Week 3 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN

School athletics this Tuesday - children may wear their house colour top and their black shorts. Please make sure your child has their school sunhat, sunblock on, extra drink and a good packed lunch. =)

 I LOVE this - in our school we are doing a new thing called LEARNING MAPS. 

Before I the students in Room 7 did their own learning maps - we brainstormed 'What is learning'....read the responses. 

HABITAT HEROES...Leading up to Conservation Week we are looking at different habitats 1) around our school & home. 2) Around our town. 3) In New Zealand. 4) In the WORLD.

WHAT IS A HABITAT?
Angus - Is where something lives
Xaivier - Is where nature lives & belongs
Ella - Animals go there to protect themselves
Sam T - An environment where something or someone lives
Olivia - A habitat is a home place for any animal, any plant or human.

This is the list of habitats that Room 7 came up with (I was VERY IMPRESSED!!).

We are going to build up our knowledge - so we can make dioramas.
To make these, we need:
SHOE BOXES
SMALL BOXES
CELLOPHANE
CARDBOARD
MATERIALS
LITTLE FAKE STICKS
LITTE CREATURES
TIN FOIL
SHELLS
DRIFTWOOD
BUBBLE WRAP
AND ANYTHING ELSE YOUR CHILD MAY NEED. 

We have been talking about the WHIO - blue duck - which features on the NZ $10 note. Here were are with the new $10 note and the old one on the right.
Ask your child what they have learnt about the whio?

This is the competition Room 7 are doing. The children only have 50 words to use to tell the judges why Mrs Kirkland WOWS us. We have taken some great photos of all the different displays in the library. The children are presenting their writing in either a letter, poem, picCollage, story or wanted posted. I look forward to sending these in - and then waiting to hear how Room 7 has done.

Our brainstorm about Mrs Kirkland. And our WOW comments.

 Imogen enjoying her down time to read in our school library. 

Mrs Kirkland is very good at changing the displays in the library.

















Scott Tulloch - visiting NZ Author - how exciting!!http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/profiles/tulloch,%20scott