Week 6 - Room 7

Kia ora,
Reminders: I am away on Monday and Mr Nick Adcock will be relieving in Room 7 - Nick has worked in Room 7 several times this year.
My CRT planning day on Thursday.

Week 8: Monday 28th November - 2-2.30pm in our school hall - Totara Syndicate advertising/packaging expo. Your child has made an invitation - check their school bag this Monday 21st for the invite.

Week 8 - our EOTC trip to Mt Bruce. On the Wednesday 30th.

Here  are Campbell, Charlie and Elliot working on their invitation/posters....
The children had a criteria to follow - which involved a peer assessment at the end of finishing their poster/invitation.
- Writing - can the reader read what they have written?
- Colour - more than 5 colour.
- Information - does it include all the information - time, date, place
- Text - size
- Picture - this should be the package they will be designing and making.

Tyah, Annabelle, Kuini & Liv working hard on their invitations.

And we have early finishers...Petra & Esther (SHARP student, wearing mufti)..working on their projects.

Fergus, Jacob & Jet - these boys are awesome, for their free time they asked to make bookmarks, so here they are with my scrapbooking equipment.

SHARP students in Room 7 for week 6 - Niysa, Jacob & Esther....this week I decided to hand the SHARP reigns over to the students. They each wrote down 2 people of whom they thought had been SHARP and what it was they had done. Quite clear winners for helping, being overall SHARP etc...were these 3. So great job. 

SHARP lesson for weeks 6-7 - SUN SMART...as you can see this is what we are learning about: We do need to see this happening at school, especially during terms 4 and 1. So be sun smart - wear a hat, slip - slop - slap!

Our inquiry topic - we discussed what a NET was so that the students can make their packaging container....they were all really good at knowing this as we covered 3D shapes last term....a lot of them remembered and were able to explain what and how. 

 BABY COMPETITION - guess the baby photo - here is Cam with his filled in entry form...and the winner..was....

 PETRA - Petra guessed 21 baby photos correctly - and just as I was announcing this - her Dad walked in the door - so how great was that!!

 On Thursday Ali brought this egg without a shell into class  - the children and myself were fascinated. They learnt was mebrane was - and also a lot more as Ali put together a mini-research project on this. He presented his project in a keynote and the children watched it - and then asked Ali questions which he answered very well. The only thing he didn't know was "egg drop syndrome" so on Friday with myself he did some more research.
Mr Hammond popped in and told Ali that sometimes lack of calcium causes this in hens - so to crush up egg shells and put into the hens feed.

A lot of questions alongside great discussion....

Our MUFTI sharp girl - well done Esther. =)

Have a great week all. 

Week FIVE in Room 7 - SUPER SHARP SEVEN.

GOOD LUCK to the Room 7 children going to Interschool athletics tomorrow....go hard!



Big celebrations in week 5 - well done to everyone who has moved up a reading level or a couple of levels...3 children Tyah, Charlie & Zac paid a wee visit to Mr Mackay - and wow - Principal stickers they got.
Great achievements in testing - a busy week - but we got there and great results =)

Well done Jacob for excellent reading - I love your expressing and fluency when you read. 

 BIRTHDAYS IN ROOM 7 - a wonderful week for birthdays - we had 2 new 8 year olds...Here is Harry with his birthday certificate.
On each child's b'day they have a chance to tell their special news about what they're doing for their b'day - prezzies & cake etc...

Kuini telling her special birthday news. 

OUR WONDERFUL BABY PHOTOS - now the guessing begins. 

Who is who?

On Monday the children will be filling in a form - and there is a prize for the winner!!

Who can guess the correct babies??

 Wonderful Māori art - Esther, Petra & Cam all received a certificate for their artwork that was displayed at the Clareville A & P show...Well done to you 3. But also to all the class for presenting such a master piece.

The next 2 weeks will see Room 7 students designing 1) An advertising poster to advertise our Totara Syndicate packaging expo and 2) Designing and creating their own food packaging. The children have been looking at different packaging - we have had great discussions on what makes a certain product stand out. 

The photos below show some of what we have been talking about:

What is a slogan? How are you going to sell your product? We have discussed 'jingles' wording - text/signs/pictures/photos etc...

 FRACTION maths.....here we are using a pizza game to make a whole. Kane is using eighths to make his whole pizza. ....

Well done Ava, using fractions to make 1 whole. 

 We love the Wonky Donkey man - here he is Craig Smith - playing his guitar and singing the Wonky Donkey song (alongside his book).

Craig Smith's website: http://www.craigsmith.co.nz/Kids-Section/

Have a great week....