up of incomplete home fun, if you need to.

Multiplication Magic

We have been learning to use skip counting to help us to multiply. We have learnt to skip count in twos and tens. We have also learnt that we need to make 'groups of' when we work out a multiplication problem.
The videos below show that we have learnt to make 'groups of' and use skip counting to work out the correct answer.
We are also learning to divide. This is a bit more difficult to understand.

Week 5 Homefun

This will be added to the blog tomorrow (Wednesday) morning. Read your new reader tonight and pracitse counting forwards and backwards in 10s to 100

Mrs Majurey

Colour Confusion

This term Reremoana School students have been exposed to some amazing experiments run by the teachers. Today Room 6 was lucky to experience an experiment called Colour Confusion.

We used the senses of sight, taste and smell to try to determine what the four flavors were. To make it confusing food colouring was added to change the colour of the juice.

Was the yellow juice pineapple?
Was the green juice lime?
Did you get any right?
Was our sense of sight stronger than our sense of taste?

We will be adding some interesting conclusions by the students in Room 6 very soon....watch this space.

Homefun

This weeks homefun has been added to the home fun page on this blog. Please email Mrs Majurey if you have any questions lindam@reremoana.school.nz

The Essential Spelling and Writing words that go along with the homefun are below. Homefun is also in your childs home fun books to be completed and returned every Monday.

Essential Words for Spelling and Writing.

The following words are used often when you write, in fact they make up about three-quarters of most writing! It is very important that you know how to spell these words correctly. They have been put into lists to show how often they are used. Words in List 1 are used the most often, words in List 2 are used the next most often etc.

Year 1 and 2 students should know how to correctly spell the following lists of words:

Essential List 1 (10 words; 25% of writing)

a I it the was

and in my to we

Essential List 2 (20 words; 15% of writing)

at had of that up

but he on then went

for is she there when

got me so they you

Essential List 3 (30 words; 10% of writing)

about be go into our

after because going just out

all came have like said

are day her mum some

as down his not were

back get home one with

Year 3 and 4 students should know how to spell the above three lists, plus the following:

Essential List 4 (50 words; 10% of writing)

again do next people time

an first night put took

around food no ran two

big from now saw us

by good off school very

can has old see well

come him only started what

could house or their will

dad if other them would

did little over this your

Our Starving Frogs

Now that the cold weather is on it's way our classroom frogs need flies bought for them. These are available for purchase at Animates in Takanini for about $18. The fly container lasts about two weeks. Would you like to donate a container to the class? If so please email Mrs Majurey she will let you know when will be a good time to get some.

Science Ignition Day

On Tuesday 1 May the whole school got to experience a multitude of science experiments.
In the morning the Pukeko team learnt about magnetism and what happens with magnets using the north and south poles. They learnt some interesting stuff. Here are some photos to show what happens when we do different things with the magnets.

After morning tea each student had three different classrooms to go to to watch the teachers do their experiments. Some fun experiments were called Boo Bubbles, Colour Confusion, Gloop, Icey Ice Cream, egg in a Bottle and Lava Lamps.