Week 7 in Room 7

Ms Wells worked in Room 7 on Tuesday and she did dot painting with the class: 

At the beginning ...Vashti thought she couldn't draw.

NOW...she helps others believe in their art: 

Lessons learnt: 

- start from a dot/scribble

- you think you can't but you can

- doesn't matter how good you are

- don't say you can't if you haven't tried.

- everyone can draw

- sometimes mistakes can turn out to be beautiful (and you can learn from them). 

Our busy Room 7 artists: 

 Tyler started with a dot - and wow, look at his amazing picture - outlined in black and then about to be coloured in with water colour paints.

 THE CRAZE OF THE FORTNIGHT: Our new craze has started as of yesterday (Thursday)..Scootering. Totara Syndicate's time is 1st lunch. We are encouraging all children to wear a bike helmet as they scooter. Some great scootering skills and tricks out there.

 PRINCIPAL stickers...well done to Arna, Hazel and Taylor (below) who went to see Miss O'Connor to show her their certificates for great reading and going up a level. Well done to all the children I have heard so far (doing running records)...all have gone up a level - some have gone up 2 levels.

Cam's birthday talk - Cam shared with us all the wonderful things he got for his birthday and what he is doing for his birthday..yay!! Thank you to Cam and his mum for the yummy birthday cake that Cam shared with Room 7. 

Grace used her show & tell card: Here she is with a very warm poncho. The children had a good discussion about what a poncho is =) 

 SHARP students for week 7 - well done to Amelia, Arna and Freddy.....a lot of hard work by these 3 students.

Miss Burt popped along to see the Under 8 rugby team play, Kaleb had asked me to go and watch...so while my daughter was busy playing netball - I crossed the road to watch a number of Room 7 boys play their games.
Some great rugby skills there.

SPEECHES:
Get ready....
Home learning for the next week is choosing a speech topic (of interest/passion)...
Writing the speech....(over the next 2 weeks).
We will be doing work in class on how to put a speech together - and your child will have an outline to show how to do this.
A big thing at this age is being able to speak nice, clear and in a loud voice to an audience.

Speech topics & questions

Children have the title of their speech - what questions do they ask to find out the information they want to know?

Where can get information? (interview, books, current events, community, internet, library etc…)

How do they want to present their speech?

keynote, poster, pictures,

song,

PROPS - (VISUAL AIDES)..

items, information - items, clothing, food, poster, equipment, uniform...

Some new photos from cross country --- thanks to Tony.

Go Kaleb - king of the world!