Weeks 7 & 8, term 1 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN...

Kia ora - and thank you for attending your child's goal setting. If you didn't manage to get there last week, please email me with a time that suits you. 

We will be setting up a GOAL wall/or maybe ceiling in our classroom. 

Dates: This Wednesday is WOW day - wheels day for Movin' March - so your child gets to bring their bike, scooter, skateboard, rollerblades or rollerskates to school - at 10.50-12noon Totara Syndicate will be using their wheels. A track will be set out on the north field and the concrete by room 14. If you would like to help please do so - you can be the stop/go person ;) 
Ms Wells will be taking Room 7 that day - the children do know. 

ALL Whānau Evening

Just a reminder to those parents of students in the Accelerated Literacy Learning (ALL) programme that there is a parent information evening on Thursday the 30th of March 6:30 -7:30 pm in the school library that you are invite to attend. 

We did a wonderful tally chart and a great discussion about this day - what your child will be bringing. 

MOST IMPORTANTLY...all must wear a helmet. Safety first!

Seesaw - Miss Burt is getting jiggy with it - and finally Seesaw is all on the go - your child and I have downloaded a few things onto your child's Seesaw site...parent log ins will go home on Monday. I'm loving this app. See the video below:

SUPER SHARP Khalia. She is a wonderful responsible student both in the classroom and playground. Yay! We love SHARP students. 

Super SHARP work by Cam - Cam got a principal's award and a SHARP certificate from Miss Burt for his fantastic reading/research on the Tibetan hawk and other hawks. He shared his information with the class. 

Enjoy these photos of some of Room 7 children getting sunflower heads to harvest them. This is also part of our junior environment group. 

We shared the sunflower heads with several classes, and some children took a head home to dry out. 

Room 7 have 2 sunflower heads hanging upside down in our class in organic breathable bags.

Once they are dry - we will take the seeds out - we are going to save the seeds to sell. 

The money will go towards buying more plant seeds to plant. 

 

MUFTI day - in support of Nick Perkin's - (Thomas from Room 5 is Nick's son). The whole school raised $700. YAY!

Keiran sharing his journal story about what him and his soft toy buddy got up to at his house. =) 

ROOM 7 - Katie in the front is wearing a Nick Perkin's t-shirt in support of his fundraising for his MS treatment in Singapore. Room 7 wish Nick all the best!

Mufti day fundraising made for good addition practice. 

Grace teaching us how to use the watercolour pencils. 

ALL group - Accelerated learning in literacy group, this started 2 weeks ago now. ALL is a small group of students that work with me for 20-30 minutes a day - while Fiona our teacher aide works with the rest of R7.
I put together some special ALL super hero books for the children to write in - the group are having fun....this programme runs for 15 weeks. In this time we should see some great acceleration in literacy. Watch this space!

25 NIGHT readers well done to this first group of children who have filled in their reading log for 25 nights - yay and double yay!!

 Another lot of SUPER SHARP students - George and Tommy - well done you 2 for being awesome SHARP boys. George for his spelling and Tommy for overall sharp-ness!!

Thank you Isla for making a sign to tell the children where to put their yellow forms that went home last week - our extra connection.
Thank you to all who have returned so far!!

Here is Cam helping in the school vegetable garden. Mrs Heard and Cam's mum worked with a group of students to weed the garden. Room 7 also went out and did a bit of weeding. 

SHARP SHARP SHARP students, here are Riley, Aisling and Sam with SHARP certificates for being SHARP students. Well done. 

We had Amelia's Auntie Jo visit us at Greytown School. Jo is a teacher at Solway Primary School in Masterton.

 WACKY WEB - fun. This writing site is fantastic for getting the children to use parts of speech.

Room 7's ALL group, Tangaroa, Khalia, Riley, Greta & Logan - head's down - writing, writing!
We are going on a mission this week to be writing spies...WE ARE GOING TO SPY PEOPLE WRITING. 

PENCIL grip - as emailed to you last week....

I founds this and think it's a neat idea...maybe a home project.
A jar. Fairy things. Put it altogether on the lid. And there you go...

World Poetry Day

Please have a look at this site with your child. Your child has a studyladder log in.
https://www.studyladder.co.nz/guides/poetry-day

The week that was - 6 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN

KIA ORA - and welcome to the week that was - week 6 in Room 7. 

Our SHARP lesson for weeks 6-7 is HONESTY - talk to your child about how they are honest (not just telling the truth) ... honest about taking turns, not touching other people's property without asking, being fair when playing games ie: if you get out....

What are some ways you are honest?

TAKE A soft toy home = caught ya chair. Here is Khalia sharing her diary story about when she took a soft toy home - the children have to give the toy a name, a rating (at staying at their house)...What adventures they got up to - we enjoy listening to these entries. 

Listening to Khalia and her adventures...

 Alphabetical order....For te reo Māori one of our recent lessons is introducing ourselves...and then putting ourselves in alphabetical order of names. The photos below - show the children working in groups...writing on whiteboards, putting names in alphabetical order.

Well done Logan...keep going...

 THE BLACK BOX - this is a great oral language activity.
Every morning I hide something in the black box (if it fits) =)
The children listen to the clues...(and read them)....they put on their Kākāriki hat...THINK. 
What do the clues add up to - what DO YOU THINK IS IN THE BOX? 
Can you work it out from the clues below.....

I must say - the children got it really quick - I was surprised!

 SAFETY IN THE POOL. Our last day in the swimming pool was spent being safety wise - the children took turns wearing a life jacket and sculling using their hands.

I love the thumbs up in the background ....

WELL DONE!!!

SHARP STUDENTS:

If your child is the SHARP student - they are able to choose from a list of rewards (worked out by the children - statistics work).
The SHARP student has to write me a note and post it in our mailbox by Thursday- this lets me know what they have chosen to do on Friday.
The rewards are: 15 minutes on the iPad with a friend (doing a suitable activity), wear mufti for a day, special morning tea, 15 minutes handball with a friend.

Super SHARP seven ---- week 5.

- Our first junior enviro group meeting is this Wednesday 2nd lunch with Miss Burt & Ms MacKenzie.
- Winter sports sign up is on the 9th of March in the school hall (one of the lunch times).

Look at this fantastic photo I was sent in the weekend. Here is R7's very own Amelia who was racing at a motorcross event. I do love seeing what the children are doing out of school - it's really nice to know what their passions and interests are.
Amelia is here with R7's Arna. 

 HIWI THE KIWI - the singing minstrel visited Greytown School. Thank you to the parents who have paid the $4 for this.
Here is Hazel with a prize that she won for answering one of his questions. Well done Hazel!
We have the book and cd in Room 7 - if you're keen to have a listen to it at home, please do so.
The children enjoy his songs - which encourage water safety, looking after the animals in the ocean and flying above it. A good environmental message. I hope you enjoyed reading the 3 recounts (below) which display facts the children learnt.

Here we are - Room 7 waiting for the singing minstrel.
Have a look at the great website: http://www.hiwithekiwi.co.nz/

Some good resources on the website..maybe your child would like to do some at home.

Tangaroa working with me doing a maths GLOSS test...he did very well. 

The birthday girl Maria - was so sweet on the morning of Maria's birthday - Taylor had made her a card and put it into our class mailbox....(nice to see the mailbox being used)..Miss Burt got some delightful surprises in here last week. 

 A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Room 7 for hosting our school assembly - all children who spoke did so well.

Waiting for the school to walk in while we listened to Stan Walker's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDOq3bKl89E

Here is Charlie saying his part...

 Room 7 swimming showcase - well done to all who participated in this. The students showed us a range of skills, from swimming a length of freestyle, backstroke or breaststroke to one group showing us their water confidence skills.

Thank you to Fiona our teacher aide who has been working with this group in our school pool. 

 And...after our swimming show case - a big thank you to Miss O'Connor - the children all received an iceblock - well deserved!!

Yay - just what we deserved! =) 

 Friday fun day - well what a treat the class were given - Angie is a teacher aide who works in our senior block. Angie is a great storyteller - and visited Room 7 to share her retelling of The Three Little Pigs...well how the children laughed and laughed.

I love this photo - look at the giggles!!!!

 Friday fun activity - we were given a container of chalk. So the children put their imaginations to work - they had to draw a picture on the concrete and then put themselves into the picture.

Tangaroa and what Miss Burt thought was his sword (LOL)...but this was only part of his picture to come...

The gorgeous turtle of William, Sam and Riley.

The amazing shooting rocket, Franklin and George.

Aww look at these little eggs in the dinosaur. Great imaginations Tyler.........and........

CATS:

My Amelia a long with 2 students from Greytown School are in the MATS production of CATS. You might like to take your child/ren to this - it is the first time Amelia has been in one of their productions and she has enjoyed it. There is a lot of commitment - but like I said to her the end production is going to be worth it all. So if your child is into dancing/acting/singing...
To book you go to this site: http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2017/cats/masterton

HIWI THE KIWI’S singing minstrel visits Greytown School, 27th February, 2017.

By Cam Wiggins - 8 years old, Room 7.

We all learnt some interesting facts from the man who was standing on stage.

I learnt that you always hold a fish with a wet towel or else it will get sick and die.

If you catch a big or small fish you have got to put it back. You put the little fish back because or it won’t be able to grow. You put the big ones back because it might have eggs inside it.

Never litter at sea because the birds might think it is fish and it will go for it and if it swallows it, it will get stuck in its throat and the bird will end up dying.

Always wear a life jacket, because you never know what’s in front of you.

By Hazel Williams - 7 years old, Room 7.

I did know that you need saltwater ice for saltwater fish.

Please wear a life jacket even if you’re strong and know how to swim.

Don’t litter because seabirds think it is food and try to eat it.

If the fish is too big gently put it back because it might have eggs inside it. If the fish is too small put it back.

Kaimoana is food from the sea.

Measure the fish with a fishing ruler.

Protect the sea birds. Don’t let seabirds eat the fish hooks, squirt the birds with a water gun to get them away.

When you go fishing bring a wet towel to hold the fish in, that way the fish don’t get hurt or rub off their protection coat.  

By Isla Partridge - 7 years old, Room 7

Always wear a life jacket!!! It’s soooo safe, if the boat sinks you won’t drown, yay!

If you catch a smaller fish put it back, it needs to grow and if you catch a big fish put it back, it might be having babies - actually it might be having 50 babies!

The black petrel bird is getting extinct, how can we save it?

Well first we can STOP littering!!! If you do see litter (you shouldn’t), put it in the bin!!

When you’re going fishing remember to bring a water pistol, seagulls and other seabirds could get stuck in your hook =( and sadly will….die. So squirt them - chow, chow!

Do you know what kaimoana means? Well if you don’t know it, it means - food from the sea.

Kaimoana food from the sea, kaimoana to feed the family.

Fish for the future and there will always be, kaimoana for you and me.