2010 SAMS 01

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Capitals and Countries

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How good are you at identifying capital cities and countries? Use this activity to find out!!

Samoan Day!!

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Some helpful phrases

Japanese Greetings

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Word Search Game

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Go on this site and see how good you are at finding the words in the quiz in the alloted time.

Cultural Week kicks off!!!

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End of Year Trip - Waimarino

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Waimarino!! It will be a great trip!! Can't wait!!

Survey

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Animoto - Making Masks

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via animoto.com

Making Masks!!!

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This was great fun! This was another activity that Room One has started with Miss Kirk. I can't wait to see the masks painted up!!

One of Room One's activities for the unit, 'My Life, My Culture'

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Synonyms and Antonyms - Week 6

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Go to this site and complete the activity on antonyms and synonyms.

Culture - Activities

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Use this link to view information and complete the activities.

Write Like a Professional!!

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View the videos and then write about the action and emotions that emerge. Make sure that you are using WOW words and enough detail in your work to ensure that the reader gets an accurate picture of what happened.
We will be learning about adding quality time connectives to your writing.

WRC Opening Ceremony

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Speeches and Culture

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Wednesday is the day for Room One to present their speeches to their
peers. I am looking forward to hearing some entertaining and informative
addresses!
Room One, you are such great researchers and I really like the way you are
talking about and discussing ideas and information about culture.

Five Card Flickr

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Are you ready to play Five Card Flickr? Read the information and then go on the site using this link to create your story.

Here is an example.

INTERFACE Lesson Plan 42 - Five Card Flickr Story

Student Safety Survey @ SAMS

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Writing

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Use this video as a starting point for a piece of writing.

Criteria for Our Writing

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Please copy and post this on to your blog. Use it to evaluate your writing about the Chilean miners.

Criteria for Mining Disaster

The Fun Theory

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Why do you think they made these stairs?

Voice Thread

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Having another go with Voice Thread.

ICT Survey

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Please get your parents to go to this link and complete this survey. When they have done so can you please leave a comment on this post saying you have got them to do so. Thank you very much.

Culture

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bookr

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Use bookr to publish your own book on the Chilean miners rescue.

A Great Speech

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What are the great things about this speech?

Student ICT Survey 2010

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Things to Do!!

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Room One, you need to start thinking about your speech topic. It should be something that you are interested in and a topic which is suited to your audience, who are your fellow students. There are a number of sites that you can find to help you with this.
This is the criteria for your speeches.
Speech Criteria 2010

Chile Miners
Keep up-dating your information about the Chile miners who have been rescued so that you keep working on your writing.

Speeches -Preparation

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What is culture?

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Listen to this video and then add to your ideas about 'culture'.

Animoto - My Culture, My Life

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via animoto.com

Chile Rescuers Prepare Escape

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How would you feel if you were one of the miners trapped 6 kilometers below the surface of the Earth? How would it affect you? How would you survive? Describe how you may feel as you travel up the long, narrow hole that has been drilled so you can reach the freedom of the surface?

Escape Shaft Prepared for Chile Miners

What is culture?

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An Awareness Test

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Canteen Bandanna Challenge

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Cyber Safety

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Use this link to help you make a posting about how to make comments on other students' blogs.

Cross Words

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Go on to this site and figure out the cross word with a partner!!

Time Machine

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Time Machine

Write a narrative about a journey through time. Before you begin you

should think about an interesting time and place.

Your journey can take you wherever you would like to go.

I look forward to reading your narratives!!

Narratives

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Room One is producing some excellent narratives about dudes that go surfing. Hopefully we will have some samples up by the end of the week for everybody to read.
At the moment we are proof reading our work and getting other students in our class to make comments on what we have written to help us to improve our writing.

Loud Shirt Day!!

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Loud Shirt Day is on this Friday. Come along to school in your most
outrageous shirt and support children who have hearing problems by
donating a gold coin!!!

IXL Math - Practice

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Check out this website I found at ixl.com

Figurative Language WebQuest

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Figurative Language WebQuest

Friday - Mufti!! Support our Community!

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On Friday, 10th September - SAMS will be holding a Mufti Day to raise
funds for the people of Christchurch and to also support a family at
school who has recently lost a member.
Please bring in a gold coin donation and a food item of some sort. All the
money raised will go to Christchurch and all the food items raised will be
forwarded onto the family in question.
Thank-you for your support.

Earthquake - Christchurch-

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Disruption and Chaos in the South Island

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Use the link on the page to take you to where you can view this poster.

The Story Continues

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I am very impressed by the way Room 1 worked on their narratives today. We are adding some great descriptive language to our nouns and thinking
about creating vivid images!! Well done.

Another Strategy!

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Compensating

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Improving Our Sentences by Adding Adjectives and Adverbs

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We started with This simple sentence which was really quite boring, so we decided to add an adverb and adjectives to create a better picture in the readers mind.

We know that adjectives describe nouns and adverbs describe verbs.

The Blogger Challenge

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Join the Student Blogging Challenge Now

Creating a Narrative

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Narrative

View more presentations from Candy Hart.

Room One will use this sequence of pictures to craft a narrative.

Fractions

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Organiser for Narratives

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Untitled

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Accordion Tasks

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Accordion Tasks

Character Sketch
1. Introduce the character by including their name, age and gender
2. Describe the characters likes and dislikes.
3. Describe the personality of the character. What type of person are they?
4. Include how they behaviour and how they relate to the other characters
in the story.

Plot
Retell the main events in the story. You may like to use a flow diagram
for this.

Setting
Include:
Where the story takes place
What the place is like
What time period the story is set in

Justify your statements with evidence from the story.

Accordions

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Criteria for Presentation

The colours used need to have impact and compliment each other when
combined
Illustrations need to support the information
Handwriting needs to readable
Borders should be used.
Layout work using space effectively.
Titles need to standout by using a bold font
Use the same font for all titles

Criteria for Content

Information needs to be grammatically correct.
Descriptive words (adjectives), need to be used to accurately describe the personality and appearance of a character.
Use at least one simile.
Spelling needs to be accurate.
Fullstops, capital letters and commas need to be used correctly.
Sub-titles can be used to organise what has been written.
Paragraphs are to be used to show where one idea has finished and a new one has started.

'Sports Camp' and a 'Day in Room One'

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Yahoo!Xtra

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via nz.yahoo.com

Wow! What would it be like to be this person!! How would you describe the action in this photo?

Untitled

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Wow, what a great class I have. Today I really thought that you all
worked really well, focusing on learning, following instructions and
giving things ago.
Keep this up and remember to support each other.
Miss Hart

Character Descriptions

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When describing a character it is better to write about the traits rather
than a physical description.

Things to Do!!

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Today I would like you to finish your orientation for a narrative, using the setting as an interesting starter. When you have completed this work, ask someone in the class to read it and see if they can find the following words that describe:

what the character would see
what the character would hear
what the character would smell
words that create emotion

Ways to Begin a Narrative

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Story openings

View more presentations from Candy Hart.

Waimaths Success for SAMS

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Last night we had a number of students participate in the regional Waimaths competition. Our Year 7 Team came 3rd and we won 1st, 3rd and 4th Place in the poster competitions. Our Year 8 team performed well on the night but did not place.

Year 7 Team

Joyce Guo

Nathan Cleaver

Horim Choi

Year 8 Team

Panpan Seehamart

Abigail Wallace

Dylan Roberts

1st Place for the Waimaths Poster

Horim Choi

3rd Place for the Waimaths Poster

Susan Rangi

4th Place for the Waimaths Poster

Darshni Moodley

Consumer Rights

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Use this link to investigate your rights as a consumer or to find further information that will help you answer any questions that you may have on our unit, 'Fair Go'.

Plot

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This is what Room 1 wrote for the plot for the second short animation film:

The boy was scared because of a vicious dog was barking at him as he was walking along the road, interrupting him as he read his book. A bus came along, so the boy hopped on so he could get away from the dog and continues reading his book. On the bus, there is a fish in a plastic bag on the seat next to the boy. The boy puts on his headphones and begins to listen to his music. On hearing the music, the fish reacts and turns into a monster. The boy realising what happens decides that he can use the fish to scare the vicious dog to get his revenge.

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Today the students in Room One started thinking about narratives. We discussed what a narrative is and what types of writing would be considered a narrative. For a start the class thought that all narratives were fiction, but after discussion and looking at a few stories we found out that a number of narratives are based on factual events and information.

Here are some of the categories we came up with when classifying narratives:

fables
fairy tales
myths and legends
adventure
drama
science fiction
horror
personal experience

The main purpose of a narrative is to entertain so I am looking forward to some entertaining writing from Room One!!!!!!

Narrative

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Who is/are the main character(s)?
Where are the stories set?
How would you classify these narratives?
What are the plots?
What are the main ideas?

Connectives

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Do you know which connectives you should use depending on the information you have written? Take this quiz and see how good you are.

Writing a Romance, Ghost or Spy Story

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Change the Story

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This is a lot of fun! Read the story and change it as you go! This just happens to be a Fairytale. Does it have a happy ending?

Make a Super Hero!!!

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Have you ever wanted to be a Super Hero? This is your chance to save the world. Use this site to create your the hero of your choice.

Post Assessment for Report Writing

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View this video and as you watch it take notes that will help you write a detailed report on the Red Kangaroo.

Rock Stories - Your Progress!!

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Check off these things as you work through your 'rock stories'.

Have you:

stated how your type of rock was formed
used the terminology associated with the formation of rocks
named the volcano that your rock maybe associated with and its location
described what your rock looked like when if was first formed
stated the type of rock that you found and given evidence to back-up your findings
the date that it may have been formed
what happened to your rock as it was transported by the river?
a description of what your rock looked like where you found it
where you found it
predict what might happen to your rock and where it may end up

Resource for Eruptions from Mt Ruapehu

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I found this information which I thought maybe useful for finding out about the dates of the various eruptions from Mt Ruapehu.

The Source of the Waikato River

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Use this information to help you decide where your rock may have orignated from.

Homework Week 8

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Part of your homework this week is to draw a map of the North Island of New Zealand and show the location of some the volcanoes found in the Central North Island and Waikato regions.
A frame should be ruled around your map and you need a title and a key.
These are the volcanoes you need to show:
Mount Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, Ruapehu, Pirongia, Kariori

View Larger Map

Creating and Using a Mind Map for Report Writing

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Mind mapping is a great tool to use to help you organise your information and ideas. Have a look at this presentation as it takes you through the process of creating a mind map and then using the details on the mind map to write a report.

Connectives

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Use this link to help you understand what words are regarded as connectives and the different types of connectives that are used in the English language.

Our Rock Stories

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Over the next few weeks Room One will be using the data they have collected to compile a story about a rock!!! They will be using photos, maps, images and other material as evidence to support their ideas.
Today we started planning our story. We will keep you up-to-date on our progress.

Volcanoes From Around the World

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What are the differences and similarities between volcanoes?
What types of volcanoes are found in New Zealand?

PicLits

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See the full PicLit at PicLits.com

Use this site to create interesting descriptions.

My Toondoo - Create Yours

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By candy01 | View this Toon at ToonDoo | Create your own Toon

River Postings

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The Four Different Types of Erosion

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I.C.T Survey

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Use this link:Click here to take survey, to complete this survey about your I.C.T experiences over the past week. Please have it completed by Wednesday.

Reading Activity

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Online Interactive ELearning Teaching Resource Library. Teaching Resource Details.

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Online Interactive ELearning Teaching Resource Library. Teaching Resource Details.

The Earth's Structure - What's Inside?

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We have been looking at landforms this week in Room One and along our journey of learning we also discussed what is inside the Earth.
The is a great activity to investigate the different sections that make up the inner workings of our planet.

Pre-Assessment Writing - Describe

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My Room, My Castle

A television station is advertising for teenagers to enter a competition for a free 'room makeover'. If you win, your room will be transformed into the room of your dreams. Your plans should be considerate of the needs of all the people who live in your house, as well as giving you a dream bedroom. Write a description of how you would like your room transformed.

The entry form asks you to:
briefly describe your original room and what aspects need changing describe your ideas for the makeover of your room show some originality and flair in the changes you describe

Hints

Plan your writing before you start.
Be logical and ordered in your presentation of ideas, organising them into sentences and paragraphs.
Include an introduction and conclusion.
Use language that will make your writing interesting and vivid for your reader.
Remember to use the time at the end to proof-read and edit your writing, paying attention to grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Time Frame:

5min discussion as a class

5min Planning

30min Writing

5min editing at the end

Post Writing Assessment Explanations

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The Life Cycle of Butterflies

Your class has been researching the life cycles of butterflies. You need to write an explanation of the processes of change that occur during a butterfly's life cycle. Look carefully at the diagram.

You need to write to explain the life cycle of a butterfly. You should think about the process that happens and include details and reasons in your explanation.

Hints

Remember who you are writing the explanation for.
Use the diagram to help you think about what to write.
You can add ideas of your own.
Start by telling what it is you are going to write about.
Remember to give details and reasons to help explain the process.
Write in sentences.
Think about the order of your ideas.
Pay attention to spelling and punctuation.
Remember to use the time at the beginning for planning and the time at the end to check and edit your writing.
If you need more space to plan your writing, ask the teacher for more paper.

Time Frame:

5min discussion as a class

5min Planning

30min Writing

5min editing at the end

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

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The River

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Fun Activities Landforms

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Volcano Song

Plate Tectonics

Making Mountains

Rock Types

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We are going to have a look at rock types through using these 2 webquests below.

Discover How Rocks Are Formed

Become a Rock Expert!

Students will work on these in pairs. Students will need to compile basic research notes as they go - you may choose which format is best for you for note taking.
Add 3 things to rock types vocab list as you go - remember once it's on the vocab list you can't add it again, so search for interesting information that others will enjoy reading!! :-)

Hinuera ignimbrite

Hinuera ignimbrite (often marketed as Hinuera stone) is a yellow-cream to pale-brown ignimbrite containing angular fragments of pumice in a fine-grained matrix of volcanic ash. It is still quarried today, and widely used for cladding buildings in the North Island.

Andesite
Andesite is a fine-grained, extrusive igneous rock composed mainly of plagioclase with other minerals such as hornblende, pyroxene and biotite. The specimen shown is about two inches (five centimeters) across.

Volcanoes

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How Volcanoes happen

And 1 from NZ's own Mt Ruapehu 1995/1996

This might help you with your homework this week.

Writing an Introduction

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This week Room One will be writing introductions for an explanation. We will start by looking at the SAMS Learner and working out how we can define this term. These introductions will be put on to our blogs. We will also be
adding our Learning Goals to our blogs.

Reading for Information

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Use this link to upskill your knowledge on 'forces and motion'.

Now take the quiz.

Forces and Motion

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Game Time

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What is Happening on Friday

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We have the Japenese students to welcome to our school tomorrow morning. I am looking forward to having a few of them in Room 1 and hope that they enjoy their stay in New Zealand.
Tomorrow we will keep working on our blogs and finishing off any other work that is on our 'Need to Complete Work List'.
We also have class photos tomorrow morning, so I hope that everyone is looking their best!!!!