Go....our lil RIPPERS....

Here's some shots from last Tuesday and the ripper rugby tournament that some of Room 7 children went to:

WEEK 5 HIGHLIGHTS...

SOME pictures first of our Mandarin lesson last week. The children learnt about....

1. Peking opera or Beijing opera (simplified Chinese: 京剧; traditional Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù) is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance, and acrobatics. It arose in the late 18th century and became fully developed and recognized by the mid-19th century.

We related this to our WEARABLE ARTS: 

GUESS WHO...............................

LOOK AT OUR SUPER SHARP MUFTI GIRLS:

Happy birthday to our friend Jayden!!!!

Axel sharing Cuddles adventures at his house - the diary is full again ;)

Thank you Jayden for the yummy cupcakes for your birthday morning tea.

Dates: 

REMINDER Teachers’ Only Day Each year a Teacher Only Day is allowed for in our calendar in order for Professional Development to happen. This ensures that the education being delivered in the school is up to date with current best practice. This year the Teacher Only Day will be on Friday 11 September and the school will be closed to students on this day. During the day the staff will be developing a strategic direction for Maori education in the school and undergoing further training in PB4L (SHARP) interventions.

NZ Author Study

Hi all,
The children will be doing a NZ author study for reading while Miss Peters is teaching.
Here is a link for you at home to use with your child to help them choose a NZ author.
This site is fantastic as you find the author you want - click on their name and information about them comes up.

http://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/new-zealand-childrens-authors/

By week 6 (next week) Thursday - they need to have chosen a NZ author.

We have done a little bit of discussion around this in our library session on Monday.
Some children have already chosen theirs. Eg:
Margaret Mahy, Joy Cowley, Ben Brown, Stu Duval, Wanda Cowley to name a few.

Also - I love this Sam T went home last night and googled his fab author Stu Duval - and Sam came into school buzzing with information about Stu. Stu's an amazing artist as well. You might recognise his cartoon drawing books.
http://www.studuval.co.nz/

Pass it on...

sharing this again - PASS ON THE KINDNESS - watch this video and see what happens. Room 7 often watch this - and we talk about what is happening - 1 good turn - - and look what happens.

Miss Peters - for you!

One of my best weeks...

Kia ora,
I have to say this has been one of many best weeks!!!  - I am totally blown away by your children.
They have been so SHARP - they have been using their manners, helping each other out, doing fantastic school work, being caring to each other, showing honesty....these photos show just how FANTASTIC THEY HAVE BEEN.
I must admit I feel so proud of them - with Miss Peters - they have been great. And I love the way they have made Miss Peters feel welcome - writing her letters, drawing her pictures, chatting away to her....THIS IS THE CUTEST! I just love it - and this is what it's all about: .....

I love this ...."When you grow up......" 

Look at this - 2 principal stickers....Well done maths by Riley & Maddy.

Miss Burt's great mate Nesta: (Nesta is my nephew and he visited us on Monday to show his Taekwon-do skills). The class loved his display and we were all taught some moves. 

Nesta has Room 7 captivated.

Mr Rei - new teacher. 

Angus doing a wonderful thank you to Nesta. Angus has been working so well on his goal.

SUPER SHARP Maddy - I don't often give out a SHARP award mid week - but on Thursday Maddy showed everything that SHARP represents.Within 15 minutes beginning of school mat time - she was showing SHARP sitting on the mat, SHARP discussion and helping a class mate out - she had put a lovely picture in the mail box for Riley - which really made his morning and then set a snowball effect of other children saying "Ooooh we can write to Riley". And then....look at this maths - not only did Maddy help Riley by encouraging him - but 100% woohoo!

SCIENCE with Miss Peters:

A fab lesson with Miss Peters...the children had great discussion - talking about what they thought would happen during their experiment - and why.

Then discussion afterwards about what happened and why. 

Here is Axel - he had taken a photo of his experiment on the iPad.

 Abigail above & Bailey, Sam and Sam showing their moves (below).

Dylan working hard on his HORROR circus story above =) ohhhhhhhh! LOOK AT THE PEN HE IS USING....spooky

A wonderful SUPER SHARP 7 school assembly was held on Wednesday - the children spoke so well and we had some very nice compliments. 

SCIENCE WITH MISS PETERS - wow we are so lucky to have Miss Peters working with us in Room 7. The class were really engaged and enjoyed participating in this experiment =)

Have a great work everyone. And in the words of one of my favourites Kid President: 

Voting closes this Wednesday night - let's see if we can get the All Blacks to Greytown =)
http://www.allblacks.com/ABs2N#/boards/9e3e6cde-da1b-42fd-88e5-50b94e35f028/entries/team-greytown

Budding photographers...

Link here:

http://photoswairarapa.wikispaces.com/