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Welcome to our 5C Wiki. We are excited about this new venture and hope that we can show you some of our work that we do in class. We are only just beginning, so please be patient while we learn together. We look forward to your feedback. Some of the work that you will see on the students' pages may not be edited, we will be doing this as time allows. Parents, if you get the chance to go through the writing on your child's page that would be most beneficial for all. Thank you. We are currently learning how to use voice thread as a tool to help our learning. Below is an image of a farmer milking cows. Click on the avatars to see what the students have to say about this. media type="custom" key="7580311" = 5C has begun learning about citizenship. These are our thoughts about what citizenship might be. What do you think? =

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 * A reminder that we have invited all grandparents to join us at Wakaaranga School on Tuesday 9 November from 11am until 1.25pm to enjoy our cultural festivities with us. We are dressing up in a costume from our culture. Photos will follow!!! **

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Welcome back to Term Four. We have a very busy term ahead of us including athletics and standards testing. Our Landscape Learning topic for the first half of the term is Dairy Processing. We have created a Wallwisher chart below outlining things that we know about dairy processing. Check out what we already know.

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We have been learning how to use Photostory as a tool to record our ideas. Here is a great example created by William. media type="custom" key="6915959"

On Monday 6 September, the Senior School braved the windy day and ran their cross country. All the students did really well. Renee from our class won the Year 4 girl's race. media type="custom" key="6844305" Every Friday 5C has the pleasure of spending 20 minutes reading with our buddy class, 4B. We all really enjoy it and have made some great friends. media type="custom" key="6836121"

Today, Tuesday 17 August, we played cricket with Resa who came from Auckland Cricket to teach us how to play. We had a great time. media type="custom" key="6719177" We are currently learning about how craters are formed on the moon. We created our own craters by using flour as the moon's surface and marbles as meteors. Check out our experiment below. media type="custom" key="6710277" media type="custom" key="6709197" We are currently learning about space. We have many questions to ask. Check them out below in our Wallwisher. These will be questions that we will create glogs about. <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">.media type="custom" key="6686705"

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 140%;">Welcome back to Term 3.
==We are all looking forward to the very busy term that we have ahead of us. We start the term off with our speech presentations that will be taking place in class this week, followed by the Year 4 semi finals to be held some time in Week 4, with the finals being scheduled for Tuesday 17 August.== ==Swimming also starts this week. Every week, from Week 3 until Week 9, the Year 4 students will be going to Lloyd Elsmore Pool for free swimmimg lessons. Our class will be leaving school at 12.10pm, swimming at 12.30pm and returning at about 1.10pm. Many thanks to all the parents who have offered to help supervise. It would be most helpful if you meet us at the pool as it is quite a small bus that has limited seating.==

We also have the school cross country at the end of the term. In order to build up the students' fitness for this, we will attempt to run each day. If your child is unable to run due to health reasons, they must have a note.

You will also be hearing the sweet sounds of recorders being played. The students in Year 4 are learning how to play the recorder. If your child does not have one yet, these can be purchased from Tom Kroon's Music Shop in Howick or cheaper versions can be purchased from The Warehouse.

We are also looking forward to our trip to the Stardome. This will be on Tuesday 31 August. A note regarding this will follow shortly.

Many thanks to you all for coming along to our inaugural student led conference evenings. It was a very special time spent with you and your children talking about their learning. We have had very positive feedback and it has proven to be a most valuable experience for all those involved. Well done to all the students for doing such a great job leading these.

==<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">On Friday 21 May, Erin and Renee played their instruments as part of the KBB band for Senior School assembly. They did an awesome job and we were very proud of them. They play their instruments really well. We look forward to hearing them play again. Well done girls!!!! ==

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=<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Check out our questions that will inform our fossil inquiry. We will create glogs relating to the questions that we ask. =

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====**On Tuesday afternoon, Mikayla's great aunty came to talk to the class about crystals. She brought along all sorts of beautiful crystals and talked to us about where they came from and what makes them unique. She had amythests, rose quartz, clear quartz, charoite, and even part of a meteorite. We all got to hold the crystals. They were really amazing!!!! Thank you so much, Lynley, for sharing them with us.**====

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Today, Monday 17 May, Dr. Neville Henderson visited 5B and 5C to talk to them about fossils. He is a paleontologist from Auckland University. He talked to us about what fossils are and how they are formed. It was really interesting because he brought along many examples of different types of fossils. We got to touch some of the fossils. He said that he is like a "Rock Librarian" and his :"Rock Library" is 5 to 6 times bigger than a classroom.

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 * The Bell Tea Guy came to school today and talked to us about tea- where it comes from, who drinks it and how you do tea tasting. He was really interesting and we even tried slurping and spitting!!!! **=====

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<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">We are learning about fossils and crystals. Read our Wallwisher below to see what we already know about fossils.

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** Happy Easter everybody!!!! I hope you are having a wonderful Easter break and enjoy the rest of your holidays. Be helpful to your parents and be kind to your brothers and sisters. Enjoy the holidays. Check out how many overseas visits we have had. Keep working on your wiki pages over the holidays. I will be reading them. with love from Mrs. Clotworthy ** =====

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**Thank you to all the wonderful parents who attended Parent Discussions last week. It was great to meet with all of you and I look forward to meeting with you again in July, if not beforehand. As this is the last week of term, I would like to wish you all a happy and safe holiday. We will be continuing to work on our wiki, gradually incorporating a variety of tools that we are learning to use. Please encourage your children to record their holiday experiences on their wiki pages. I will be checking in to see what exciting things they get up to. Thank you so much for your support with this new venture. Check out our cluster map, we have had several visits from overseas.** =====

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 * Remember to book your parent discussions on line. Parent Discussions are on Tuesday 23 March and Thursday 25 March. I look forward to meeting up with all of you. A special thank you to all the wonderful parent helpers who came on our zoo trip today. We had a wonderful day viewing all the animals and attending sessions in the zoo classroom. Thank you also to the parents who went the extra mile and took their cars to the zoo to help transport all our helpers. We all really appreciated it. <span style="color: #ff000b; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">[[image:P1020207_(Small).JPG width="371" height="308"]]<span style="color: #ff000b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="5574689"<span style="color: #ff000b; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">media type="custom" key="5622991"  **=====

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<span style="color: #ff000b; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Today the students began writing on their pages. Please remember that this is all their original writing which may not have been conferenced or edited, therefore, may not be perfectly correct. Please enjoy their writing and give them some positive feedback. =====

<span style="color: #000eff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">We had a wonderful trip to Lloyd Elsmore Park. The students were all really well prepared and also extremely well behaved. It was a very hot day and we were all exhausted by the time we got back. A huge thank you to all the wonderful parent and grandparent helpers who came along on the trip. We really appreciated your help, it is very special that you make efforts to rearrange your busy schedules to help us.

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