Cinquain Poem

W.A.L.T: write a cinquain poem

Season

Snowy, foggy 

Raining, freezing, chilling

Very much hated every day.

Winter

By Jason

Place Value Partitioning

Kiwi Sport

Today the Senior School had its first Kiwisport session for this term.

Ben, from Auckland Badminton, taught us some badminton skills.
We used a badminton racket and a shuttle.

We learnt how to hit the shuttle using forearm hit and backhand hit.
Ben also taught us how to hold the racket using different grips.

I felt super excited because I learnt how to hold the racket correctly.

By Victoria M

ANZAC Poem

Agonising world war

Never ending

Zooming pass them, a bullet, a bomb, a fighter plane

Australian and New Zealand soldiers fighting in WW 1

Ceremonies all around the country every 25th of April
to remember all those people who died.

By Pitara

Movies with my Sister

Along with my sister

Travelling on a train

A lot of fun things

Going on in my brain

I'm in the movies

Ready to eat

I’m in the movies

With cold freezing feet

Watching the movie

With a big loud cough

My feet up on the chair

Because it's so, so soft

Having a lot of fun with my sister

She's the best

Time to go home and have some rest

By Soane

Solving subtraction problems using place value partitioning

This week Room 10 is working on solving addition and subtraction problems using various strategies. A group of children worked with me on solving subtraction problems using place value partitioning as the strategy. After working for two days with class, I noticed that two-thirds of the class were able to solve subtraction problems confidently. The one-third of the class who were not very confident will work me again for two more sessions.

This is how Tayjah presented her work:

WALT: solve subtraction problems using various strategies

Problems	strategy	Answer
294-167=	294-167= I can not subtract 7 ones from 4 ones because 7 is greater than 4, so I will borrow one ten from 9 tens and add it to 4 ones and I will have 14 ones, so 14-7=7 Since I borrowed one ten from 9 tens, I am left with 8 tens, so 80-60=20 200-100=100 So 100+20+7= 127	=127
2) 384-158=	384-158= I can not subtract 8 ones from 4 ones because 8 is greater than 4,  so I borrow a 10 from the 8 and its goes down to a 7 so I add the 10 to the 4 ones and the number is 14 so I have enough to take away the 8 ones so 14-8=6 Now that I have borrowed the 10 from the 80, I am now left with 7 tens so 70-50=20 300-100=200 200+20+6=	=226

After doing two subtraction problems, I feel confident solving subtraction problems using place value partitioning

By Tayjah

Duffy Role Model Assembly

Yesterday, Glenbrea school had its Duffy Role Model Assembly. Our Role model was
Sam James Verlinden. He is also known as Sam V.  Sam V is famous as a musician, songwriter,
singer and actor.

Sam spoke to us about the importance of books and reading because he felt that these were the
things which helped him become a successful musician.

Sam studied at the Auckland University of Technology and obtained a Bachelors degree in
Communication. We had a lot of fun with  Sam

I felt so happy when Sam sang his favourite song “What have you done to me”

By Genevieve