week 5 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN.....

OUR school SHARP lesson this week is: Following instructions playing to the rules. The class like this video of the Minions (funny) about following rules.

A big lesson for the children is playing by the rules for handball - let's see how the children all go following instructions at home =) =)

Following on from our great teacher only day working with Innes Kennard (IT course). On Tuesday and Wednesday the class worked on the following:
Working in pairs: INTERVIEW a sports player.
In pairs the children answered questions about the sport they play.
Using the iPads they created a back drop of the sport they play using the BRUSHES app, they then took a photo using the camera, then interviewed each other using the PUPPET PALS app. They put all this together to create their interviews.

Here is Petra - interviewing. The photo then gets cut out (using the iPad app).

Here is Liv - ready to go onto the app.

We talked about how the children could reach their goal of being in the Olympics. 

Mackenzie concentrating. 

Fergus creating his back drop using BRUSHES. 

Jordyn and co...working hard. 

Harry was one of our SHARP students last week...along with Tyah (Tyah was away for the photo). Please note too our new SHARP posters in te reo. 

Week 4 in Room 7

Reminder that Monday 22nd August is teacher only day. 

Room 7 are working hard to learn Ko Wairarapa Haka..we are practising each morning. On Friday afternoon, we joined year 2 up to practise outside. The haka is sounding great and we are getting good at the actions. 

Here we are lining up. 

With year 2 up . 

 Each day a child's name is chosen from the 'caught ya' box - this is a box where the children put their name in when I catch them being SHARP. The photo below is William reading his story from the book that the 'caught ya' child takes home with their guest (soft toy).

 Dallas had a super duper birthday - here he is telling the class his birthday news.
What a great birthday party you had Dallas with your friends and family.

 Totara Syndicate assembly - below are some photos of Room 7 in our syndicate assembly. We meet up as a syndicate once a fortnight - where we share songs, news, SHARP students and notices. It's a nice time for us all to be together.

Douglas enjoying showing the class his musical instruments - we had a fun impromptu music session and a dance to some msuic. 

AHHH! Nothing like a massage to calm us all down - here we are being SHARP and the children were writing a message on the person in front of them - something nice. 

I have mentioned the author Andy Griffiths before - he has a fun writing book out. One subject is the bad teacher!! So the class had some fun writing some things the bad teacher would tell them to do! Below are some of their ideas.....

Douglas working with Kath =) 

 MULTIPLICATION - we have started our new maths subject: Multiplication & Division.
The photos below show a group of children using counters to help them work out multiplication problems....the language we are using is: How many groups of.
So :  3 x 3 = ...... 3 groups of 3 =

 Friday fun - I brought some bread to school. Douglas along with Max & Ali had some fun making 100's and 1000's bread for the class.

Jackie helping hand out the 100's & 1000's bread. 

 Another HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Campbell celebrates his 9th birthday - hope you had a fab Saturday Campbell =) Much love from us all.

 Mandarin lesson with Shan - the children played bingo using numbers in Mandarin. They are very good at using the language.

Have a great work all. I found this great saying (below)...I was telling one of the children from Room 7 (during the week) that I love all the children I teach so much. The boy was quite upset - and he got a bit grumpy and said no one cared. I told him I cared - and that is why I teach. That I love each child....I think this saying sums it up nicely.

The other thing I talk about quite a bit is that making mistakes is all part of learning. I say how I make mistakes - and learn from them. Like I talk to the children - we are all human and it's only natural that we will make mistakes, and it's good to look at what happened and what changes you can make. Forgive yourself and move on. 

Using the iPads and PicCollage the children are going to create their own wish related to the Olympics. They will choose a sport they would like to represent NZ in. They will discuss how they will reach this goal. What will they need to do to succeed. 

The blog posts below are written by some of the students: 

 The class have been busy making sports stars out of tinfoil - showing their sports action. Here are some that we did. Then we hung them off the book shelf, that made it no longer a book shelf but an olympic stadium.

Some people did Paralympic  people like this one below.

Oops no more choccie bars to be given out. 

LOOK AT THIS FANTASTIC PRESENTATION - title pages need to have information - what do you know? What do you want to know? Label and draw pictures to show what you know.

Petra - 2nd

Charlie - 1st

Esther - 3rd

Bless their cotton socks - on the Room 7 podium. 

 Real life experience - posting a letter.....

 Tidy Greytown School community students - picking up litter down town.

Some rainy day viewing: 

And this one but you have to click on the link - about the humble potato - the children will find making the chips quite fascinating =)
Click on: America eats more potatoes than any other vegetable. Follow the spud from field to factory to learn how it grows and how it's turned into the beloved potato chip.

This one will be FUN:

How to make magnetic slime