Kia ora Room 7 whanau,
Wow - term 3...and a great start back with 3 way conferences & goal setting. Thank you for attending your child/ren goal setting & celebrating their successes! VERY PROUD! |
| THE ipads are here...showing off their photography skills =) |
SHARP STUDENT Week 1 - term 3. |
| Isaac for showing RESPECT for the environment - helping to keep the class & cloakbay tidy/clean. Well done Isaac. Oscar G-T also was a SHARP recipient by Oscar was sick all last week. |
We have had a really good first week back - very SHARP behaviour & attitudes. 1 highlight for me during the week was with our new Inquiry topic "DESTINY, DREAMS & WISHES..." the children started a title page for this - plus a brainstorm...for a few mornings this week some children have come in and continued doing their title page/brainstorm. It's so awesome seeing them take charge of their self management and using their time to carry on with work.
The children enjoyed this clip - the song "Stand by me" This track features over 35 musicians collaborating from all over the world.
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Our lil visitor Miss Arna Hopkins. Arna is Claudia's little sis and starts school in August. |
A very precious moment for me this week was getting an email from Thimira's mum. When I read the email to the class I said "let's email them right now" and there was a big reply (from the majority of the class) whom said "Can we write to Thimira?" - that is that picture perfect moment of teaching where what I had planned went out the window....and became writing for a real purpose.
The children all wrote a letter to Thimira - they included jokes and a name poem.
I will get the letters in the mail this week.
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| Thumbs up to Thimira - busy writing away to our friend. |
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| Here we are Thimira - happy as usual - LOL. |
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| CRAZY Room 7 - love this! The rocket experiment - Get 1 film canister, 1/4 fill with water, add 1/2 alka-seltzer tablet - quickly put the lid on tightly, turn the film canister over - and move back! Wait - ka-boom - the canister will fly into the air. NB: we talked about the pressure building up - (a bit like a volcano)...    Our Inquiry topic fits in nicely with our Library studies this term...OUR WORLD AND NZ. We explored the map of NZ and we had turns showing our favourite place in NZ on the map. In pairs we talked about our favourite place and why. Here are a few pics of some of the children showing where on the NZ map is their favourite place.  Archie showing us his favourite place, Taupo.    Homework this week - 5 spelling words and then a list of tasks the children can do at home. BEING SHARP AT HOME! They don't have to do all the tasks, they can choose some - be really fab if they did them all. Let's see who can be the SHARPest....... Remember to read, read, read!! And practise those multiplication facts (& the basic facts step you are on).
So a busy week for us all but a very good week - here's to another great week this one.
Take care all!!
Rachel
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