1. Room 29 Classroom Highlights
www.hill029-2013.wikispaces.com
This is our class wiki page address. It is full of photos and video and other examples of our learning.
WRITING
Room 29 have been learning how to write recounts and discussions during the
term so far. Our discussions have been about whether or not vandals should
clean up their own mess and if Pukekohe Hill School should have a uniform.
We have been learning how to be more independent with our writing. We are
able to assess our own work and the work of a peer. We can recognise areas we
need to work on and try to fill gaps that we have.
Using the success criteria checklists we are given makes knowing what we are
learning and how to do it a lot easier.
To the right is an example of the check lists we use.
Room 29 Books
We have also been doing lots of creative
writing activities. We have published about 5
new books for our class to read during SSR. We
even scanned our published and illustrated
work and put it on our wiki page.
We have created books of poetry and written
alternative endings for narratives we have
read. But most interesting are the books where
we can write whatever we want to as long as it
matches the cover.
Mr McDonald shares a new book with us but all
of the pages are missing. It is our job to fill it up
with whatever we want. Some people write
recipes, narratives, recounts, newspaper
reports and discussions. Then we get to share!
READING
This term we have been learning how to retell a story, how to read
between the line and how to get extra information from pictures.
We have all just done a reading assessment with Mr McDonald and he
told us that we have ALL made improvements. Most of us have even
gone up a reading level.
We work in groups for reading and our groups are called: Stars,
Moons, Suns, Clouds and Rockets.
Each week we also study a poem to improve our vocabulary and oral
and visual literacy (the kids actually use these words). Our poetry
books are works of art. They’re filled with fantastic craft and art to go
with our poems.

2. MATHS
Room 29 have been learning to solve addition
and subtraction problems and how to solve
multiplication and division problems this term.
We work in maths groups to help us with our
learning. We all have a chance to share our
thinking and record our answers in our
modelling books.
We can use our modelling books to remind us
of the strategies we are learning to use if we get
stuck on a tricky problem.
The names of our maths groups are: Circles,
Triangles, Rectangles, Pentagons and Hexagons.
CONCEPT and ICT
Our concept this term is Resources. We have been learning about what resources are and how we manage them. We have
been working in groups to conduct an inquiry based on a resource. We all had questions about resources and lots of them
were about recycling. We have created slide shows to answer our inquiry questions. We will present our work to the class
when it is finished. We will also publish our slideshows onto our class wiki.
In Room 29 we use lots of ICT. We use our new tablet to take video, type and search the internet. We use our iPod touch to
take photos and video and to play maths games. Our computers are used almost all day long every day. We have ICT Experts
to help people when they get stuck.
THE ARTS
This term we have created some interesting
artworks. We have made a collage picture of a
garbage bin using scrap coloured paper. We also
created colourful butterflies using old milk bottles
and some vivids.
We have been playing the recorder and using the
percussion instruments to create accompaniments
to our favourite recorder song ‘Skateboarding’.
CLASS DOJO
We all have our own character in our class
dojo. We get points getting caught being great
learners.
The Fox Says
We are making our own
music video clip to the
song ‘What Does the Fox
Say’. We have made masks
and worked hard in groups
to create dance moves.