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Term 4 2011
Mr Brown is teaching us how to play the ukelele as part of our inquiry unit. Here is a video to help you practise at home.

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Monday 5 September 2011
On Friday 2nd September the Mayor, Mr Bob Francis visited Whareama School and talked to us about what makes a good leader. He told us some really interesting facts and recollections of his relationships with many famous sporting hero's. We thoroughly enjoyed having Mr Francis in our school and are inspired by the things he told us. We made a Voicethread to thank him for his time and inspiration. media type="custom" key="10357654" width="120" height="120" align="center"

Doodle4Google

Here is the link to the Doodle4Google competition in the UK last year. The theme was "I love football".

//We are entering the New Zealand version of the competition which involves://
At Google, we like to reflect the ever-changing world of our users through the logo designs on our homepage. These ‘doodles’ celebrate different people, events or special dates and are designed by a team of Google Doodlers. In 2011, we’re asking young people from across New Zealand to design their own doodle. The theme is ‘My Wish for New Zealand’. We’d love to see how young people want New Zealand to look like. The best doodles will be voted on by the public, and one winner will be shown on the Google New Zealand homepage for a day, to be viewed by millions of people.



Term 2 Holidays -
== I hope you are all having a good break...it certainly was a long term. The weather is really terrible and I thought that some of you might be looking for something to do. I've added some lessons to your Maths Buddy page about fractions which is what we are going to be studying for Numeracy at the beginning of Term 3. ==

See if you can find some websites and games about FRACTIONS to add to your numeracy page on your wiki........there's a challenge !

**"On the go with ko au" Term 2 2011**
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= = = = =**'Get it together' inquiry unit - Term 1 2011.**=

As a conclusion to our inquiry unit we posed ourselves rich questions about 'what is a team' ? As a novel way to share our research we wrote a speech and chose to make the responses into a Voice thread.

media type="custom" key="9013262" = = = = = = Wednesday 17th November 2010 Today and tomorrow we are working on being sunsmart and what it is about. Here are some websites about Sunsmart:

This is the Sunsmart website for schools



This is the Cancer Society of New Zealand website



=Thursday 9th september=

Today we learnt about limericks, here is a great example of one if you get stuck!
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26.8.10 And here it is......our very own first full class Voicethread. We used Voicethread to thank Suzie at Pukaha Mt Bruce for our fantastic visit. Enjoy..........

media type="custom" key="6779627" 25.8.10 Voicethread....wow what an amazing ICT tool. Today we set up a class voicethread about our visit to Pukaha Mt Bruce. We will all add an audio file to this thread and share it with Mt Bruce and our families. We will also set up our own thread's about something we are interested in. I will put up a numeracy voice thread tomorrow and you can log in at home and add an audio file and tell me how you would go about solving the problem.

=I've discovered a fun new site which has numeracy, literacy and science activities on it. Why don't you give it a go over the holidays ?= = =

Hi Ever wondered (or forgotten) how to change fractions and decimals into percentages. Here is an amazing video which shows you how to do this really clearly. Its well worth watching....please add a discussion once you've watched it and let me know what you think.

How to change fractions and decimals to percentages.

I've added some photos of our visit to Mr Bargh's Organic Dairy Farm and Mr Leo Hendrikse's visit. Photos do take a while to upload however so if you don't have broadband you may have trouble opening this page.......it will take ages.

I've also added a new range of activities to the numeracy and literacy pages so don't forget to try them out.

Ever wondered how day and night happen and why the season's change ? This web page explains it in easy to understand animations. Its well worth a look and is very interesting.



**read, write and interact** with the information before us.
 * Web 2** is the new name we give to using the internet to enhance and support learning. The internet was something that we used to source information e.g. we looked at it but did not interact with it. Web 2 is the era we are now in and the difference is that we can now interact with the internet in ways we never could before. We can now

Don't forget to go to the 'discussion' tab at the top of this page and leave a comment so I know you've looked at it......I'd be interested to know what you think ! ** To add a comment you need to: **

Push "New Post", then it will ask you to sign in. To sign in your user name is Whareamaseniorroom (Whareama Senior Room with no spaces) and the password is whareamasenior (Whareama Senior with no spaces). The class email account is Whareamaseniorroom@gmail.com

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**We will start adding __Voicethreads__ to our wiki. Watch this clip to see what a Voicethread is and how we can use it. Pretty amazing isn't it.**

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