Last Week - A very busy one...

Our classroom wall showing some of our Spanish words used as a border, some of the photography work we have done in Poutama and some photos from camp.

Last week we had started school on Tuesday because it was the Queen's Birthday. On Tuesday we had Mrs Lee for the day because Mrs Vincent was on a course. We did some Spanish art , spelling and maths. Mrs Vincent's maths class did maths in Spanish with Mrs Lee.

We made a border for the wall using words and phrases in Spanish.

On Wednesday Mrs Vincent was back and we had only a half day because of parent teacher interviews...but we still did spelling, maths and we learned some spelling rules. Here are the spelling words that we learned last week:

pronunciation
precarious
pseudonym
partial
prodigious
quarantine
quotient
quagmire
questionnaire
quaff

We also learned some tips and tricks to help us remember the spelling words. Here are a few:

- pro - nun - ci - ation
- question - n - air - e (2 ns in questionnaire because there is always more than one question)
- pro - dig - iou - s ( these 'gi' letters have a soft /g/ sound as in giraffe and digital

- quotient and partial both have 'ti' letters which make the sound /sh/
- quagmire, quaff and quarantine all have the letter 'a' making the /o/ sound as in hot.

We learned to break the words up in different ways to help us spell them easily.
(We don't always use syllables to break words into easy chunks to learn.)

Try spelling those out for yourself or you can try take a test by simply going on spellingcity.com.

Last Thursday we went on class trip to Telstra Clear Events Centre for Dancing with Mythology activities. We were joined by students from several other schools and we learned about Maori history and the legends. We also had activities to do like singing, performing, dancing and drama. Everyone got to perform one item on stage. We all had a great time and the trip at the Events Centre.