Welcome to the last week in Room 7 for 2015.

How fan-tastic - OUR CONNECTION with our penpals made for a very happy Room 7 on Thursday. We received a lovely package of letters, Christmas cards, a Welsh flag, photos and information. 

Thank you OUR friends in Class Y3I from Albert Primary School, Penarth, Wales.

Xaivier & Dylan holding a photo of Y3I and our card.

Angus & Emelia holding the Welsh flag. 

Happy PENPALS - Maddy, Saddie, Abigail & Abby.

Reading our letters...

Yep - THUMBS UP TO CLASS Y3I

SUPER THUMBS UP!!

REMINDERS: 
TUESDAY: All children in Room 7 to bring a big bag and or a plastic bag to take all their books, artwork etc...home for the holidays. Remember to reuse any books for next year. If can do so.
Pens, pencils etc...

Wednesday - A NO BAG DAY!! Please can the children ONLY bring their play lunch. As we eat here at school - then at about 11.30am we walk to Kuranui College for our end of year assembly. Children are then to be collected from the Kuranui College hall after assembly - this is about 1pm. If you could wait for your child outside that would be great. Make a plan so your child knows where you will be. 

Some great photos to enjoy of our SUPER SHARP FUN day on Friday.

THURSDAY 10th December (2nd day back)...

A reminder about tomorrow - FUN DAY with Room 6 & 8
Friday 11th December.

The children:

Wear school uniform

Wear school sunhat

Sunblock all over

100 % manners - (I have spoken to a few children about this).

Togs & towel 

Sandals or shoes

Water bottle

Lunch box with a good amount of food in it

Backpack to put all in. 

Please have a talk to your child about being SHARP. We will be at the Greytown park & swimming pool. So we all need to be SHARP - especially safe!

We don’t leave school until 11.30am.

Wow - a great morning with the children doing PASS ON THE KINDNESS...CALENDARS.

Look forward to lots of breakfasts in bed, being good, making forts, making cups of teas, visiting lonely neighbours etc....

Here is Daisy's lovely calendar =) Daisy was the first to finish and what a great job. Then she passed on the kindness by helping Connor. Go you Daisy =)

Seb - just being COOL =)

SUPER SHARP STUDENTS - Maddy for awesome author study presentation, Abigail for being 100% SHARP...and Emelia for the same as Abigail (and for being a great cupcake maker). 

9.12.15

My first day back in over 4 weeks...welcome back to the blog:

SHARP WINNERS today - Sam T & Abigail for being our basic facts champions!!

WELL DONE YOU 2 

 CLEANING the classroom - Miss Burt was a the cleaning sargent!!

 Add to 100 - revision - to get the invader!!

 Here they are....

Sadie & Bella working hard on their maths.

SHARP LESSON...

Your children 'blow me away' =)

This is a classic - I have just typed up all the things the children have written about what resilience means and what you can do if you make a mistake.

I THEN lost all that I had typed - and my first thought was to “flag it” - then I thought of my 7, 8 and 9 year old students whom I had just read all what they had written - and their words rang in my head. .  DON’T GIVE UP!

The questions asked were:
What does resiliency mean to you?
Draw and write about a time that you have 'bounced' back from, a frustrating/hard time. What did you do?
How did you feel after you 'bounced' back?
If you make a mistake, what can you do?

The words below are written by 7, 8 and 9 year old children!

RESILIENCE:

Never give up. Turn over to the clean page - don't waste it. It's ok to make mistakes, it's not ok to stop! You can take a deep breath, close your eyes and think of a good time. Bounce back and get over it. Start again. Have a sleep or have a handful of raw cashew nuts. Make it better. Start it over again and play it in a positive way. Keep on trying. I felt proud of me. I felt positive and then went for a sleep. Get stronger. You can do it. If you say I can't do, say that's not true, say to yourself I can't do it yet. Learn from it. Learn from Miss Take. Fix it up. Get over something. You cross it out and try again and don't give up. When I went to my Auntie's funeral I was sad, but I felt positive as I realised she was watching me. Become a new person. Get a new life. Eat an ice-cream or something yummy. Sing a song. Take a deep breath. Don't let yourself down. Say sorry and stop it. I know it looks bad but you will get through it, let's take a break.

Reach your goal and never give up on what you're trying to do. Trying your best, best, best! When I had to leave my old house I was sad and I thought about our new house and how much better it was going to be. Get on with your life. Believe in yourself, that you can do it! Sometimes you can't do it, yet! Bounce back and try again or get over it. If ti's a big mistake then try again, if you can't then you just have to get over it. If it's a small mistake either fix i or try again instead of sitting on the floor crying. Get over it in a positive way. Make me happy. Try to sort it out yourself or talk to someone.

Week 3 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN

School athletics this Tuesday - children may wear their house colour top and their black shorts. Please make sure your child has their school sunhat, sunblock on, extra drink and a good packed lunch. =)

 I LOVE this - in our school we are doing a new thing called LEARNING MAPS. 

Before I the students in Room 7 did their own learning maps - we brainstormed 'What is learning'....read the responses. 

HABITAT HEROES...Leading up to Conservation Week we are looking at different habitats 1) around our school & home. 2) Around our town. 3) In New Zealand. 4) In the WORLD.

WHAT IS A HABITAT?
Angus - Is where something lives
Xaivier - Is where nature lives & belongs
Ella - Animals go there to protect themselves
Sam T - An environment where something or someone lives
Olivia - A habitat is a home place for any animal, any plant or human.

This is the list of habitats that Room 7 came up with (I was VERY IMPRESSED!!).

We are going to build up our knowledge - so we can make dioramas.
To make these, we need:
SHOE BOXES
SMALL BOXES
CELLOPHANE
CARDBOARD
MATERIALS
LITTLE FAKE STICKS
LITTE CREATURES
TIN FOIL
SHELLS
DRIFTWOOD
BUBBLE WRAP
AND ANYTHING ELSE YOUR CHILD MAY NEED. 

We have been talking about the WHIO - blue duck - which features on the NZ $10 note. Here were are with the new $10 note and the old one on the right.
Ask your child what they have learnt about the whio?

This is the competition Room 7 are doing. The children only have 50 words to use to tell the judges why Mrs Kirkland WOWS us. We have taken some great photos of all the different displays in the library. The children are presenting their writing in either a letter, poem, picCollage, story or wanted posted. I look forward to sending these in - and then waiting to hear how Room 7 has done.

Our brainstorm about Mrs Kirkland. And our WOW comments.

 Imogen enjoying her down time to read in our school library. 

Mrs Kirkland is very good at changing the displays in the library.

















Scott Tulloch - visiting NZ Author - how exciting!!http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/profiles/tulloch,%20scott

Alert - NZ bookshop day.....

This Saturday, 31st October.

Wairarapa

Masterton

Paper Plus Masterton celebrating NZ Bookshop Day in character costume!

From 10-12 noon storytelling - Come dressed as favourite book character and join in the fun.  Also grab a great deal - 25% off a wide selection of books.

Carterton

Take Note Carterton - Dress up Kids and meet the authors!  BBQ

Tania Atkinson and Phillip Percy, local children's authors will be in store reading their books.  Come on in kids and dress up as your favourite character.  Make your own 'bookworm'.  Enjoy a free BBQ.

Almo’s Books - Almo’s Outposts at A&P show

Meet and chat with local children’s author and illustrator in the morning. There will be in-store specials for children’s books and NZ fiction.  We will also be running Almo Outposts at A & P shows in Clareville and the Herb Federation Conference in Masterton that day. Come in and support NZ Bookshop Day!

Ask your child what we did in Room 7 today?? Hint = my height vs books.

How many books stacked up?

What could we win?

What is the competition?
How are you going to present your entry in the competition?

A great week in Room 7 - week 2, term 4. Pho

SHARP STUDENTS - well done to Daisy - who 'just out of the blue' was given a SHARP certificate for Achievement - Daisy's quick recall with the basic facts has improved so much since the beginning of the year - also her answering in literacy - nice detailed answers. 

Jayden - our other SHARP student for week 2 - well done for his use of growth mindset and positive comments to other students. 

Sam T- For helping out classmates and being patient. Patience is a virtue - waiting won't hurt you. Well done Sam!

Phoebe is telling the class about her amazing sleep over at Kelly Tarlton's - wow, what a great time her family had sleeping under the stingrays, sharks and other sea creatures.

 WHAT A FUN PET DAY WE HAD - Miss Burt definitely enjoys helping in the lamb pen ;) We had a few run aways this year (LOL).
I was very proud of the Zentangle art that Room 7 produced and well done to Abby H for being the overall winner. I presented each child with a certificate (see below).

 KAPA HAKA festival - he tino pai Olivia, Erana & Seb for being in the kapa haka and representing our school last Thursday in the Wairarapa kapa haka festival.

 CUDDLES DIARY - Cuddles had a most interesting adventure at Evie's house during the week. Here is Evie reading his diary....a) Cuddles got married and b) Cuddles had babies!!!!!

 REAL LIFE MATHS: On Friday (handing in homework time) - only 4 out of 28 children handed in the "Whio - colouring in competition" - so this led to GREAT MATHS. (see below).
I presented the outcome in a fraction - I drew 28 children and Ella coloured in 4 children to show how many children completed the colouring comp and how many did not.
We then counted in our 4's (4 x tables, 7 x 4 = 28).
I then explained how we could then make the fraction 4/28 into 1/7.
I introduced some new vocabulary: numerator and denominator (ask your child what these words mean) - look at the photo for help.

 MANDARIN LESSONS WITH FLORA - Martial Arts on the turf.
Flora led us in a martial arts lesson - wow what good exercise.
There are some flexible children in Room 7 - I was very impressed.
I talked to the children about discipline - and to try and not talk while doing this.

 The hook (see below).

 The bend the knee and put it behind and balance - phew-ee I could do it!!!!

 Izzie showed the other children how to do this one...the back foot has to be FLAT!!

SHARP LESSON for weeks 1-2 was RESILIENCE. Ask your child what they learnt about this - we had some amazing discussion!
Talk from our discussion ' Just do it - Get over it - Be strong - Be the bigger person - Keep on keeping on - Don't give up - If you make a mistake keep on - You can't do it yet (some great growth mindset talk going on here).

Enjoy the slideshow of pet day photos - =)