Jonty's Blog

For all of 2016 and 2017 I have been in Code Club. Code Club is where you use Scratch and Trinket. So far I am on Trinket stage 1 but today ...

For term 4 Room 18 have been part of Chapter Chat again. This time we have been reading the book Wonder. Wonder is a book that has lots of ...

Near the end of Term 3 Jackson's studio (Rm 18) had started doing animal reports. We got to do any animal we liked and I chose Humpback ...

This term our class participated again in Chapter Chat, a twitter-book chat. This term we read ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar. The book was about t...

This term we have been busy finishing our calendar art. Each year at our school we do a piece of art that can go on calendars, diaries or c...

Over the last term and a bit we have been doing different pieces of robot art for our school’s Art Exhibition later in the term. Here is my...

We have been learning how to create a book report with PowerToon. I have made my animated book report on Ms Bixby's Last Day. Ms Bixby...

This term was the first time Jackson's Studio joined Chapter Chat, a Twitter-based book chat for New Zealand students in Years 5-6. We r...

From Wednesday 17th May to Friday 19th May we went on camp to  Wainui . Some of the things we did were raft building, kayaking and  abseilin...

Last week our class was doing some problem solving. We were learning how to solve division problems by using different strategies. Here is o...

Last term for Home Learning we constructed Red Rocks Dioramas to show our understanding of the novel we read "Red Rocks". At t...

In Jackson's Studio on Friday we learnt about the iPad app Show Me. Show Me is where you turn your iPad into an interactive whiteboard!...

This term Jackson’s Studio has been writing lots of different poems. Over the last week we have been publishing our poems on a website calle...

For our blog post this fortnight I will show you how to work out what  5.5m- 3.27=？ Here is the question. " Dirk was wanting to enla...

In writing we wrote a holiday challenge poem.I wrote mine about a wallaby park. I hope you like it. I heard the wallabies mouths going ...

I am very excited to share my learning journey with you this year. I will be posting at least every fortnight so please check my blog r...

This week in room 18 we have used the website called Build Your Wild Self. Build Your Wild Self is a website where you make a normal person ...

Since the start of the term we have been reading the great book The  World’s Worst Children. The World’s Worst Children is a book about ten ...

This week at our school is Book Week. We have been busy reading to ourselves, our peers and younger children from our school, dressing up a...

In room 18 we have been given a problem which is  57 - 29 = ?. Here are two ways of solving it:) Place Value 57-29=28 50-25=25 7 - 4=3 ...