Olympic Traditions

We have completed some research on the Olympic Traditions. Each group presented what they had found out to the class. We now know what happens at the beginning of the Olympics. We aren't sure which parts of these traditions will be carried out this year in Japan due to the restrictions. 

Colour Day

For our playground reward this term we had a Colour Dress Up Day!  We made our whole day about colour and had a great day learning new things. 

The day began with a surprise on each desk - a colourful bookmark and some M & M's.

During maths time there was a selection of times table colour by numbers to complete.  I think Room 14 were very excited to be doing something a bit different for a change.

Next we read about rainbows and learnt that a mnemonic can help you remember things.  We learnt about Roy G Biv and how it helps you to remember the order of the colours in a rainbow.  Room 14 then tried creating their own mnemonics to remember the order of the colours in a rainbow.  Some of these mnemonics have made it onto our blogs.

After lunch we carried out the milk, food colouring and dish liquid science experiment to create explosions of colour. 

 

Super Stars in Room 14

We have just started something new in our class.  It is the Super Star of the Day!  You get to have the trophy on your desk for the day and everyone writes a lovely compliment on your poster that you get to take home.  It is working really well and Room 14 are pretty awesome at giving out compliments.

The Blogging has Begun

We made it our goal for this week to post something on our blogs.  Earlier in the term the students in Room 14 had written poems about themselves following a set format.  This week we made them into a DLO (Digital Learning Object) and, for some of us, learnt how to post something onto our blog for the very first time.  We now hope to post on our blogs at least twice a week and some may post more than that.

Make sure you follow the links down the right hand side of this blog to find all of the students' individual blogs and you can read their poems.  Here is Andre's as an example of what you might find...

The Learning Continues

We feel like we are rolling along quite nicely now.  We are making sure we follow the routines in the classroom and keep thinking about our school values of Care, Share, Learn and Grow.  Lots of different virtues also get discussed as well.  

This week we have continued on our basic facts journey, working hard on times tables, addition and subtraction.  We have visited the library, which is a highlight of the week for quite a few of us and had SportStart and swimming.

Each Friday as part of our buddy session we will be helping them with their spelling word testing.  We did this for the first time this week and it seemed to run quite smoothly.  

We have still been swimming this week, although the air has a definite Autumn feel to it.  The pool closes this Friday so fingers crossed for some nice warm days still.

As you can see from the photos and what you have read in the blog post we are ensuring we are always ready for learning and making an effort to be better than before.

Pyjamas in the Pool!

Well I can certainly say that Room 14's highlight this week was getting to wear pyjamas in the swimming pool as the final lesson.  The water safety lessons this week have been fun as well as very valuable, adding to our knowledge around being safe in the water.

We had our first visit to the library.  We were the first class in the library for the year so we had first pick of the wonderful selection of books we have in our school library.

Our basic facts in maths is rolling along very nicely now, we are well into the routine of it.  We will see improvements in knowledge of times tables and speed of basic addition and subtraction as the year goes on.  

We completed some lovely writing this week about ourselves and about being a good friend.  If you keep an eye on our individual blogs this week you might be lucky enough to see some of this writing.

Please feel free to comment on our class blog so we know you have read it.  

The Week that Was...

 As usual we seemed to fit a lot into our school week.  We started swimming lessons, some days were warmer than others!  The lessons are fun as well as instructional and I know one student was very excited because she learnt how to do backstroke this week.

We completed an activity about Waitangi Day and also the Chinese New Year.  We have created some lovely artwork for our classroom wall which I will share in the next blog.  Some students might also share their artwork on their blog.

Our Circle Time focus was on Moving around the School - we discussed what this should look like and then took some photos to model walking together in an organised way and holding the door open for each other.