Persuasive Writing - Why kids should learn to swim

Today in Room 7 we have been learning to write a quality middle paragraph. Our purpose for our writing is to persuade children to learn to swim. The main idea of our paragraph is swimming gives students more confidence

Students had to follow the Success Criteria and write one paragraph. Here is the SC and three students writing

SC
- include point of view
- include persuasive point
- write at least 4 sentences about the main idea
- use at least 2 emotive words

Riley

Kids should learn to swim so they can become more confident in the water. They should be confident because there is a lot of water in New Zealand. If they are not confident they will never go into the water and have a marvellous time. They would only be sun bathing on the beach and watching people in the water having an awesome time.  Kids, swimming is an awesome skill so learn to swim!

Sheredon 

Kids should learn how to swim. Swimming is a terrific sport that will help kids confidence in the water, plus if you go fishing you will feel uncomfortable being surrounded by water. So you should learn how to swim so you can have great fun in the water. 

Bradley 

One reason why kids should learn to swim is because it gives your kids more confidence in the water. If you did not have any confidence you would not go in the water at the beach. Also if you are sunbathing and you see people in the water having fun you wont have any fun in the water if you are not confident. Also if you fell off a boat, and you were confident, you will know know how to swim and swim back to the boat. 

Science Fun Day

On Tuesday Reremoana School had a Science fun day as part of the exposure for this terms Inquiry - Science Fair

Room 7's day stated off together in Room 7. We completed an experience to see if we could make an egg float. We added salt to water. After adding lots of salt we were able to make an egg float. The experiment taught us about buoyancy and that things are more buoyant and float better in salt water

After morning tea Room 7 split up and took part in three exciting experiments. The experiments students liked the most were quick sand, colour confusion, boo bubbles and lava lamps.

Finally, after lunch we listened to four people that work in the science field. They told us about what they do for their job and how you could get a job in the science field.

The day was great. We really enjoyed it and can't wait to do more experiments.

Cross Country

Last Friday was the Reremoana School Cross Country day. The school has been practising for this event since last term. By the cross country day most of the students in Room 7 were fit and ready to participate. Nearly all of the students were able to run the entire course without walking. Miss Clarke would like to say well done to all the students that tried their best.

Some results from Room 7 are as follows

Year 4 Boys 
1st Andre
2nd Mitchell

Year 4 Girls 
1st Johanri

Year 5 Girls 
1st Jani

Year 5 Boys 
3rd Riley

Congratulations to the students that placed.
Also congratulations to the students that placed in the top 8 who are going to represent Reremoana at the MPSSA Filed Day in Week 3.
Theses students are
Andre
Johanri
Daneka
Jakob
Joshua
Mitchell
Jani
Riley
Nick
Bradley
Holly
Luke

Sara 

Strategy Posters

In Room 7 we have been learning addition and subtraction strategies. Miss Clarke has taught us 2 addition strategies and 3 subtraction strategies. Some students are using number in the tens, some are using numbers in the hundreds and some students are even using decimals.
We made posters to show that we know how to use all the strategies. We then discussed what strategy was the most efficient to solve the problem. We know that it is important to be able to use more than one strategy so that we can check that our answer is correct. We are also learning to use the strategies mentally so that we don't need a pen or any paper.

Here are two of our posters
                                                              Jani

Sheredon 

Gala activities

On Thursday Week 6 Room 7 students completed craft activities for the gala. The Yr 4's made miniature gardens and the Yr 5's made flax mats. The mats were a lot more challenging than students anticipated however most people persevered and were resilient.

The criteria
Yr 4's

Success Criteria

- Biodegradable (i.e Shoe box, beer boxes - painted)

- resembles a garden 

- creative design

- looks like the plats

- interesting to look at 

Yr 5's

- Weaving technique mastered

- no gaps (woven tightly)

- durable

- appealing to look at 

- natural materials use

Here are some photos of the students creating their miniature gardens and their finished mats 

Celebration Wheelay

Week 5's celebration was wheelay. Room 7 students tried their best and the bad weather held off until 3.00pm. Two Room 7 students had never done the Wheelay before (Sam and Ryotaro). They picked it up quickly and enjoyed participating in a whole school activity.

Week 6 Homework

Room 7- Homework Week 6 - Due Friday 9th March 

1. Reading – 15 – 20 minutes per night. Remember to complete your reading log in the front/back of your homework book. 

2.     Mathematics – Basic fact practise. 

3.     Mathletics – complete the set tasks by going to www.mathletics.co.nz/ 

Sign in using your username and password

Remember Mathletics payment is due 

4.     Maths Equations – Write the following equations on a new page in your book and solve them. Remember to select the most efficient strategy, solve the problem mentally in your head then show your working like you did in class. 

1.      54 - 30 2.    175 + 32 3.   86 - 21     4.135 - 29

5.    87 - 28 6.    178+ 34 7.   286- 49    8. 65 - 37

1. Craft day preparation - DUE THURSDAY - Refer to notice from Thursday last week for judging criteria

Yr 4 

You are making a miniature garden on Thursday. Research miniature gardens and create a plan of what yours might look like. 

The material that are provided for you to use are 

• cardboard tray (about 30 X15cm) 
• sand
• macaroni pasta 
• soup mix 
• coconut and food colouring 

Remember to bring anything else like stones and plants from home

Yr 5 

You are making a woven mat/kite. Research and find at least 5 pictures of woven mat/kite. Look at the technique used. 

Remember to bring plants/flowers/natural material to decorate your mat/kite

7. Weekly spelling – Learn the following words 

Presentation Note

Please think about your presentation when completing your homework. Please include the week at the top of the page 

Set out each activity in your homework books with a heading Eg maths equations 

Please number the equations

Here is an example of what Week 6’s Homework should look like 

Week 4 Term 1 

Maths equations 

1. 18 + 26                         2. 19 + 32 

  +2    - 2                            + 1   - 1

     20 + 24 = 44                     20 + 31 = 51 

Craft Activity