Welcome to week 7 =) 2nd-5th June

Kia ora - and to all a great Queen's Birthday Weekend.

Week 6 was a great week in room 7 - we are getting information for our information reports. Completing our chimp flying into space stories.

We loved our hockey session on Thursday - and I was really impressed with the sportsmanship.
After the fun games of hockey the children congratulated each other - how awesome is that!!

We had a fantastic Mandarin (Chinese) lesson on Friday - Zhangzhang brought in chopsticks and taught the children to hold them. They had to pick up a wooden block and had a game (race) to put the most blocks in a container.
ANGUS won!

On Wednesday we have some visitors in our school - they will be looking at how we use IT in the classroom. Room 7 will be showing their iPad/laptop skills. The children are busy getting information about a natural disaster. They are working in pairs - so they are researching information into their own words. Then they will present the information using either keynote, puppet pals, picCollage or in book creator. The children are working in pairs and this helps them share their skills, knowledge and relationships of working with another person.

I hope you enjoyed your child reading to you this week:

SHARP STUDENTS - well done to Phoebe & Daisy. They both chose to wear mufti clothes. =)

Happy 7th birthday Miss Milly =) 7 in Room 7

Our SHARP winners - Daisy & Phoebe

Reading our chimp in space narratives to each other.

Izzie & Phoebe sharing chimp in space story. 

Bella & Bailey - reading their chimp in space stories. 

Riley trying out the chopsticks.

The class are loving these clips:

This is a good search engine on the internet if your child is looking up something on the net:
http://www.kidrex.org/

And a maths site for basic facts practice:
http://www.hoodamath.com/mobile/games/mathtimedtests.html

On that note - have a great week. Take care, Regards....Rachel 

Week 6 - Welcome to half way through the term!

Kia ora,

WOW we are lucky.

On Friday the Greytown Lions were at school and each child was given a bag of apples from JR Orchards. It looked like a scene out of Snow White ;) 

How generous of both JR Orchards - thank you so much!!

And...Greytown Lions for organising this.  Great apples!!

I love the LIONS they turned up in fancy dress. Xaivier and Dylan didn't recognise Stan Mangin who does reading with them each Friday. 

SUPER SHARP SEVEN STUDENTS:

 Toby with his special morning tea.
(below) - Abby & Millie wearing their SHARP mufti clothes.

Reminders:

Interschool cross country: this event is held at Kahutara School on Wednesday 17th June and postponement 19th June.

We are doing cross country training 3 x a week and the other children are doing a fitness circuit. 

We have also been lucky enough for Ms Pearse to lead us in a couple of Zumba sessions - the children look like they really enjoy this - it's great!!

WE love this video clip - please watch with your child and get him/her to talk with you about it. 

Growth mindset - we have been talking a lot about growth mindset.We love this saying - I don't know it YET! So when we are stuck with our learning we use strategies to help us. This is called EFFORT!

From the mouths of babes...
"If you don't try you can't do it" - Ella
"It's kind of like if you're stuck in a mud puddle you get out using effort" - Seb
"So if we're stuck with our reading words a strategy is to sound the word out" - Angus
"Never give up!" - Angus
"Practice, practice, practice" - Angus
"Try harder - even more than you did before" - Toby
"Give every thing a go" - Bailey
"If you get stuck in your maths - get a piece of paper and try different strategies" - Axel
"Put all your effort into it" - Sam BG
"If you think something is hard make progress instead of just sitting there doing nothing" - Imogen
"Keep on trying other ways - otherwise you will never learn it" - Evie
"If you're stuck in your maths you can use equipment" - Fergus
"Try yourself before you ask someone" - Daisy
"Talk to each other to get ideas" - Miss Burt
"Focus and lock it in" - Abby
THINKING THINKING THINKING!

SO...Who is the person who can do it - ME!!! YOu!!!!

Enjoy the photos from WEEK 5 - the week that was =)