Week 6 in Room 7

William made 2 boats in the weekend - he liked what Amy had to say about being an Engineer. His structures had triangles, sticks, straws, sellotape, paper, coat hanger these were all used to make the boats stable.

Future NZ boat builder....

Have a look in our classroom at our ASPIRATIONAL tree - the children all wrote out an aspiration to aspire their friends. 

These are some of the aspirational things that Room 7 students wrote: 

Have an awesome day!

Try your hardest and think happy thoughts.

If you're stuck, ask a friend.

Mistakes help you learn.

Use a different strategy.

I am awesome at this!

I am going to train my brain.

I'm good at this!

Give it a go!

Keep on trying.

I can do it - I am doing my best!

I am good at this.

Even if you're stuck, do your best, best, best!

Do my best, best, best. 

You are a CAN girl/boy - NOT  a can't girl/boy

Mistakes make your brain grow.

Friends help you - that is what they are here for.

You are awesome!

You are the best.

Having a go is like winning the race. 

I'm on the right track.

Miss Take is a great teacher.

I am so good at this.

I am awesome at this.

Is this really my best work?

I have a growth mindset - I can do it. 

If I can't do it - I can't do it YET!

Our SHARP lessons for weeks 7 and 8 is about BEING POSITIVE. 

Towards others and towards ourselves. I think we all need a good dose of this - and learn to be kind to ourselves...

In Room 7 we will be thinking and discussing: What are some things you do to give sunshine to the world. 

Name 3 positive things about you: 

How do you be positive?

What about at home? school? in the community?

We have been doing word problems in our maths.
These are some that some of the children wrote:
(See if you can guess which one/s your child wrote)...

1. If I bought a scooter for $100 and a car for $1000, how much money did I spend?
2. The car broke down, it was $1000 to fix it. I scootered for 20 minutes when I came back they said it was $30 more. How much did I have to pay?

3. If I had $20 and was given $50 more, how much will  I have?

4. Santa had 100 presents and dropped 25 presents, how many presents does he have left?

5. I had $50 and I spent $3 on a tv, how much money do I have left?

6. Mae had $20 and bought a bag of apples for $5, how much money does she have left?
7. Then she bought 2 lollypops and they were $2 each, how much money does she have left now?
8. Then...she bought a cheap tv that was $5, how much money does she have left now?

9. My mum had 200 credit cards she gave 5 away, how many does she have now?
10. I had 7 pens and I lost 4, how many pens do I have now?

11. I buy 2 $8 things and 1 $6 thing, how much did I spend?
12. The puppies ran away and it cost $200 (there were 3)...how much money did I lose on the puppies?

13. Edi had 700 handfuls of crystals and he gave away 699 crystals, how many does he have now?
14. I had $60 and I spent $50, how much money do I have now?

15. I bought 4 puppies, they each cost $28. How much money did I spend?
16. The puppies each needed 1 bag of dog food. The dog food costs $3 for a bag. How much money did I spend?
17. If each puppy wanted a bowl of water and the water cost $1.50 a bowl..how much money did I spend?

18. If the night lights cost $25 each and I had $150 and I bought 2: How much did I spend?
19. How much change do I have?

20. If I had $10 and I earned $2 for 2 lollypops, how much have I added to $10?
21. I have $13 and I spent $5, how much do I have left?
22. If I had $200 and gave Maria $113, how much would I have left?

23. I'm 6 and my sister is 9 years older, how old is my sister?
24. Mum went to the shop and got 6 apples and at home we had 4 more - how many apples do we have now?
25. I had 19 snails, my cat ate 5 snails. How many do I have left?

26. I have $2 and I want some candy floss. The candy floss is 50cents each - how much candy floss can I get?
27. I have $4 and I get $4 because I have stacked the fire wood and I got $12 because I tidied the house - how much money do I have altogether?
28. If I had 4 people with me and each person wanted cake, how many times would I have to cut the cake?

29. If I bought a dog and it cost $50 and I had $90, how much money would I have left?
30. If I had $60 and I spent $30, how much money do I have left?
31. If I had $100 and I spent $50, how much would I have left.

32. If I am 8 and Miss Burt is 21, how much older is she than me?
33. If I ate 6 sausages, 8 potatoes and 10 peas - how much pieces of food did I eat altogether?
34. If I am 8 how old will I be in 20 years time?
35. How old will Miss Burt be?

36. In Room 7 there are 29 children, 4 were away..how many children were at school?
37. How many children were at school on Saturday?
38. How many teachers were at school on Saturday?

39. If Kaleb got 4 tries and Franklin got 8 tries, how many more tries did Franklin get than Kaleb?
40. If George got 11 tries, how many more tries did he get than Franklin? than Kaleb?

Week 5 in SUPER SHARP SEVEN...

Another busy week in Room 7 - the children were great in our school orchard. 
We picked up the rotten apples and the good apples....And Aisling took some of the good apples home. Her and her mum (thank you Ursula) kindly made the class an apple pie, that I cut up and we all had a small piece. 
Mrs Kirkland's pigs would of enjoyed the not so good apples. 





Reading in the library: A reminder that our library day is Thursday - most children are very good at bringing their books back. As a year 3 or 4 the children can get 2 books issued: 

This pic is for our Baseball mad kids ;) 

What a lovely cake - spoilt with 2 birthday cakes AND THEY ALL WENT!!!!! Isla was lovely and had the class sing Happy Birthday =) 

The brothers - Tommy & Angus with their yummy banana cake that also got shared with the class. 

Cam, Amelia, George, Charlie and Riley - reading their books.
Mrs Kirkland played an audio clip from the Andy Griffith's book: Just Tricking (a funny book).

 Thank you for my lovely 21st + wishes =) We had a lovely shared lunch - a good variety of food - the children were very well behaved with nice manners =)

Good ole pass the parcel - lucky there was a prize in there that all the children got to share.

Pic below: Greta opening up the last wrapper - YAY!!!!

Pic below: SHARP editing glasses - Tangaroa and Khalia are using the editing glasses to help them proofread their wonderful writing.

Pic below: WOW Aisling and mum Ursula - look at this apple pie that we all got to share. On Tuesday Room 7 were SHARP and helped clean up the apples that had fallen on the ground in our school orchard.

 Pic below: I LOVE THIS - The pie was so good Aisling had to lick her plate =)

 Pic below: Greta sharing her very good writing about Sea Monkeys....

 Pic below: yes or no - we did a tally chart - YES won - should Miss Burt open up her parcel??

 Pic below: Thank you Caitlin and mum Megan for the sparkly birthday cake - it was enjoyed by many =)

Books to Foster Emotional Development

Read these 7 books with your 8- to 10-year-old to combat negative self-esteem issues.

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/more-book-lists/books-to-foster-emotional-development?eml=PAR/smd/20170531/facebook/bookstofosteremotionaldevelopment/PAR/article/5pm&linkId=38178221

And another good read: How to raise a caring and compassionate child: 

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/resources/article/social-emotional-skills/13-ways-to-raise-caring-and-compassionate-child?eml=PAR/smd/20170601/facebook/13waystoraisecaringandcompassionatechild/PAR/article/10am&linkId=38206281

The week that was...Week 4 in Room 7 =)

A big big thank you to Sam's Nana Lynn for the wonderful maths games she has made Room 7. The children have been playing with the games so much. 

Such appreciation for this very generous gift to our children. 

We found out Lyn likes peanut slabs so we stuck a few sneaky bars onto Lynn's thank you cards from the children. 

 Junior Enviro Group: This is held once a fortnight in a 2nd lunchtime...I was very proud on Wednesday as the only children to turn up were from Room 7. Here they are with recycled envelopes that we they have decorated - the envelopes will house the sunflower seeds we got from our school sunflowers. We are then going to sell the seeds - the money will go towards some new seedlings for different plants.

 BRIDGE BUILDING...for our Golden Time on Friday we decided to have a structure making - the purpose of this was to see who could build the highest, most sound structure. Using 20 skewers, 16 marshmallows .....

This is a pre try using paper to build a bridge. We had cars to see if the bridge we made was stable.
Great conversations around - why their bridge didn't hold.
Look at the base of the bridge - was the paper folder sharp enough? 

SUCCESS!!

Look at these 2 SHARP brothers - Sam and his little brother William on our mufti day.

Great buds, Charlie and William. 

Woooooo huge successes - a lot of certificates were given out for partner spelling testing (100%), wonderful writing and other successes in the children's work. 

 SEA MONKEYS - our new class pets...

Much excitement with these: We ordered them online and worked out how much they were going to cost with postage. 

We then read the instructions on how to grow the sea monkeys and when to feed them. 

We had some fun realising that our first feeding day (day 5) would be Sunday - so phew ----- lucky Miss Burt can come in and feed them. 

Our first syndicate assembly for the year: great to see the classes performing class haka - challenge time!!!

SHARP student Charlie - well done to Charlie - Caitlin and Nara for being the SHARP students in Room 7 this week.
Charlie for great writing and publishing.
Caitlin for fitting in so well to her new classroom and school.
Nara for good reading and work. 

KEEPING OURSELVES SAFE: Here are some Room 7 students working with students from R11. They were discussing and writing about how they keep themselves safe at school, home, playground and in the community. Some great discussion and I'm sure Constable Keely was super impressed when she was in talking to Room 7 on Wednesday. 

Next week's home learning will be about the students talking to their mum, dad, nana (whom ever they live with at home) about safety plans. (Emergency plans). 

Week 3 - Growth Mindset..

READING LOG - LEADERS: 

Well done to the following children: 

1st:  Sam Gawith and Tommy Read = 88 nights

2nd:  Hazel Williams = 85 nights

3rd: Riley Collins = 82 nights

4th: Grace Sutherland = 80 nights

Keep reading and reading. 

Wow - on Friday we gave making Flextangles: Have a look at the video below...

What a lesson in Growth Mindset....Miss Burt wasn't very growth mindset and I said "I give up"...the class were like MISS BURT - YOU DON'T GIVE UP!!
George and Kaleb said "Don't give up"
Kaleb said "It means you have a brain"
Logan said "I'm going to train my brain"
Tommy said "Don't say - this is too hard!"
Caitlin said "Give it a go"
Isla said "Try harder!!"
Annalise said "If it's too easy - try something harder"
Sam said "If you make a mistake - you can learn from it"
Franklin 'Be strong"
Maria "Try your best"
Freddy " This may take some time"

Week 2 in Room 7....Big

A great Greytown School cross country at the Barton's farm, we are so lucky to be able to use their farm land. It's a magic spot!

Enjoy the pics before - I did try hard to get all the children (not the clearest photos, sorry - but hopefully your cherub is featured)....

Here we are - getting ready for our run. ....

Aotea house....

Takitimu house....

WELL DONE TO THESE SHARP BOYS:

Sam = For manners and responsibility.
Cam = For showing good interest in a book he was reading, writing facts down and sharing with the class.
Tyler = For great presentation in his work and improving in his work books.

A great day cross country was - I love this photo below - the joy of motherhood...speaking of "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU MUMMIES OUT THERE!" 

Happy Birthday to Hazel = happy class wishing her all the best for her birthday =) 

 For maths on Friday the class started making a board game...using addition and subtraction.
Quite interesting - this was quite difficult for some children and good to see perseverance.

Isla with her lovely Mother's Day card - well done. I hope you mum's enjoy reading what your child wrote. 

Eva and her lovely Mother's Day writing for her mum.