Kia ora - another fabulous week in Room 7 .
Reminders:
Week 2
- Miss Burt away Thursday & Friday at the NZ PB4L conference. Mr Adcock will be teaching, Nick is a wonderful reliever and has relieved at Greytown School for many years. I used to job share with him many moons ago. =)
- Maths and Peace week.
- Tuesday night - Hui at Kuranui College
Week 5 - Monday 22nd: Teacher only day - PLEASE remember this.
We have completed our time unit in maths and next week we start working on multiplication & division. I hope you had a look at the youtube clips on a previous blog update.
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| Here is a star student - Jordyn and happy birthday. |
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| A Video Ezy voucher award for Ava & Charlie - for SHARP helping. |
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| Electives on a Monday & Tuesday afternoon - here we are making hei tiki out of modelling clay. |
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| Another STAR STUDENT - Dallas for remembering to do our Olympic countdown calendar. |
Some silly time in Room 7 - every morning I do a thing we call "The Black Box" - I put something in the box and give the children clues to guess what it is.
They are encouraged to use their green thinking hat (new ideas) - they 'think - pair & share'
On Thursday a peg was in the box.....one of the clues was: This hurts if you put it on your ear.
So here is Charlie - proving that it doesn't hurt that much (LOL)....spot the pink peg!
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| So Max had a go with a peg on his tongue.... |
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| followed by Charlie.... |
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| followed by William..... |
In Room 7 we like to show PRIDE in our work and working space, which includes our cloak bay. Each week a class in our Totara Syndicate gets the trophy for tidiest cloak bay - well we won it twice in a row. The photo below shows Niysa & Jordyn accepting the trophy from Emelia & Francessca.
SHARP SPEECHES in Room 7. ... the photos below show the children with their speech results/certificates.
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| Niysa, Max, Ava, Kuini, Dallas and Ali. |
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| A big group of children who scored between 30-33. |
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| The top 4 scores went to Petra, Campbell, Annabelle and Jacob. |
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| Hei tiki that our art elective group made. |
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| Max leading Room 7 in the school karakia. |
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| Using our clocks for telling the time. These clocks are great they show both the analogue and digital times. |
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| Kath & Douglas - hard at work. This area of the classroom is Douglas's area - Kath was tidying up the wall for Dougie. |
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| Douglas loves to help and he is very good. |
For spelling this week we talked about verbs and adjectives (we do this a lot)......the children had to write and draw a verb and adjective about Room 7. Have a look at the two great posters hanging in our classroom.
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| Woohoo - great speech result by Tyah. Tyah spoke very well - nice and clear and loud. |
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| Douglas with Fiona one of our teacher aides. Fiona plays hangman with the class (which they love).... |
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Super SHARP writing...well done to Petra, Esther & Mackenzie for thorough writing.
An exciting experience. Room 7 made postcards for a girl Ellie in Australia - a group of children alongside me had an adventure to post the envelope of postcards. |
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| Here they are about to cross the road safely. |
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| In Sarah's garden....Petra, Mackenzie, Esther, Tyah, Liv, Annabelle & Kuini. |
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| All addressed, ready to send. |
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| Gorgeous pic. |
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| Round the tree - ..... |
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| So exciting...... |
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| Free fruit for children in Fresh Choice. |
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| Jodie serving the girls the stamp. |
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| We learnt what side we had to post the envelope in. |
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Discussing which one to put the mail in.
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Douglas has been incredible in leading the class in our school karakia...here he is leading the class. Afterwards we welcome each other to the new day by shaking hands =)
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| Mandarin lesson with Shan. The children are doing very good with speaking Mandarin. |
