Food Chains

Marvellous Matilda's you have read today about seals and food chains. I would like to you look at this website and then draw your own food chain including seals.

Food chains

Speech Topics

We have speeches this term and it's time for you to begin and think about what you would like to write and present a speech about.

Here are some possible speech topics you could choose from or you could think of your own. Remember that your speech needs to be persuasive. 

Possible Speech Topics:

Teachers should wear a uniform

Uniforms are better

We should bring our pets to school

Summer, Summer, Summer, Summer

We should learn how to make cupcakes as well as maths.

Good manners are important

Children should bring their own devices to school

Classes should have a class pet

Making stuff should be part of the school day

Children should chose their own classes

Coming to school in a jet pack would be better than cars

Drones are useful

Kids should be able to play Minecraft at school

Dogs are the best pets

Chocolate is the best food ever

Roald Dahl is the greatest writer ever

Kids should be in-charge

Soccer is the best sport

Every home should have a worm farm

New Zealand is the best country to live in

Spiderman is the best superhero

Life would be better without the internet

Being invisible would be the best superpower

Maths in the best subject

We should be able to sleep at school

Halsey Drive should have a tuck shop

Our playground should be bigger

Sharks would make the best pet

Here are some examples of speeches:

2017 Speech Finals

Parents - Great maths link to help your child at home with Maths

Parents here is a great website if you want to help your child with their maths at home. Next term we are beginning the term with Multiplication and Division.

NZ Maths

PM Reader Website

Here is the PM reader website so you can read some of your favourites.

PM Readers


Our user name is: room08h
Password: (is written on the whiteboard)

Literacy Websites

Here are some helpful websites with some literacy games:

Woodlands - Literacy
ICT- Literacy Games
BBC - Literacy Games

Reading:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

http://www.abcya.com/third_grade_computers.htm

http://pbskids.org/lions/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/literacy/

Writing

https://tikatok.com/

https://storybird.com/

https://www.storyjumper.com/

https://nz.education.com/games/second-grade/ela/writing/

http://www.wicked.org.nz/Interactives/Literacy

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_vocab.htm

http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/writing

https://www.writinga-z.com/main/ViewPage/name/assignable-writing-tools

Spelling

http://www.kidsspell.com

http://www.funenglishgames.com/spellinggames.html

http://www.primarygames.com/see-n-spell/see-n-spell.htm

https://www.spellingcity.com/spelling-games-vocabulary-games.html