Whanaungatanga day karaoke

 We had a whole school Whanaungatanga day which included a talent quest. Room 3 had heaps of entrants for karaoke and did an amazing job up on stage. Here are the videos:

Year 6 Transition

The Year 6 students spent a morning at Kaikohe Intermediate School this week. One of the activities was a place value game:

Reading to - The Jumbies

 

We have been reading The Jumbies in class. It is 'an inventive twist on a classic Haitian folktale' [Goodreads] and we are really enjoying it.  As the year is disappearing quickly I am not sure we will finish the book. Fortunately, you are able to read this online - just click on the link.

Assembly and T-Ball

Room 3 were on Assembly this week. Manakitanga, Calaise and Ahzaria-Lee made us proud on the taumata kōrero. 

We have been practicing Touch and T-Ball for the interclass competitions starting next week. We are lucky to have Yvonne helping us. The improvement from when we started is huge!

Soccer Skills

 We had a great time on Wednesday learning soccer skills with James and Max. They knew lots of challenging games to keep us moving.

Performing plays and writing them!

 Last term we all gave feedback on what we liked and didn't like about reading:

The main thing we discovered is that a lot of us like reading and performing plays. So this term we have had a strong focus on reading scripts. This has transferred into our writing and last week we wrote our own plays and presented them to the class.

'tion' suffix and charging station

 We have been learning the tricky suffix 'tion'. Room 3 could think of lots of words that have this ending. Here are some of them: 

Every morning we check in to let our teacher know how we are feeling. We stand on the charging mat and put our token into the box. If we are feeling Great we take a Green card - there are ideas for us to help others. If we are feeling OK there are ideas to help us feel better on the Yellow cards. And if our token goes into the Red box it means we are feeling Low and would like some help to solve our problem. We can fill in the form and Mrs Bingham knows to catch up with us during the day. Here is what our charging station looks like: