The Great Week of Plays!

Who doesn't love doing a play? 

This week the children from reading room 6 are working on presenting the play from their journal. In groups of their choice the children sort their parts which took lots of discussion and compromise. They needed to brainstorm props they could use and write down ideas for how to present their play!

Our Final Time at Swimming

Today was our final session at Canterbury Swim School.  We had a session about water safety. We had to identify hazards in the water and then practiced our safe jumping into the water. If we fall into the water we should float on our back.

Financial Literacy

Today we were lucky enough to have Amy from ASB come and talk to us about financial Literacy. We learnt about ways to keep money, how eftpos  cards work, ways to earn money by doing chores and the importance of shopping around.  We all learnt a lot from this session and had a lot of fun.

Big Book

This morning we shared a big book and practiced ordering the main points in the story.  Here we working  together to discuss the main points and and to put the pictures in the right order.

SWIMMING!

Kiwi Can

On Tuesdays we go to Kiwi Can. Today we were discussing and practicing self-control. We started with a great game called 'Fast ball.' Our record for passing the ball around the circle was 15 and a half seconds.
To work on our resilience, patience and self-control, the next game involved teams of children trying to get 10 goals by shooting balls through hoops. The teams had to keep trying until they reached ten goals and it was great to hear the excitement and encouragement form teams to their team members.

Look At That Amazing Reading!

In Room 6's Reading Room we have slightly changed our ' silent reading' routine. Miss D is so proud of her class who are now able to sustain nearly 10 minutes of quiet reading. Each child gets to pick a text from their current journal. They read it independently and choose a paragraph to present. They need to know enough to be able to explain what their text was about and answer any questions the class asks them. The children present their paragraph to the class if their name gets drawn out of the cup! Everyone is so eager to share and the children have been a great audience giving positive feedback as well as areas for improvement. It also makes Miss D incredibly proud to see and the children develop from watching others present and grow in their confidence in presenting in front of an audience.

Strong Verbs

One of our writing classes have been learning about strong verbs. Words that make our writing a lot more exciting and help to make our sentences quality sentences.

Here we are brainstorming strong verbs for simple verbs like 'walk' or 'said'.

Claude Monet in Potu o a ''oaoga

Over the past week we have been looking at Monet's life and art, and especially his paintings of water lillies.

We looked at the key elements of colour, space and art. 

We used the different mediums of paint, collage and pastel to recreate our own water like master artwork.

These are some of our finished pieces.

Here are some others which are finished or still in the process of being created.

We learnt and practiced the process of choosing where we were going to place our water lilly shapes and the space needed in between to make it a balanced artwork.

The Cast of Survivors: Students vs Monsters

The teachers and Miss D especially are so proud of the fantastic effort of the children from Room 6's Reading Room in the assembly and the play. It was wonderful to be able to perform our play on Friday for the school and was a great climax before our long weekend.

Well done to our speakers and presenters and to all the rest of our beautiful classroom for your respect and focus in helping our assembly be a success!

Let's write a play!

Miss D always gets very excited when it's our turn for assembly. Currently the Room6 reading room is working on developing their own play for assembly. We are having to ask questions, think about the process, compromise and collaborate.

Art attack collage!

This week we have been learning about a famous artist called Monet. We have been re creating his work using collage, pastels and finger painting! Here are the beginning stages of our collages! 

Art-Shading

Today we drew a fruit bowl and had to shade the areas where the light hit and created shadows. It was very tricky! But everyone was extremely resilient and tried our personal best.

Back into Maths

Potu has rearranged it's maths groups! We are very excited in the Room 6 maths groups to be getting our understanding of our maths basic facts revised so everyone can see our learning.

Shake Out

Today we had the 'New Zealand Shake Out'.  This was our chance to practice what we would do in an earthquake.  We had to DROP! COVER! HOLD. After the drill we all met on the court in our classes.

Measuring a Pirate Ship

We have been learning about 1 metre.  We have found things measuring 1m, less than a metre and more than a metre.
Today we spent time drawing a Pirate Ship that had certain measurements.  We all have a better understanding what a metre is and how to measure different lengths.

Kiwi Can Prize Giving.

Today we were fortunate enough to attend our end of term kiwi can prize giving. Well done to all those amazing people who managed to get a prize for all their hard work over the term. Kai pai Hornby Hikers! 

Canonning

Junior Assembly and Loud Shirt Day!

It was wonderful to see all the amazing children using their values in assembly second to last week of school! We wore loud shirts today to help raise awareness for deaf children.

More Sports Research

Here is Gabbie's, Tyran's and Sophia's sports research.  Enjoy!

We have had a second try at making movie clips about sports.  This time we had to find the answer to 4 questions we asked ourselves and 2 questions that we were given.  We are getting better at working as a group, managing our time and presenting our information.  Please enjoy our movie clips.

Sports Inquiry

Here are two of our videos that we have made about sports.  We hope you enjoy it!

We had to ask questions, find answers, work in groups, write our script and film our information

First is Quaid's group

and here is Sage's group.

Inquiry

We have been working hard to complete our sport based inquiry group work. Over the past week we have been in groups researching our chosen sports and learning how to pose questions. The most challenging part was finding the answers!