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__#|Look__ on the world map on the top of the page to see who has viewed our Wiki page. The red dot shows who has viewed the page.

This is a page to view students work. The __home__ page will __show__ examples of published __work__ and notices and if you click on students names on the left you can view __#|individual__ students work. Scroll down to view Toondoos and Outdoor __Education__ pictures/ Time line of World War Two.

__** Term 3 **__

Congratulations to all those Year 5 students who have been selected to run in the Inter-school cross __#|country__. In our class in the girls it is Nora who came in at first place, Zara who was in 3rd place and Siri who was in 4th place.

For the boys race it is Cameron MacLean who was in 2nd place.

Hopefully Jonathan's leg will heal in time for him! These 4 students from 5C will go on to represent the school at the Inter-school event on the 11th September.We wish them every success. They have worked hard with their __#|training__.Well done! Term 3 Landscape Learning e-Learning tasks. Have a look at your child's wiki page for their term 3 published work on Bridges. They will have a BrIdge Research task and a Photostory of a famous bridge. They have also completed an interactive Bridge Quest. Below is an example of Joshua Morley's and Isobel's completed research tasks



Swimming

Last week for swimming this Wednesday - a big thank you to all the parents who came to help supervise. Your __#|support__ is very much appreciated!

This is happening most days. Many students bring running shoes or trainers to run in which is a great idea. They must wear their school shoes to school and then change into their running shoes at school. The school cross country is on the 4th September.
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Swimming: Swimming is every Wednesday at 11:30 at Lloyd Elsmore Pool. You are most welcome to come to the pool and watch your child's lesson.

Landscape Learning topic - Biodiversity / Endangered Species / Tracking devices Year 5 invited Garrick from __#|Auckland__ Council Biosecurity department to come to school and speak to the students about this topic. They then wrote recounts about this visit and published them as Toondoos. __#|Read__ their Toondoo recounts. They have aslo written an __#|information__ report about an endangered species and published this as a photostory. __#|Play__ their photostories to hear what they have written about an endangered species. Students had time to work on their speeches for homework in the last week of term two and the first week of term three. This speech __#|writing__ and practising was the only homework for these two weeks.Next week the students will be doing their speeches in class so everyone must have their speech __#|ready__ to __#|start__ on Monday. The students glued a letter all about this into their 1B5 homework books last term. We did brainstorming about topics and speech construction and delivery last term. Our new landscape learning topic is Biodiversity / Endangered Species. Students will learn all about what biodiversity and biosecurity are - and about endangered specied/ pest / tracking devices. We will have a visitor form __#|Auckland__ Regional Council who will talk to the children about this topic. This starts on Wednesday 1st August. 24th & 26th July During term 2 the Year 5 /6 landscape learning topic is Effects of War. Using a programme called dipity our class is making a time line of events of World War Two.. You can click on the link Room 5c WWII timeline to view our time line which shows the major events of World War Two. The students have also been hard at work in their Kagan groups researching various aspects of war.
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 * Swimming: **
 * Student led three way conferences: **

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Mangrove Photostories Our new e-learning task was to write an __#|information__ report about mangroves as a photostory. In a photostory we down load google __images__, write the text, add in music and record our own voices reading the information. We had to organise our researched information into categories such as description, habitat, adaptations, __special__ aspects of the plant,ecosystem,the 'nursery' of fish, what lives on the mangrove, on the ground, in the water. We have a sample of a photostory completed by Zara. View her photostory. Click on your child's name to view their photostory media type="file" key="Zaras photo story.wmv" width="360" height="360"

Monday - 19th March - 1:15 __start__. Students go home at 12:30 Wednesday - 21st March - 3:30 start A __big__ thank you to the parents who came on the mangrove walk with us. __Room__ 5C says thank you!!! Thank you!!!! __ Mangrove Visit __ On Friday 16th March we will be walking down to the Wakaaranga creek to look at, and discuss the mangroves as this is our Landscape Learning topic. The student's will need old shoes or gumboots and a plastic bag to put them in after the walk as it will be muddy there. Thankyou to the parents who replied that they will walk with us.
 * Parent Discussions - Term One **

Auckland War Memorial Museum Our term two landscape learning topic is Effects of War. To motivate interest and extend knowledge of this topic we will be visiting the musuem on the first __day__ back next term -23rd April, so all permission slips and __money__ will need to be __back__ by Monday 26th March. Students have all taken __home__ a notice with __information__ about this trip - __check__ their __home__ notice clearfile in their school bag.

Outdoor Education Trips - Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th February. The bus will leave school at 8:30 on Monday to get to Maraetai Beach in __time__ for all the rotations so students need to be at school before that for the roll. __Please__ __check__ your child's bag for notices about Outdoor Education in their clear file.

Many thanks to all the wonderful parent helpers and relatives who gave up their __time__ to assist on our Outdoor Education days - it was very much appreciated. The students are writing letters of thank you to all who helped. The students have all written recounts about this experience and are presently publishing them as a Toondoo - these will be embedded on to their Wiki __home__ page. Take the __time__ to read them - they have done a __great__ __job__ with them. To turn the page click on the Toondoo page on the bottom right hand corner. Read Zara's superToondoo about her Outdoor Education experience. media type="custom" key="13087116"

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Have a look at these wonderful photos from Outdoor Education! - A slide show of __Year__ Five Outdoor Education media type="custom" key="12877320"