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Friday, 21 June 2013

Learning About The Past

Over the past few weeks, Room 3 have been working on our Inquiry topic - Learning About The Past. We've focussed on learning about early explorers to New Zealand, and the early European settlers who came to Aotearoa.

We've been using the skills of skimming and scanning for keywords to find information quickly AND we've been learning how to use KEYWORDS to write notes from. It was 'tricky' to start with, but the more we practised - the better we became.

Here's an example by Anthony...


We learnt about how Edward Wakefield started an organisation called The New Zealand Company, which brought many Europeans from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to New Zealand in the 1800s. We made our own advertisements using Power Point, trying to persuade people to migrate to New Zealand.

Here's Georgia and Erika's ad ...


We gathered information on the types of jobs people did when they came to New Zealand, and worked together in groups to present it using Comic Life




 We look forward to showing you all the work we've been doing at parent conferences!

4 comments:

  1. Char23 June 2013 at 20:52

    Seth came home and told us all about this topic. It was great to hear about what he had learnt. Great work from the teaching staff!!

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  2. Mrs Christiansen23 June 2013 at 21:03

    Wow! You have learnt a lot about explorers. I loved how you made an advertisement for Aotearoa. If I didn't already live in Aotearoa, I would jump on the nearest plane to get me here.

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  3. Mrs Simpson25 June 2013 at 20:18

    I saw many excellent examples of notetaking and notemaking in Room 3. This is a tricky skill to learn, but so important to help you make sense of what you read. Well done!

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  4. Jasmine10 July 2013 at 15:12

    This looked like a very fun activity to do! Comic Life is a fun website!

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