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Kia Ora and welcome to A5's blog for 2017! We are excited to share our learning, experiences, assessment tasks and life in A5 with you. This blog is also about sharing what we can do all by ourselves so you may see some mistakes along the way. Mistakes are part of our learning journey. Enjoy our mahi, photos and videos and please remember to leave a positive comment for us!
Showing posts with label 2017 Home Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2017 Home Learning. Show all posts

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Speech time......

Whakapoungkau Homework Assignment - Week 1  Term 3  2017
FINAL DUE DATE – Friday 25 August, 2017


Choose a topic about something you are good at, or interested in to talk about.


Prepare and publish a speech.


You may research your topic on the internet, at the library, (school or town).


Some things you will need to think about will include – Who? What? Where? When? Why and how? You may like to include a prop, poster or pictures.


Make sure you have written your main points on small note cards and have highlighted the important parts.


Practice reading your speech to friends and family.


You will present your speech to the class with a two to three minute talk on your topic, during week 6.
You will be assessed by your self, a buddy and your teacher, using the following criteria-


1.  Clear voice, easy to hear.
2. Vocal and facial expression
3.  Eye contact and posture.
4.  Interesting information.
5.  Well prepared and learnt.
6.  Used cards as prompt.
7.  Props to show/poster/picture
8.  Confident


Hamburger Method
-Introduce your topic in an interesting way
-Introduce a new idea into a paragraph
-3 paragraphs about your topic
-Have an interesting conclusion          

Click here for some ideas of speech topics if your stuck!
http://www.best-speech-topics.com/speech-topics-for-kids.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/interesting-speech-topics-for-kids.html
http://www.write-out-loud.com/speech-topics-for-children.html

And click here for some cool examples of speeches done by kids
A pep talk- Kid President
How to change the world- Kid President
Random Acts of Kindness- 10 year old girl

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Homework Time!

Just a reminder that homework books are due back to school tomorrow, Friday 24th Feb for marking. Also, the new homework for week 5 and 6 is up on the homework page so check it out!!!

Monday, February 6, 2017

Home Learning Week 3-4

Here is our first homework task for 2017! You have 2 weeks to work through as many of these maths problems as you can do! I expect to see you show you working in your home learning book and having a go at the problems that are tricky! Remember our class quote- "Be Brave, Not Perfect!" So take a risks and give the questions a go! There's no harm in getting them wrong.