Amazon Rainforest Wildfires

We saw the Amazon Rainforest wildfires on the T.V. news last week so this week we have been reading articles and watching videos about them. It also tied in with our expositions (persuasive writing) on climate change. 

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We were shocked at how many fires there have been this year and wondered about the effects they are having on the wildlife and tribespeople who live in the rainforest. 

As part of our Reading task, we created google drawings highlighting the effects of the fires. We thought carefully about the message we wanted to convey. You can view these on our individual blogs which will be published in the next few days.

Maths Quizzes

For Maths Week last week, we began creating our own Maths quizzes. We carried on with these this week.
We have been learning to:

• link slides to slides
• duplicate slides - design once & use again & again
• think about the maths currently being learnt and use this in our slides
• respond appropriately if the answer is wrong in a positive, thoughtful, helpful way
• design slides so they are appropriate for school (thinking of a theme)

We also thought about making our slides attention grabbing.

Check out our individual blogs and play our Maths quizzes. They will hopefully be posted by the end of the week.

Here is Catalina's for you to try:

Interdependence Inquiry

As part of our Interdependence Inquiry, we helped the bees and flowers by planting more flowers. 

Bees and flowering plants have a mutualistic relationship where both species benefit. Flowers provide bees with nectar and pollen, which worker bees collect to feed their entire colonies. Bees provide flowers with the means to reproduce, by spreading pollen from flower to flower in a process called pollination.

Interdependence

As part of our Inquiry, we are learning about interdependence. But what is it? That's exactly what we had to find out for our Reading task this week. Check out our individual blogs to find out what it means and examples of interdependence.

Tom Fedro Art

Chicago artist Tom Fedro creates art with zing and boundless humour. His art is innovative, creative and playful. He combines pop art collage and whimsical portraiture that has a rhythm all of its own. Bright colours, big features and bold lines that seem to be electrically charged, represent an exciting way of seeing and experiencing the world through his eyes. 
We created Tom Fedro inspired paintings using his artwork Once Again as a starting point.

Learning Intention: 
WALT use painting techniques.
Success Criteria: 
We will use:
• Both sides of the paint brush
• Bright colours
• Bold lines
• Tints and shades to show light direction

Check out our masterpieces on our individual blogs.

St Mary of the Cross MacKillop's Feast Day

Today is the feast day of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. Our school celebrated a lovely mass together with our parish community.
Mary MacKillop was the co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a religious order who predominantly served people who were disadvantaged by poverty or isolation. In 2010 Mary MacKillop was canonized a saint by Pope Benedict XVl. She lived a life marked by virtuous actions. With the help of others, Mary did good work out of love of God and neighbour. Mary didn’t only help children by running schools, she and her sisters also helped other people such as homeless women and children, poor elderly women, orphans, and people in jail.
Since 1913, the Sisters of St Joseph, also known as ‘Brown Joes’, have played a big
part in Catholic education right here in Gisborne. Both St Mary’s Catholic Primary
School and Campion College have Brown Joe origins in their DNA and the gift of the
Josephite charism lives on today in the hearts and minds of many of our parishioners.

St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop, pray for us.

After mass, Room 1 answered three questions about Mary MacKillop. You can find their answers on their individual blogs.

One of St Mary MacKillop's quotes that we live by is "Do your bit" so we also celebrated her feast day by doing just that. We planted more native trees in our Rerenga Awa, weeded around some that are already established and picked up the rubbish that had blown down there.