Term 3 - finished.

Kia ora and welcome to the school holidays - term 3 - over and out.

I hope you got a chance to read the term 3 certificate I gave your child - a showcase of some of the wonderful things we have done over the term.

AUCTION DOLLARS for home learning - below are photos to show the children in order....

OUR TOP DOLLAR students....Liv WON again......with $1300 ..... yay well done to all the children. We had fun on Thursday doing the auction and the children all got some little goodies to take home. 

Whaea Suzanne is our wonderful teacher of te reo Māori. Suzanne works with us teachers on a Wednesday morning from 8am-8.30am. Last week Suzanne was in with Room 7 to watch me teach and join in with our te reo Māori lesson which was using numbers up to the thousands (mano).

Working out the numbers....

Jet helping to lead the game. 

Clean up NZ day - we went out as a class on Friday to pick up rubbish in our neighbouring streets....it started raining so we had to call it quits. But we did manage to get a full bag. =(

ALL (accelerated learning in literacy) and ALiM (accelerated learning in maths)....celebration time.
Well done to the ALL Room 7 group of: Jet, Liv, William & Elliot
ALiM Room 7 group of: Max, Tyah, Ava & Harry.
It was so good to see a good group of parents turn up to share in this celebration. The children shared a couple of things they had found fun in their groups and also a couple of things they had learnt.

Jet sharing his ALL work with his mum. 

Max sharing his ALiM work with his parents. 

Harry sharing his ALiM work with his dad. And Hamish (Ava's dad) to the right....listened to Tyah share her work. 

Sarah, Liv's mum has a small group of ALL children sharing their work. 

Tyah, Hamish and Ava sharing and listening to ALiM work. 

Our Māori legend art work - wow the children have produced some amazing art for pet day based on several Māori legends.....the big reveal will be in our school hall on October the 18th for pet day.

Here are some of the Māori patterns that the children used in their art work. 

SHARP STUDENT...well done to Jordyn who received the SHARP certificate for graduating from STEPS programme. Jordyn has done really well working with Stacey one of our teacher aides...STEPS is a literacy/spelling programme.

FANTASTIC reading answers - well done goes to Logan, Petra and Esther for great full written answers in their report reading. 

WOOHOO -----auction time...below are the goodies.......

Harrison showing his stash of cash =) 

Ali was a right sport and had us in fits of laughter.....his present was a bit mixed up ....

ANOTHER very SHARP student - Mr Douglas for great handwriting and maths. Douglas is showing determination in both of these subjects. He is also awesome at leading the class in the school karakia and on Thursday he led the class in the Ko Wairarapa haka.

HAPPY HAPPY ....birthday to Mr Harrison - who has a birthday in the holidays. We sang Harrison happy birthday and wish him lots of fun on his special day.

Happy and safe holidays to all of Room 7 .... 

Week 8 in SUPER SHARP seven - and welcome to week 9.

REMINDERS:

Please have all your child's uniform named. A lot of clothing is turning up to lost property unnamed. 

Dates for your diary: 

-  Monday 19th September - school photos for our syndicate - look SHARP.

-  Clean up NZ week this week 9

-  Friday 23rd September - last day of term 3

TERM 4 - Week 2 - Tuesday 18th October - Pet Day. Please have your child's completed pet day form returned to school. 

School finishes at 12.30pm this day.

- Week 3 - Monday 24th October - LABOUR DAY, no school

- Week 4 - Tuesday 1st November - School athletics (postponement date: 3/11/16)

- Week 4 - Wednesday 2nd November - WORLD record haka challenge.

 Woohoo - Room 7 Olympic reading challenge - here are our BRONZE medalists: Congratulations on completing a lot of tasks: Logan, Mackenzie, Campbell and Niysa.

 Here is Mackenzie with her bronze 3rd place (excuse the bronze)....and her certificate.

 Woohoo - SILVER medalists - these children nearly completed all the tasks. Well done Annabelle, Jacob, Liv and Charlie.

 Athletics training has started - below is a map of the activities we will be doing. Last week Room 7 started sprint training. This week will be quoit throwing. Term 4 brings the vortex throw, high jump and long jump. And we will continue the circuit in preparation for the school athletics day on Tuesday 1st November 2016.

 SUPER SHARP SEVEN students, congratulations to Elliot and Petra. Elliot has picked himself up - and has shown that he can be super SHARP and get his work done. Petra has a SHARP certificate for all round SHARP work.

 I love this - on Friday I had the statement: Things you should do as a family in the weekend.
The children - THINK, PAIR AND SHARE their ideas.
I really love Fergus's - "Do the washing" LOL.
Some good ideas....

Our OLYMPIC gold medalists - Petra and Esther - great work girls. 

 Below is the pet day notice that went home with your child on Friday - please fill it in with first & last names, room number, syndicate, house and what your child will be bringing to pet day.

Have a great week!!

Monday - It's not a planet IT'S OUR HOME

Reminders to have photo money back (orders)....photos taken next Monday 19th September.
Also - ALL and ALiM groups - celebration on Tuesday 20th September at 1.30pm in school library.
ALL: Jet, Liv, William, Elliot (4)
ALiM: Tyah, Harry, Max, Ava (4)
Invites went home on Tuesday 13th September. =)

the class watched this clip: http://www.literacyshed.com/the-thinking-shed.html

The children were asked to describe this view of earth.

"A big round ball with swirly white spaces - surrounded by darkness."

Esther - A mass of marble with white and blue spilt over it.

Cam - A big round sphere that has lots of different colours on it.

Petra - Earth is a ball of green and blue, it's my DESTINATION. Earth - where most living things come from...a world of life, lovely and lively. But from here - it's just surrounded by black. 

Fergus - A big ball exploded with colours.


Kuini - A face with no mouth, no ears, no eyes and chin.

Charlie - White coloured with big blobs of green, big dots and huge humongous blue spaces like a marble. 

Jet - A colourful round huge thing, I saw it in Space...it is cloudy. It is covered in darkness.....IT IS EARTH. 

Week 7 .....

He rōpū manaaki, he rōpū whakarongo, he rōpū ako mātou 

We are respectful, we listen, we learn

Reminders:
This Tuesday 13th September - school finishes at 12.30pm. (Union meeting for teachers).

These things can help me at home 

– Key Competencies

ü  Help me learn that time and effort pays off. For example, when I say This is too hard, say, That’s great because now you have an opportunity to learn something new.

ü  If I make a mistake, celebrate it as an opportunity to learn. Help me to understand that making mistakes will help me learn.

ü  If I feel like giving up on a task, encourage me to stick at it a little longer and/or to try another way to do it.

ü  When I say That’s good enough, encourage me to ask if it is really my best work.

ü  Encourage me to apply the ‘can do’ attitude I have in rugby to my writing goals.

ü  Talk to me about the ways other people might see issues. Help me see things from a range of different perspectives.

ü  Give me increasing responsibility for a task that will help at home, e.g. I could feed the cat, empty the rubbish on Saturdays or help prepare dinner on Sundays.

ü  Help me to manage my television viewing time by giving me television tickets. Each week I could be given an agreed number of tickets that can each be used for 30 minutes of TV time. A variation is that any tickets remaining at the end of the week could be cashed in for 25 or 50 cents each.

ü  Help me see my problems are temporary, by saying they are glitches, snags or hard spots and talking with me about things I can do to get through them.

ü  Help me to role-play so I can see other people’s views as clearly as possible.

ü  Help me to take more responsibility for my school things. For example, have me choose a place to put a cardboard box, perhaps near the door of my room. Every afternoon, I will put my school things in the box. When my home reading is done, it will go in the box, too. In the morning I will check the box before I leave for school. 

ü  Help me to understand and experience the consequences of my choices.

Working away in Room 7. 

Māori art electives - the students made manu tukutuku (kite)

 A good ONSIE day on Friday - with the donations going to the Wellington free ambulance. Below we have fun-sie onsie....Ava, Jacob, Tyah, Liv, Petra, Mackenzie & Tyah

Dancing the morning away - with Douglas leading us.....

We were singing Old McDonald had a farm...and today we had 2 cows =) ....

 OUR special visitor - with our Inquiry being based on the Olympics - we had my nephew Nesta visit us on Friday. He has recently returned from representing NZ in taekwon-do. Nesta did some demonstrations, showed his silver medal and photos from his time in Brighton, England.

Here are the funsie Onsie people with Nesta. We had a couple of visitors from Room 7 last year. 

Nesta and his silver medal winning photos..

THE SILVER MEDAL...

 In Room 7 - we often go over our Golden Rules - which tie in so nicely to our Schoolwide SHARP matrix. We talk about this often so we are all aware of how to be SHARP.