The week that was....WEEK 2 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN...

Another great, busy week in Room 7 =)

Reminder: OUR TOTARA picnic and whānau information evening this Tuesday - 16th February - a note went home on Friday - eek!
Start at 5.30pm - picnic in the bell tower grass area =)
6.15pm - Staffroom for parents (your children will play games with the seniors in the playground). 
6.45pm - Quick meet in Room 7 - if you want =)
7.00pm - HOME!

Some great SHARP work has been happening - below are photos of Room 7 students with their certificates for their wonderful 'I am' work....we have made these into a booklet which the children are enjoying reading =)

Well done Esther & Jet - 1st place =)

Thumbs up for great work !! Acutally we were playing  a game using the days of the week and numbers in Māori.

Below are a few photos of us playing a game using the days of the week and numbers in Māori...using nga rakau (sticks).

Go Harry - he bet Miss Burt quite a few times!!!

Pass on the kindness - Jacob, Kane & Petra telling the class what they did. =)

NEW SHARP STUDENT - Kuini. A for achievement. 

Douglas hard at work...

Petra & Esther working on a great card for Annabelle - who =( broke her finger.

Kuini & Sophia =)

Where is Douglas?

WELCOME back Annabelle - here is Annabelle with her SHARP morning tea and her cards from Room 7 

SUPER SHARP worker - here is Campbell sorting out our laptops. Well done!!

Busy bee Douglas....

A nice visitor to Room 7 - Tyah's brother. 

Innes's visit - we were lucky to have Innes come into room 7 and to inspire us with some work on the iPads...Innes did a jigsaw activity where the children had to read sentences...and put them back together to make sense.
They then had to read what they had put together - and think ====does this make sense?

Relaxing and having lunch - I enjoy sitting with the children while they eat lunch as the conversations are interesting =)

iPads with Innes - Innes came into Room 7 and worked with the children doing 'jigsaw poetry' on the iPads - ask your child what they did =)

End of week 1 in Room 7 - term 1

Douglas - you have been a champion. 

Elliot & Annabelle - well done!

SHARP STUDENTS for week 1 - well this was a hard choice as all the children have been SHARP. So I drew 2 names out of the name jar - and well done to Annabelle & Elliot. Both have done a lot of SHARP helping, classwork and showing nice manners.

SHARP WORK at home  - Who am I?

Petra & Tyah - used great presentation in their 'Who Am I?' poster. 

PLEASE make sure your child has their sunhat - we did a tally chart (as above).

On Thursday we did some photography.
Our success of a good photo would show that the child in the photo was centred with an interesting background (with no other children in the photo). Here is Fergus with a great example (see above).

Jacob & Harrison using the iPad to take their photos. 

Well done to your children for a SHARP week in Room 7 - we ended the day on Friday with a half hour session with our buddy class, Room 14 (years 7-8). We had lots of fun playing duck, duck - goose - then Mr Hammond challenged the children by having to say the students names (a good way of getting to know our buddy room's names)....
THEN as a nice treat the children had a nice cool ice-block - aahhhh! It surely was a hot week and your child (like the teacher ;) would've been very tired - put into that mix "testing - 1st week of school routine - lots of new learning - lots of playing etc..." and phew..... = nice & tired.

Photos from our fun buddy time:

Dates for your diary: 

Totara Syndicate information evening & picnic: 
Tuesday, 16th February: Start time 5.30pm - picnic outside Room 7 on the grass area. This is an informal picnic followed by a time for you parents in the staffroom where the Totara teachers will give you information about our syndicate year ahead.
Your child/ren will be supervised in the playground by some of our senior students.

There will a 3 way goal setting conference coming up - date to be confirmed.
This is where you, your child & me meet up and discuss your child's goals for the 1st half of the year.