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Week 8 in Room 7...

Another busy bee week in our classroom super SHARP Seven ...
 Dates to diary:
This Friday 30th June - Our school Matariki celebration.
If your child is in kapa haka they are to meet in the Room 4 at 645am.
The school hall will be open for everyone else to meet in before the Matariki celebration at the south field.
There will be a Matariki art display from all our classes - this will be open on Friday morning for all to view from 645am...
We are all to meet in the school hall for a cuppa - then the walk to the Matariki garden for the bonfire will start at about 715am - us teachers will be up the front with the kapa haka group.
Parents, children and any visitors will walk in a group. Our Kapa Haka will do a calling and there will be a caller on behalf of the year 8's....
This is a very special time for our school - I really love it.
Please wear your gumboots as it's cold.....and wet....wrap up warm.

Ask your child to show you the Matariki Macarena....it's fun and names all the 7 stars (sisters). 

Another busy bee week in our classroom super SHARP Seven ...

It was a "Happy Birthday" to Isla for last MOnday - a fun day at school with a yummy birthday cake for the class - thank you Isla's mummy =) 

Here is Fiona our teacher aide helping to cut Isla's birthday cake. The children each enjoyed having a piece =)

Our ALL group...the things us teacher's do....here I am hiding under the orange table - knocking on the bottom of the table. The children were learning to finish writing from a piece of suspenseful writing..... even I was scared (LOL). 

BIG BALL skills - here we are enjoy the Winter sunshine - yay!

A great chance to get outside for our PE lesson using big balls. We were practicing chest passes to each other, then ended the session with a game of good ole "Piggy in the middle,"  great jumping skills by some children. 

Finally we have started painting our rocks. We have a project that we would like to see through. Once we have finished decorating the rocks we are going to approach Miss O'Connor about decorating a special garden.

And Principal's stickers for these two - super sharp writers.... great explanations about Matariki and why we celebrate Matarki in NZ.

Look at these lovely wigged SHARP SEVEN children - well done to Hazel in the pink and Eva in the black...

Please look at the 4 new displays in Room 7. 

1) Displaying speech information

2) Science - and our rocket experiment

3) Dot art work

4)....getting up on display are the children's monkey stories and pictures. 

Monday - there will be a timeline re: speeches. Speeches are to be presented in week 10. 

Aisling presented her speech last Friday and did an excellent job with her speech on Ireland and her upcoming trip - have a blast Aisling and your family. 

Your child will have 1 of 3 roles over the speech time. 

1 - presenting their speech. 2 - thanking a person for saying their speech and giving feedback on 2 things they learnt. 3 - using an iPad filming the speech to place onto Seesaw for further audiences to view and listen to. 

So a busy week 9 coming up for Room 7. 

- Matariki art to make =) Stars they will be!

- Hatupatu reading work to finish alongside Matariki reading work. 

- Time maths unit - the children did an amazing job of making their analogue/digital clocks. They are learning to use them and to tell them time. Please practice this at home alongside with helping your child to tell the time. 

Running record reading tests to finish alongside Gloss testing. This data will be used for mid-year reports. Parent/Student and teacher conferences will be held in week 2, term 3. 

- Synonym spelling work. 

- Procedure writing - this fits in nicely with follow up Science written work. 

- Portrait art work to finish. 

- Whakapapa (family trees) to finish.

On that note (amongst many) HAVE A REALLY GREAT WEEK.