Kia ora,
Welcome to the last week of term 3.
SHARP STUDENTS week 8 - for SHARPness!
George & Michelle
Interesting news - George found a rooster's spur. Good conversation re: what a spur was.
Which led to talk about what a terrace was (as George found the spur on the terrace at his home). We discussed how vocabulary is incredible and how some words mean the same but have different spellings.
The class were impressed with Ma'a Nonu the All Black. Schalk went to the game, so we had a bit of a talking point about the game. We shared how Ma'a broke his arm - but even so he was able to PASS ON THE KINDNESS by taking off his All Black shirt and giving it to Jean de Villiers. (100th test match).
COOL contractions - ask your child what a contraction is...we made windows - eg: could not = couldn't.
FOR SALE: Shkhan's Joke Book - a bargain at $1.00
If you would like to order a joke book please place an order either through Miss Burt (email) or visit Room 7 to view the fantastic book ;)
Room 7 along with Shkhan have decided the money made will go towards adopting a mountain gorilla...http://www.worldwildlife.org/species/mountain-gorillaand also some of the proceeds will go towards Shkhan's chosen charity Camp Quality.
Room 7 were awesome - we put a
business plan together. As a class we discussed: Who we could market this product to, the cost, how much to sell it for, how we were going advertise it, what could we do to get people interested.
Some fantastic discussion and I love this: 1 child said we could sell it to the Rest Homes in Greytown as the people in there need a laugh" - then the conversation changed to Koby's Poppa and how he loves to laugh, so the class decided we would buy Koby's Poppa a joke book and Koby could tell him the jokes.
I like the conversation Shkhan & I had - I said we could sell the book for 20 cents and he said "no way - sell it for $4.00". We decided $4.00 was a bit much!! (Especially when I pointed out the book only has 5 jokes).
So a great learning lesson for all involved - making it real!
We even had a bit of a maths addition lesson - when on Friday some books had been sold - so adding up the money as a class - $17! Wow!
THIS IS SOOOOOOOO exciting - look what is coming to Te Papa - I know I have a few dinosaur enthusiasts in Room 7 - (even Miss Burt!!).
Next term for library studies we are going to be looking at NZ authors:
Here is a brilliant link to have a look at over the holidays (I love this site)
Love your little one =) our gorillas that we are quite fascinated with at the moment. Some great Pic Collages made with gorilla facts.
I wish......
Please pop into class and see the fabulous 'I wish' writing and pictures the children have created on the app Pic Collage, using the ipad.
This children had to take a side view photo of their friend.
Add a dandelion (to represent them blowing a wish)
Their wish is to do with the environment (our new Inquiry topic "litter free lunches')
Just a word on writing - we have been doing a bit of writing lately on the iPads. The children were quite fascinated when Grace mentioned mountain gorillas in her speech. So from there the children worked in pairs, and researched mountain gorillas. They had to write 4 facts and include pictures.
We are reading Christian the Lion at the moment, so the other day the children researched facts about Christian and again used pic collage to display the facts and photos.
Sometimes I print these out and other times they are on the iPad.
This fits in so nicely with our writing focus which is report writing.
Holiday fun - fingerprint art.
NOTICES:
- Dental forms went home on Friday. Please complete asap and return to school. The dental bus will be here term 4.
- 24th September - hockey festival - 12.30 - 1.30 (Totara Syndicate)
- 26th September - LAST DAY for term 3!
- 27th - Aratoi childrens art exhibition - 3 children from Room 7 have art in this.
- Greytown School Agricultural Day, Wednesday 22nd October. PET DAY. Art will be displayed in the hall. (2nd week of term 4).
Enjoy looking at the photos of our measuring week, Tahirih's soccer prizegiving, Room 5 paying us a visit wearing their wearable arts.
