Collaborative Comprehension | The Battle Of The Somme

This week, we did something really different. What we did was collaborative comprehension. This means we collaborate and work as a team to complete our set task. However the only difference was, we didn't work in groups. Rather we worked in pairs. Since this task was in reading, we were to choose a person from Ms Kirkpatrick's group to be our partner. After we got into our pairs, we started on our task. Our task was to infer a story called The Battle Of The Somme. After we read the context we were to answer many varieties of questions that link to this context. This task links to Mrs Anderson's Inquiry sessions. They inquiry sessions were about Peace. For this task I worked collaboratively with Angela.

Thinking groups:

Today the Maths thinking groups were challenged to draw on both their number knowledge and strategy knowledge to help them solve this number problem. I was amazed at the use of maths language used as my learners shared their strategies with each other.

PBS CARE Values: Tiare and Saruja

Tiare and Saruja have done a great job of using the key competencies to help them work collaboratively. Well done girls!

Planet Facts: Efaraima, Robbie, Juliano, Tim and Jacob A

Well done boys! You worked collaboratively to find lots of interesting facts about the planets in our solar system. I really liked the way you used each person's strengths to create your presentation.

Asmah, Kapri and Mahdia's Matariki Presentation

Asmah, Kapri and Mahdia have done a fabulous job of working collaboratively to create this informative presentation about Matariki. 

Rowling Groups's Matariki Glossary

This is our collaboratively created glossary for Matariki. Rowling reading group worked together to create this presentation after reading an article about how Matariki is celebrated in the far north of the North Island of New Zealand.

Classroom comparisons over time

Room 9 worked together and used what they have learnt so far to help them brainstorm these ideas. The columns show what classrooms were like in 1900, are like now and might be like in 2100.