Week 4 in Super SHARP 7...

 DATES: This Wednesday 1st March: Room 7 are hosting school assembly at 9.40am, school hall.

11am - Room 6 & 7 swimming showcase, these are for the children who did not swim in the school competitive swimming sports. This will be followed by a picnic in the bell tower.
Room 6 will go first, then our class.

Congratulations to our 2 SHARP students for week 4. 

Tangaroa for being so kind to a girl who was visiting our class, he offered to teach her handball. Also for showing SHARP responsibility.

Khalia for showing SHARP responsibility both in the classroom & playground.
Khalia was commended today for her help with Florence in the playground.

Annalise (SHARP winner for week 3) and Sam sharing. 

 <-------- Tangaroa leading the class in the karakia.

An interest in cicadas - sometimes we have to just roll with it. On Thursday Katie brought 2 cicada shells in - the children were fascinated. So we did a mini-discussion on these interesting creatures.

We watched a clip which showed a cicada shedding it's skin. 

I found a magnifying container that the 2 skins went into - the children could look through this to see them closer up. 

On Friday Katie brought in 35 cicada shells - here they are in the jar. We tipped them out onto the white paper so the children could see them nice and clear. 

Another interest: Cam & Logan brought in some crystals, a tooth and a bone. 

On Friday afternoon they did a presentation on fossils and crystals. 

They put this together using PicCollage - and Cam wanted something quick and easy to use to present (as they had a limited time).

As they showed the children their presentation on our new apple tv, the boys also had some artefacts to show the children. 

MATHS - statistics. We have been working on statistics in class - our latest tally chart/research was deciding what SHARP rewards the children could have on Fridays (for the SHARP students).
The children had to write down 3 activities that they themselves would like - they then asked all their classmates what one they would like. They totalled all the tallies up - and worked out which one was the favourite - which one was the least favourite.
So their choices are:
1) Wear mufti for a day
2) Handball for 15 minutes with a friend
3) Fish & chip lunch (if your child chooses this I will be in contact with you prior).
4) Caught ya prize
5) Ice-cream
6) Lunch with the teacher (I'm looking forward to this one).

Their new research - the children need to come up with 3 ideas for a whole class WHEN THE MARBLE JAR is full reward:
They then draw a tally chart.
Ask their classmates and tally.
Work out the total.
Share their information.
From this information we will come up with the overall favourites. 

Congratulations to our librarians who worked in the library last week:
Annalise, Taylor, Eva, Grace.

Thursday morning - we were discussing junior enviro group - and a few children didn't know what this meant: We went for a walk around our north/east side of the school.
The children were in pairs and had an iPad to take photos of the good environment and the not so good. eg: rubbish/weeds...
I took the children into our north creek bush area - it's lovely in here. It's not a place the children play in - as it's a work in progress.
I will get Mr Field in at some stage to talk to the children about why and what this project is/was.

This is after we cleared up rubbish from around our paper recycling bin.
The children did an awesome job - there was no complaining - they just got in there and did it.
SUCH SHARP STUDENTS!!

Looking at our school garden and the sensational sunflowers. 

Aisling standing beside our raspberry bush - some growing on there. Yummy!

Riley and our sunflower in our school garden. As tall as him!

Super Sam....by the garden - we had a bit talk about how his mum Rachel has been an amazing support and worker for our school. A huge credit to Rachel and her team who have done these new gardens.
A lot of hours of hard work - and what a pleasure they are to look at.
We talked about how nice it makes our school environment look. 

Here we are about to venture into our north creek bush.......

Rubbish and rubbish - sad =( Riley was super SHARP and picked it up.

Super SHARP rubbish picker uppers =) Grace, Lexie, Riley, Hazel and Annalise. 

Our hidden bush walk - Kaleb, Keiran, Tyler and Freddy came with me on a little shortcut - oops we got stuck. So had to turn around and head back the way we had come. 

Off we go back to wash our hands, a busy adventure photographing, talking and looking at our environment. 

Super RUBBISH people =) Nara, Hazel, Annalise & Amelia. 

Gorgeous amongst the sunflowers: Annalise, Hazel, Eva and Isla.

Week 3 in Room 7

Kia ora - Wednesday March 1st: 9.40am SUPER SHARP 7 are hosting our school assembly (eek!).
And at 11am - 12 noon is our swimming showcase.
How this works is Room 6 goes first from 11am - and then Room 7 about 11.20ish....
We then have a shared lunch in the bell tower area. 



For those of you who couldn't make Thursday night - and awesome to see those of you who were there =) yay!

Some notes from this night:
- Room 7 library day = Thursdays
- Home learning books go home on Monday PLEASE be back in on Friday - $50 auction dollars.
We need the books in as we do spelling partner testing of Fridays.
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Doctor Love bear - had a great time at Keiran's house - here is Keiran sharing his diary entry - we had a good laugh as SOMETIMES the toys whisper to me and tell me what they got up to. Doctor Love bear told me that him and Keiran got up at 3am and jumped on the bed. Keiran was like "NO WE DIDN'T" .... Doctor Love bear was like "YYYYEES WE DID!".....then we did hear in Keiran's diary entry that Keiran did get up in the night - but he was a super SHARP boy and didn't jump on the bed =) 

Keiran reading from his diary entry. 

Each term we will vote for a class captain, vice captain and vice vice captain. You can read in the photo below what the class captain needs to be like - ALL WORDS FROM the children.
Our class captain for term 1 is : Charlie =) Vice captain is: Eva =) and vice vice captain is: Grace.
The voting was very close and what I loved is that each child in the class actually had their name down in the voting. 

A class captain ..... (sorry about sideways view).

Go Noodle - each time we do a Go Noodle dance/activity we get a point ....

Check it out: Some children do this at home: https://www.gonoodle.com/

Nara & Greta doing addition with 2 dice with Miss Burt.
The purpose was to add the 2 dice together.
The next challenge was to add 3 of the answers together.
Extension challenge was to add the answers in the whole column together. 

 Below are photos of the class working on their ADJECTIVE self and a friend.
They have a cardboard cutout of a person - on one side is themself and the other side a friend.
On each side they had to choose an adjective to describe themself and their friend.
We had a good brainstorming session on what are adjectives and adjectives they could use to describe people (positive ones).

Aisling is cutting out some material to clothe her person =) 

We had wool for hair, glitter stars, coloured wrapping paper etc...to decorate our people. 

 In Room 7 we have 2 teacher aides who come in daily to help in our room.
Their names are Fiona & Kath. We have talked (SHARP lesson) about how the class interact with both Fiona & Kath - and that they are also our teachers.
While I was working with a small maths group - Fiona was roving the class and working with the other children. At the end of the lesson Fiona had 2 certificates to give out - one to Tyler and one to Amelia - well done you 2 SHARP students.

Well done Tyler

Well done Amelia

Kia ora Room 7 whānau - an article close to my heart - a good read:

http://curiousmindmagazine.com/parents-who-raise-good-kids/

Week 2 - Room 7 - 8th February 2017.

Our VERY 1st SHARP student of Room 7 - 2017!

Miss Arna Hopkins!

Today the class and I had a big talk/brainstorm---discussions about being responsible - what it means. 

Arna has shown a lot of responsibility and for a year 3 this is fantastic to see how responsible she has been. 

The photos below show how other children have shown being responsible - wow what a great start to our year in Room 7. 

Fantastic PRESENTATION by Eva - wow I love this!

I have discussed with the class and shown them examples of good presentation. We talked about using different colours, using their best writing so that the reader could read it clearly.

And amazing PRESENTATION by Katie - well done - this is awesome and such a good example of good presentation. 

Working hard at finding someone who had done a certain activity over the holidays.
This is a great activity for the children to mix and mingle with each other, some great talking was going on. 

Playing 21, a firm favourite.
21 is a maths game where the children are in a group - they are only allowed to say 1-3 numbers in sequence, if you are the person left to say 21 you are out. 

21 again....try it at home! Your child can teach you. . . HAVE FUN! And don't get out!!

Here is Aisling showing her SHARP leading of the Karakia. Well done Aisling, a nice strong voice. 

And here is Katie leading the school Karakia - each morning the child who is sitting in the "caught ya" chair leads the class in our Karakia. It is a good leadership activity and it's not too daunting as I help them if need be. The rest of the class join in after the 3rd word. 

 'THE FAMOUS CAUGHT YA CHAIR'

Your child may have said something about "caught ya" - this is when they have been caught doing something SHARP. Their name goes into a draw which is drawn daily to then sit in the 'caught ya' chair the next day.

On the day they sit in the chair they get to choose one of our 'reading buddies - soft toys' and this cuddly friend goes home with them alongside a book. 

The book is a diary of what their soft toy gets up to at their house - there have been some adventures by Room 7 children and their toy. 

Below is Aisling and her choice of bear (Mr G)....and WOW look at his flash new crocheted waist jacket - kindly made my Aisling and her Mum. 

Woohoo we have never had quite such a gift for one of our reading buddies before - I just know all the other toys will be quite envious =) (I was!) 

More .... maths FUN! Today I introduced the class to our 'Auction dollars" - more will be explained to you in your child's home learning book. The more auction $$ earned - the more the child gets to spend at the end of the term auction. 

Arna & Taylor did a good job of adding up their $100's....I gave them a $50 to add on...how much now?

We added up to see who had the highest amount of money and the least amount of money.
Quick adding up in 100's and 50's.
If struggling to add in 100's or 50's - the trick is to go back to 10's and 5's.
So double 10 is.....20 so double 100 is 200
Double 5 is 10....so double 50 is 100. 

 AARGH......WATCH out for the 'Super heroes in Room 7.' Thanks to Mrs Reynold's in Room 8 for this fun activity called 'All about me superhero glyph'...
The children had to draw their own superhero following instructions - the instructions were based on things to do with themselves. EG: if you were born in NZ = gloves.
If you have a younger brother = green stripes on arm.
Boot colour - how you get to school.
Length of cape - YOUR AGE....my cape is quite short ;) LOL.....on my real copy - my cape had to go up the page then down again - to get my young age in.

My example on the board I did with the class. 

OTHER IMPORTANT DATES: 

- Every Thursday is our library day - please remind your child to bring their library books to school.

- Wednesday 1st March - Room 7 will be hosting school assembly.

- Wednesday 1st March - 11am - our swimming showcase (at the school pool)..if we get into the pool this season. (Weather dependent).

Look at this - Masterton A&P show - Al Brown kids cooking class =) wow!!