Mary-Jane explains her stick pattern

This term we have been learning about algebra.  We have been trying to notice patterns and continue patterns using our number knowledge.  This is Mary-Jane, Marwa, and Cerenity's ice block stick pattern.  Mary-Jane created a Google Drawing to help show her thinking.

Kauri tells us about his Hero, Daniel

We were learning to take notes.  Did you know that when you take notes, you should try to use bullet points to organise your information?  These are Kauri's notes about his hero - his brother - Daniel.

Losana - Evaluating Heroes

Room 9 were using their critical thinking skills to learn that Heroism can be subjective.  Subjective means that it is based on your own personal beliefs.  We had to choose a hero, and evaluate whether or not they were heroes, and come up with our own personal opinion.  This is Losana's evaluation of the Hulk.  You can check it out by clicking here...

Kiwi Can - Praise and Compliments

Today in Kiwi Can we learned how to give compliments and how to accept compliments!  Compliments are sometimes also called giving praise.  Praise helps to build people up and make them feel good.  Giving praise means we are building positive relationships with others.  Our challenge is to give more praise to each other in Room 9.  Here are some photos from today!

Greater than, less than, equal to SYMBOLS!

Many of us have identified that to get to the next level in Algebra, we need to know and use the greater than, less than and equal to symbols correctly, so that is what we have been practicing!  We made number equations using our bodies to help us understand.  Check it out!

Welcome to Room 9 2015!

What an amazing start to 2015!  Today, Room 9 started their learning about the Key Competencies. These are important to us because they are skills that we can practice, that will help us with our learning.  We can remember the Key Competencies by thinking about the acronym 'TRUMP' (Thinking, Relating to Others, Understanding and using signs, symbols and texts, Managing Self and Participating and Contributing).

We created practiced our 'U' Key Competency by brainstorming and creating symbols to represent a given Key Competency out of modelling clay.  Check out our creations!

"The pink person is asking questions when they are not sure.  The red person is sitting up on the mat, ready to learn.  The blue person has their ears open to listen.  The yellow person feels proud that they have finished their work.  The white face is looking up and thinking about how to solve a problem." 

- Alethia, Toma and Timeus.

"This is a group of people that are connected because they are holding hands.  They are all shouting 'Yay!!' because they are happy that the lonely person joined in their team." - Frances, Mahara, Destiny and Ngatokorua.

"Symbols are all around us!  The heart represents feelings, the pen represents writing and creating symbols, the phone and tablet represent places you find symbols and the arrow represents directions.  There is a book with maths symbols because you use and see symbols a lot in maths too" 

-Marwa, Jose, and Cerenity. 

"The purple person is looking up while they are thinking.  The question mark represents asking questions.  The pink ball is a brain, because that's what we use to think!  The yellow person represents putting our hand up to share ideas.  The green book, you can see something scribbled out, because when we think, we think of ways to do it better and we recraft to make our work better." 

- Mary-Jane, Kauri and Dupri.

"These two people are connected and sharing knowledge, represented by the book in the middle.  The hearts represent that they are happy to make connections with each other." - Gary, Alone, Lizzy, and Kanye and Losana.