Manuhiri and the Kaikohe Christmas Parade

We had some visitors in our class on Thursday from Rooms 14 and 16. All of the students worked so well together and we did lots of learning through play.

Great teamwork to create a domino run.

Lots of crafty paper creations here. 

The Christmas Parade on Saturday was a huge success. The Kaikohe West float looked fantastic and we won second prize! The theme was A celebration of cultures.

Jayna-May

Jacob

Monique

Lucian

Maui's sun and dinosaurs

We read the book "How Maui slowed the sun" and retold it in our own words. We also drew our own versions of the sun:

On Thursday we wrote descriptions of dinosaurs. Mrs Bingham mixed all the dinosaurs up and we had to match the writing to the dinosaur. Here is one example:

Lifejackets and fireworks

The Junior Journal reading group have been reading about life jackets. They made a poster to show why they are important.

We also wrote some fireworks poems and pasted them onto fireworks pictures with lots of glitter.

Water Safety

Whaea Tracey came to talk to us about water safety. Some of the things we learned are:

• Don't swim unless an adult is watching you.
• To check if the current is too strong throw a stick into the water.
• Always wear a life jacket when you are on a boat.

Evo showed us how to put on a life jacket and make sure it fits correctly.

Next wave

We had a visit from Next Wave, a music group from West Auckland. They told some inspirational stories, sang lots of songs and let us dance. 

Global Read Aloud

Room 7 are taking part in the Global Read Aloud #GRA17 this term; we will be reading and sharing Mem Fox books with students all over the world. This week we read a beautiful book called 'Whoever you are'. We introduced ourselves on a shared Google slide presentation.

Shared lunch persuasive writing

Room 7 wrote to persuade me that they should have a shared lunch this week to celebrate the end of Term 3.

I was convinced and the results were delicious!

Fish

We made some fish with a hidden surprise in class this week:

100% attendance and school photos

We have had 100% attendance twice this week! So we took some photos showing all 21 of us to celebrate.

A silly one!

And a sensible one.

On Friday we had school photos. All the teachers had to go and have their photos taken together. Veshay, Ocean and Danielle from Room 1 came and entertained us with stories and games. We didn't want them to leave.

Poetry and weaving

We read the poem Nanny by Heiwari Johnson. Then we practised our own weaving using coloured paper. The results were impressive!

Marvin's woolly mammoth

Tailah and Corah-Marie read "Marvin's Woolly Mammoth" and did some wonderful illustrations of mammoths:

#NewZealandReadAloudJnr

We are participating in New Zealand Read Aloud. Year 1 and 2 classes all over New Zealand are reading a fabulous book called Pepetuna and collaborating with each other.
Have a look at the blog to see all the amazing things students are sharing with us.

Cross Country winners

Congratulations to William and Morgan who are off to Ohaeawai next week to compete in the interschool cross country.

1st place - 5 year old boys.

1st place - 6 year old girls.

Crazy Hair and NED

We had a crazy hair day fundraiser for Kidscan today. Every child who came to school with crazy hair received a book. Here are the awesome creations modelled by Room 7:

Morgan, Jayna-May, Aurora, William and Cevrynce

We also learnt how to be champions when Katie and Ned visited Kaikohe West School.

Never give up, Encourage others, Do your best

Mahitahi

Our focus this week has been about working together. We created some shared artwork:

Our collaborative artwork inspired by Kandinsky's circles.

We also collaborated on a sign for our weekly focus.

Geometry

We have been learning about position and orientation. On Thursday we braved the cold weather to practice giving and following instructions. We had to close our eyes and trust our partner to lead us around the court.

Harleen and Yozarna

Arya and Tailah

Luke and Joshua

Monique and Corah-Marie

Homework

If you are looking for ideas to help your child with their learning at home this is a great place to start:

Ideas to help with reading, writing and maths

Chocolate cake

We really enjoy watching Michael Rosen tell his 'chocolate cake' story. 

Evo delighted us all with his retelling of the story. We made a quick video after assembly on Friday afternoon so the quality is not great. If we get time next week we will try to make a more clear version.

Wash your hands!

During Passion Week we did an experiment with multigrain bread. One piece of bread was passed around the circle so everybody touched it. We put the other piece into a ziplock bag using tongs. The results astonished everybody and showed us why it is SO important to wash your hands. 

It looked even more disgusting in real life!

Animal riddles

We have been writing riddles about animals. See if you can work out the answers.

Passion Week Science

Passion Week was so much fun. Students from all over the school chose one passion for the week. The junior scientists all came to Room 7 and we did science for 4 days!

Our first movie

We have been learning about rubbish and how important it is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Here is the movie we made:

STEM challenge

We had  STEM challenge at school today. House groups competed against each other in class. In Room 7 our challenge was to make the longest paper chain out of 6 pieces of paper.

Koura

Weta

Tuatara

Tuna - red and blue makes purple!

Harleen and Cevrynce hard at work

Aurora and Morgan making chains.

Corah-Marie and Mei doing their best for Koura.

Jayna-May and William were the only 2 Tuna students!

Koura was the clear winner.