Mufti day fundraising for Wairarapa Cancer Society. Week 5 & 6 in Room 7

Kia ora,

A FAB start to a new week 6 .....and a SHARP week 5 was had in Room 7.

The students are busy working on their Olympic reading units. 

I wonder who will get the ....GOLD?

Some certificates to start the week off....Niysa, Ali, Petra, Ava, Liv & Esther...well done on your hard work.

 PRINCIPAL AWARDS....well done to Room 7 aLim people - fantastic maths (mult/div) going on in the class...and at home (hopefully) =)

Ka pai Tyah - you did amazingly-all by yourself!

Ka pai Max - so much effort put into this maths work. 

Ka pai Ava - you did really well with this maths work. 

 BLACK BOX - our oral language. Yesterday's question was ------

 Spot your child's Olympic athlete......and what sport are they doing?

Manu tukutuku (kite) making....with my Māori art group. 

Jordyn & Lily with their 
pōtaka runga (spinning top).

 Even the teacher has been EXTRA SHARP in Room 7 - go Miss Burt. Here is our Richie McCaw bear minding our 3 trophies....1. Class SHARP award for assembly SHARPness. 2. Tidy cloakbay award & 3. Teacher award for helping with iPad work.

Here are our reading buddies - the students can choose one of the buddies to read to. 

Douglas and his wonderful name in glitter. 

Our new wall display - look at the fantastic Olympic figures....

Spot Ceejay with his green hair. Ceejay set up a givealittle page to raise money for the Wairarapa branch of the cancer society. Ceejay did this in his Poppa's memory, Neil was a great man who supported his grandsons whole heartedly.
Well done to all Room 7 who helped our school raise nearly $500.
Fantastic effort by all!!

Spot the minion =) (Dallas) ....

I feel so proud every time I hear and see Room 7 doing the Ko Wairarapa haka.
If you have been in to collect your children at 3.00pm lately you will have noticed the whole school out practicing our Wairarapa haka Ko Wairarapa. We are preparing to be part of the world record attempt for the most people doing the haka together. This will be held in Memorial Park in Masterton on 8 September at 12.00pm. The record is a little over 4,000 which was achieved in France. This is an opportunity to bring the record home to New Zealand where it belongs. If you wish to learn the haka and be part of the record attempt you are welcome to join us at 2.50pm each afternoon. It is shaping up to be a memorable experience for the children.

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.