The week that was in Room 7 - week 8

Kia ora - welcome to week 9 in room 7.

SHARP - Room 7 had Mr Bleakly teach on Monday & Wednesday of last week and huge compliment to all of the children - he said they're a great class - and I must be doing something right (haha).
He really enjoyed his time in Room 7. It's so awesome to hear a reliever say that.
So hats' off to SUPER SHARP SEVEN!

Super SHARP students in room 7 - Fergus with his Principal's sticker from Mr Mackay for fantastic reading!

 Abigail with her SHARP morning tea - Abigail was the SHARP winner  for week 8. 
Abigail always goes out of her way to help the other children in our class and she is also one of the first children to make sure other children have a friend. 

Next week: Wednesday 17th June - Interschool cross country - good luck to the team going from Room 7. They have been doing some good training =)
Postponement date is Friday 19th June.

Wearable Arts help - week 10 Tues, Wed, Thurs - if you can help on any of these days - I would love your help in class. The children are in the mix of designing their wearable art - along with the materials they will need.
We have quite a few materials at school - but if you & your child have been discussing at home - anything else you have to add to your child's art will be appreciated.
You might like to talk to your child - and ask what they would like (extra) for their design. Maybe some shiny bling ;)
IF NEED BE - we can do some extra work on the Friday of week 10.

Disaster presentations: All the children, in pairs presented their choice of disaster to talk to the class about eg: Volcano, Tsunami, Earthquake, Floods etc...
I was impressed with 1) the way they presented their disaster work and 2) how most of the children worked so well together. 
The children presented using either keynote (like a powerpoint), puppet pals (more oral speaking), PicCollage - pictures & written information and bookcreator with pictures and written information. The children had to explain what the disaster was and how to be prepared for such a disaster. Most children had a good amount of information and a good use of pictures. 

SHAPES...The children started doing 'Real life shape' posters with Mr Bleakly - they had to draw each shape (using a ruler where need be) and name some of the shape attributes.

Here is Imogen with a die - all on her own accord she found the dice (die) and is counting the number of faces that a cube has. 














Milly & Daisy - head down - designing their real life shapes - and writing down some attributes.  

The above photo is of an iPad app: Geoboard - it's great for all sorts to do with maths. You can create shapes. Measurement - area/perimeter. And it's FREE!

And here's a good link to online basic facts practice:

http://www.prototec.co.nz/maths.html

AWWW look who came to visit. Thames the famous police dog. Thames is here with his handler Constable Mike Wakefield. Thames & Constable Wakefield visited our school assembly on Wednesday morning (a big surprise for the children). 

DISASTER PRESENTATIONS...Phoebe & Daisy are presenting their PicCollage to the class - well done girls!

Wow - how lucky are we? On Thursday some boys in Room 7 were saying how they're really enjoying the Zac Power books - well today - SURPRISE - Anna (one of our teacher aides) kindly gave Room 7 TEN - ZAC POWER BOOKS. Here are Dylan, Xaivier & Connor reading some of the books. And the wonderful PicCollages they made to say THANK YOU ANNA!!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MADDY - 8 YEARS OLD! Wow we all grow up fast =)

 Maddy kindly sharing some lollypops. 

 Riley is really interested in hunting - Fiona one of our teacher aides had a great idea. She brought in a couple of animal skins, a rabbit and a possum. Here is Riley having a look and a feel of the skins.
Thank you Fiona for a fab idea and conversation with Riley.

A good experience - POSTING LETTERS. ROOM 7 wrote letters/newspaper report/picCollages/postcards to Abby's Uncle & Aunty in England. Matt & Amy kindly visited us when they were in Greytown earlier on in the year. The children enjoyed what they had to say about England  and Room 7 asked some good questions. Amy & Matt sent Room 7 a postcard - so we decided to write back to them =)
We also sent a good amount of thank you letters to JR Orchards for the juicy apples they gave to the Greytown Lions who then gave the apples to all the children at our school.
Room 7 also wrote some very well written letters to the Greytown Lions to say thank you! 

Some good reading,
Practical information about education for parents and carers
 http://parents.education.govt.nz/primary-school/learning-and-development-at-home/

Have a fantastic week all.....